miguel wrote:
> The likelihood that Bush Administration officials at the highest
levels were
> uninvolved with approving torture is so remote as to beg the question
"what if
> superman were german." Our nation's current attorney general wrote a
memo legally
> justifying torture. I suppose you're trying to argue that there is
some chance that
> this was all just an academic piece of research, and just
coincidentally torture
> occurred at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? What about the renderings of
suspects to
> other countries for torture? These decisions were all made by
mid-level
> bureaucrats in the DIA/CIA?
I was watching the Michael Moore movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" the other
night. Very entertaining. Anyway, Michael Moore takes George W. Bush
to task for arranging to let his friends, the Bin Laden family, flee
the United States in the days after 9/11. I'm guessing Micheal Moore
wanted Bush to lean a little harder on these people. Bush did not
do all he could have done to prevent the terror attacks.
So now Bush seems to be in trouble for doing too much.
What is the right balance between the conflicting goals of
(a) preventing terror attacks and (b) protecting the civil rights
of terrorists?
-- the Danimal
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