There is much about these issues on the net and around the world today.  These three items - a news report and two editorials -  encapsulate the matter.

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Bush ignored Pentagon lawyers

over tactics in war on terror

No consultation on detention without charge

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Wednesday June 9 ( Read more... )

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)Very LowLevel 2 (Lustful)ExtremeLevel 3 (Gluttonous)Very HighLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very HighLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)Extreme ( Read more... )

well, history, actually ( Read more... )

gee... people are being killed, people are being injured, people are - gasp, shock, horror - being taken prisoner and, possibly, treated like animals. and suddenly, there seems to be a realisation among the blind, here and in the States, that it isn't a damn picnic outing for the grunts who are pawns in the mind games and power plays of sadistic ( Read more... )