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    The covention specifies how they are to be tried but does not require that they be tried. Well, no, but…
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    • Of course it's a war.  Congress invoked its war powers by passing an AUMF, and the President is using the…
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    • Obama has shown more power to restrain the defense establishment in order to get a workable foreign policy than he…
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    • Obama signed the extension. Only in the land of make-believe does that mean he was against it. I wish to…
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    • Assuming that every Republican and Joe Liberman votes to override, they'd need 18 Democrats. 18 conservative Democrats, who'd spent the…
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    • Are you suggesting that someone in the Congressional leadership would dishonestly spin a legislative outcome in order to make it…
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    • It wasn't obvious at the time, but it is now: Obama took a better hostage in the debt-ceiling deal.
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    • Let's not jack the thread, now.  This really has nothing to do with the legal question you brought up.
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    • Shorter Arthur: sometimes, the FDA allows things to happen that I would allow to happen all the time, so therefore…
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    • Yes, Arthur, I got it.  That's why I was making fun of you for it. Tell me, when you saw…
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    • Too bad he didn't outwork and outthink the authors and editors of his newsletters.
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    • Some unions. Others opposed it because of the harm the environmental damage of increased climate change would do the economy…
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    • Here's a thought: because she left the decision to be made by the people actually authorized to make it, based…
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    • But so what?  Since when does the State Department review environmental impact?
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    • Canada exports a ton of oil overseas.  Are you suggesting they don't?
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    • BooMan writes about "cowards," but it's important to remember that the argument about terror suspects being a special security risk…
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    • They never were going to be a part of a federal judicial system. Actually, Holder and Obama want to bring…
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    • Even more relevantly, German troops who killed American soldiers in battle at Omaha Beach were let go, while German troops…
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    • Of course they can be both.  The Geneva Conventions specify how to try criminals among POWs.  What do you think…
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    • The Geneva Conventions authorize trying people held as POWs for crimes they committed.  It even specified how they are to…
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