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working in the military on that. Ah, no problem if it's an American, meaning that our wars,
whether they're aggression like Iraq or possibly otherwise, there are no laws of war as far as
Americans are concerned, and that will mean even far more victims than otherwise.
One last thing, why did we have been such in pursuit of Obama and of Chelsea Manning, who
was his source actually at that time, it struck me that one of the things that hit home to the
Obama administration was that the torture that Chelsea Manning revealed going on in Iraq
could be put to the White House itself, to Obama, because it extended into the Obama
administration that she revealed these were clear cut war crimes.
What she revealed was that as an intelligence operative, at the time, analysts, she became
aware, then Bradley Manning in the military, that we were turning over Iraqi prisoners to the
Iraqi people, we'd captured with a clear knowledge that they would be tortured and that they had
been tortured. Now, the law of torture in this case, which is international, it's even called just
Cogan's. A crime that cannot be legitimized, cannot be legalized by any legislature, it goes
beyond that, it's an international crime that under any circumstances, whatever part of the law of
that is that to fail to investigate a credible accusation of torture and to fail to prosecute and
punish it is itself a crime equivalent to the torture itself. And for us to turn those people over as
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