As usual, clueless buffoon. I don't think this argument is going to be settled here today by examining the United States Code Annotated.
By the way, counting the people that were killed by the insurgents during the Iraq war is legitimate. There wouldn't have been any insurgents doing any killing in Iraq but for George Bush and Dick Cheney.
In any event, I don't vouch for those numbers. But, I know 4,500 Americans died there. And we spent well over a trillion dollars there....and, with interest and care for problems vets will experience in the future, we'll eventually spend trillions more, up to 6 trillion by some estimates I've read.
For what?
So we could destroy Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Whoops.
So we could create democracy in the middle east and a peaceful, productive Iraq. Whoops.
So we could get rid of Saddam because of his involvement in 9/11. Whoops.
It was all George Bush and Dick Cheney's fantasies, along with the neocons whispering in their ears, that led us into Iraq. They created the scenario and atmosphere that led to the agreement on the war that somebody else mentioned. It was all based on lies created and promulgated by the administration.
The blood of all those dead Americans is on their hands. Is that a war crime you'll find in the United States Code? Probably not. But, in my opinion, it's more of a war crime than waterboarding some prisoner.
So (and I am not being facetious) you think George Bush AND Dick Cheney committed torture or you think that they SPECIFICALLY ordered someone to be tortured.
I did look up the US code number and it is dated to 2012. Do you have a link to the law in 2003?
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn