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"The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued that the pursuit of justice is the business of a great nation. In winning this point, they caught the falling flag, producing a triumph for the rule of law, a reassertion of the belief that no man is above it, and a rebuke for an arrogance that had grown imperial," - Peggy Noonan, December 21. 1998.

"It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, ‘Oh, much good will come of that.’ Sometimes in life you want to keep walking… Some of life has to be mysterious." - Peggy Noonan, April 19, 2009.

In the war crimes tribunals that followed Japan's defeat in World War II, the issue of waterboarding was sometimes raised. In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.

"All of these trials elicited compelling descriptions of water torture from its victims, and resulted in severe punishment for its perpetrators," writes Evan Wallach in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.

On Jan. 21, 1968, The Washington Post ran a front-page photo of a U.S. soldier supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. The caption said the technique induced "a flooding sense of suffocation and drowning, meant to make him talk." The picture led to an Army investigation and, two months later, the court martial of the soldier.

Cases of waterboarding have occurred on U.S. soil, as well. In 1983, Texas Sheriff James Parker was charged, along with three of his deputies, for handcuffing prisoners to chairs, placing towels over their faces, and pouring water on the cloth until they gave what the officers considered to be confessions. The sheriff and his deputies were all convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.

There is no better example of fucking hypocrisy people. No better example.

Links to the Noonan articles?

Really I was more interested in the recent article. I've read her latest and can't seem to find the quote that CV_Rick provides.

Peggy Noonan typifies the hypocrisy on the right regarding justice, the rule of law and the role of investigations and/or punishment

this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVCULSpJK2o

Thanks np, those are some ridiculous comments. I personally would love to see high ranking Bush officials prosecuted if it could be shown they broke the law. I'm not sure that what Rick presented demonstrates that, but if it could be shown there is US law that was violated, by all means prosecute them. I think it would set a good precedent, to show US presidents that if they break the law while in office, they could be prosecuted after their tenure.

I believe I was pointing out hypocrisy. I would like to see a special investigator assigned and then the violations be enumerated, investigated and if applicable tried in a court of law.

Do you really think that the Gadianton Robbers will punish one of their own?

Are you like this in real life, or just annoying on the internet?

Oh the irony.

Are you like this in real life, or just annoying on the internet?

If it's not a crime, why were these people tried, convicted and sentenced?