Re: US Erection 12 *AND* 16
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:12 pm
damn boats keep sinking
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damn boats keep sinking
Actually still labour shortages in most of the EU. Not so much in Greece, Italy and Spain, but elsewhere
Everyone always knew it was never going to get past the senate republicans are far too partisan for any other outcome, so more likely all that the impeachment process did was tell us all we all already knew. Trump is a liar and cheat and his base love him for it.Strangelove wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:15 am
Impeachment? Yeahno, it's over (you petty bitter traitors you).
Just as Horowitz is set to release the FISA-abuse report, gotta love the way things are going...
Lol Rats, I believe that it’s 100% clear that you believe I am wrong. I suppose it’s possible, but what if I’m 100% correct and there is not an altruistic bone in that fat man’s body?
Plus he is working on establishing the Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and thus giving more flexibility to the police etc...ukcanuck wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:23 amLol Rats, I believe that it’s 100% clear that you believe I am wrong. I suppose it’s possible, but what if I’m 100% correct and there is not an altruistic bone in that fat man’s body?
Although I hear he did get some kind of law against cruelty to animals so I’ll give him credit for that.
Like pardoning war criminals????rats19 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:06 amPlus he is working on establishing the Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and thus giving more flexibility to the police etc...ukcanuck wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:23 amLol Rats, I believe that it’s 100% clear that you believe I am wrong. I suppose it’s possible, but what if I’m 100% correct and there is not an altruistic bone in that fat man’s body?
Although I hear he did get some kind of law against cruelty to animals so I’ll give him credit for that.
And a thousand other non published good things
Although Trump was talked out of authorizing torture by his advisers, the president’s ardor for violations of the laws of war has manifested itself in his decisions to intervene in war-crimes cases on behalf of the defendants. In four separate cases since the beginning of his presidency, and for the first time in the history of modern warfare, an American president has aided service members accused or convicted of war crimes, against the advice of his own military leadership.
Many former officials have warned that Trump’s war-crimes pardons undermine “good order and discipline,” a jargony way to say that they signal the rules don’t matter. A military force where the rules don’t matter is not one that can fight effectively or with the necessary moral or strategic restraint.
“I will always stick up for our great fighters,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in Florida yesterday. “People can sit there in air-conditioned offices and complain, but you know what? It doesn’t matter to me whatsoever.”
The seven Navy SEALs who told investigators that Gallagher shot unarmed civilians from his sniper nest, including “a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking with other girls on the riverbank,” after being warned that doing so could “cost them and others their careers” were not sitting in an office. The soldiers who testified that Lorance ordered his unit to fire on unarmed Afghans who were “definitely not any type of threat” were not luxuriating in an air-conditioned building. They were at just as much risk on the battlefield, and yet they chose to adhere to the rules they were charged to uphold.
“Trump’s actions constitute a betrayal of the military, of all of those service members who actually exercise disciplined restraint in the heat of battle,” VanLandingham says. “His actions betray the real warriors, and betray the American people who expect those in uniform to wield force per the law and to comport themselves honorably on and off the battlefield.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... es/602731/In a different world, Trump’s pardons might have put him at risk. The international law of armed conflict holds that commanders bear responsibility for reporting and punishing war crimes by their subordinates. After World War II, the United States hanged enemy commanders such as General Tomoyuki Yamashita for failing to prevent the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians by his troops. Yamashita, who did not personally order such atrocities but who, as commander, was held responsible for failing to prevent or punish them, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied. Neither American law nor the Constitution recognizes command responsibility in this way, but that did not spare Yamashita.
Oh wow, I’m sure no one could have predicted Fox would spin it that way, eh?
Not so sure that this is a great idea. Didn’t the republicans under Bush create all these circumventions of the law by creating the term war on terrorism as something so bad it warranted going around things like “innocent until proven guilty?” Now he’s going to expand the meaning to include Mexican criminals?rats19 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:06 amPlus he is working on establishing the Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and thus giving more flexibility to the police etc...ukcanuck wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:23 amLol Rats, I believe that it’s 100% clear that you believe I am wrong. I suppose it’s possible, but what if I’m 100% correct and there is not an altruistic bone in that fat man’s body?
Although I hear he did get some kind of law against cruelty to animals so I’ll give him credit for that.
And a thousand other non published good things
Yeahno, as per usual, your image of Don is completely out of synch with reality.