Comments on: To Protect And Defend http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: gregsanders http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8962 gregsanders Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:06:45 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8962 <p>I’d tend to condition amnesty on accurate testimony before a truth commission, but I can accept blanket amnesty for the people receiving orders. Accountability should first and foremost lie with those who wrote the memos and gave the orders.</p> <p>However, I’m afraid I choose to politely decline DNI Blair’s suggestion that I respect them solely on the basis of their obedience to memos and their misguided belief that they were serving their country.</p> I’d tend to condition amnesty on accurate testimony before a truth commission, but I can accept blanket amnesty for the people receiving orders. Accountability should first and foremost lie with those who wrote the memos and gave the orders.

However, I’m afraid I choose to politely decline DNI Blair’s suggestion that I respect them solely on the basis of their obedience to memos and their misguided belief that they were serving their country.

]]> By: pete http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8957 pete Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:08:55 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8957 <p>i vuz only vollowing orderz</p> i vuz only vollowing orderz

]]> By: newspaperbrat http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8954 newspaperbrat Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:50:54 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8954 <p>Hear, hear!</p> Hear, hear!

]]> By: oregondave http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8945 oregondave Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:15:11 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/04/16/to-protect-and-defend/#comment-8945 <p><em>Any</em> human being is responsible for knowing what is a crime against humanity. And capable of refusing to commit those crimes, whatever the personal consequence.</p> Any human being is responsible for knowing what is a crime against humanity. And capable of refusing to commit those crimes, whatever the personal consequence.

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