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We can’t let this Remembrance Day pass without citing George W. Bush’s latest so-sue-me confession to war crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gorge-filling moment comes when Bush explains his decision to waterboard\u00a0 prisoners by passing the buck to those who provided him with legal opinion on the matter: “I’m not a lawyer.” It wasn’t Bush after all.\u00a0 The President of the United States of America pursued a policy of torture on the advice of counsel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The war criminals at Nuremburg claimed to be subordinates following the orders of the executive.\u00a0 Bush may be the first executive war criminal to claim to be following the orders of subordinates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We can’t let this Remembrance Day pass without citing George W. Bush’s latest so-sue-me confession to war crimes. The gorge-filling moment comes when Bush explains his decision to waterboard\u00a0 prisoners by passing the buck to those who provided him with legal opinion on the matter: “I’m not a lawyer.” It wasn’t Bush after all.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"\nWar Criminal - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/11\/war-criminal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"War Criminal - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We can’t let this Remembrance Day pass without citing George W. 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