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Friday, March 10, 2006

not in his name

A Veteran’s Letter to the President [Joseph W. DuRocher, 2006]

Until your administration, I believed it was inconceivable that the United States would ever initiate an aggressive and preemptive war against a country that posed no threat to us. Until your administration, I thought it was impossible for our nation to take hundreds of persons into custody without provable charges of any kind, and to �disappear� them into holes like Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram. Until your administration, in my wildest legal fantasy I could not imagine a U.S. Attorney General seeking to justify torture or a President first stating his intent to veto an anti-torture law, and then adding a �signing statement� that he intends to ignore such law as he sees fit. I do not want these things done in my name.

i salute mr. DuRocher.

posted by roj at 2:39 pm