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From The Cocoon

By The Daily Dish
Apr 24 2009, 11:37 AM ET

James Taranto who fully backed a president who claimed the right to suspend the First and Fourth Amendments, habeas corpus, the Geneva Conventions and domestic law against torture, and who seized an American citizen without charges on American soil and tortured him, now offers his view as to the small possibility of prosecuting the perpetrators of war crimes. Drum roll, please:

What Obama is offhandedly contemplating, then, amounts to a step toward authoritarian government.

No, you couldn't make this up.



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