"The Washington Post reports that in his new memoir ... President Bush's response to a request to waterboard 9/11 big nut Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was, 'Damn right.' (Meanwhile, Cheney stated earlier this year that, 'I was a big supporter of waterboarding.')
The Post quotes Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch: 'Waterboarding is broadly seen by legal experts around the world as torture, and it is universally prosecutable as a crime. The fact that none of us expect any serious consequences from this admission is what is most interesting.'"
President Obama hasn't been the civil liberties president I hoped for. But as far as we know, he hasn't done this. George W. Bush was a moral disaster for our country, and I'm not sure we'll ever entirely get over it.
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Among the other notables never tried for war crimes: Caeser.
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