NY Times
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This article talks about how Bush supposedly weaseled his way around to okay the torture or prisoners, especially Iraqi prisoners. Bush, or the Pentagon lawyer in charge of this article, supposedly claims that Iraqi soldiers are not covered under the Geneva Convention laws. The writer emphasizes how dangerous this is for American soldiers captured by Iraq. The writer does not even attempt to pretend he is not bias. He opens the article stating that you can tell someone is extremely guilty about something they have done when they go through such lengths to justify it. I think though that by stating he was bias he actually convinced me to trust him. The writer later describes the memo written as spine crawling and further explains some of what he sees as unexplainable acts. He talks about the California law professor that drafted the article and states that somehow they have found a way to allow torture without the people in charge being punished. I thought that the article was very biased. Although the writer let me know he was in the beginning of the article, I was kind of insulted by his persistent opinion. I just wanted to know what was really going on. He kind of lost some of his hard facts by sharing his opinion constantly.
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I probably would have stopped reading this article after the first sentence. Articles about the government that are expressed with really strong language I oftne find to be unreliable. More facts or stories and less loaded language would have been better.
This just seems like the government trying to cover their tracks. Of course they aren't going to let the nation we are doing anything bad. Even if we are though I think we should let them do what's best for the country.
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