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Marcuse

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7. War crime, like the rest of the criminal law, is just something to be gotten around.

Wed Jul 31, 2019, 08:27 PM

Jul 2019

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-apparently-wasnt-kidding-about-targeting-terrorists-families

In December 2015, near the height of the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, then-candidate Trump endorsed torturing detainees -- even "if it doesn't work" in producing valuable intelligence -- simply because he saw it as a worthwhile thing to do.

He added soon after, "[T]he other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. But they say they don't care about their lives. You have to take out their families."

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War crime, like the rest of the criminal law, is just something to be gotten around. Marcuse Jul 2019 #7