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"President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied."
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"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."
Decision-Making
"We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war."
War
"This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law."
Law
"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks."
Future
"Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation."
Politics
"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war."
War
"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating."
Benefit
"If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information."
Politics
"American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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Personal Development
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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Personal Development
"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
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"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
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"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
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"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
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