John Yoo: President Can Nuke US Cities

[davidswanson]

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[Grand Taurean]

1. DAMN IT ALREADY!!!! PULL HIS LAW LICENSE!

:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

[DBoon]

4. lock him up in a padded cell

In a prison for the criminally insane.

I fear him much more than I fear Al Queda

[chill_wind]

11. and throw away the key!

Good god!!

[Canuckistanian]

13. I don't care about his law license

Just get him AWAY FROM IMPRESSIONABLE STUDENTS.

My God, this man has NO business teaching others ANYTHING until he's taken responsibility for what he's DONE.

[hansberrym]

2. But only if more than 51% of said city's residents refuse HC mandate.

Otherwise the POTUS needs approval from the Speaker of the House.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Why is that monster loose among us?

[Fridays Child]

5. Population: 1. Resident name: John Yoo. Hmm. Let me think...

Hey, I agree!

[sulphurdunn]

6. I hate to say this but

Yoo has a point. The President could nuke any strategic target after a foreign invader had used WMD on American soil or against American forces anywhere in the world. When going after Yoo, it's probably best to avoid hypotheticals. Yoo isn't anywhere near the biggest torture stooge with some serious explaining to do, and that's not hypothetical.

[Canuckistanian]

14. So, where's the limit, in your mind?

What should a president NOT be allowed to do during wartime? What is SO atrocious that even a president during wartime SHOULDN'T be be allowed to do?

Obviously, killing thousands of innocent people isn't FAR ENOUGH for you.

What is?

[sulphurdunn]

17. Bad things happen in war.

A lot of innocent people get hurt or killed. A President shouldn't be allowed to declare war. A President shouldn't be allowed to harm a hair on the head of anyone to further anyone's financial interests. A President IS required to do what ever is necessary to defend the country and its allies from aggressive war. It goes with the job description. There it is.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. I guess if you twist it the repug way , you could...

But Dubya was by no means a President that represented the USA.

[arcadian]

8. K&R!

[Mithreal]

9. Is Yoo trying to tell us we shot one down on 911? Rumsfeld slipped it to us already.

I just found it odd he picked an airliner as the target.

[elehhhhna]

10. Presient of Russia, maybe. Yoo is earning a pre-emptive strike with all this incendiary rhetoric.

Doesn''t the Patriot Act (lol - it's an act, alright) attack this type of treasonous, anarchist incitement-to-violence crap? Rove MUST have outlawed thougthcrimres in there, somewhere.

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. Is that monster still teaching students as a Professor of Law in California?

I haven't heard otherwise. A fine example for the next generation of legal counsels.

[jtrockville]

15. He is still a professor of law at UC Berkeley, but in an undisclosed location.

From AfterDowningStreet.org:

...

BERKELEY– With anti-torture protest continuing to focus on the presence on the University of California faculty of former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, UC officials have adopted a new tactic. Yoo will again teach spring semester at Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) – but the location of his classroom is being kept secret from the public, and Yoo himself is unlikely to be physically present for the first night of his class Tuesday, January 12.

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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49160

[struggle4progress]

16. Under such a theory, the President could also have John Yoo summarily shot

I won't speculate whether that's actually a good idea, since my emotions might color my reasoning here

[beac]

18. How about just waterboarded until he admits it's torture?

(Yes, I too have a hitch in my pacifist leanings when it comes to Bushco criminals.)