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Originally Posted by cykoe6
The Supreme Court makes decisions about what is constitutional not a bunch of Red Guards on a message board. Good faith disagreements about the application of law are not war crimes. Bush had legal authorization for all of his actions. He had congressional approval for the Iraq invasion. Congress has signed off on every major move he has made (including FISA).
There is legitimate disagreement about the applicability of various laws when it comes to enemy combatants who don't fight under a the flag of a Geneva signatory. Personally I have no interest in non-US citizens engaged in hostile military actions receiving Habeas Corpus protections under US law. I have this silly notion that US constitutional provisions are applicable to US citizens. I guess that makes me a war criminal as well.
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For the most part, you are correct. He covered his bases there. But the breaking of the laws of the Geneva Convention could be an issue. As well as the illegal wire tapping. Those I believe were the two biggest ways people could have gotten back at him. But he was smart to add measures to bills stating that the laws didn't apply to him.