Friday, April 17, 2009

The Nuremberg Principle

The Nuremberg Principle: "

'The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.'

This much we know: under Bush, the United States insisted that these principles did not apply to its own government. Our standards are now lower for the US than they were once for Nazi Germany."

(Via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan.)

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