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Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. ↗

— John Yoo

#action #al #allows #attacks #casualties

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. ↗

— John Yoo

#applied #bush #commanders #conflict #conventions

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#abu #against #al #apply #between

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. ↗

— John Yoo

#affairs #conduct #dangerous #ghraib #ground

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work. ↗

— Dick York

#coffee #drink #drink coffee #everything #exercises

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #deprive #future #globally #going

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. ↗

— Dick York

#blessed #complaints #gone #i #love

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens. ↗

— Michael York

#child #comes #could #disconcerting #doing