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• Sounds like a typical concentration camp...paid by your tax dollars. - Jack Herer - 4/20/2004 8:02:08 PM
  • More on the SCotUS argument - Fox - 4/23/2004 10:42:51 PM
  • Gitmo is an abomination.... - Publius - 4/21/2004 1:02:41 PM
  • They should be declared to "Prisoners of War" and held for the duration. That is the proper thing to do by international law. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/21/2004 1:18:22 AM
    • Al Qeada terrorists are not lawful combatants - Gary - 4/21/2004 6:00:24 AM
      • Perhaps, but we don't like summary executions. - David F Mayer - 4/21/2004 10:00:54 PM
      • "undue mercy" means they weren't summarily executed? - alcaray - 4/21/2004 5:23:17 PM
    • What "war"? - Bowser - 4/21/2004 1:52:34 AM
      • The war against Al Qaeda. - David F Mayer - 4/21/2004 10:04:36 PM
        • Do you declare war? How do you know when it ends? - Bowser - 4/22/2004 12:06:48 AM
          • This has ample precedent in history: the Barbary Pirates for one. - David F Mayer - 4/22/2004 12:58:12 PM
            • Absolutely barbaric. Makes us no different than the badguys. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/22/2004 7:37:07 PM
              • What would YOU suggest? Letting Al Qaeda prisoners go? As long as Al Qaeda exists and continues to attack the USA, that is simply not feasible. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/22/2004 9:21:18 PM
      • re: war - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2004 4:17:43 AM
        • Legalistically, Bowser's point bears directly on Mr. Mayer's post. - alcaray - 4/21/2004 5:28:57 PM
          • Wrong: That is exactly why it DOES work. It lets us hold them forever within International Law. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/22/2004 1:00:39 PM
            • I hear you. But I think that's a circumvention of the law. - alcaray - 4/22/2004 4:16:45 PM
              • The Geneva Conventions apply to all armed conflict, whether declared or not. - David F Mayer - 4/22/2004 9:24:12 PM
                • You tend to speak in absolutes - alcaray - 4/23/2004 3:46:37 PM
        • Fallacy - Bowser - 4/21/2004 1:47:22 PM
          • re: Fallacy - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2004 4:42:58 PM
            • I just don't believe what you believe. - Bowser - 4/21/2004 5:07:43 PM
              • Obviously. - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2004 10:29:11 PM
  • "The most important theme in all the cases is the power of the president to conduct a new kind of war as he sees fit." - Lindy - 4/20/2004 9:39:23 PM
    • re: "The most important theme in all the cases is the power of the president to conduct a new kind of war as he sees fit." - Publius - 4/21/2004 12:39:31 PM
    • Good analysis... - Derek - 4/21/2004 12:41:35 AM
  • It is, but it's "ours". - Bowser - 4/20/2004 9:28:58 PM
    • re: It is, but it's "ours". - Derek - 4/21/2004 12:49:57 AM