"One hopes not only for the courage of one’s convictions, but also for the courage of one’s doubts in a world of dangerously passionate certainties."

- the late Eric Sevareid's WWII memoir, "Not So Wild A Dream"

"Ev'rybody wants to go the distance, when they're travelin' on somebody else's dime."

- Bill Champlin, "Bring Home the Gold," from his "Hip Li'l Dreams" CD.

Are you REALLY that stupid? It IS in fact about determining "guilt." The guilty circumstance of actually being an "illegal enemy combatant" rather than just some hapless innocent shlep collared for being in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe being wrongly handed over for payment of a bounty.

Moreover, the military DOES in fact have a "law enforcement" arm -- one that, to be sure, has its own rules and procedures through which to ostensibly act justly, but to act justly nonetheless. Otherwise, why not simply kill EVERY detainee or just gulag them all for life without ANY adjudicative processess? Why even take prisoners?

Your post is self-refuting.

But, you go ahead and just keep licking Bush's ass.

I see the drooling brainstem Yahoo board posters have nowhere to go anymore, LOL!!

Keep up the amusing red herrings and straw men, dude, it's the only game you got. We'll just keep pointing out that the VAST MAJORITY of Bush's war on terrah collars have been determined to not be "terrists."

You'd be squallin' for Momma and your "rights" 10 seconds into your own stay at Gitmo, Big Brave Guy Hardass.

This is one sorry-assed lightweight. But, then, just look at the spewings the likes of Thomas Sowell and others at this ridiculous "Hoover Institute."

Yeah, we gotta put up with this lame shit. Part of the cost of being "free."

Worth it. And, always good for laughs. Like AG Abu "no-express-constitutional-right-to-Habeas" Gonzales on the telly today.

You could't make these people up.

Y'all are ROCKIN' tonight!

BobbyG

Vegas, Seven Deadly Sins, One Convenient Location.

"Treating Terrorists Like Standard Criminals"

Of course, we ALL know that EVERYONE detained by BushCo is fucking GUILTY ipso facto. They're ALL "terrorists."

You got No Game. Just the same old tiresome sophomoric fallacies.

Ooooohh!!!!

Bad words. My my. Dude, you got no game, so all you can do now is cry about get me tossed.

You stand refuted. The rest is just window dressing through which to accentuate your banality.

Washington Post

Friday, June 30, 2006; Page A01

The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the military commissions President Bush established to try suspected members of al-Qaeda, emphatically rejecting a signature Bush anti-terrorism measure and the broad assertion of executive power upon which the president had based it.

Brushing aside administration pleas not to second-guess the commander in chief during wartime, a five-justice majority ruled that the commissions, which were outlined by Bush in a military order on Nov. 13, 2001, were neither authorized by federal law nor required by military necessity, and ran afoul of the Geneva Conventions. (emphasis mine)

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Fact. What part of 'the Geneva Conventions DO in fact apply' don't you understand?

Moreover, in the subsequent Military Commissions Act passed by Congress (S. 3930), the ostensible authority according the President to 'interprete the meaning and applicability of the Geneva Conventions' clearly -- CLEARLY, sweetie -- runs afoul of Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution:

"The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...(again, emphasis mine)

So, [1] the Gitmo collars are subject to Geneva, and [2] the courts ultimately have final purview with respect to Geneva.

Now, why don't you be a good little boy and trot back off to your decorous little "conservative" circle-jerk boards?

"the rest of the world to unilaterally"

Do you ever even consider the increasingly hilarious illogic anything you proffer?

That is too funny, beyond the obvious banality of your "Tu Quoque" fallacy.

Right, JackShit, we should act with barbarity simply because renegade others do.

Why should we defer to ANY laws or due process? -- because the Bad Guys obviously don't. (ignoring for the moment that little problem that MOST of Bush's "terrist" collars have been false positives)

Honey, you are too easy.

- Craig Ventner, Celera Genomics

3,054

It's a number. Just a number. U.S. military deaths to date in Bush 43's war.

ZERO.

It's also a number, just a number.

And, aside from zero being the aggregate number of days of battlefield service of the Bush 43 top administration and their chickenhawk cheerleaders, it's also the number of U.S. troops killed by Saddam's "WMD" -- the vast majority of whom have in fact been killed by the most crude weapons this of rocks and spears.

Yeah.

Moreover, one reason they're so good at this stuff is that our CIA trained them in IED construction and deployment.

Read Steve Coll's " Ghost Wars". He recounts how Casey's CIA trained the Afghan Soviet resistance fighters on a broad array on insurgency "terror" tactics, IEDs specifically among the tools.

The lessons were learned well and spread far and wide in the region.

Go f*** yourselves, Senators. I've already pointed out that you can't run a war by committee.

He lied. Repeatedly, proactively, in affirmative detail. Not just via the customary "to-the-best-of-my-recollection" weasel phrases.

Guilty of lying to federal investigators, perjury, and resultant obstruction.

He will be convicted. Then pardoned after they melt more clock with the appeals dance.

This "debate" is over, sweetie. You get the last word. You have been refuted, and are left with nothing but blah-blah "liberal" epithets. No one cares anymore.

Enjoy.