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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
POW would be good, too. The problem is making a new category where no laws apply.
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We are to some degree in agreement here, but really about the only applicable model is that of the Prisoner Of War. They are realistic enough to see this, and have seen it from the Gitmo git-go.
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Habeas corpus is not a right of American citizens. It is a restriction on the abilities of the American government.
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In judicial dealings with American citizens, yes. It must not be used as a rallying cry to keep the GWOT from being won, the way the anti-Republican freakos have been doing.
There is no sense in opposing the GWOT just because it's a Republican President trying to win it, yet that is what I see over and over, not only among the most frayed threads of the lunatic fringe, but among Democrats who ought to know better -- and don't! The Democrats have abandoned fighting the war in favor of fighting the Republicans. Dopes. Dupes.