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Old 10-13-2006, 03:58 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tyreay View Post
Please don't fail off your chairs, but I agree with srg. I think the writ of Habeas Corpus should stay in our domestic courts but I also think that the bill, focusing on alien enemy combatants, is a step in the right direction.
I do think holding them without a trial is incorrect and in this case our war on terror is a different situation than any other wars. Holding them untill the 'end of hostilities' is looking more and more like a life sentence so anything getting them into a court is a good thing.

Believe it or not I actually agree with you that holding them until the end of hostilities would be egregious error. My use of pointing out this fact is to distinguish the difference that occurs with detainees and criminals. Time and time again we hear how we are holding these individuals without trail, this is mistaking them for criminals, someone who was caught committing a crime. In most cases, these individuals were caught during hostilities against the United States. Under the Geneva convention they are illegal combatants. However, for the most part we are not treaty the vast majority of them as criminals, instead, we are interrogating, gaining intelligence and releasing. Do not forget that at one point there were some 2000 plus detainees, now the number hovers around the 500 plus mark.

I point out that the detainees can be held until the end of hostilities to remind everyone that their detention is within the law, the very law everyone seems to think the President is breaking.

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