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RE: So Pony Up The RIGHT Answer
It seems that we had two choices:
1. treat them like prisoners of war - therefore: Geneva convention; no trial; indefinite detention until the war is resolved; or,
2. Treat them as criminals, therefore: a trial and a sentence according to our norms of justice.
An unfair trial rigged to get a conviction, which was precisely the policy and not even really denied by the white house crowd, was never an option that should be accepted by the American people.
Options 1 and 2 seem to have merged in the minds of the media, and hence the public, leading to confusing statements about the Geneva convention being abandoned in the application of justice, or the illegality of indefinite detention.
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