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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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RE: So Pony Up The RIGHT Answer
All prisoners should have been given the same treatment as our law requires to be given to an American citizen.
Given the nature of this war and who we fight, that kind of thinking is naive and dangerous, but you really don't care, do you? Do you really think a jihadist picked up in Iraq trying to detonate a car bomb in a crowded market by US forces should be able to "face their accusers?" Be judged by a :jury of their peers?" No prisoner of war at any time during the 800 years of Enlish/American jurisprudence has ever been given the "same treatment" as a citizen. Ever. No habeas Corpus. Ever. But oddly, nobody ever cared until we started fighting these scum... oh, that's right it's Bush's War!! That's what you people really care about more than anything, more than the safety of our citizens or winning this war, that Bush is president. I guarantee if a Clinton or Gore or Obama were president and doing the exact same things people like you wouldn't make a peep about Gitmo.
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