[mhking]

Nor was it clear that the suspect was guilty.

Nor was there time for a tribunal to determine that.

Colonel West made a battlefield decision.

West's critics are engaged in Monday morning quarterbacking of an unprecedented degree. Would you have all battlefield decisions revisited if it unduly "frightens" an enemy combattant?

You want to question the Administration and it's rationale? That's one thing. But when you begin to call battlefield decisions into question, simply because they offend sensibilities, you begin to undermine the entire code and concept of military justice.

[Ispy4u]

Prisoner interrogation is not a "battlefield" decision. Dramatize the event if you need to, but there is a clear distinction between rules of conduct while in battle, and once you have captured them.