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Asked whether bin Laden should be tried in the United States and put to death, Dean told the Concord Monitor: "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials."

Where does he get the idea that his is an "old-fashioned notion"??? I guarantee him that if he were to ask oldtimers in the USA their only question would be whether UBL should be tortured or not before execution. No, Dean's idea is a new one trotted out by Leftists who are afraid to say that they're opposed to the death penalty even for monsters.

Do you not know any "old timers"? Those who fought in WWII were fighting for old-fashioned notions such as "innocent until proven guilty" and "trial by jury". Unlike now, when they are sent to die in order to support Halliburton's bottom line.

I wonder how much evidence there really is against Binladdin. The Taliban offered to give him up for FIVE YEARS if the US would only supply evidence of him attacking Americans. DC didn't seem to think that it was all that important, I guess. What evidence have you ever seen that Binladdin was associated with the WTC attack? Just the words of the Administration, probably the most corrupt group of pathological liars ever to occupy the White House. Have you ever seen any evidence? No, you haven't. They've never seen fit to show ANYONE any evidence, even their allies in Europe.

There IS evidence that Bush family friend and sometimes business partner Kalid Bin Mafouze (sp?) and the head of the Pakistani secret service financed the Atta group. The CIA's favorite bank placed the short-sell orders against United and American Airlines, and that bank's director has been appointed Deputy Director for the CIA by the Administration. The people who blocked the Moussaui investigation and who granted visas to the 9-11 hijackers have all been given promotions and bonuses. And the FBI is still prohibited from investigating "charities" associated with the Saudi royal family.

Binladdin may be guilty. I don't know, and neither do you. Should he be executed just because he holds different religious beliefs than you? If so, then we atheists had better hide.

No, Dean's idea is a new one trotted out by Leftists who are afraid to say that they're opposed to the death penalty even for monsters.

It's a lot more insidious than that -- it has more to do with hardcore leftists who believe that we, somehow, got what was coming to us and that offing this guy would be as bad as what he did, which we somehow inspired/compelled him to do anyway.

I'm talking about people who live and/or work(ed) in Manhattan on 9/11/01. These are people from my old office who were in a panic that morning because 2 execs from our office were on planes and I was M.I.A. (I live very near the WTC site).