[AndyJackson]

It simply says that the terrorists will be treated as POWS until and unless a military tribunal is convened and the mooks are found to be unlawful combatants which was the policy of this administration.

Liar liar liar liar.

That was not the policy of this administration.

Why can't it sink into that too dense skull of yours that these decisions came about because the policy of the present administration was to hold no tribunals and they held no tribunals. The reason for putting them on Guantanomo was simply for the U.S. to try to escape the reach of the constitutional limits on its power. Said decision is what earned them a rebuke from Kennedy.

It is now the policy of this administration to hold tribunals and they are holding them as fast as they possibly can. But they only started doing that after Rasul v Bush.

It was dumb - real dumb. Bush was not well advised.

[jwalsh07]

That was not the policy of this administration.

The policy of the Bush administration was to treat the terrorists at Gitmo in "the spirit of the Geneva Conventions" while not according thme the POW designation. I could have been clearer but a lie? No, its not one of my failings.