Well, if we decide we can't hold them forever, and they need to be tried, it seems to me that the appropriate thing to do is to give them full due process rights and full-dress criminal trials under the law...of the place they committed their crimes. Which is to say, the republics of Afghanistan and of Iraq, both functioning democracies with legal systems, should be eventually given full custody of these prisoners along with their legal dossiers, to give them appropriate trials. That would, after all, be full due process as required under international law.
Due process in Afghanistan and Iraq - sounds good to me -But only after we have gotten important and needed information from them and punished them for crimes agasint our nation. That is after all the main reason they are being held.
They are after all captured enemy combatants and we are in the midst of war action. Should they wish to give up what we need, they should be released to countries of origin for due processing and then the squad.
The main problem is that these terrorists are getting a second wind from the traitors in congress - Chappaquidick Kennedy and sycophant Lahey and Princess Diane of California and the rest of the pompous jerks who care more about their phony humanitarian glamor than about the security and safety of our combat heroes.
"Well, if we decide we can't hold them forever, and they need to be tried, it seems to me that the appropriate thing to do is to give them full due process rights and full-dress criminal trials under the law"
Exactly what crime would you charge them with?
"Well, if we decide we can't hold them forever, and they need to be tried, it seems to me that the appropriate thing to do is to give them full due process rights and full-dress criminal trials under the law...of the place they committed their crimes."
What an absolutely brilliant idea. Let's try them under Sharia law for taking up jihad against the infidel crusader imperialist Americans and International Zionism.
Right you are!! This is the most logical end result for Gitmo that I have seen yet.
The Dem morons can keep squawking; after the legal justice systems are well established in their respective countries, they can have thier "citizens" back...to try them under their own laws.
As POWs that is not necessary... a military tribunal and adjudication is sufficient.
And btw, I seem to recall we did some Nuremburg trials after a war. What was the legal basis for that? Thin air!
"Which is to say, the republics of Afghanistan and of Iraq, both functioning democracies with legal systems, should be eventually given full custody of these prisoners along with their legal dossiers, to give them appropriate trials."
Practically none of these prisoners are related to Iraq.
Most were captured in Afghanistan, but not just there - a Yemenese in Pakistan, crimes against us. Where do you send them? Send them to those countries and the whiners would have some reason to oppose that too.