Was it a rebuke? YES...
Was it a major setback? NO....
Notice how the left is DESPERATELY trying to spin this into something it IS NOT??
Umm no. Any other stupid questions "Rosa"? BTW, you DID bother to read the part of the SC Decision where even extreme Leftist Justice Stevens was forced to admit the US can hold your Terrorist buddies "Until the End of Hostilies" Right Junk Media type idiot? Way to give your Terrorist heros Life Senatences with out them ever having to be tried in any Court you stupid Leftists.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.Send this cat back toEng. Comp. 0001. College prep.
No.
"But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act."
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This is a disgraceful decision by the SCOTUS.
Who the hell is Rosa Parks? And who cares what her analysis/opinions are?
No, he did not, Ms. Brooks. Now STFU and crawl back into your filthy Commie hole, thank you very much.
...this mental midget is clearly unaware of the doctrine of "ex post facto"...one cannot be prosecuted for a so-called 'crime' that was committed before the act in question became illegal...more little girl happy crap from the Al Qaada fan club
Her government and NGO work has involved extensive travel and field research on issues such as transitional justice in Iraq, Indonesia and Kosovo and child soldiers in Uganda and Sierra Leone.
Brooks is the author of numerous scholarly articles on international law, human rights, and the law of war, and her book, "Can Might Make Rights? The Rule of Law After Military Interventions" (with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman), will be published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press.
Brooks received her A.B. from Harvard in 1991, followed by a master's degree from Oxford in 1993 and a law degree from Yale in 1996.
OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE. STATE DEPARTMENT. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH and AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.
HARVARD, YALE & OXFORD (That's not in Mississippi, is it?)
Nuff said.
No Bimbo he did not
A mind is such an unfortunate thing to waste!
In other words, with the Hamdan decision, U.S. officials found to be responsible for subjecting war on terror detainees to torture, cruel treatment or other "outrages upon personal dignity" could face prison or even the death penalty.
Rosa evidently did not even search her Nexis Lexis data base for White House statements about the applicability of the Geneva Convention to the WOT and WH policy toward terrorist detainees.
Psst Rosa: The US has an attorney general and the WH has bounteous counsel to provide guidance in the applicability of laws of warfare and treatment of enemies of America.
Someone please send Rosa a $5 bill so she can buy a clue. She evidently considers the WH response to the 9-11 attacks and interpretation of the GC to NON-uniformed, NON-GC signatory, NON-national combatants - to be "novel" ....
without pondering whether the style of warfare, the targets, and the transnational RELIGIOUS affiliation of the combatants...might also be a bit "novel".
After all, the GC was not written with guidelines for treating a war launched by a religion against another nation's civilians.
WH press statement on GC and treatment of enemy combatants-Please read and ponder where and why where our President deserves to be accused of "war crimes".
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030507-18.html