Bring the Terrorists to Justice

The Heritage Foundation ^ | 19 September 2006 | The Heritage Foundation

[concretebob]

The Senate is stalling another Bush Administration proposal to effectively fight the war on terror. After the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year that the President does not have inherent authority to try captured terrorists using military tribunals, President Bush asked Congress to grant him that authority in law.

The Senate is balking at the President’s proposal, though, claiming that it runs afoul of a portion of the Geneva Conventions known as Common Article 3. But Heritage national security expert James Carafano notes that the administration’s proposal as it exists now would “satisfy[y] U.S. obligations under the Conventions.”

In fact, he writes, the Geneva Conventions don’t apply at all to the 350 or so captured terrorists in US custody. “Such unlawful combatants have chosen to violate the rules of war as defined in the Geneva Conventions and so should not be accorded the full procedural protections that honorable, law-abiding soldiers receive.” Instead, he argues, “all that unlawful combatants are due is humane treatment.”

Instead of endlessly debating the meaning of Common Article 3—which was left deliberately vague when written in 1949—Congress should move quickly to pass legislation “so that the unlawful combatants in US custody can be tried and their statuses finally resolved.”

[concretebob]

PING

[concretebob]

The link to the article..

[yldstrk]

Folking weenies.

[pipecorp]

If we can't interrogate prisoners, stop taking them. leave them on the field of battle, dead.

[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping Bob

[cripplecreek]

I would rather take justice to them.

[devolve]

My eyes!

My eyes!

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Excellent!

[Dog Gone]

I'm actually comfortable without the ability to try them.

If you try them, they might actually get off somehow. Only a small minority would you ever convict and shoot.

Leave them in legal limbo awaiting McCain and Graham to grow some brains. It could be a long long wait.

[potlatch]

Devolve!! You've seen that a million times! LOL

[devolve]

Only 60% of the time

[trooprally]

Leave them on the battle field DEAD - absolutely!! Since they would be useless to us if the McCain et al a$$holes get their way.

OR make them join a Sorority and then we'll get the intel we want.

[Mr] T

[Thrownatbirth]

I roll my eyes.

In the real world, nothing will change. Professionals, especially if lives are at stake, will always do what they have to do.

[trooprally]

I believe you are correct. I just hope no one finds out. If it is discovered and our guys are 'convicted' of McCain's idea of what interrogation should not be, Presidential Pardons are in order.

[Mr] T

[nopardons]

The president had better get a handle on this!

[usmcobra]

I think we should release them all.


















200 miles out to sea from the well deck of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima with all the tie down chains they can carry.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the ping.

[Taxman]

Battlefield justice is the only justice those Islamofacist a$$holes deserve!

[concretebob]

Sounds like a plan to me.
Write it up, I'll sign it.

[PhilDragoo]