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Bring the Terrorists to Justice
The Heritage Foundation ^
| 19 September 2006
| The Heritage Foundation
Posted on 09/19/2006 4:53:06 PM PDT by concretebob
The Senate is stalling another Bush Administration proposal to effectively fight the war on terror. After the Supreme Courts 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 Presidents 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 administrations proposal as it exists now would satisfy[y] U.S. obligations under the Conventions.
In fact, he writes, the Geneva Conventions dont 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 3which was left deliberately vague when written in 1949Congress should move quickly to pass legislation so that the unlawful combatants in US custody can be tried and their statuses finally resolved.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: article; article3; bill; convention; geneva; genevaconvention; justice; senate; terrorist; waronterror; wot
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:54:41 PM PDT
by
concretebob
(We should give anarchists what they want. There'd be no jail-time for anything we do.)
To: concretebob
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:56:45 PM PDT
by
concretebob
(We should give anarchists what they want. There'd be no jail-time for anything we do.)
To: concretebob
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:56:51 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: concretebob
If we can't interrogate prisoners, stop taking them. leave them on the field of battle, dead.
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:58:48 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
( Al Lahsuchs................8(_o_)8 .................p b & j ;;; mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
To: concretebob; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; bitt; Smartass; Boazo
Thanks for the ping Bob
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posted on
09/19/2006 4:58:57 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: pipecorp
I would rather take justice to them.
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posted on
09/19/2006 5:00:46 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: potlatch
My eyes!
My eyes!
Oh
A 3-2
Excellent!
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posted on
09/19/2006 5:03:49 PM PDT
by
devolve
To: concretebob
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.
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posted on
09/19/2006 5:05:57 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: devolve
Devolve!! You've seen that a million times! LOL
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posted on
09/19/2006 5:06:01 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch
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posted on
09/19/2006 5:07:58 PM PDT
by
devolve
To: pipecorp; concretebob
Leave them on the battle field DEAD - absolutely!! Since they would be useless to us if the McCain et al a$$holes get their way.
OR make them join a Sorority and then we'll get the intel we want.
[Mr] T
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posted on
09/19/2006 5:08:31 PM PDT
by
trooprally
(Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
To: trooprally
I roll my eyes.
In the real world, nothing will change. Professionals, especially if lives are at stake, will always do what they have to do.
To: Thrownatbirth
I believe you are correct. I just hope no one finds out. If it is discovered and our guys are 'convicted' of McCain's idea of what interrogation should not be, Presidential Pardons are in order.
[Mr] T
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posted on
09/19/2006 6:14:31 PM PDT
by
trooprally
(Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
To: concretebob
The president had better get a handle on this!
To: concretebob
I think we should release them all.
200 miles out to sea from the well deck of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima with all the tie down chains they can carry.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:02:16 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
To: concretebob
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:32:34 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: concretebob
Battlefield justice is the only justice those Islamofacist a$$holes deserve!
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:40:10 PM PDT
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: usmcobra
Sounds like a plan to me.
Write it up, I'll sign it.
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posted on
09/19/2006 9:52:19 PM PDT
by
concretebob
(We should give anarchists what they want. There'd be no jail-time for anything we do.)
To: devolve; potlatch; ntnychik; Grampa Dave; bitt; nopardons
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:00:04 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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