Posted on 06/12/2008 7:29:25 PM PDT by tobyhill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay prison divided the two U.S. presidential candidates on Thursday but made it likely that one of them will have to decide what to do with its 270 inmates.
The decision knocked out a key pillar of the Bush administration's antiterrorism policy. Democratic candidate Barack Obama hailed the ruling and his rival in the November election, John McCain, joined fellow Republican, President George W. Bush, in expressing concern about it.
The ruling throws into turmoil the process Bush pushed through Congress in 2006 for trying terrorism suspects through military commissions. The court said prisoners can go before U.S. federal judges to challenge their years of detention.
The 5-4 court ruling increases the prospect that Congress and whoever takes office as president next January will be left to decide how to handle the cases.
"This is a case about how the policy of the war on terrorism is shifting as a political issue," said Faiz Shakir, research director of the Center for American Progress think tank. "The divide will actually be of political importance."
Bush and influential Democratic lawmakers said they were studying the need for new legislation.
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How is it a campaign issue when both presidential candidates basically agree with the ruling?
If you really distill down the 500+ people that have the freedoms and liberties of 300 MILLION American citizens in their hands -— you get down to the Justices of the SCOTUS. They will make or break America’s Constitutional system of laws and either keep radical socialism under control or install it as the “new” way of life in America — and I am talking RADICAL SOCIALISM. What the OBAMAnation would bring upon us....
Dump them off in the middle of the Iraq desert or perhaps let the Iraq government detain them for us. I have a feeling they would do a much better job of extracting information.
John McCain, joined fellow Republican, President George W. Bush, in expressing concern about it.
Please explain...for all to see. your fuc--ng SNORKY comment.
Since they all claim that they belong to no nation then the US should give them their own nation, surrounded by barbed wire in a desert with no food or water. If they step one foot outside the barbed wire then that is an illegal invasion on another countries soil and should be dealt with.
I guess the unwritten rule on the battle field will be kill every enemy combatant . . . or at least say you did. No more Gitmo problem.
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That is one way to keep the enemy-pandering liberals out of our hair — take no prisoners. The false reality of the libs is a major problem for us especially when our enemies become “American citizens with Constitutional rights” -— A pile of LIBERAL crap.
Exactly. There will be fewer taken alive as prisoners and the ones that are will be around for a very short period of time of interrogation and eliminated and buried in unmarked graves in the war zone. End of story. War has a tendency to work out it’s own rules of decency and justice regardless of what the five fantasists on the SCOTUS rule.
I guess the unwritten rule on the battle field will be kill every enemy combatant . .
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I agree. Ok I’ll bite with the libs..no more prisons for terrorists.
Just kill them all, and no more using my tax money to feed these scum. Works for me.
Pretty much sums it up. http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=6315
What is the old saying? Oh ya... “Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.”
From your post.....ok let's try 'em. You want the Obamination's solution instead?
From near the end:
"McCain supported the 2006 military commissions law and successfully opposed later attempts to restore the rights to challenge detention. The Arizona senator said on Thursday he was concerned by the court's decision and that “we should pay attention” to the dissenting opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts. He reiterated his support, shared by Obama, for closing Guantanamo.
Obama opposed the 2006 law and supported a 2007 repeal of to restore habeas rights. He called the court's decision “a rejection of the Bush Administration's attempt to create a legal black hole at Guantanamo — yet another failed policy supported by John McCain.”
I'll dumb it down a shade for you, McCain DOES want to close Gitmo, but unlike Obama, doesn't believe these guys have constitutional rights like you or me. There is a HUGE difference and your little article from 2005 doesn't rebut that. McCain knows this is a war, Obama thinks this is an A@E COPS marathon.
What’s yer point?
I wish they’d used a better term than Liberal. Thomas Jefferson was a Liberal. These people are Marxists and Socialists.
I noticed you changed the subject.
Good luck, Mohamed!!
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