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To: dirtboy
Do you REALLY want the Executive to have the power to detail persons without appeal - and that they should be allowed to ignore court decisions when someone is wrongly held and without due process? Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.

If they are POWs you can bet your life I feel that way...until the hostilities end! Furthermore, the US Constitution applies to US citizens...NO ONE ELSE! Don't you agree with that???

Clown judges have NO PLACE telling the President how to conduct a war!!! Such appears nowhere in the Constitution or their constitutional mandate.

The vast majority of these POWs want you DEAD! Does that bother you at all?

Indeed, the President should take the judges written decision, go before a press conference and tear it into tiny pieces. He should then tell the clown judge if he has a problem with that to make an appointment!

33 posted on 10/08/2008 11:51:46 AM PDT by stevem
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To: stevem
If they are POWs you can bet your life I feel that way...until the hostilities end! Furthermore, the US Constitution applies to US citizens...NO ONE ELSE! Don't you agree with that???

I have no problem holding actual POWs or enemy combatants until the end of a conflict or until they are in Depends, whichever comes first.

However, these guys were captured by bounty hunters in Afghanistan. They are from a group fighting the Chicoms, not the US. Multiple courts have ruled they are not a threat to the United States, including panels with a majority of conservative jurists.

You cannot just knee-jerk reactions here. Just because liberal pinheads attack Gitmo, it does not mean that all persons held in Gitmo SHOULD be held there as enemy combatants. And it isn't that long a trip from being set up as a foreigner for indefinite detention to being an American citizen being set up for indefinite detention. Do you REALLY want this kind of power in the hands of a President Obama, if there is another OKC-type bombing? He'd just declare conservative activists to be domestic enemy combatants and it's down the memory hole for us.

34 posted on 10/08/2008 12:03:41 PM PDT by dirtboy
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