This is why the bush admin shouldn’t have overreached and just called people prisoners of war. Just wait until people like rush or tea-partyers get declared “enemy combatants” for disagreeing with the government, and held indefinitely without trial.
Actually, Bush et al under-reached. The “enemy combatants” should have been designated as spies, and summarily executed. The fact that President Bush saw the potential for (1) gleaning intel and (2) making a mistake in designating apprehended individuals were major causes of the decision to treat them as what they legally are - unlawful enemy combatants.
POWs are by definition uniformed enemy servicemen.