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To: Right_in_Virginia
Well, don't I feel better

It doesn't matter how you feel. The Constitution is clear on the separation of powers and the CIC's powers during war time.

The courts have been clear since Ex-Parte Quirin on the status of enemy combatants be they "citizens" or not.

You can worry about Hillary Clinton until the cows come home. Hamdi is an enemy combatant and he's staying in the stockade until Bush says the war is over.

Personally, I think he should be vacationing in Gitmo with his fellow jihadists but hey, I can live with the stockade or the brig.

23 posted on 01/09/2003 6:09:58 PM PST by jwalsh07 (March for Life in DC ,1/22/03.)
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To: jwalsh07
"It doesn't matter how you feel. The Constitution is clear on the separation of powers and the CIC's power during war time."

Can't argue with your statement.

But, can you tell me upon whom war has been declared...and when we know it is won? Can you define to whom these extraordinary war powers can be applied and for how long they can be enforced?

Here's my fear: ~ What's to prevent Hillary! (or whomever) from saying that war continues...and as such~ so does her "Constitutional right" to enforce her "wartime" powers to imprison without a glance toward the Bill of Rights?

I trust George W. Bush.

But shouldn't we pay attention to who else we may be handing such broad powers?

25 posted on 01/09/2003 7:52:02 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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