[BlackVeil]

This article is from an Australian newspaper.

[zarf]

Kill em. Kill em all.

[Abcdefg]

Death camp would be ideal for the scum who wrote this hit piece.

[11B3]

"The administration has no interest in long-term prison sentences for people it regards as hard-core terrorists."

And the problem with this is??? Humanity has no interest in keeping "hard core terrorists" incarcerated for long terms. It's all just a lot more simple in every respect to make them martyrs - exactly as they originally desired. We're providing a service to them.

[noutopia]

Cant this be pulled???

[Pistolshot]

They should be tried under Islamic law.

Then put to death in accordance with that law.

[Consort]

Let the anti-Teliban Afghanis and anti-Saddam Iraqis deal with them. Ship them all over this week and lets move on.

[dasboot]

This is really upsetting:

I bet the gubmint will ignore the gender and minority guidelines when hiring contractors to build this thing 'cuz they're outside the jurisdiction of the US civil courts.

Pisses me right off. /sarc

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the move is seen as logical by the US, which has been attacked worldwide for breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war since it established the camp at a naval base to hold alleged terrorists from Afghanistan.

The Geneva Convention is crafted to give nations at war incentives to limit the barbarity of their behavior. The US has used the rhetoric of "war" internally, but in fact al Qaeda is the very parody of the nation at war subject to sanctions and protections of the Geneva Convention. There is no such thing as an al Qaeda symbol or armband, let alone a uniform; al Qaeda does not even claim an address, so far as I know.

So the notion that al Qaeda operatives deserve consideration and sanction against a country which summarily punishes them, is itself an attack on the Geneva Convention.

We are of course quite accustomed to facing enemies who are contemptuous of the Geneva Convention; Germany and Japan had extremely limited adherence to it and the behaviors of North Korea and North Vietnam were similar. And the former regime in Iraq reportedly used most of mosques, schools, and hospitals in the country as military centers--and misused faux or captured US military uniforms to trick its own soldiers into revealing an intention of surrendering against its orders. And of course who could forget the siting of military installations in residential areas?

Such tactics are violations of the Geneva Convention, specifically designed to increase the brutality of war--and, as often as not, to besmirch the reputation of a nation which systematically plans to meet the Geneva Convention's strictures.

The truth is, of course, that for a nation like Iraq to militarily oppose the US is essentially a violation of the Convention from the ground up, since opposition has no prospect of affecting the result in any sense other than the extent of the destruction and mayhem which the conflict imposed almost exclusively on Iraqis.

[DPB101]

The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller . . .

Whose plan was revealed? Does it have a name? Who wrote it? From which department did it come? Why not give us some more information on this "plan"?

General Miller said building a death row was one plan. Another was to have a permanent jail. . .

Oh...I get it. A reporter asked a ton of questions and General Miller finally said, "well we could do this or we could do that". That what happened? Seeing as we have no real information about this "plan" somebody or other wrote or maybe did not write, a reasonable person might conclude the reporter is trying to get attention with a incindary headline about a "Death Camp"

The Mail on Sunday reported the move is seen as logical by the US . . .

I'm familiar with the "Talking White House" as in "The White House said today..." do we now have an entire country which talks with one voice? Or more likely, did the writer simply express his own opinion of what he thinks "the US" sees as "logical"?

[R. Scott]

The military always has contingency plans, it doesn’t mean that execution will take place – only that if our esteemed politicians deem it necessary the military can implement it.

[#3Fan]

These are irregulars and irregulars should be executed.

[frosty snowman]

Capture the ringleaders and extract info, execute their irregulars on the spot. It won't be over until every al-qaeda is dead.

[DoughtyOne]

I have a pretty good notion we're not hearing all the story here.

[ContentiousObjector]

although it might "feel good" executing terrorists is generally a bad idea, when you have a foe who wants to be "martyred" they should be kept alive at all costs,

Terrorists, and bad dudes in general are usually forgoten about in prison, executed terrorists aren't, in a way they live forever.

do you know who Niyow Ayad and Akhman Ajjaj are? (no Google, that is cheating)

Do you know who Timothy McVeigh is?

Has anyone ever asked themselves the question why Israel doesn't execute imprisoned terrorists?

[RightOnline]

"The administration has no interest in long-term prison sentences for people it regards as hard-core terrorists."

Neither does the American public.

These animals are learning the hard way.........................they f**ked with the wrong country at the wrong time, and they are learning that we when we finally fight back, may God have mercy on your soul, because your a** belongs to us.

[dennisw]

This article is from an Australian newspaper......


'ang 'em 'igh!

[Joe Bfstplk]

This service could be outsourced to Castro.

[MEG33]

I equate death camps with concentration camps, Nazis and gas chambers...an outrageous term to use.If it was meant to inflame,it worked. I'd like to flog the writer.

[alloysteel]

Ah, yes. The Americans as Nazis. Or at least the Bush Administration. Reality be d*mned, once some people's minds are made up, everything is argued from that point of view. Facts only get in the way.

But the scourge that was International Socialism, the greatest critics of National Socialism, has been largely in retreat around the world, EXCEPT in Castro's Cuba, in Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, and the People's Republic of China. One might arguably state that International Communism began crumbling when they faced the implacable Islamic militants, a rag-tag army on a mission. Fresh from that victory, the militants thought they could tackle the Great Satan, the United States. And at first, their strategy seemed to be working. But then came 9/11, a series of acts so egregious, so reckless, so disrespectful, that the sleeping giant stirred into action. Advice, freely given to all who will listen. Don't p*ss off the Americans.

The Islamic militants found out they had just stepped into a meat grinder. The Americans were highly selective in their targets, using almost surgical skill in taking out specific human elements. The opposition was so shattered that they simply folded, fleeing for their lives. But one by one, these cringing rodents are being flushed out, by patient applicantion of human intelligence and artful dialogue. Not negotiation, only a simple statement, come out and surrender. Or suffer consequences, which may or may not involve gunfire exchange.

Justice with mercy, or justice without mercy. Either way, the wages are the same.

[Eternal_Bear]

let's just make sure we come up with an execution method that doesn't harm their organs so they can used in transplants. Hmmm, death by freezing? That would sure protect the organs.