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To: blam
US Senator Jeff Bingamon, a Democrat from New Mexico, pushed for Congress to force the Bush administration to... reveal its intentions toward the detainees,

Are ya'll gonna marry that there al qaeda? Cause we here don't take kindly to folks triflin' with the affections of our al qaedas 'round here.

2 posted on 07/24/2003 9:01:30 PM PDT by MediaMole
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"It's an embarrassment for us to be going ahead with proceedings that go against our own Constitution," Bingamon said.

It is my understanding to the contrary that the Guantanamo incarceration has withstood every constitutional challange.

"One of the ways the rest of the world is going to judge us is how we deal with these detainees and what legal process we follow."

In the long run the rest of the world will judge us not on process but on substantive results. If, as the article suggests, we are gaining important intelligence the results will in time become evident.

Meanwhile, the world will judge that we are resolute in waging this war. I can only image the chilling effect the prospect of spending the rest of one's existence in this kind of incarceration. To the Islamist's mind this must be a terror far worse than martyrdom.

5 posted on 07/24/2003 9:16:27 PM PDT by nathanbedford
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