This is another example of really incredibly simple-minded, myopic stuff coming out of right-leaning surface-comprehension. Seriously incredible.

Of course there needs to be some process. Due process. The same things that we ask in other countries and even as a part of the Geneva conventions have to be afforded to those so-called enemy combatants. They're not convicted enemy combatants. They're alleged. It is an absolute no-brainer for there to be some sort of due process. If they're just locked up and alleged as criminals until the ends of their lives, then our so-called big talk about spreading Democracy and freedoms in the parts of the world they hail from is a complete joke.

The languishing-in-captivity-until-death approach is also precisely the sort of dark-ages judicial process we're expending millions of dollars to correct in Iraq and Afghanistan through our provincial judicial reconstruction teams. Go spend some time reading about provincial reconstruction if you don't believe me. This is why folks need to be better informed here. To say we shouldn't have to give Gitmo detainees the same rights as Americans when we're in Iraq and Afghanistan spending millions to give those countries the same sort of judicial freedoms we enjoy--and also to insist that, if Americans were in the same circumstances, we would have to be given those same rights as detainees in their prisons, either civilian or military--is an incredible form of hypocrisy.

What's particularly amazing to me about McCain's current stance--which I don't for a moment believe is about anything other than appearing to fall on the side he thinks is going to get him the most right-wing support, not about what he actually thinks about due process for alleged combatants, particularly considering what he's repeatedly said about Gitmo and torture and Geneva in the past--is how he, an alleged "enemy combatant" war criminal/POW in Vietnam for nearly 6 years, could have concluded otherwise in response to the Supreme Court ruling. I still maintain that this is more about partisan stance than it is about his actual response, however, and I have to keep in mind that he's not a lawyer or a judge, which probably affects his perception, too.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . McCain blasts Supreme Court's Guantanamo ruling Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain today called the U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing Guantanamo detainees to challenge their status in civilian courts "one of the worst I've ever seen." McCain made his comments while traveling on his campaign bus to a town hall meeting at Burlington County College in Pemberton. "These are not American citizens. They are enemy combatants," McCain said. "I think this is one of the biggest mistakes that's been made in terms of our ability Rating: 5