"What I am saying is that the ethics question should not be directed at the US, but at the islamic fundamentalist dictators and radical islamic terrorists, and other countries"

- why would the AMERICAN civil liberties union direct questions at foreign governments?



"are you suggesting that its OK for them to continue to persecute prisoners and murder innocent civilians with impunity. "

- of course i don't want anyone to torture...unlike you, i don't dismiss the people that do object to torture by suggesting they be sent off to war...snivelling liberals you condemn for objecting to US torturerers also object to foreign torturers:
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"the prisors in GITMO are PRISONERS OF WAR"

- according to the us gov't, the detainees at gitmo are NOT prisoners of war...if they were, they would be protected by the geneva conventions...that is why the us gov't redefined them as 'unlawful combatants'...judging by the number of detainees released so far, it's likely that many if not most of them are innocent...after 6 years, only two people have been formally found guilty of anything at gitmo - bin laden's chauffeur, and bin laden's propagandist (and they didn't kill anyone)...gitmo and the trials are a travesty of justice, and better suited to an islamic dictatorship than a nation that is supposedly based on human rights and the rule of law...thankfully, closing gitmo is at the top of obama's to-do list



"As I understand it, technically unlawful combatants do not have any rights under the Geneva Convention."
- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, January 2002
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