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Originally posted by cthulu23
The White House and Pentagon have ruled from the beginning that as "enemy combatants," the Guantanamo prisoners are not subject to Geneva Convention regulations. If they also have no legal recourse under American law than they are in limbo and are essentially prisoners to the whims of the executive branch. Doesn't this strike you as a bit authoritarian and, perhaps, unamerican?
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Not only that, but it strikes me that "enemy combatant" was just a new category made up to avoid the Geneva convention. It wasn't really a class that needed new guidelines - just semantic sidestepping. The should have just called them POW II or Non-Geneva POW - that would have been more to the point. Otherwise you are implying that the right to be charged depends on your country of origin, not your personal human rights.