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Originally posted by Seaver
It would be nice to treat everyone the same but it's different when they belong to a differnet country, and want to kill everyone in ours as well as all the ideals that we hold on to so dearly.
I'm sorry but they dont sweep up people like cattle over there, they are captured if they are in a firefight against US forces.
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The US administration has shown a couple faux pas in terms of handling prisone... oh wait, "enemy combatants." For the executive branch to have absolute say-so over a group of detainees is asking for abuse of authority. It doesn't have to be so, but it can be so that a couple of Afghani shepherds were picked up for kicks, sent to Gitmo on a lark, and have now been held for years under 23 hour lockdown, without any contacts to a lawyer, and sweating it out when the military translator comes by to tell them how they aren't subject to the geneva convention, judicial oversight, and that the administrations lawyers have found it *legal* to torture them for information.
Swept up like cattle?
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Sa...76495581&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161
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PARCHAR SHIELA, Afghanistan
When Afghan militiamen raided a home in this remote southern village in November, they found no weapons but dragged away a 28-year-old man and accused him of being a terrorist.
Two months later, the family got Abdul Wahid's body back, with little explanation. The U.S. military says that Wahid died in American custody - one of four such cases under criminal investigation in Afghanistan - but the man's father blames the Afghan militia, not U.S. forces.
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To say that the court has overstepped its bounds just by saying that they get to look and see whether or not detainees who are denied even the Geneva convention are even supposed to be in U.S. custody is to put a lot of faith in the military's ability to fill up 600 cell blocks with diehard Taliban/Al Qaeda fighters and not have ONE innocent bystander.