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i think our treatment of enemy combatants captured on the afghani and iraqi battlefields is too lax. they have forfeited the traditional geneva convention status by nature of the way they carry out the war (no uniforms, mixing with civilian populace, firing from schools/mosques etc.)
but, when it comes to my countrymen... i don't want any concessions made. if padilla is a citizen, then he is entitled every ounce of due process.
it's hard not to chuckle at alarmists who act like Bush is draconian in any way (in light of the historical precedents), but Bush's relative restraint doesn't make this right.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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