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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
AMERICAN citizens are protected under the constitution, not foreign illegal combatants. Bush only has responsibility to protect us and our rights.
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That's a point, but a disingenuous one. The Constitution is based on the idea that <u>all</u> people are entitled to certain rights. True, it is spelled out not in the Constitution, but rather in the Declaration of Independance, but the whole point of the Constitution is to take those rights recognized in the Declaration and build a system of government that respects those rights. It is only binding on Citizens, but that stands to reason. The folks who wrote the constitution were smart enough to know you can't bind people of other sovreign nations to your laws (unlike most American politicians since WWII at the latest). So you are legally correct, but completely missing the spirit of the law. This is why people don't much care for lawyers.