Guantanamo Tribunals
We probably won't look back on this post-9/11 period as one of our finest moments as the shining city on the hill. As some people are fond of saying, "The Constitution isn't a suicide pact."
OK, that's true. Let's be honest, then: rather than hold trials with joke rules that stack the deck, let's just hold no trials at all. Here's the rationale: "We're holding the prisoners until the War on Terror is over. Which is never." At least, it goes along with the argument that it's too dangerous to let these people loose without soiling our bedrock document in the process.
CHAN LOWE
Comments
Another complacenik weighs in.
Pathetic.
Posted by: U R A Moron | July 24, 2008 4:15 PM
We've treated these prisoners worse than American captives were treated in Vietnam, and we're supposed to be the good guys?
Posted by: Lois_Lane | July 24, 2008 4:50 PM
What these unread, un-cultured republicans don't understand is that the constitution and the necessity to follow it (and the lack of ammendments) is what seperates us from the third world to our south....if every president could just disregard the constitution, we would be Mexico!!!
The complaint is valid, it is not just complaining from bleeding hart liberals.
Posted by: ed | July 24, 2008 5:51 PM
The complaint is valid, it is not just complaining from bleeding hart liberals.
Gary Hart still has followers? ;)
Posted by: Ron | July 25, 2008 1:41 AM