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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (190895)7/5/2006 12:33:13 AM
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Hawk,

Thanks for the link about the Red Cross access. It would seem that it’d be a little difficult to arrange these meetings out to Gitmo, but I’m glad that they’re happening at least.

I found this section of your link to be critical to my thinking:

"The lives of American military forces may well be endangered by the United States' failure to grant foreign prisoners in its custody the same rights that the United States insists be accorded to American prisoners held by foreigners."
That view was backed by ex-prisoners-of-war, some of whom told the Supreme Court they owed their lives to the fact that their captors abided by the Geneva conventions.
On Wednesday an Australian lawyer representing some of the suspects said they were being submitted to torture.
US officials have denied torturing detainees, saying they are allowed to practise their religion and given good medical care.”

My main point was couldn’t we have put these guys in a super max prison in the first place?

By putting them in Guantanamo, we forced the Supreme Court to decide many years after the fact.

I’m asking the same question from the earlier post:

Given how much you know of foreign affairs, is there another country’s administration (e.g. an Attorney General) that agrees that Gitmo is the best place for these guys?

Thanks and happy 4th. Let’s all enjoy these blessing of liberty for as long as they can last.
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