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To: Lane3 who wrote (23903)	7/13/2006 8:50:43 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) of 541249

No, from my perspective fair trials are for everybody. Whereas, it seems to me, your position is that fair trials are for nobody. "Captured on the battlefield" is a red herring. You don't want to go there. If you concede that they were "captured on a battlefield" you're conceding that they're prisoners of war, and prisoners of war cannot be tried except for war crimes. Combat, in and of itself, isn't illegal. Regardless of your position on this, and the consistency thereof, the Geneva Conventions require a neutral fact-finder to determine the status of these people to begin with. There is no civilized country on earth that allows locking people up and throwing away the key without some kind of trial, first. Not even the US in the Age of Terrorism. We've had this discussion many times in the past. I find myself quite unable to determine the basis for your argument that persons "captured on the battlefield" can be locked up arbitrarily forever.

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