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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (202639)	11/14/2001 1:38:22 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

If OBL or any of his major lieutenants were to be captured alive (highly doubtful) they should be tried by military commission. No where in my post did I suggest that this be done in secret. Having said that, OBL and Co. would have none of the civil liberties guaranteed citizens of the US, but I suspect they would be guaranteed war time justice. They would be treated as prisoners and given the rights accorded POWs and all the niceties that go along with that position. As to begging the question of whether the US govt. would give any regard "whatsoever" to international authority such as we have seen in Kosovo, Serbia and Rwanda, we have proven that we believe in this system of investigation and trial. OBL is a monster undeserving of civil justice, but you also have to remember that we are in a new war being led by moral men. That is the image our leaders have projected throughout this entire exercise in the struggle against terrorist. They have let the world know that we care for the Afghani people, that we DO NOT target civilians and that we follow the rules of war time engagement. Our moral leaders have ordered the drop of supplies such as food, blankets and medicines. What other country has ever done that for the civilians caught inside of a war they did not ask for? I would ask you to provide an example of US trials of prisoners of war where any double standard has been applied. M