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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (15131)	3/3/2003 8:56:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

...some members didn't even read it before the voted for it. I think that's the way laws are normally made. Amazingly. About the prisoners, here's what I think. The top operational guy in Al Qaeda was just captured. He was gotten from information gotten from previous captures. Who in turn were captured based on information from previous captures. The best information we have is what we get from captured terrorists. If we give captured Al Qaeda members the same legal rights criminal defendents have or even if we give them POW status, the amount of information we will get goes to zero. We wouldn't even be able to question them, much less put psychological pressure on them, mislead and trick them into revealing information. And Americans will die as a result. I'm not willing to accept that. Yes, the conflict against Al Qaeda is a war of a sort but a different kind of war than we've ever dealt with before. There is no country backing them. No head of state which will someday negotiate a peace agreement. POW's are normally held until the war ends, then are freed. This war isn't going to have a conventional end. Their side is never going to make peace with us. This war is a war to the death. I don't think we can ever release them. Since extending POW or constitutional rights to Al Qaeda will cost the deaths of thousands perhaps millions of Americans, I say to hell with extending them any rights at all. We have to make an exception for terrorists. That's my opinion. You may not agree with me. But if there are future attacks of the magnitude of 9/11 or greater and you lose family members, you will agree with me then.