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

To: Rock_nj who wrote (402068)	5/2/2003 4:04:38 PM
From: David R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It is necessary for us to take steps to protect our nation from terrorism. 3000 deaths on 9/11 was fairly small, compared to what could have happened, if Bin Laden had picked strategic targets, and not symbolic ones. We live in a system of checks and balances. In the shock of 9/11, our government rushed to enact legislation to prevent future attacks, and to root out the cells established in our country. If, they went too far, as has happened in the past, time will resolve the problem. The US system has shown itself to be quite resilient over the last two centuries. The constitution is not a suicide pact, as the ACLU would lead us to believe. When individuals enter our country illegally, and intend to commit acts of war, they are, by the Geneva Convention, unlawful combatants. They have no rights, period. No due process, no POW status. They can be summarily executed. Brutal, but necessary in the world in which we live. The ACLU would have us extend to illegal terrorists, the full rights of the U.S constitution. This is absurd, but then, so is the ACLU. Likewise, the unlawful combatants in Afganistan (as opposed to the Afgan army), are outside the protection of the Geneva convention, since they choose to ighore it before and during the war.