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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (326192)	2/16/2007 10:31:12 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576811

re: How high should it be set? Everyone has their own standard. My Dad was a doctor, one kid and one on the way, very comfortable life, and enlisted in the week after Pearl Harbor. As did almost everybody that could. Why don't you see mass enlistments for the Iraq "war"? Why don't you see a patriotic sacrifice for the "war on terror"? Why don't you see a draft if it's a real war? Why didn't you enlist, like my Dad did? re: Of course, with a draft, you're always going to be sending someone into a battle he or she never agreed to in the first place. Would it force the decision bar higher? I would argue the opposite, that it LOWERS the bar. You "would" argue it but you didn't. Don't be cryptic make your point if you have one.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (326192)	2/16/2007 10:36:55 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576811

Judge orders Padilla's military jailers to testify By Jane Sutton 2 hours, 44 minutes ago U.S. military prison doctors and staff must testify in court about the treatment of suspected al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla while he was held by presidential order as an "enemy combatant," a judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ordered a Pentagon lawyer and seven military and civilian prison employees to appear for questioning at a hearing on Thursday to determine if Padilla is mentally competent to stand trial on terrorism charges. "Things happened to him at that place. It might be an entirely pleasant experience, I don't know," Cooke said. Cooke ruled that since a psychiatrist's judgment that Padilla was fit to stand trial was based partly on conversations with doctors and staff at his military brig, their testimony was relevant for Padilla's mental competency hearing. Padilla, a 36-year-old U.S. citizen, is accused of being part of a North American support cell that provided money and recruits to global Islamist extremists. He is scheduled for trial in April on charges of conspiring to murder and maim people in foreign countries. His lawyers say Padilla was tortured, drugged and psychologically damaged during the 3-1/2 years he was interrogated and held in "extreme isolation" at a military brig in South Carolina prior to being charged in the civilian court. Prosecutors repeatedly insisted Padilla was not abused at the brig and that his treatment there was irrelevant to his trial and current mental state. Two doctors who examined Padilla for the defense concluded he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder that prevents him from assisting in his legal defense. Most of the brig workers had refused, or been denied permission, to speak to defense lawyers, Padilla's attorney Anthony Natale said. Two years' worth of medical records from Padilla's time in the brig were also missing, Natale said. Cooke voiced skepticism when a prosecutor told her that the government could not find one of the evidentiary tapes she had ordered them to give to Padilla's lawyers. She questioned how it "just got mislaid." "Do you understand why this is a little frustrating?" she asked the prosecutor. "Where could they be? Why would it be so hard?" Padilla was arrested at O'Hare Airport in Chicago in May 2002 as he returned from a trip to Egypt and Pakistan. President George W. Bush ordered Padilla held by the military as an "enemy combatant" and the administration accused him of plotting to set off a radioactive bomb in the United States. While a challenge to the president's authority to hold him without charges was pending in the Supreme Court, Padilla was indicted in Florida and transferred to civilian custody. He was never charged with any bomb-related crimes but would face life in prison if convicted on the charges at his pending trial, which is expected to last four to six months.