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To: Cogito who wrote (72217)	6/14/2008 4:43:50 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542009

It is simply not morally right I wasn't addressing rightness. I was addressing the constitution. The default is the constitution in our system. If you want to embellish that to increase rightness, some action is required. The legal status of people who we claim to be "enemy combatants", who have been detained in an undeclared war, is pretty murky. The Bush Administration invented that phrase specifically to ensure that such people would not be covered by the Geneva Conventions. That's neither here nor there. If they were considered POWs, that would not give them any claim to habeus corpus they don't have now. They'd just get stashed away for the duration and have no legitimate complaint.