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To: Lane3 who wrote (72450)	6/16/2008 9:21:09 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

I don't recall the US ever invoking the laws of war regarding anything in the Cold War, do you? Did we ever capture and hold Soviet prisoners apart from civilian spies? Ever suspend habeas corpus for any of them? Plus it was waged against a recognized nation state. And we never invaded any of that country's territorial possessions. Now we have a vague war against "Terror", a force that can't formally surrender or disband itself. There is no definition of victory except peace and stability worldwide. There is no clear definition of Terror's "soldiers". In short, the whole thing flops as a pretext to invoke the laws of war until those questions are clarified.