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To: Road Walker who wrote (449487)	1/21/2009 4:06:41 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577225

He cant be convicted. Arent you afraid to let him go if you cant get a conviction??? You just cant let a guy like that go free. OTOH, bin ladens driver was ridicuous not to mention the innocents who were held there for years. Again the bush admin slipped on the slippery slope. There is no reason for smart folks to slip. Cheney went out in a wheel chair and bush in a copter. Gonzales is picking lettuce somewhere scared to death that tejek and wharfy are coming to get him. They are all gone. Now we have leaders who we can trust to use extraordinary means only in extraordinary situations. Can no one on the left see this?

To: Road Walker who wrote (449487)	1/21/2009 4:26:17 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577225

Of course those are not the options. Why are you afraid to try him? They are the options. I'm not "afraid" to try him, it just isn't appropriate to do so. He isn't a criminal. He is a soldier in a war against us. There is no provision in our Constitution for trying soldiers in wars against us. The problem, of course, is that in a trial the detainee would be afforded various rights and privileges that inure to the benefit of citizens of the United States which are not appropriate for enemy combatants. For example, you cannot have a standard for conviction of "beyond a reasonable doubt", you cannot be pulling soldiers off the battlefield to testify as we do with cops, we don't Mirandize detainees, and shouldn't, and there are at least 500 other reasons it would not be appropriate. I think you have said your wife is an attorney, have you ever discussed this stuff with her? I would think she would be aware of these issues, perhaps she could clarify it for you ;)