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To: i-node who wrote (463919)	3/15/2009 11:45:59 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1582684

"we can't treat them like POWs" We WEREN'T treating them like POW's. That was the whole point of calling them "enemy combatants" INSTEAD of "POW's", dumbass. NOW, we'll start treating them like POW's. POW's have international rights, believe it or not.

To: i-node who wrote (463919)	3/15/2009 1:14:18 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1582684

when we capture enemy we can't treat them like POWs but instead must give them an American lawyer, due process, etc. Which is lunacy. The Bush policy was that they were in some nether world, neither POWs nor criminals. In the end, even Saddam Hussein got an American lawyer and due process. Why is that lunacy? The best outcome of 9/11 would be to have bin Laden tried in a U.S. court, sentenced to 3000 life terms, and spending the rest of his life in Ft. Leavenworth, a thousand miles from anyplace outside the U.S.

To: i-node who wrote (463919)	3/15/2009 6:17:39 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1582684

Recession-hit Americans 'a little sick' of Iraq after 6 years By Ed Hornick CNN (CNN) -- With Americans confronting an economic crisis, public interest in the nearly 6-year-old war in Iraq has dropped off over the past few years as conditions on the ground there have improved and the relevance to the average American family's pocketbook wears thin. "This is already one of the longest wars in American history. There's nothing new in Iraq," said Steven Roberts, a professor of media studies at George Washington University. "We've read the stories of instability in the government a hundred times. Every single possible story has been told, and so there is enormous fatigue about Iraq." But while daily operations in Iraq may not pique the attention of Americans, the costs do. About $700 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office, has been appropriated from the 2003-09 fiscal years. Taking into account operations for fiscal year 2010, the price tag is about $800 billion. And although the rate of U.S. deaths has slowed since a spike in 2007, it has added up over six years. read more............. edition.cnn.com