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To: brushwud who wrote (463933)	3/15/2009 1:16:12 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583466

we should have killed them on the battle field

To: brushwud who wrote (463933)	3/15/2009 6:47:23 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583466

The Bush policy was that they were in some nether world, neither POWs nor criminals. They were treated better than either. But it is not about just the prisoners; it is about the entire way in which the war on terror is conducted. You cannot treat these enemies as criminals and expect to stop the next attack. In the end, even Saddam Hussein got an American lawyer and due process. Why is that lunacy? Saddam Hussein was tried by his own countrymen in his own courts of law for crimes against humanity. Saddam's legal team was "multinational" and did include one from the United States -- but also attorneys from Libya, France, Switzerland, and UK. And of course, anti-American attorney and former LBJ AG Ramsey Clark was involved on the fringes, but he is a US-hating-liberal who loves this kind of crap. 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. No, he clearly should be shot on sight and never given a trial. Bush did what can only be characterized as a "fantastic job" of protecting the United States post 9/11. Obama has now left us is a very weakened position. We do not need to be stirring up the jihadist movements at this point in time. There is always the problem of bin Laden potentially not being convicted, and there would be endless appeals on the basis that he didn't get a fair trial. It would be insane to put him on trial. I would great personal pleasure out of putting a bullet in his head, though.