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Quote by: Apeman81
Are POWs treated as domestic criminals? With speedy trials and rights to face accusers? Yes; If they are charged with a crime. But they can be held as POWs for the duration of the war without trial and tried for any crimes afterward.
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You want debate? Then try putting forward something with substance in it.
If they are POW's then they have certain rights accorded them by the Geneva Accords. bush doesn't want them to have these rights, so he doesn't classify them as POW's.
If they are criminals, they have the right to be charged and tried as criminals. bush also doesn't want them to have these rights, so they're not criminals either.
bush wants the right to just lock people up, never presenting any evidence that they've done anything wrong, with no legal rights at all, for as long as he wants, no questions asked. No one, bush included, should be allowed to lock people up for whatever whim without some legal oversight. While we have GI's fighting and dying in Iraq to "bring them democracy", bush is violating at Guantanamo and other places the very ideals he professes to honor so much. The fact tha the claims to be doing it for our own good doesn't sway me in the least, given his track record for lying and hypocrisy.