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2005-06-09 Home Front: WoT

Bush ready to consider alternatives to Guantanamo

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Posted by tu3031 2005-06-09 10:31|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The story and the headline don't match. Bush doesn't say he is ready to consider alternatives. He said they are exploring alternatives, a completely different meaning than the headline said.

Here is what he is quoted as saying:

We're exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America.

I report, you decide.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-06-09 10:43|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-06-09 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Shoot 'em in place?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-09 11:12|| 2005-06-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 The US MUST conform to the requirements outlined in the Geneva Conventions for illegal combatants. Anything less would be immoral.

Shoot-in-place DEFINATELY!

Posted by Leigh 2005-06-09 12:27|| 2005-06-09 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, they should be killed in strict accordance with the Geneva Suggestions.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-09 12:31|| 2005-06-09 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 If people want Gitmo to be dismantled, that would mean killing more terrorists on the battlefield instead of capturing them. Works for me.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-09 13:58|| 2005-06-09 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Prisoners should be treated with strict accordance t to the Star Trek Conventions!

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-09 14:07|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-09 14:07|| Front Page Top

#7 fishing bait in GitMo bay.

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-09 16:45|| 2005-06-09 16:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Thinking.
If Gitmo is primarily housing captures of the Afghan campaign and most of them have been in place for 1 to 2 years, the probability of the interned providing timely intel is quickly eroding. Meantime, the radical left lawyers and their allies on the bench are unfortunately making headway in their litigation of the war by judicial decree. Since Congress is cowardly allowing the third branch of government to establish new powers of intrusion and oversight in the conduct of war, then the Commander is engaging in some interesting manuevering. Once the interned are placed in Geneva Convention status, they only need to render name, rank, id number, and date of birth. However, if they are no longer a source of intel or intel so old it no longer is useable, then the Convention status means they are treated as POWs and subject to legal standards which the court can only intrude upon by outright fiat declaration of powers they do not have. The boys remain in limbo till Congress repeals SJR:23 of 12 Sept 2001. Basically, their living standards remain the same as any other prisoner maintained in any other high security prison in the states or federal prison system. Since they become classified as POWs, the lawyers can no longer represent them, only representative of the ICRC who can only cite treaty standards for treatment. Not that they won't try to create new ones, but as AI is quickly learning, it doesn't sell with the only audience that has any influence on the matter.

Posted by Jert Flinert7749 2005-06-09 18:25|| 2005-06-09 18:25|| Front Page Top

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