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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 591937" data-attributes="member: 4932">Re: Obamanation here todayI am not suggesting that we apply our Constitution and civilian justice system to combatants captured on actual battlefields.&nbsp; We have a perfectly capable Uniform Code of Military Justice for that, -AND- established International Laws of War based on the Geneva Conventions.&nbsp; Both of which were blown off by the Bush Administration.In addition to that, the Bush Administration claimed broad powers to the Executive that included declaring that legal residents, and even citizens, arrested on the streets of the US, could be summarily declared to be &#039;unlawful enemy combatants&#039; by the fiat of the President, and that they therefore had no rights whatsoever, including the right of Habeas Corpus.Get the actual facts involving the situation here, rather than parroting something Dick Cheney has promoted.&nbsp; At the end, even President Bush came to realize that Dick was too far outside the reality-based world to be listened to anymore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 591937, member: 4932"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] I am not suggesting that we apply our Constitution and civilian justice system to combatants captured on actual battlefields. We have a perfectly capable Uniform Code of Military Justice for that, -AND- established International Laws of War based on the Geneva Conventions. Both of which were blown off by the Bush Administration. In addition to that, the Bush Administration claimed broad powers to the Executive that included declaring that legal residents, [B]and even citizens, arrested on the streets of the US,[/B] could be summarily declared to be 'unlawful enemy combatants' by the fiat of the President, and that they therefore had no rights whatsoever, including the right of Habeas Corpus. Get the actual facts involving the situation here, rather than parroting something Dick Cheney has promoted. At the end, even President Bush came to realize that Dick was too far outside the reality-based world to be listened to anymore. [/QUOTE]

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