How much does it cost to have out of country specialised fully equipped and manned prisons? Or is the complaint that bringing the war home will make Americans feel uncomfortable, make it all too real?


>>The Geneva Convention provides for prisoner of war camps to be set up for enemy combatants.



War camps are for lawful combatants. Unlawful combatants (terrorists and spies) get a firing squad and no trial. Most countries dont give them any rights of any kind.

Roosevelt did that when he captured German soldiers on US soil out of uniform. No prison camp, just a bullet in their fucking hearts was all they were entitled to receive under US code.

Death...


They received a trial if they were captured alive.


Unlawful combatants go before a quickie military tribunal before they are executed. Its takes a couple of weeks and costs the taxpayers only the cost of a bullet and a last meal. Quick and easy.

Why do you want to give the crotch bomber a trial in a civilian court? You want to have to prove he is guilty? Why?


Pampered better than Americans? Where did you hear that?

Military tribunals have defence lawyers and they last as long as it takes. Maybe he is going to civilian trial because there is doubt that he is an Al Qaeda operative? That is who the enemy is, isnt it? He will be charged, given a defence lawyer, and be most probably found guilty based on the evidence. What's the problem? The sentence? The civilian trial? A defence lawyer? The cost?

If I'm not mistaken, the rules of discovery are different for the two arenas..

We have people in the field that DESERVE protection as well as the way in which we operate at home and abroad.

Wouldn't want a mistrial... and why risk it when it is not necessary?


I offered a possible explanation. In reality I dont understand this "war on terror", if it is more than a war on Al Qaeda.