The problems with the military tribunal thing... Options

[Hartmann]

Alright, my issue with the Supreme Court saying that we have to follow the Geneva Convention is that the Convention documents have not really been updated to deal with modern warfare. It mentions torture, but doesn't say what torture is. Is solitary confinement torture? I wouldn't think so, but some do.

There was an article about a Canadian teen who was captured in Afghanistan after killing an Army Medic (as in, they saw him do it). The teen was told threats of being sent to a foreign country for torture, sleep deprived, and put in solitary confinement. To me, none of those sound that bad. Granted they did make him wipe up his own urine which wasn't right, but the other stuff sounds like simple interrogation practices.

I just don't see where we draw the line. Pretty soon we're going to be giving these guys cable tv with link ups to Al-Jazeera and computers.

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Secondly, I never suggested that we just let them go free. But on the other hand, we can't just keep them in a legal blackhole. They have to be subjected to some sort of trial to determine first of all whether they're terrorists at all.

the majority of the guys in cuba were picked up in afganistan at the taliban and al queda camps we raided right after 9/11.

by proxy they are terrorists. no grey area there.

so now what do you suggest we do with them? make em spend a few years in a federal penetentiary then once they serve their sentence be set free?

once they are free....what do you think they are going to do? just be all "whoa whoa it's all cool man...I'm going to work at the steak and shake!"

hardly...they'll go back to being a terrorist; albeit with more fervor than they ever previously possessed.

they're like rabid dogs. what do you do with a rabid dog?