12-10-2008, 06:57 PM
SteveO...Oh, those poor terrorists in Gitmo.
You invoke our Constitution. Where does it say in our Constitution that enemy combatants captured on the battle field on foreign soil, with no uniform, no standing Army are entitled to any consideration under "our Constitution". They don't even fall under the Geneva convention. The whole situation is uncharted territory.
If you remember the preamble to the Constitiution says..."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It doesn't say anything about confering these rights to foreigners let alone to the enemy does it? I so dislike the one world view that says our laws and rights apply to everyone else.
Ever stop to think that just about anything we may do to said terrorists is done at a "higher standard" than anything they do to innocent civilians or our guys? I guess you think strapping bombs to women and children is fair and is of some "higher standard"? Beheadings, dragging bodies through the streets and burning corpses is okay?
As far as our CIA kicking people out of helicopters... You've got the story wrong. The way I heard it was that it was members of the Korean Intelligence that did that. Not saying it was right, but I've heard the rumors from guys who were there (including my ex husband who did 3 tours in Nam as a chopper pilot).
You invoke our Constitution. Where does it say in our Constitution that enemy combatants captured on the battle field on foreign soil, with no uniform, no standing Army are entitled to any consideration under "our Constitution". They don't even fall under the Geneva convention. The whole situation is uncharted territory.
If you remember the preamble to the Constitiution says..."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It doesn't say anything about confering these rights to foreigners let alone to the enemy does it? I so dislike the one world view that says our laws and rights apply to everyone else.
Ever stop to think that just about anything we may do to said terrorists is done at a "higher standard" than anything they do to innocent civilians or our guys? I guess you think strapping bombs to women and children is fair and is of some "higher standard"? Beheadings, dragging bodies through the streets and burning corpses is okay?
As far as our CIA kicking people out of helicopters... You've got the story wrong. The way I heard it was that it was members of the Korean Intelligence that did that. Not saying it was right, but I've heard the rumors from guys who were there (including my ex husband who did 3 tours in Nam as a chopper pilot).