Dave wrote:
Hardly a matter of "forgot." Some of us do apply a bit thinking with the
head before shooting from the lip. Peter hadn't, in the post to which I
responded, engaged in name calling. He had simply been guilty of muddled
thinking.

You're just saying that because you don't have an answer to his
statement... the Bush Administration insists that the Gitmo prisoners
are not POWs and refuses to accord them the rights due to such.

All we have is the repeated contention that they are "enemy combatants"
and therefor not due any process whatever.

How can any American can think it's right to simply grab people and
imprison them indefinitely, with no recourse to any legal procedure
whatever?

If they are enemies, then they are accorded the treatment due to
prisoners. If they are terrorists, then they get a trial. If they are
citizens of another country, we owe that gov't a legal process showing
why we are holding them.

DSK