"President Must Answer to Downing Street Memo"

Rand Simberg wrote:
No, they wouldn't. They're unlawful combatants. And they are being
treated according to Geneva despite that.


This from a citizen of the USA whose constitution grants the right to
all citizens to bear arms to defend their country.

Sorry folks, there are no "unlawful combattants". No matter how
justified the military intervention in Afghanistan was, Afghans had full
rights to defend their country against an invading military force.


The Bush regime just invented thsi phrase and trying to justify their
war crimes. Oh, and by the way, the USA constitution also grants legal
rights/due legal process to PEOPLE, not citizens. The people at
gantanamo, while being treated like animals, should have been given due
legal process by the USA, charged with a crime, provided with a proper
court (not some judicial military kangoroo court) and tried within
reasonable time.

The Bush regime managed to convince americans that because they were not
USA citizens, they didn't have any rights.

And if they were unlawful combattants, then the folks who had had roots
in the USA should have been treated the exact same way asn the others.
Legal rights are granted to people, not american citizens. And americans
were gullible enough to believe their government, the media in love with
the white house never wishing to contradict what the white house says,
and americans only wanting to hear the newas that want to hear, not the
news they need to hear.