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Originally Posted by regular.joe
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As far as prisoners at GITMO, for the life of me I can't figure out why
they have never been treated as enemy combatants.
The Bush administration started the ball rolling and it's never stopped.
They should never have been tortured. They are belligerents captured on the field of battle.
They should be returned to their own country at the end of the conflict.
It should not matter to us that many of them will be executed upon arrival.
That it does matter to us speaks more highly of our collective conscience than my own.
This whole GITMO thing started out on the wrong foot and will
have a bad ending no matter how you slice it.
Suck it up USA and end it while you can.
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I can't say why, but this part of your post has stuck with me ever since I read it.
It came to mind again this morning as I read an article in the NY Times.
I'm not trying to trap you or anything like that,
but I think your opinions would be interesting on the ideas
in the article (~ the value and effects of a national draft ~).
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from here entitled "Americans and Their Military, Drifting Apart"