Are the military tribunals set up for GItmo going to have major problems because of this?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6720315.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_trials
After all of the hoopla that went on about getting the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which was supposed to deal with all of those terrorists there, are all of the pending 380 cases going to be thrown out ?

Answer 1

Guantanamo Bay and Abu Gahraib are 2 black marks agains our country. The treatment of these people and their unlawful detainment is against every principle by which we call ourselves America and a free country.

Mr. Bush has done what every other tyrant and dictator has done in world history; he has abducted people he doesn't like from their homes and countries, locked them up in a remote place, tortured, humiliated and tried to shame them. These are the same tactics used in the USSR, the former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and other countries led by dictators.

If these people had been captured on the battlefield - like the Germans, Italians and Japanese during WWII. They would have been put in a concentration camp where they would have been held until the war was over, then they would have been repatriated to their country. They would have been treated humanly with no torture, regular meals, clean clothes, church services, the right to write to their families, speak with the Red Cross - who would have visited at least once a month. They would have been able to recieve paper, pens and pencils, fresh soap, personal products such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant....in other words, they would have been treated according to the Geneva Convention rules.

Instead, Mr Bush, Rummie, Cheney and the rest allowed them to be treated like animals.

I hope they let them all go. If there were any among them who were a danger to us, they would have been discovered by now. But to hold a group of people for years for no reason is inhumane.

I hope the World Court in the Hague calls for Bush and the rest to be put on trial for crimes against humanity. They certainly deserve it.

Answer 2

I hope so. Torture is not evidence not now not ever. Not knowing all the evidence against you is not legal anywhere never should be. I hope it all comes out one day soon. Gitmo is just one big black eye to the USA. Look at the Ft Dix 6 and the latest plot on the airport, all home grown. Did any of the stuff that happened to the Gitmo detainees get us anywhere??

Answer 3

Sounds like they are getting a fair hearing and not just Victors Justice. Wish those few KIDNAPPED joes in Iraq would have been given the same hearing.

Answer 4

Good for them!

What makes a jeep driver and body guard a war criminal? Hell, half of the Iraqi Army works for us!

Answer 5

Nope, they will just have additional

"combat status review tribunals"

that originally classified them as " enemy combatants "

And reclassify them as " unlawful enemy combatants"

Then they will proceed to trail again.