Monday, November 10, 2003
Guantanamo cases go to top US court. Let's hope, though I doubt that it's going to achieve anything. But something needs to be done about these people. I can't even see that even the most insane, detached from reality, Conservative viewpoint could justify just keeping these people here and if the US government takes the view that they have no rights under the US system then by the same token the US don't have the right to hold them. It also exposes the US 'War on Terror' for the oil-grabbing, money-grabbing fraud it is. After WW2 the Nazis that were captured by the Allies were put on trial and granted the same rights as anyone else in an International Court of Law. The fact that the US don't seem to trust the International community to put these men on trial suggests that they fear the humiliation of these men being acquited of some or all charges if the US were to present them. But they cannot stay as they are forever and two years without rights is far too long as it is. Either charge these men or let them go.
