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[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

A POW camp on a military base?

Crazy I tell you...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Third Geneva Convention (1949) Fourth Geneva Convention (1949-50)
If Gitmo were a conventional POW camp, it would be run somewhat differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention

Admittedly those with the Jack Bauer tendancies forget about the niceties of such conventions....but signatory states should not.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Admittedly those with the Jack Bauer tendancies forget about the niceties of such conventions....but signatory states should not.

Or we could just follow the examples of the other party in this conflict and just behead them all.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

While enemy combatants of non-signatory nations should be happy we don't simply shoot them in the field as spies.

Which Geneva specifically allows.

[prock.livejournal.com]

A POW camp on a military base?

As far as I know, there are no POWs at Gitmo, and if there are they are by far the minority of prisoners there.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

They aren't "POWs", but that's probably the easiest description of the camp.

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Let's just release the prisoners and hand them over to Obama's campaign headquarters.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Along with our mortgage bills.

[desidono.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

Oh you!

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

This doesn't resemble Club Gitmo at all.

And apparently the cartoonist thinks terrorists should not be locked up. Odd, that.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Though he does think that they get chew toys...

[ltmurdoch.livejournal.com]

That would be fine, but the thing that you're ignoring is the fact that none of the detainees in Gitmo are terrorists, nor have they ever supported or harbored terrorists.

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

S'okay. He's conservative. Of course he's ignoring the facts.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

So they're what...a bunch of guys who were just on vacation in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Sure, let's lock 'em up and convict them. If we're so sure they're terrorists, we must have pretty good evidence proving that, right? We can do this right, but we're not at the moment.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Innocent until proven guilty.

Considering the hundreds of innocent people released from Gitmo already, it's clear that the dowsing rod ouija board used to determine terroristitude by detainers is broken. Ergo, audit and fix it already. Public trials are proven to work. Maybe they are worth a try.

[foxomatic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really. It's sort of beside the point whether or not they're guilty if they haven't even been tried. Hey, I have a great idea - why don't we send people who have been accused of terrorism to do hard labor in Prudhoe Bay? Worst case scenario, oil production goes up. There's no down side! They probably deserve it anyway, even if we never find out why. Just please don't make us pay taxes. What are you, a commie?

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time understanding why conservatives are so afraid of the american justice system. Whats wrong with giving everyone in Gitmo a fair trial, releasing the ones who have been wrongfully imprisoned and punishing the guilty? Why do conservatives support the legal limbo that the Gitmo detainees are currently in? It tarnishes america's reputation for no gain that I can see.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Because these aren't criminals. They're combatants. The reason we're taking them prisoner isn't because of things that they have done, but what they're going to do. The reason that they're at Gitmo isn't to punish them, but to keep them off the battlefield and to get information out of them.

If all we're going to do is arrest them and give them a lawyer, then we might as well just keep having Predator drones pump Hellfire missiles into Waziristan. If we keep that up then nobody will let anyone from Al Qaeda into their house, lest it just randomly explode.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

The reason we're taking them prisoner isn't because of things that they have done, but what they're going to do.

Thought crime is a slippery slope.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

Because no psuedo military prisons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_interment) have ever, ever been set up under a Democratic administration.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Touché.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

If US were to fight WW2 all over again, should it still lock up innocent Americans of Japanese descent and steal their property?

The general idea is to not repeat the mistakes of history.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

This cartoon is stupid. The cells in GITMO are nowhere near as large and luxurious.