Widow Testifies at a Military Court

[kandrathe]

A lawful combatant is one entitled to the protections of a soldier under the Geneva accords, the rest are not.

Yeah, when citizens resist being taken during a razzia it becomes a battlefield, so those that survive become unlawful combatants.

Um, we can the debate the reasons for the US going to Afghanistan after paramilitary (terrorists) outfitted and trained there to hijack multiple planes and fly them into assorted buildings in the US. Probably a better cause for war than the assassination of a duke by a radical kook, or the outrage of having a battleship explode mysteriously(boiler failure) in a harbor.

Very convenient. You used that same argument in discussions on Gitmo and torture, is it not?

No. I recall he did not.

But, I'm on your side if you think it is illogical and unprecedented to cart POW's, enemy combatants, or rendition enemies of the state (or as it turns out any national we want) to an isolated Caribbean prison camp with little opportunity for oversight or appropriate use of US, or international laws.

Anyone else reminisce of Papillon? What are we defending if we throw away our laws, and our principles to act like the barbarians we are fighting against?