Comments on: US Supreme Court rejects US Government Guantanamo trials http://tcal.net/archives/2006/06/29/us-supreme-court-rejects-us-government/ An Irish Community weblog about everything Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Adam http://tcal.net/archives/2006/06/29/us-supreme-court-rejects-us-government/#comment-136107 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:51:25 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2006/06/29/us-supreme-court-rejects-us-government/#comment-136107 Doesn't trial by military tribunal imply that the defendant was a member of a military/army?? And if so isn't the whole reason for these people residing on Gitmo because the US refuses to recognise them as POW/members of an army and instead as "enemy combatants"? Maybe I misunderstand the situation, but it seems as though the Bush administration is picking and chosing International laws to suit itself <b>again</b> Doesn’t trial by military tribunal imply that the defendant was a member of a military/army?? And if so isn’t the whole reason for these people residing on Gitmo because the US refuses to recognise them as POW/members of an army and instead as “enemy combatants”?

Maybe I misunderstand the situation, but it seems as though the Bush administration is picking and chosing International laws to suit itself again

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