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Originally Posted by leviathon435
I can understand putting prisoners of war into a secure facility restricting their freedom of movement but onyl until they can be released safely home.
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You don't release prisoners of war until after the war. When will this so-called "war on terror(ism)" end?
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And if we're talking about suspected terrorists well they deserve a fair trial just like anyone else and the same rights extended to other suspected criminals-and they should remain innocent until proven guilty.
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Terrorists are not criminals, they're enemy combatants. They have, in effect, declared war on an entire nation. If terrorists (what you folks might have called the American colonists if the Revolution had taken place in the 20th or 21st century) are merely criminals then there's the whole issue of extradition (since many of these terrorists were taken from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere outside the US) and into whose custody these terrorists should have been surrendered. If they're criminals then the military should not have been involved but, instead, law enforcement agencies.
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
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"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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