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**Yfclciak** · 02-20-2007, 05:58 PM

Habeaus Corpus was NEVER intended to include enemy combatants or POWs.

It was the right decision.

Not only is it correct in form, but in common sense. Were we to capture 300,000 enemy combatants, it would be impossible to grant them habeaus corpus rights and give them courtroom trials.

Impossible.

This was the only decision that could be reached without crippling our ability to take prisoners of war AT ALL.

And the SC has upheld that they are NOT POW's, although Congress has demanded they be "treated" as POWs.

02-20-2007, 05:58 PM	#20
Yfclciak Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 490 Senior Member	Habeaus Corpus was NEVER intended to include enemy combatants or POWs. It was the right decision. Not only is it correct in form, but in common sense. Were we to capture 300,000 enemy combatants, it would be impossible to grant them habeaus corpus rights and give them courtroom trials. Impossible. This was the only decision that could be reached without crippling our ability to take prisoners of war AT ALL. And the SC has upheld that they are NOT POW's, although Congress has demanded they be "treated" as POWs.
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