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Originally posted by Spanky
Wow. Well that pretty much puts an end to that argument.
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Actually, it doesn't end anything. It simply represents more disinformation.
Quirin dealt with spies. Soldiers out of uniform are spies and subject to execution. That simple. The detainees at Gitmo and in the other prisons are not all soldiers out of uniform. We have swept up too many people that we aren't sure are combatants or not.
If they are combatants, in the sense of being hostile enemy soldiers out of uniform, then we should execute them. If they are merely people who we suspect may or may not have information concerning the identity or whereabouts of terrorists, then they are not combatants, and
Quirin doesn't apply.
