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Originally Posted by Mavdog
if the decision was made from the beginning to treat the prisioners according to the geneva covention, there would not have been any need to get a judge's decision, and no need to attempt to "create law".
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but if the geneva conventions don't apply (and that's what the final judge said) (I think it was the final judge, anyway), then it's perfectly legal (ie, we are following the law) in not applying those conventions.
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obama is not trying to use the torture against the prisioners, so the comment that "obama's...trying to do these things at one place" is wrong.
the issue isn't that people have been "arrested" so to speak for their acts, the issue is these people have been locked up for years and years without due process, and these prisioners had what is commonly viewed as torture done to them. don't lock them up without due process, don't torture them, and there isn't any problem....
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"Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying the right to trial to hundreds more terror suspects held at a makeshift camp in Afghanistan that human rights lawyers have dubbed “Obama’s Guantanamo”."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...l-1628958.html