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Originally Posted by cnredd
Just look at the recent decision of the SC on terrorists at Gitmo...
These are non-Americans that have never been on American soil in their life, yet 5 people on a court believe they have the same rights as your average Joe... 
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Your reasoning is flawed since who is to say that only Americans have rights? If that is the case, then they should be handed over to their country, for them to handle them according to
their laws. You can't be advocating that because these people are not American they have
no rights,
Furthermore, I notice you refer to them as "terrorists at Gitmo". Who determined they are terrorists? Where is the evidence and the proof? I am not saying they are not, but it has not been proven to me that they are (individually). That is what a civil trial is for (or a military tribunal), to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that a person deserves to be kept locked up for a determined amount of time.
Have you noticed that some American soldiers in Iraq have committed barbaric crimes, yet they are still sent here to be accountable for their actions, to have a trial and be judged by their peers? How would you feel if the Iraqi government (or any other for that matter) indiscriminately took them based on their intelligence, locked them in a cell, and denied them the basic rights of a trial? I am sure you'd be outraged, because they're
American, oh brother,

I would be more worried about what it is the govenrment wants to hide by denying them these basic rights... perhaps that their intelligence in detaining
some of these men was as flawed as the intelligence they worked on to invade Iraq in the first place?