Afghanistan Prisoners finaly to be tried

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08TRIB.html?th
After nearly 18 months of planning, the Pentagon is at last ready to put in place its system of military tribunals to try people captured in the war in Afghanistan.


ABOUT TIME!

[AWPrime]

Was about time!

[DustyBottoms]

No pity for them!

[AWPrime]

They should be treaded like the US would like their soldiers to be treaded.

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Originally posted by AWPrime
They should be treaded like the US would like their soldiers to be treaded. they are not soldiers as defined by norms or the convetion.

[aclu14]

Originally posted by DEAD ZONE
they are not soldiers as defined by norms or the convetion.

Speak, so we may understand you.

[AWPrime]

But they are regarded as soldiers by many outside your nation.

[w1che]

Quote... But they are regarded as soldiers by many outside your nation.
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Yep but who runs America? If you guys don't like what we do are you going to cut off trade with us? Keep Americans from coming to your countries, go to the UN & whine.. Well let me ask.. What are you going to do?

[AWPrime]

That is not the point.

It's about making a civilized example for other nations to follow.

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Originally posted by AWPrime
But they are regarded as soldiers by many outside your nation.
Then let them fight and spill blood to take them.

I could care less what those out side think.

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Originally posted by AWPrime
That is not the point.

It's about making a civilized example for other nations to follow.

And trying to morally equalize these clowns with real soldiers is your idea of civilized.

Good thing we told the U.N. to $&%# off on Iraq. Looks like we need to do it a little more often.

And that is the point.

[DEAD ZONE]

Originally posted by AWPrime
That is not the point.

It's about making a civilized example for other nations to follow.

Mexico declined to join the "coalition of the willing" and may even have sided with France at the U.N. had it come to that. But it may be that Mexico's finest young men are in Iraq--as part of the U.S. military. As our Brendan Miniter noted last week, you don't need to be a citizen to join the military; some resident alien servicemen have already sacrificed their lives for their adopted land in Iraq.

According to the Army's 2002 Situation Report (link in PDF form), that service's active-duty force is 8.3% Hispanic and 6.9% "other" (neither black, white nor Hispanic). The figures are 7.3% and 3.6% for the Army National Guard and 9.5% and 5.6% for the Army Reserves.

The Burmese army isn't part of the coalition either, but CNN notes that Cpl. Edwin Chin, the Marine who briefly hung the American flag from the Pentagon over the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein, is a Burmese-American, born a week after his mother, Nai Koon Chin, immigrated to the U.S. in 1980. "We like our children have a good life, good schools," Mrs. Chin tells CNN. "We want American freedom. Now Edward bring American freedom."

Therein lies a lesson for those who complain of American "unilateralism": We are the world.

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