Doy. Double doy, even...
WE ARE AT WAR! I KNOW IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE IT AT TIMES, BUT WE ARE AT WAR!
Washington's other newspaper: Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill
By R. Jeffrey Smith
The military trials bill approved by Congress lends legislative support for the first time to broad rules for the detention, interrogation, prosecution and trials of terrorism suspects far different from those in the familiar American criminal justice system.
President Bush's argument that the government requires extraordinary power to respond to the unusual threat of terrorism helped him win final support for a system of military trials with highly truncated defendant's rights. The United States used similar trials on just four occasions: during the country's revolution, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and World War II.
This legislation is perfectly reasonable for a country at war.
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