Date Line June 5, 2007

How scary is this? The courts have made the point that "unlawful" combatants differ from those protected by international law; the latter being "lawful combatants."

The Bush administration has made it a point to declare their "war" legal; because Osama Bin Laden declared war on this nation.

Here comes the hard part: If the declaration of war is legal, and lawful, it follows that the soldiers are also lawful. Any soldier, any al-Qaeda terrorist, must be a lawful combatant and either tried in a military tribunal under international war crimes laws, or released.

If not released, they are to be treated as enemy combatants as covered by the Geneva Convention. Failure to do so makes

Bush, Chertoff and the rest of the administration torture advocates, war criminals.

Bush not only should be impeached, but he should be executed for war crimes. Personally, I love it, even if it is not going to happen.

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