Graham: Everyone at Gitmo is an enemy combatant; we can hold them 'forever'

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/07/graham-detainees-forever/

Graham Falsely Claims All Gitmo Detainees Are ‘Enemy Combatants,’ Says They Can Be Held ‘Forever’

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Graham is simply wrong in claiming that all Gitmo detainees are “enemy combatants.” Last October, the Bush administration’s Justice Department declared that all 17 Chinese Muslim (Uighurs) prisoners at Guantanamo were no longer to be designated as such. One week later, a federal judge ordered that they be released “because the government provided no proof that they were enemy combatants or security risks.” Yet they still remain there today. In fact, as far back as 2003, the Pentagon concluded that they could be released.

Graham can justify his belief that terror detainees are outside the purview of civilian courts and thus can be held “forever” because he views combating terrorism as “a war,” one that can presumably carry on indefinitely because the concept of “terrorism” will never simply end. But the American criminal justice system is equipped to hold full legal trials while protecting classified evidence and state secrets. Indeed, as Attorney General Eric Holder noted, terror suspects deserve “due process rights that I think are consistent with who we are as Americans.”

He is part of the enemy force

do these make you wonder if the entire GOP is gone loony?

Tell us what part you want to hold.

Your president has soiled my flag and my countries future in history books. It's shameful and disgusting ! http://www.wisecountyissues.com

Who votes for them? How do they manage to stay that ignorant in Washington?

Man, it's scary.

Presenting … The GOP’s New “Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act”!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5610425&mesg_id=5610425

On one ranking I found Graham comes from a state, by the studies criteria, that is the 29th on the 'best educated' list. Why do you think Republicans don't like public education. You let people get educated and think for themselves they might vote for the person that's in their best interest and that probably isn't a Republican.

and piss on them while they burn or be blown to bits. Due process be fucked. He wants to kill!

More discovery of how far the torture scandal goes.

Gitmo open until all the 'terrorists' there die. No trials, no releases.