Duh!!! MILITARY prisoners are not subject to CRIMINAL law, lawyers, or trial.

Military prisoners are subject to MILITARY justice. And they don't GET trials. They get POW camp or killed!

This is a big problem. Thinking that when you take a combatant off the battlefield carrying an AK-47, RPG-7, Mines, etc is subject to get a fair hearing in a court of law is just stupid.

I still say kill em all, let ALLAH sort em out. We're doing them a favor. 72 virgins and all.

You have touched on the number one problem in the "War on Terror"; the training and brainwashing from birth generations of people to hate. So far there does not seem to be a cure.

Considered less than human???


Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
There is growing evidence that detainees at Guantánamo have suffered torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Reports by FBI agents who witnessed detainee abuse - including the forcing of chained detainees to sit in their own excrement


Give yourself a dose of reality and
Dont call me ignorant or dishonest again!

OK, I will. You're ignorant.

Chaining detainees and forcing them to sit in thier own excrement. OK, they do that in mental istitutions here in the US!

Starving a man until he can't stand or even sit; Given filthy water to drink, just to keep im alive so they can do some of this:

Hanging a man up by his arms (behind his back) and breaking all his bones with a steel rod;
Hanging them on metal bedsprings and using electroshock on his genitals;
Suspended by meathooks while a guy slices flesh off your bone;
Beating them and dragging them on concrete until they're just ribbons of meat hanging off broken bones.

These are a few methods that our enemies use. So Im not feeling sorry for the guy that made a poop and sat in it or ws "scared" by a dog.

Lets not forget how this alwways ends. They saw off your head with a knife and videoape it so his family can see.

The Japanese gutted soldiers just to see how long it would take them to die! They removed skin just to see how long it would take for death to occur. If you think what the US has done, in any way, compares to what the Japanese did in WWII, you don't know what you are talking about. The Japanese were trained that they were a "master race" and that the Chinese and American prisoners were "less than human". If you did any actual research on the topic you would know this.

I have a new idea about how to handle them. Let's westernize them. Let's put them nice posh air conditioned cells with access to Satellite TV (western stations only), all the porn they could ever handle, great food to fatten them up, and denial of any support in participating in religious activities. They should be treated extremely well and the guards should be encouraged to befriend them, hell let's even throw in some prostitutes, then after a year or two of this we dumb them back into their hometowns. I hypothesize that there are two possibilities for what will happen to them next. They will either make converts of their peers. Telling them how great our culture is or they will be killed by their peers as traitors.

How would you even know?

One of the reasons my brothers and me served was to fight against those who would apply these inhuman practices.
To better the world.
Not to become as low as them, As you would have us become.
We were willing to lay our lives on the line, knowing that if captured we might well suffer this torture, so that others could not get away treating humans like dogs.

We recognized that we were no better than hypocrites and dirt ourselves if we played by the same rules.
We preferred to hold our heads high and exclaim,
"We are Americans!"
We were better than that!
We were men!
When examining what ignorance is, examine your words.

In Somalia and Indonesia, and possiby even in Iraq, feeding the people and making thier lives better would probably help a great deal in preventing them from being convinced that radical Islamic militism is the way to go. But we'd have to kill the warlords and Mullahs first...those feeding them now and preaching the better future to them. And we would have to basically overthrow the "government" there to ensure that the population is getting the stuff.

In Afghanistan, the Swat valley in Pakistan (actually all of North/Northwestern Pakistan), only killing them off en-masse is going to do any good. The entire adult population is indoctrinated in violence and radical Islam and a major distrust of any government or non-religious authority..and the youngsters are as well. Violence and fear is truly all that they understand. How are you going to talk to a kid whose 12th birthday present is an AKM and who has been taught that manhood means fighting a Jihad and that we are not only bad (which we probably are) but Satan himself? You can't.

Take no prisoners and fight an active, not reactive war against these people or we are going to be fighting it forever. And, we will lose if we fight it in a limited way like Vietnam, Somalia and Iraq right now.

Tell that to Omar!

Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was 14 or 15 when he was accused of killing an American soldier with a grenade during a 2002 battle in Afghanistan. Montalvo represents Mohammed Jawad who is accused of throwing a grenade that injured two American soldiers and their interpreter in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 16 or 17.


Tell him he cant be tried!

He was shot during the battle and survived.
For seven years he's been charged and held for murder!


POW?
LOL
Bush made up the rules as he went!
The Man had no morals!
No ethics,
and he is a coward!

Mental institutions don't do that anymore.

sorry but...first..i think everyone knows how I feel about surveys and polls. second...i wonder how many non-religious think the same. third...i've never connected my beliefs with that in any way.

as far as Texas goes...Texas isn't the only state that has the death penalty....

but Texas kills more people than any other state.

we are also the 2nd largest state and a border state....people passing throught exas in or out of mexico. IMO if someone is in a state with the death penalty...don't do the crime there.

Obviously the people that are for torture are not christians since they dont seem to know that Jesus was tortured to death.They are just a bunch of closet S&M perverts

Jesus preached non-violence.

He did a bit of bashing about with the money changers!

Not you Willing I was referring to the Bush Administration and the people that actually did the torture.

Uh-oh, I guess I'm outa' th' closet now!!