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   From: devil@attglobal.net   
      
   On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:23:16 -0700, Matt wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Doug Maclean"  wrote in message   
   > news:cbm6qb$37h$1@titan.btinternet.com...   
   >> No Matt I'm not a supporter of any particular American politician.  As   
   > there   
   >> were 9 British citizens detained by the US and incarcerated in Guantanamo   
   >> Bay I am interested in their rights.   
   >>   
   >> I also am interested in why the USA thinks it has the right to detain   
   > people   
   >> without charge for years and still professes to champion freedom.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Doug   
   >   
   > Like it or not, different rules apply in times of war.  I know that   
   > statement just drives some people crazy.  Of the 10s of thousands of people   
   > originally detained in Afghanistan only a small handful are still being   
   > held.  This tells me that the US government had some kind of criteria for   
   > deciding which ones were dangerous enough to not release.   
      
   You must not be the guy who argued here a while back that the US has not   
   been at war since WWII then...   
      
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