Clark would put Guantanamo detainees on trial

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Concord (NH) Monitor Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Clark would put detainees on trial
He supports idea of international court

By Holly Ramer

MANCHESTER - Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said yesterday that suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay should be put on trial before an international court. "I think they should be tried. I think we should convene an international court like the international criminal court," he said. "Not as prisoners of war, but give them lawyers and put them on trial."

Clark, a former Army general and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, was asked by a Saint Anselm College student whether he agreed with recent comments by the wife of Democratic candidate John Kerry. Teresa Heinz Kerry said the detainees should be given prisoner of war status and denying them protections of the Geneva Convention is "insulting, ignorant and insensitive" to the rest of the world.

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[TacticalPeek]

1. Tell it like it is.

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He also criticized national security adviser Condoleezza Rice for justifying the war by saying, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

"We had a lot of hot air, but we didn't have a lot of evidence," Clark said. "It's real scare talk but it's not evidence."

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My man.

[BJ]

2. No need for international tribunals.

If we hold the legal fiction that Guantanamo is soverign U.S. territory. There is no declared war and civil courts hold precedence over military.

[Demeter]

3. Excuse Me...

But before one has a trial, wouldn't it be nice to have some charges, an evidencial hearing to back up those charges, defense lawyers and all the trappings of the civilization which we are trying to foist off on other nations?

Or does the Red Queen rule--sentence first and everything else after?

[xultar]

4. I think that is a given if there is a trial. He's skipping the elementary

bullshit and getting right to the meat. He's not a simple man he's educated and a Rhodes Scholar. So he doesn't have to start at the grab sock, put on foot, tie shoe...blah blah blah...

If you don't have the charges to have a trial set them free.

This is America.