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Judge grants Gitmo detainee a hearing on POW status
See, the Bush administration is opposed to this idea because if they're POWs instead of well... whatever they're called now (illegal combatants?), then they have guarenteed rights and standards of treatment. Things which, given the various reports of torture, waterboarding, etc., the Bushies and neo-cons are against.
See, the Bush administration is opposed to this idea because if they're POWs instead of well... whatever they're called now (illegal combatants?), then they have guarenteed rights and standards of treatment. Things which, given the various reports of torture, waterboarding, etc., the Bushies and neo-cons are against.