Reply #10: It's a really bad move... [View All]

[Imajika]

First, as best I can tell there is no precedent for this. It just isn't necessary.

Second, these guys would probably have just pled guilty in a military tribunal and it would be over. Now they are going to use the opportunity in a civilian court to drag this thing out for months and months and turn it into a circus.

I mean, if Obama had decided not to use military tribunals at all, I could see it as a principled stand, but he IS going to use military tribunals for some of the alleged terrorists.

This is a gigantic lose-lose for the President. There really is just nothing good that I can see coming out of this. Even if the idea, as some Republicans claim, is to use this as a backdoor way to put the Bush administrations methods on trial, it's STILL a bad way to do it.

And with the way the administration has been declaring the outcome before the trial even started, it just eliminates the only other good thing that could come out of this which would have been to show the world that we care about true justice and don't run Kangaroo Courts.

Just a bad decision anyway I look at it.