Robert: Roosevelt, who clearly wanted them dead, insisted on
trial by a military tribunal.
Eric: And why did FDR clearly want them dead? Because we
were at war. Just as we are at war today.
Robert: As things stand now, one who is designated an enemy
combatant, can be tried only by a 'special tribunal,' in
which various rules of evidence are suspended, and there is
no right of habeus corpus.
Eric: The correct term is "unlawful enemy combatant," which
I omitted in my first post and corrected in my second. An
"enemy combatant" per se is subject to Geneva Convention rules.
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