International Law? We Don't need no Stinking International Law!

Culture of Life? More like Culture of imposing life sentences:

WASHINGTON - In a development the Bush administration had hoped to avoid, the stories of about 60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out in court papers.

A U.S. college-educated detainee asks plaintively in one: "Is it possible to see the evidence in order to refute it?"

In another transcript, the unidentified president of a U.S. military tribunal bursts out: "I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned with international law."

No concern with international law is essentially a terrorist position. The Guantanamo facility is essentially a terrorist operation.

If the detainees were truly guilty of criminal behavior, it should be easy, quick work to produce evidence of such at a public trial, followed by a clear sentence--in other words, I'm not in favor of coddling evil people. But, how many detainees are actually guilty of anything other than being in Afghanistan or Pakistan in 2001?