if you have not declared war? Answer me that. Easy way out. Washington wants to be able to have its cake and eat it, too. A criminal is a criminal, even if he is an international criminal. If Congress wants to namby-pamby around it responsibility of holding the President's feet to the fire on military actions, then they cannot claim the benefits of a state of war, namely, to suspend the normal legal procedures.
If all we have to do to set aside the due process of law is to SAY that someone is an "enemy combatant" without a state of war having been legally declared by Congress, then not one of us is safe.
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