[lbo-talk] human rights abuses in Cuba...

[Mike Ballard]

> Handing a major victory to the Bush
> administration, the judges said suspected
> al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters held at
> Guantanamo Bay were aliens outside US
> sovereign territory and were not protected by
> the US Constitution.

Last night the BBC ran a piece about Bush's speech. 
They noted that in 
a
strict legal sense the war had not been declared over.

 Doing so would
necessitate the release of Iraqi POWs.  Apparently,
without an official
declaration, the US can detain them indefinitely.

-- Shane

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Declared over?

But Shane, Doug, anybody......did Congress ever
declare war on Iraq officially in the first place?

Mike B)

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