The Associated Press tried to ignore the black eye it garnered for its repeated use of stories from Iraq by Jamil Hussein, created from whole cloth as disingenuous propaganda to discredit the US. As I wrote last January, “AP……

An indignant White House press corps questioned U.S. integrity over why an Pulitzer Prize winning AP photographer, who happens to be an enemy “terrorist media operative”, was held by the U.S….

He has no real rights as on the battlefield spies are a low form of life that is not looked kindly upon.

The A.P. should be very thankful we have politicians running this war. If we let the military run things like it should be. The war would be over, these terrorists and spies would be dead and we would be going about our lives.

I just got my copy, “Live Free or Die Hard” makin popcorn…Bruce Willis finishing, where John Wayne left off GRIN.

Hussein was detained April 12, 2006 after marines entered his house in Ramadi to establish a temporary observation post and found bomb-making materials, insurgent propaganda and a surveillance photograph of a US military installation.

And lgm and sausage think he should be released because an Iraqi trial of a non-US citizen might be embarrassing? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! How foolish!

America is not an ethnic group, it’s built on principles: freedom, justice, equality, restrained government, checks&balances, etc. Take those away and you don’t have America.

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If we can’t give this guy a fair trial, we have to let him go. Revoke his clearance and deny him access, but let him go. It’s by far the lesser of the two evils.

[claps three times, slowly]

Fine words. The disconnect I have comes when I consider who wrote them.

There are people in our society – perhaps best exemplified by the ACLU, the NLG and their like-minded fellow travelers – who think that by manipulating our laws, beliefs and principles to create a perverse result they’re upholding the same; that by creating miscarriages of justice, they’re somehow “for” justice.

I don’t believe it for one moment.

Two millenia ago Cicero pegged lgm when he idenified the most pernicious enemy as the one who holds out as a concerned citizen, yet who all the while seeks to undermine and destroy society from within with its own principles and belief systems.

Somehow I find it easy to visualize people like sausage and lgm unsuccessfully struggling to hide a display of glee if Bilal Hussein were to get a “trial” that ended up the same way as OJ Simpson’s did.

And somehow I find it easier to believe that the sense of smug satisfaction would come not from any notion of “equality, justice, fairness” etc., but rather from the sense that America just had a stick poked in its eye.

Even the Nazis got better trials at Nuremberg.

Really. You’ve seen the future? You know exactly how fair this trial will be before it occurs?

but his “trial” is a farce that will be incredibly damaging to America’s long term interests.

Is there anything we do that doesn’t hurt our interests? I mean, really. We can’t take a leak without you people bitching and moaning about how we’re ruining our good name.