{"id":2076,"date":"2007-06-08T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:39:25","slug":"gitmo-and-the-bogus-enemy-combatants-trials-should-be-ceased-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/gitmo-and-the-bogus-enemy-combatants-trials-should-be-ceased-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitmo and the Bogus ‘Enemy Combatants’ Trials Should Be Ceased Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo “the worst of the worst.” General Richard B. Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned they were “very dangerous people who would gnaw hydraulic lines in the back of a C-17 to bring it down.” These claims were designed to justify locking up hundreds of men and boys for years in small cages like animals.<\/p>\n

George W. Bush lost no time establishing military commissions to try the very “worst of the worst” for war crimes. But four and a half years later, the Supreme Court decided in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld<\/em> that those commissions violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions. So Bush dusted them off, made a few changes, and rammed his new improved military commissions through the Republican Congress last fall.<\/p>\n

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By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld famously called the detainees at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo “the worst of the worst.” General Richard B. 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