Taken To Task By German Magazine

Just another example of how far the US has fallen in the eyes of the world.

The most important thing about the Moussaoui trial, however, was that it happened. The proceedings - including the jury deliberations - were long and difficult, but they were also fair and in accordance with the rules of American justice.

That is not the story for hundreds of other people, many far less complicit than Moussaoui, who are languishing in the prison at Guantánamo Bay because the United States rounded them up haphazardly during the Afghan war and plunked them down in Cuba without any clear plan on what to do with them over the long run.

So far only 10 of the 490 people still stashed away in Guantánamo have ever been charged with anything. The rest were hauled up before military proceedings that were a joke, if the available transcripts are any indication, to determine whether they should continue to be held without any rights or process under the phony label of "unlawful enemy combatant" that the Bush administration concocted after Sept. 11 for just this purpose. This is not even a half-hearted stab at a day in court, and it leaves hundreds of people under indefinite, illegal detention. [emphasis mine]

Now doesn't that story just make ya damn proud of your president.

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