Correspondence
Correspondence ELECT POWELL! THERE IS ONE PROBLEM with regarding the 2004 election as a referendum on the Bush Doctrine and the iraq War, as William Kristol does in his January 12 editorial, "A...
...They are prisoners of war and the rules of war allow us to detain them until after that war is over...
...Perhaps the Second Circuit judges should walk the few blocks from their Manhattan courtroom to the ruins of the World Trade Center and see for themselves what a "zone of combat" really looks like...
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...A famous non-Peanuts patch showed a large mushroom on a black background, surrounded by the initials "K.I.T.D.F.O.H.S...
...troops in battle...
...During World War II, the Supreme Court upheld the military trial of several German saboteurs caught in the United States, including one who claimed American citizenship...
...Conversely, there will probably be an equal number of people who agree with the president on the war, but will vote for Howard Dean because they are liberals on domestic policy...
...One of the guiding rules of the new court should be common sense...
...war is a nasty enough business without the Ninth Circuit Court saying, in effect, that U.S...
...I assume that Barnes meant "citizens of German and Austrian descent" were scorned by Woodrow Wilson, instead of "German and Italian descent" since Italy was an ally of the Western powers during WWI and had to pay a horrendous price, not only in terms of casualties, but also politically, with the rapid rise of fascism in the aftermath of war and the subsequent involvement with Nazi Germany which led the country to disaster...
...The law says such detentions may be carried out "pursuant to an act of Congress," such as the one Congress adopted on Sept...
...REMI DOYEN Brussels, Belgium PEANUTS TO SOUTH PARK THE UNOFFICIAL South Park patch reproduced in the January 12 edition of The Scrapbook reminded me of similar patches for sale everywhere in Vietnam during my tour there (1968-69...
...citizens outside "a zone of combat," a phrase which is meaningless considering that 3,000 Americans have already died in this new kind of war and that, in an age when terrorists have access to weapons that can kill thousands in an instant, all 50 states constitute a "zone of combat...
...18, 2001, which authorized the president to "use all necessary and appropriate force" to prevent future terrorist attacks...
...DANIEL JOHN SOBIESKI Chicago, IL WORLD WAR WILSON THANKS for Fred Barnes's very interesting review of books dedicated to World War I ("War and History," Jan...
...JOHN F. BRADLEY Havertown, PA IN THE ZONE OF COMBAT THOMAS F. POWERS makes a compelling case for the establishment of a federal terrorism court after the bizarre rulings in the Padilla and Guantanamo cases in "Due Process for Terrorists...
...The detainees at Guantanamo were not arrested for shoplifting or auto theft...
...That would be the real referendum...
...Fortunately, it looks like President Bush has a much better relationship with Austrian Americans than President Wilson, if I understand correctly recent developments of the American political situation—particularly in California...
...DAVID CLAYTON CARRAD Augusta, GA IVINS THE TERRIBLE JUST SO YOU KNOW, after reading The Scrapbook on January 12, I'm ashamed that Molly Ivins is from Texas...
...Which part of "all" does the Second Circuit not understand...
...THERE IS ONE PROBLEM with regarding the 2004 election as a referendum on the Bush Doctrine and the iraq War, as William Kristol does in his January 12 editorial, "A Choice, Not an Echo...
...Equally goofy is the second Circuit Court saying that Jose Padilla cannot be detained as an enemy combatant because Congress did not authorize detention of U.S...
...soldiers must advise their opponents in combat of their Miranda rights, and ruling that detainees at Guantanamo Bay—prisoners of war captured on a foreign battlefield—must have access to lawyers and our court system...
...speaking facetiously, it's a shame we can't vote on the election of a secretary of state...
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...They usually featured obscene parodies of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and an obviously pregnant Lucy...
...it is hard to tell someone trying to kill you that they have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney...
...There are some of us who think the war was a disastrous mistake, but still will support the president's reelection reluctantly, because we support his views on issues of domestic policy (abortion, taxes, etc...
...Soldiers love to gripe after the fighting is over, and some of the best graffiti in the world have been produced at military encampments...
...They were taken prisoner in the middle of a war in Afghanistan, most of them after engaging U.s...
...HENRY CHRISTIANSEN Hurst, TX THE WEEKLY STANDARD welcomes letters to the editor...
...for "Kept In The Dark, Fed on Horse S...
Vol. 9 • January 2004 • No. 19
