The "battlefield", the way I see it, is just that.

If we capture a guy during a military action, that's one thing.

But if we go to someone's home - wherever that home may be - and arrest them based on the suspicion that they may be a terrorist, that's something else.

Can a suspected terrorist even get a fair trial here?

Possibly not, especially the way people tend to presume them guilty beforehand.

But still, saying that they can't get a "fair" trial is no reason not to give them any trial.

Same problem as when any other seemingly or obviously guilty person is freed via a "loophole".

That's the price we pay for having the best system of jurispridence in the world.

Now...just curious here:

What exactly do you mean by "celebrated his 'innocence'"?

Personally, I hope that every single one of those detainees is guilty, because it's that many more terrorists that are off the streets and no longer posing a danger to this country.

But what is there to "celebrate" if there were trials and a few "not guilty" verdicts?

I'd be happy that they system is working, and I'd behoping that the verdicts were correct.

And if they eren't, as I say, that's the price we sometimes have to pay for having the system that we do

But I wasn't out celebrating when, for example, O.J Simpson was found not guilty (although there were those who, for what they felt wer good reasons, were celebrating), or John Gotti was, any of the several times he wasn't convicted.

And finally, BTW, I never said that everyone was a "bunch of silly bullies."

What I did say was that there was someone who I felt was like a schoolyard bully, and that in general the posts that some of the people made in this thread were silly, not the posters themselves.