Supreme Court rules against Bush administration’s military commissions

John Burton with Axis of Logic editorial comment

The author of this analysis, John Burton points out: "While the decision was a judicial rebuke to the Bush administration, it did not order the release of any of the more than 400 prisoners still held at the US military base. Nor did it address the Bush administration’s claim that it can hold captives there or at other US facilities around the world for the duration of "active hostilities" in the so-called "war on terror," i.e., indefinitely" Axis of Logic also asks - Why did it take years for the U.S. government and it's judiciary to find the illegality of the Bush Regime's abominable imprisonment and torture of these prisoners of war? Why now - after these men and their families have suffered so? We observe that after the damage has been done and the regime in Washington find themselves being defeated by the Resistance Forces, some of the perpetrators want to shift their position (including the Surpreme Court, the Democratic Party and the Corporate Media) - to reflect opposition to the Afghan/Iraqi wars and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo...

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