Gulagian's Island: The Deadly Farce of Bush's Gitmo Tribunals

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you George W. Bush: the only man in the world who could screw up a kangaroo court. (Judge dismisses charges against detainee.) The Bush Regime has invented so many new categories of bogeymen for its gulag that they've taken a pratfall on their own bullshit. Their case against the "boy terrorist," Omar Khadr -- who was just 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan -- collapsed within minutes today after a military judge said that Khadr's earlier classification as an "enemy combatant" (one of Bush's first attempts to put his captives beyond the rule of law) meant that he could not now be tried as an "alien unlawful enemy combatant" -- the latest designation hoked up by the Bushists in the tyrannical "Military Commissions Act" rubberstamped by Congress last year...

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