Candidates weigh in on Guantanamo ruling

While I AGREE with today's majority opinion that "all enemy combatants detained during a war, at least insofar as they are confined in an area away from the battlefield, [but] over which the United States exercises 'absolute and indefinite' control, may seek a writ of habeas corpus in federal court," I also AGREE with Chief Justice Roberts (and his fellow dissenters) that the Writ can be suspended in time of war, such as the war on terror that we find ourselves involved in right now, and that suspension power belongs to Congress, such as Congress has exercised in this case, "as the Constitution surely allows Congress to [wield]."

If Mr. McCain's disain of this Court ruling is indicative of his policies, my previously difficult choice for Presdient just got a lot easier.

Freedom isn't free. Our soldiers, sailors and marines fight on the battlefield. We citizens battle for our freedoms by acceping more risk to our safety than could (presumably) be obtained from a totalitarian government.

Mr. Bush, treating us as frightened rabbits, has peddled an atmosphere of fear and paranoia in support of his warrantless intercepts of our communications, and attacks on such bedrock liberties as habeus corpus.

Further, it is not in our interests as American citizens or in international relations to be a nation that imprisons people for 6 years without charges or access to attorneys.

I have been sceptical of Mr. Obama's attempts to portray Mr. McCain as 'more George Bush."

Now I begin to wonder.

This 'war on terror' has aspects of war, similarities to an an international police action, and components of domestic police work.