From: "Geo." 

What document has the term "enemy combatants" in it?

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> Whose arguing take Bush's word.  I don't blame you for being skeptical
> about that.  I hate it that you guys keep putting me in the position of
> defending him.  At least I hate it now.  Its the Supreme Court's words
> that count and the treaties we entered into centuries AFTER Jefferson
> died.  Those cases and treaties helped add terms like enemy combatants and
> illegal enemy combatants to the modern day lexicon.  Jefferson never wrote
> about Nazi's and world war II either, but doesn't mean Nazi's didn't
> exist.
>
> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> Um no, these are the words of Jefferson
>> http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1520.htm
>>
>> find anything official (as in terminology used by government or a court)
>> written prior to 2001 that uses the term "enemy
combatants", it doesn't
>> exist.
>>
>> Given the choice today of trusting bush to do the right thing with gitmo
>> or trusting jefferson, I think I'll take jefferson hands down.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>>> The Tripoli pirates that were summarily dispatched by Teddy R would be
>>> but one example.  They were enemy combatants and illegal enemy
>>> combatants. They were just as dead, without trial, indictment, or other
>>> criminal law constitutional applications.  A rose by any other name....
>>>
>>> Gary
>>

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