From: Gary Britt 


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
> news:46714d45$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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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