Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read. It continues to be my position that defining, treating and trying “enemy combatants” as “criminals” in civilian courts is unwise, foolhardy, and lacking in historical precedent.  Last week, in the first criminal trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, the judge barred the government’s star witness from testifying. 

This is the kind of judicial ruling legal experts were warning would happen if enemy combatants were given access to our civilian criminal court system.  Now we see it happening thanks to political correctness. 

We find it particularly appalling that these enemy combatants -- who do not wear uniforms and are not part of any country's army -- in our civilian courts are receiving more "rights" than a uniformed enemy combatant receives under the rules of the Geneva Convention.  Why?

So the message the Obama Justice Department is sending to potential terrorists around the world is clear—don’t wear a uniform, target civilians, and you’ll end up with more due process rights than a German POW received during World War II.  Had enough yet?