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Not POWs

Kieren protests that the Bush administration shouldn't describe people as 'unlawful combatants' rather than POWs. They are unlawful combatants, see this and this. And defence that pre-empts an attack is pre-emptive defence, I don't understand why we should look at that as Orwellian.

by Alan Forrester on Tue, 04/19/2005 - 02:02

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