Despite an independent legal assessment that it would be would be virtually impossible for Aussie Gitmo detainees David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib to receive a fair trial under the current military tribunal arrangements, Howard says bringing them home to Australia is impossible:
"'That is an unrealistic proposition,' Mr Howard told reporters in Perth. 'If they are brought back to Australia, they go free because there is no crime under Australian law with which they can be charged.'"
Well, what law are they being charged with in Gitmo? What crime have they committed? We are not only entitled to know, we demand to know. And, for the sake of Australian democracy, freedom and human rights, we need to know.
Howard - like Rumsfeld before him - is setting himself up as judge and jury here, leaving Bush's slick war machine to be the executioner. Like Rumsfeld, Howard has independently determined that Hick and Habib are "bad guys". Why? What have they done? Where's the proof?
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