I really don't mind if a foriegn citizen, picked up on the battlefield and fighting against US forces is held forever- which like the war on drugs and war on poverty, is how long the war on terror will last. What really cranks me up is how can you jail a US Citizen without charge for more than 48 hours? It doesn't matter how heinous his crime- even Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and Manuel Noriega were charged within 48 hours and Manuel wasn't even a US Citizen and had committed acts of war against the United States (legitimate acts) and its officers on US Territory (the Panama Canal Zone).
No, I want to support this president and there are very logical reasons to do so, but logic and lawful and moral are different things. I believe they have acted unlawfully from the gitgo, and immorally in some instances. I believe the Armed Forces are stretched too thin and ordered to do things they aren't well-equipped to do, and are caught in a tug-o-war between the President and Congress and then you have the disgraceful way Gen. Petraeus was treated. That would have never happened if there were a Declaration of War versus some weak "authorization for the use of force."
Nope- I want to support this president, but when I remove myself from team-think mentality, it becomes difficult to do. Even more so since I still have friends serving that I grew quite close to while I was in way back when. Yet even worse when I find that a vast majority of the people who support the war pay such a small price for it and those who do the fighting aren't fully aware of the price they'll pay for it yet. Friends at work tend to support it wholeheartedly but have never served a day in uniform, have never seen a soldier get the dreaded "dear John" letter while deployed, have never got the Red Cross notice that your loved ones passed away while you were stuck in Bagdhad etc... Wars have a financial, social and human cost that I'm not certain those who advocated for it have ever seen or will ever have to pay. To them, war is something antiseptic that you inflict on others. So before we go to war, we need to know that 1. we were attacked or an attack is imminent (Makes it moral). 2. There is absolutely no other way (makes it the best economic choice), and 3. it is legal and by legal, Congress declares it officially and pledges the assets of the entire United States to achieve the goal, and 4. has a well-defined victory i.e.: Unconditional Surrender.
In this case the defined victory was 1. Removal of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party from power. That was accomplished in 2003. and 2. Enforcement of all pertinent UN Resoultions (WMD), which also was accomplished by the end of 2004. So why are we still over there? One reason- Nation Building.