My Country Tis Of Thee

--Imagine this (just by analogy):

The bombing in London and Dublin against the British and Irish has caused many Americans to cross the pond to assist their kindred cousins against the bombing campaign invasion of the Iranian, Russian and Chinese Alliance.
The Iranians captured Senator Jeff Sessions who was in Britain on a fact finding mission investigating whether we should help or to see what he could do. He was turned in by British MIA in hopes that it would divert attention from the British operatives under Iranian surveillance. The Iranians captured him, labeled him a Prisoner of War, shaved his head, strip searched him and gave him a prison suit, strapped him in ankle and hand cuffs and nailed the cuffs to the floor. He could not move for hours and was required to go to the bathroom where he crouched. He was taunted by dogs, a burlap bag was roped around his neck at various points, he was put in a dark room with loud screeching chinese music for hours in isolation. He was not allowed to read a bible or sing bible songs or speak English. He was nearly strangled to death, he was electric shocked and he was required to live in a dog cage and not sit up. He was abusively yelled out. Guards threw pornography at him and told him to Go F himself.
This was all in effort to extort a confession that he was a bomb throwing terrorist ring leader.
He was not ever charged specifically with anything, he was not given the evidence against him or any due process opportunity to rebut it, he was never tried. He was told that he is a prisoner of war and so for the entire length of the war he will be detained.
In the Iranian parliament, Iman after Iman lectured the country that these people, such as Jeff Sessions are presumptively terrorist because he was an American caught and turned in by the MIA. Thus, he is a presumed terrorist and a POW. Terrorists are not entitled to due process. They are to be detained for the duration of the war. Guess what- this War Never Ends. Thus Jeff Sessions is required to rot in a dog cage until he dies-a death sentence, listening to screetching chinese music, kicked in the head, chained to the floor and taunted by dogs and profane guards for the rest of his life.
After two years of this, Jeff Sessions attempted suicide. After three years of this, he succeeded.
The Iranian parliamentarians declared that he obviously was depressed because he was a terrorist. What did you expect?

This is the equivalent of what we are doing in Guantanamo.

Senator Dodd is partly right and partly wrong- - we are arguing about whether these people in Guantanamo should be there at all. We don't know the motives of the Afghan Northern Alliance who turned in these people or if they lied about their motives. We don't know in fact if these people are terrorists or not. It is not true that all of them were caught in the act of hostile action against us. It is spin.

That is the problem. They are entitled to due process if we are a country under the Rule of Law. Senator Dodd does, however, understand the Rule of Law. Being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time is not grounds to kill someone, torture someone or incarcerate them.

America understands much better than the GOP Crowd running this country that what is going on in Guantanamo is foul and deeply Anti-American.