"DSK" wrote
You're just saying that because you don't have an answer to his
statement... the Bush Administration insists that the Gitmo prisoners
are not POWs and refuses to accord them the rights due to such.

All we have is the repeated contention that they are "enemy combatants"
and therefor not due any process whatever.

How can any American can think it's right to simply grab people and
imprison them indefinitely, with no recourse to any legal procedure
whatever?

If they are enemies, then they are accorded the treatment due to
prisoners. If they are terrorists, then they get a trial. If they are
citizens of another country, we owe that gov't a legal process showing
why we are holding them.

You are trying to apply logic to law but law is seldom logical.

The rules say that a 'combatant' captured out of uniform need not be treated
as a POW. He can be shot out of hand, held incommunicado indefinitely, even
killed without trial, as a spy or saboteur. According to Bush, those held at
Gitmo are in this special catagory.