ABA means American Bar Association

...not Al Quaida Bar Association. It is not like President Bush suspended the writ of habeas corpus (as did Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War). The president has merely urged the actions necessary to preserve the Union from a minority of individuals who want to kill us all. The militant Muslims in the custody of the United States Government deserve, by all rights, to be tried by a military tribunal and executed upon conviction.

After all, these enemy combatants wear no uniform, they fight for no country, and they wish to see the United States ("The Great Satan") destroyed by their hands (or, at the very least, weakened from within). These villians would not be protected under the Geneva Conventions, and it is doubtful that the Islamic Caliphate that they wish to see formed would sign the damned thing. (Ask Sen. John McCain how those Geneva Convention protections worked out for him while he was a guest at the Hanoi Hilton.)

So, the ABA (the union for lawyers) wishes to see the writ of habeas corpus preserved for the terrorists, citing this as a protection against unwarranted government detention. Okay, let's analyze this.

Ahmed is captured in Blogistan. He is carrying ten pre-paid cell phones, some stolen credit cards (with the name Joe Stanton), plans to the New York City water system and a vial of anthrax. He is interrogated in an outsourced detention facility, where is forced to listen to Barbra Streisand albums (i.e., he is tortured), then shipped to Club Gitmo. Please, for the love of God, tell me what would be unwarranted about this detention?

The ABA can only be taking sides in this morass for two reasons: One, they are a bunch of America-hating idiots; or, two, they are a bunch of America-hating idiots who care more about their welfare than that of the innocents who will be killed by their future clients.

This begs the question: Does Al Quaida take out a full page ad, or a half page ad in the ABA Journal?

The world knows that if the unlawful combatants who are in American custody get access to the Courts, then it is Katie bar the door. These scumbags, with their lawyers, will be tying up the Courts until kingdom come. After all, we have one lawyer, who communicated her client's anti-American screed to his followers get a slap on the wrist (as opposed to a hanging in Times Square). Can the release of sensitive information, deleterious to national security, be far behind?

Oh wait, The New York Times already did that.