This is just sick

Camp X-Ray is just disturbing to me. It's bad enough that these prisoners are being withheld from international view, so that we can do whatever we want to them. It's bad enough that some of the people there are juveniles. But now we're thinking about executing them, too?

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico June 10 —
Guantanamo officials are ready to provide a courtroom, a prison and an execution chamber if the order comes to try terror suspects at the base in Cuba, the mission commander said.

...Some 680 detainees from 42 countries are in Guantanamo, categorized as unlawful combatants by the U.S. government. It has refused demands from human rights organizations to recognize them as prisoners of war. They have no constitutional rights as non-U.S. citizens being held outside U.S. territory, and none have been formally charged or allowed access to attorneys.

Let me remind you, some of these "unlawful combatants" are children. Do I think the U.S. government might play judge, jury, and executioner with children (not to mention the grown men, who are all probably extremely low-level Taliban foot soldiers) while on their own private little island, free from the jursdiction of U.S. law, outside of the tenets of the Geneva Convention, and hidden from the international community? I sure hope not.

I've never quite understood how we can get away with not classifying these detainees as prisoners of war. Is it because we didn't officially declare war on the Taliban? I'll bet if you asked an Afghan, they would disagree.