They don't need no stinkin' due process

I never could understand why Bush enjoyed such strong support from Iraqi-Americans at the beginning of the occupation but I'm not surprised it didn't last. The latest polls show that 77% in this group now think Bush is doing a poor job in handling the "war."

One expects this could have something to do with Bush's falling support.

(New York, June 27, 2005)-Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today. Following the September 11 attacks, the Justice Department held the 70 men-all but one Muslim-under a narrow federal law that permits the arrest and brief detention of "material witnesses" who have important information about a crime, if they might otherwise flee to avoid testifying before a grand jury or in court. Although federal officials suspected the men of involvement in terrorism, they held them as material witnesses, not criminal suspects.

If the destruction of civil liberties and making a mockery of our justice system was an Olympic sport, the Bushies wouldn't be able to stand up with the weight of the gold medals around their necks.