American Justice applies only to Americans. These detainees in Guantanamo did not fight for a country, they fought for a terrorist group intent on killing Americans at home and abroad.
American justice can not work everywhere in the world, it has taken over 200 years for the US to become what it is, including our justice system, we can not just go over Iraq and say *BAM* and now you are Americanized, it will take time, time and money, Kerry, who has yet to take a stand on any issue, is not up to this challenge and will pull out of Iraq right away, much like Nixon did, only it will be quicker and leave Iraq much more destabilized than Vietnam was.
I don't believe that America can do whatever it wanted where ever it wanted, and that should be painfully obvious, if that was the case we would be in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Africa, many of the former Soviet Republics, and even parts of Russia. No, believe it or not, but America does have limitations, and we know them, Iraq is nowhere near stretching our capabilities, we barely flexed our military muscles against Iraq. We could have landed on Iraq and Afganhistan with both feet, firmly, destroying every building that had not already been leveled by Soviet or Coalition bombs.
The ICJ should be allowed to judge America, but not individual soldiers, we take care of our own. The people that were responsible for the prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq have been taken care of. I believe that most of the blame should go to the General in charge, since she was after all supposed to be in charge, she is responsible for what happens in her prison, she should have kept an eye on what was going on in her prison, she is to blame and she should be taking most of the punishment. The CIA is also responsible, along with the individual soldiers, but they were doing what they were told to do, extract information from the enemy, yes they went to far, yes their actions were wrong, but it was the Commanding Officer of the prison that should have stepped in and taken care of the problem before it got to the point that it is now.