FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

Some good news this morning.

The U.S. trial of a terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been halted by a federal judge who said the Bush administration had overstepped its bounds.

Washington Times article

Sweeter words can hardly been written.

(This is the case of bin Laden's driver.)

Mark Corallo, a Justice Department spokesman, said in a statement, "By conferring protected legal status under the Geneva Conventions on members of al-Qaida, the judge has put terrorism on the same legal footing as legitimate methods of waging war."

For this ultra-liberal anti-war blogger, all war is on the same moral footing, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know of any laws that made an exception to "methods of waging" war, aside from the Geneva Conventions, and as far as I know, by those Conventions, POWs are afforded the same legal rights no matter what methods they're using (otherwise, our guys would be in deep shit).

I suppose we can look forward to an attempt by the U.S. to rewrite the Geneva Conventions. They were created before 9/11 changed everything, after all. In the meantime, U.S. District Judge James Robertson in Washington has done the right thing morally - and legally, which is what a judge is supposed to do - and should watch his back. All you folks out there in Washington keep an eye out for the judge.