99. No they did not commit acts of war. They committed CRIMES.
War is a state that exists between two political entities. Do we imprison drug dealers and addicts indefinitely? You know because of the WAR ON DRUGS. Saying you are at WAR with something does not create the legal conditions that allow for what we are doing. No matter how insecure you may be feeling, you cannot justify holding people indefinitely without access to the legal system. We are not at war with Iraq, nor Afghanistan. We are using our military to police for terrorists when we should be allowing our law enforcement agencies to track down and capture them.
What the president said was disturbingly political and as a constitutional law professor he should know better.
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