A militant deemed too swarthy to merit Geneva protections.
COMMENT: This is our second attempt to define "illegal combatant." Which one do you favor? Or do you have a third?
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- political capital – noun
- profiteer – noun
- mandate – noun
- humane – adjective
- tort reform – noun
- conflict of interest – noun
- black site – noun
- column – noun
- populist – adjective, noun
- transparency – noun
- spokesperson – noun
- martyr – noun
- abstinence – noun
- abstinence-only – adjective
- Opinion: Sicko
- protest – noun
- prayer – noun
- Reading: Psyops fool Blackwater families
- coalition – noun
- rebrand – verb
- audit – noun
- talking point – noun
- regime change – noun
- patience – noun
- (al) Qaeda – noun
- moral clarity – noun
- theocon – noun
- constitutional – adjective
- News: Congress passes resolution against Ahmadinejad
- News: Cheney creates fourth branch of government
- faith-based – adjective
- gambling – noun
- investigate – verb
- psyops – noun
- unitary executive – noun
- rule of law – noun
- sustainable development – noun
- News: McClatchy gives Bush some West Coast love.
- free trade – noun
- torture – noun (reprise)
- security mom – noun
- authentic – adjective
- anchor – noun
- journalist – noun
- Announcement
- News: The Arab is "reluctant to accept responsibil...
- progress – noun
- no-bid contract – noun
- interventionism – noun
- ownership society – noun
- wartime supplemental – noun
- illegal combatant – noun (reprise)
- global posture – noun
- enduring – adjective
- duct tape – noun
- democracy – noun
- News: New York facing valet crisis
- News: USA Today runs Tony Snow op-ed
- News: Chuck Norris unveils presidential campaign p...
- name – verb
- bipartisan – adjective
- legal counsel – noun
- diplomacy – noun
- accounting – noun
- centrist – adjective
- op-ed – noun
- signing statement – noun
- News: Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson become media c...
- Analysis: Authenticity
- News: Scooter committed "perjury"
- occupation – noun
- liberate – verb
- blowback – noun
- campaign contribution – noun
- press conference – noun
- high value target – noun
- redact – verb
- News: Padilla juror to martyr self
- pundit – noun
- News: Paris Hilton implicated in JFK terror plot
- proxy detention – noun
- ghost detainee – noun
- illegal combatant – noun (reprise)
- Notable quotable: "the American homeland"
- WMD – noun
- IED – noun
- asymmetric – adjective
- surge – noun
- ethanol – noun
- News: Staffing crisis at State Department
- plan B – noun
- News: Sen. Whitehouse (D – RI) wonders what "impro...
- vet – verb
- intelligence – noun
- News: Scooter Libby sentenced.
- patriotic – adjective
- realism – noun
- History: the original atheists
- nonfiction – noun
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- Danger Room
- Defamer
- Eschaton
- Fallows
- Firedoglake
- Frolix 8
- Gawker
- Gore-Obama 2008
- Hullabaloo
- Informed Comment
- Informed Comment Group Blog
- Klein, Ezra
- Language Log
- Language Monitor
- Left I on the News
- Newshoggers
- No Comment
- Orcinus
- Political Animal
- Smythe's World
- Talk Left
- Talking Points Memo
- Tbogg
- Think Progress
- This Modern World
- Threat Level
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