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The perpatrators of the first WTC bombing were tried in criminal court.
They are now rotting in jail.
Where is Osama Bin Laden?

mccain shut up and retire pleeeeeeeeeeeeeez

which court can hand out the stiffer sentence does any boby know?

So the terrorists who bombed the WTC the first time around were tried and convicted in NYC, but in an act of Divisive, Political Theatre, the GOP now says we can't do the exact same thing?
What a bunch of Un-American Morons!

Two things for me: First what if, God forbid, something does happen during the trial? Second, what if, because of "national security", or a sharp lawyer, or our imperfect legal system, that these "things" are actually aquitted? These "things" have no concept of human values, have perverted their own religion for personal gain, strap bombs on their own people including women & children, all in the name of their God! Put a bullet in their heads and be done with it!!

Grandpa Munster can blast it out his arse.

Yup. Let's turn our back on our own system of justice.

After all, it's the government and, by definition, the government can't work.

So we either have the choice of running a gulag in Gitmo and holding people forever with no trial - or letting terrorists run rampant across America. And we all know which one Obama will choose since he hates America so much.

If you're a Rethuglican, this is your reality.

This isn't about McCain vs Obama. Its about the Obama administration spitting in the face of the victims and their families by allowing them the same rights as American citizens. How good are you liberals going to feel when the ACLU gets these guys off on a technicality and they kill again.

It's quite evident McCains' no lawyer. Thank God he's not our President!

Too old to understand

What's wrong with JUSTICE! They should be tried in NYC.

McCain is going to always be angry about something and it is usually something he knows nothing or little about.

Thank God he didn't win. I think we would be in a depression and a third war by now with empty-headed Barbie waiting in the wings.

Things could be so much worse.

It appears this story must be strictly for democrats since the majority of the responses seem to be attacking McCain. I would like someone to respond to the fact that if the rule of law is so important to you why were you not up in arms when Holder and Obama went to court to have the prisoners at Gitmo remain classified as "non persons" with no rights? So how can any court of law or tribunal convict a "non person"? And why do many of the responses say convict them and kill them or similar words if you want to follow the law so closely that now they are being transferred, someone is now presumed innocent. So in all reality, you have already decided they are guilty therefore a military trial where they were ready to plead guilty would have been fine.

Unless somebody could explain me, in coherent language and without resorting to slogans and hysteria how exactly trying this people in NYC jeopardize out precious security, I say try them here.

Yeah KILL, BLOOD, and more KILL AND MORE BLOOD.......that's what the GOP is all about........they love war and killing innocent men and women, they put our sons and daughters, mothers, fathers, in the line of fire with out any quilt what so ever........after all it isn't their sons and daughters or grandchildren fighting in these Wars, they keep their own out of the Service and it is your family and my famiy members that they send into battle......over and over again tour after tour and they wonder why there are so many suicides in our military........just more of the Republican FEAR and SCARE the hell out of the American people........NO NO NO, this party is stuck in a hole so deep they don't know how to get out........so they just keep trying to knock this President down........were tired of this crap........

Where else would you try them? The crime was comitted in New York on non military targets. The Cole was a military target, so, therefore a military tribunal. For heavens sake, how many terrorist arrests have been in the news lately? Quite a few. For all their talk, I don't think the Republicans have a leg to stand on as far as terrorism and the country being safer under them.

Obama knows the law and this proves it. We CANNOT try them as war criminals. There was NO WAR in NYC at the time that I know about. These people committed murder in the State of NY. In order for there to be a war tribunal there has to be a war.

If we set this precedent, then ANY AMERICAN on foreign soil could be tried as a war criminal if that Gov't just decides to.

Even so....America doesn't try people for war crimes. There's an International Tribunal for that. So if you want to say these people committed "war crimes" then we have to ship them overseas to be tried.

STOP learning your law from Faux News.

I like the way that CNN runs to John McCain for comment on everything that makes the news. Do they think that he is still running for office? Maybe Blitzer would like to see that.

Hey Donna in Colorado Springs,

Nice of you to bring race up in this matter. I guess white people really get on your nerves don't we? Have you noticed that all the white people on here haven't brought up race, not once? We point out facts against people, we bring up whey we are mad at people, we are not mad at the color of their skin.

Shirley In California November 13th, 2009 2:33 pm ET

Dear Senator McCain:

YOU ARE NOT THE PRESIDENT. Thank God. The decision is NOT up to you.
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However, President Obama CAN'T or is AFRAID to make a decision.

behind close doors of the military we will never find out the truth only those who have somethink to hide would be agaist an open trial new york is where the crmminals should stand trial

This is why we didn't elect McCain.

He has no clue about rules of law, nor about how diplomacy affects our national security.

McCain should have been President, not Obama.
He may be a RINO but he is not a trator like Obama. Obama makes me sick.

Well, let's just be sure not to take them on any "shopping trips" while they are in New York. I noticed how adroitly everyone has avoided mentioning the fact that the Ft. Hood terrorist/murder bought a "cop killer" gun so easily at the Guns Galore shop in Texas. You gun-loving nuts still won't admit the damage that something with that fire power can cause. What possible reason would someone need something with that fire power? Certainly not for self -defense!! But you don't want to try the Gitmo prisoners in New York City because you are concerned about security. Let's just keep them away from any gun shops, okay? Maybe then we won't have to worry. I realize the 9/11 hijackers used box cutters, but the pilots should have stayed in the cockpits and landed those planes, and maybe 9/11 would never have happened!!!

@ Concerned American

There is no such thing as "muslim decent" (as you claimed President Obama is) because "muslim" describes a person who practices the Islamic religion, not a ethnicity or nationality that is passed on through genetics.

And how exactly is having a trial, even a civilian trial, a bad thing. If the evidence is strong (and I assume it is very strong), they will be convicted quite easily and executed... why is preserving the rule of law through a full trial (which will only legitimize the legality of the action in the eyes of the rest of the world and thus help us have better relations with islamic countries in the middle east).

Your ignorance and hate are blinding you. Open your eyes and join the rest of us free thinkers!

Good lord, exactly what else SHOULD be done with them? Keep in mind that a military tribunal could just as easily find them not guilty as a civillian trial could. What on earth ever happened to due process? The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty? The rights enshrined in American law and the Constitution?

People who have committed horrible crimes have always done so in complete violation of other people's rights. That's why their actions are "crimes". Why was Timothy McVeigh entitled to a trial and to the presumption of innocence, and the Gitmo detainees are not?

What ever happened to the "freedom" and "justice" and "democracy" and "human rights" that the wars in Afghanistan and Iran were ostensibly fought over? I thought it was the terrorists who hated America and the noble values she stands for.

Hell, if America can abandon its noble values simply beacuse they're momentarily inconvenient, then the terrorists have already won.

This is one time I can say I agree with McTraitor. He too should have been tried for collaberating with the North Vietnamese.

Is anyone really listening to this coward?

So the guy who planned the 9/11 attacks could conceivably walk the streets of NYC free as a bird if some scumbag lawyer gets the evidence against him thrown out.

This is what happens when you elect politicians who coddle terrorists instead of fight them!

Actually who cares what John McCain says? Fortunately, he is not the President of the United States and has no say in where the prisoners are tried. They committed the crimes here and should be tried here. I thank God for our President and his wisdom.

Comments from another whiny white Republican who thinks he knows everything and can solve all the problems we have. Well, guess what McCain....you and your wonderful political party were in charge when this happened and starting a war in Iraq really stopped all of the terrorists in the world from killing our soldiers didn't it?

John take lieberman and graham and go away.

John McCain is absolutely correct. Gitmo should not be closed & those TERRORISTS should be tried as war cruminals who cowardly murdered innocent people...Obama being of Muslim decent seems to be siding with these Muslim enemies & also the coward who killed our military soldiers at Fort Hood...in the name of my God, they should all receive the death penalty before a firing squad, end of story!

I agree with Sen. McCain. AG Eric Holder accuses the US of being a nation of cowards, but it is really the Obama administration that is a bunch of cowards. The people who planned and carried out 9/11 should be tried in a military court. We all know that criminals in civilian court will never get the punishment that they deserve. They'll be back on the street in no time, IF they get convicted at all. Obama and Holder are both yellow belly cowards who don't support America. Shame on them both! I can't wait for 2012. Obama's out of here!

McCain added: "Today's decision sends a mixed message about America's resolve in the fight against terrorism. We are at war, and we must bring terrorists to justice in a manner consistent with the horrific acts of war they have committed."

When I read this, here is what stands out to me:
The terrorists who have acted against us did horrific things. The fact that they did these horrific things justifies the abandonment of International law, the United States Constitution, the possibility of having taken the wrong person(s) into custody, anything that we know as JUSTICE... because SOMEBODY did us wrong.

In the end, what matters is REVENGE, not justice. By that measure, the Viet Cong were justified in holding and torturing Senator McCain. He was captured out of an enemy plane that was terrorizing their country... Point of FACT, in this case, he ADMITS his participation – it's what makes him a war hero.

I agree that we should bring TERRORISTS to justice! If we have captured the right people and have properly documented their actions, we SHOULD be able to get a conviction in Amish Country.
Where I fall away is where we reduce ourselves to terrorists, willing to administer "justice" "in a manner consistent with the horrific acts of war they have committed.," rather than administering JUSTICE in accordance with our Constitution.

Even in this situation, is it REALLY better to convict an innocent man than to follow our laws, just because terrorists attacked us?

I believe that seeing justice dispensed in the courts of NY, the very state that was attacked on 9/11 is appropriate! I expect the outcome would be no different than if the venue were a military tribunal. Furthermore, I think ot will New Yorkers closure. (The decison is symbolic.) Either way, they will be housed in SuperMax prisons (I suspect.) until executed–that is, if found guilty as our justice system presumes "innocence until proven guilty" despite public opinion.

McCrypt, go drink some the GOP prune juice, maybe you will not be so cranky.

The majority has already told you once we do not give a rip what you think.

McCain is 100% right. Obama and Holder have it all wrong again.

"McCain blasts decision"...? "Sen. John McCain hammered the Obama administration "...? Really? C'mon...does anyone really believe John McCain is capable of any blasting or hammering? That would be like GW Bush spelling...or Palin making sense – it just doesen't happen.

Republicans:

a) don't want their own crimes discussed in open court;

b) don't want the fact that 9-11 happened on their watch discussed in open court;

c) don't think the American judicial system that has served us well for more than 200 years is able to protect us; and

d) generally consider our system of government to be detrimental to THEIR economic interests.

why does it matter? Is one system less capable of dispensing justice? are we saying that the criminal justice system in this country is broken? It seems to work just fine to me. What's the difference?

hey john you lost, get over it.....

The Federal Court system is the main apparatus for issues affecting the nation. if McCain and all the other GOP chickenhawks (ok Mccain isnt a chickenhawk, he actually served and should be honored for that) think this nation is led by the military, then they should move to Myanmar or North Korea, it may be more to their way of thinking

McCain argued that the suspects "should be treated as war criminals and tried for their crimes through military tribunals.". along with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice... right John???

If Johnny is against it, it is the right move.

Please Johnny, come back and do something for Arizona......You remember us, your employer, don't you?

Meanwhile the bloody sixpac Joe Sestak is supporting a civilian tribunal for NYC instead of a military trial. What the hell is wrong with this former ONI operative who raised money for Obama? He should lose another star and spend some time in Gitmo being water boarded so we can find out what a shill he really is. He believes that the terrorists should come to trial at ground zero? What about the attack on the U SS Liberty or the U S S Cole? Should there be Sea Trials? Give me a break and put the brakes on this slimy piece of garbage they call an admiral !!! Everytime Sestak opens his mouth he steps on his crank and should lose his rank!

So Obama is bringing the murdering terrorists that perpetrated 9/11 to the United States to spend tens of millions on their defense in a huge circus that will cost hundreds of millions. These people declared war and should be tried fairly, but quickly by a military tribunals. Can you imagine bringing these murdering animals to NY where they can spit in the face of the family members of the 9/11 victims. As we watch this atrocity unfold on our soil remember that it is Barack Hussein Obama that is doing this to the families of the 9/11 victims, doing it to us, and spitting on the memory of the vicitms of 9/11. And we wonder why we have more terrorist incidents like Major Hasan? What is Obama doing to our country?

Seriously, does it really matter where these guys are tried? They are going to be found guilty. This is all just a song and dance for the American people. Does anyone rally think that these guys are going to get off and set free in the US. C'mon people use your brain.

...how to catch Bin Laden. Remember, he knows how where he is and he knows how to find him.

He also told us how strong the economy was.

McCain speaks fiction.

This warmonger should retire to one of his seven or eight houses, the last time I check Guantanamo Bay is part of the US territory but I guess you have to know a few things instead of screaming loud
and saying nothing. The next question, who said they were guilty beside Chaney and the republicans. Timothy McVae was a real convicted home grown terroist and if my memory serve me correct,he was convicted in a regular American court and if memory further serve me correctly ,excuted, lets see the unibomber, shoe bomer, New York City bomber and we can go on and on are well taken care of in Federal prisons but this don't matter to these fear mongers when you have no policy,ideas or substance fall back on the old tried and true they got a foreign name fearmongering.

So long as they pay the full penalty. And Obama symatisers ruin the Justice system... What does it matter.

John McCain, you are not the President, Barack Obama is. This is President Obama's decision to make, not yours. Please shut the hell up!

McCain, the USS Cole is a military target. The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centers was a civilian target. There is a huge differents between the two attacks.

Please, the Bush and Cheny administration had these criminals for the past 8 years. They had their chance to bring them to justice. Now, he wants to add his two cents. Please! Bring thes terroists to trial either military or cilvian court

Hussein Obama is wrong on this and it will cost us millions

McCain misses the point completely: we are better than them, so we will give them due process. We will use the laws of our country to try and convict them. End of story.

Wait until part of them are parolled back to their countries and the others only receive fifteen year sentences in a federal prison. That's like going to a hotel with all the benefits of free walking and jogging trails with TV and sauna baths.

We are going to be at war with terrorist for the rest of our existance on this planet. The war on terror will never end. That said, at least Obama is doing something with the Gitmo people instead of holding them endlessly like GWB did. If the Repugs have better ideas on what to do with them, why didnt they do it years ago?

Fear mongering at it's best. Habeas Corpus is back.

Yes McCain, we are at war..because all the republican warmonger, (McCain, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) caused us to be at war.
It is time to bring our troops home and let these (3) countries fight their own wars. Why do we need to send people to Afghanistan to train those people how to put on a pair of pants and get out and defend their own country instead of hiding behind women and children while our troops die.

Hey McCain, maybe someone needs to inform you . . . Everyone that attacks an American . . . IS NOT AT WAR!

Unlike the attack on the Cole (which was against a military target) 9/11 was a crime against the US Gov't and US civilians.

Seems to me that the US District Courts system is exactly where these trials should take place.

Military tribunal, report the facts, execute the convicted through firing squad the next day! Send radical Islam a message from America, quit kissing their ARSE!

John McCain should stop worrying about the Obama's Administration is doing and worry about what Sarah Palin is saying about him and the Republican Party.

Hey the many voters will follow what George Clooney says is best. What can ya say!

"If military tribunals are suitable for the terrorists who attacked our sailors aboard the U.S.S. Cole, as the Obama Administration has decided, then military tribunals are certainly the right venue to try the Al-Qaeda terrorists, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who murdered thousands of innocent civilians on September 11, 2001."

Where are you coming from, Sen. McCain????? The sailors were in the USA military & the attack, as such, should be addressed by our military tribunals. A terrorist attack is a criminal act upon civilians & should be addressed in criminal courts. There really is a difference here as far as the crimes are concerned ~ the lives lost ~ no difference. I pray that justice will soon prevail and the long overdo healing shall begin for the loved ones of this horrific crime.

Pssst. Sen. McCain! These guys are not the only ones who should be treated as war criminals. Don't ya think?

Wonder where all these GOP solutions were the past 8 years..Sure, as they would have it " lets have a military trial"..Funny how that never seemed to take place, and it;s only BEEN 8 years since the tragedy..At Pres Obama and his Adm are taking the necessary steps to bring about justice..Its just a shame that Pres Obama and is Adm seem to always be cleaning up after the mess Bush/Cheney made...When is it going to end..Probably not until Pres Obama finishes his frist term, then maybe he can start to get this country back on track, and go full force with HIS agenda ( which is already taking shape )...I think the GOP need to give alot of credit to Pres Obama and his team thus far, for not only taking on the past mistakes, but taking actionto rectify them..And by the way, I guess you can just add this to Pres Obama's To Do List of Bush/Cheney Messes To Clean Up ..and the beat goes on..........

Pro-torture Republicans like McCain have no standing on how America should handle these suspects.

(We are at war, and we must bring terrorists to justice in a manner consistent with the horrific acts of war they have committed.")

What country are we at war with? The 9/11 terrorists were International criminals and should be treated as such . . . criminals.
Timothy McVeigh was was tried in US District Court. Why should the 9/11 criminals be treated any different than a home-grown terrorist?

McCain and most republicans who disagree with this, appear to not understand our rule of law. The rule of law is above all else, and not just when it is convenient. What a shame these republicans are bestowing upon this country.

Really positive statement. Where were you during the campaign?

Strange!

The five people should be tried in New York by the federal prosecutors in NY with a jury of their peers if that is what the government decides. I did watch the announcement this morning and I believe that Attorney General Holder, the Justice Department, Secretary Gates, and the Defense Department have worked together to bring the case forward.

The good Senator has a right to his opinion but it is the responsibility of this administration to decide where and when these men will be tried.

"Today's decision sends a mixed message about America's resolve in the fight against terrorism."

Which message is that? We're going to try them, military tribunal or not. Either way, they will be put into a court of law and it will be dispensed.

Or does he mean he doesn't believe the justice system in the USA that he represents is not up for the task just because someone from the other end of the spectrum is in charge, and this is his chance to stomp his feet and complain instead of being positive and supportive to getting these people tried finally?

Yeah.

Who cares what the dried up old loser (2 times) thinks.

Hope Arizona gets rid of him. He has no idea what he's talking about most of the time.

Inept pilot that crashed many planes, was captured, and sang like a bird in Viet Nam.

We can do better than that.

I have the highest trust in the judial system and expect the most precised justice to be rendered in this very case.

McCain needs to take his tired old carcass and go away. He lost and not only did he loose but it was a pitiful loss. He looked like exactly what he is, a tired old man whose opinions and observations are worthless. Are we going to trust his judgment? He brought us Sarah Palin for God's sake. American justice should be good enough for anyone and I have confidence that justice will be served.

Senator McCain you lost the election. Enough said.

McCain lost the election and what he says does not count. The US has tried so many terror suspects in New York and they are now behind bars. What did McCain expect Obama to do with Gitmo? Keep it going for another 8yrs? Get a clue repugs and move out of the way of justice. Keeping these people at Gitmo does not guarantee anything. Let them be tried and let's get this over with now!

There are only a few people who would rather conduct business in the dark of night.

I totally agree with Senator McCain! They killed 2900 Americans! Even admitted to setting up the plot! Why shld they even be tried! I just heard they confirmed there was water on the moon – maybe they shld be transferred there – If they hate America so much, at least there they can have their own world and worship as they want!

What war Mr. McCain? what war ???? please elaborate for me.

they are not war criminals they are just criminals...we should not justify their cause by calling it a "war", and the criminals involved in 9/11 are not "warriors".

Macain is too reactionary over every issue that is before him. I am confident that this terrorist will face justice. Every one in the Obama adminstration are equally touched by the 9/11 incident but again we are a nation of law and lets allow the law to take its course.

mr. mccain should see the difference in an attack on a military target in yemen vs. a civilian target in new york. you can not wage war against a method of attack.

This is what happens when you elect someone with NO executive experience, NO experience whatsoever, and put him in charge. Obama, in the real world, could never get a job running even the smallest company. Yet we have put the most unqualified individual in the highest office of the land.

America is truely on her last legs.

I agree with Senator McCain completely.

Mr. McCain says we are at war. We are? Since when? Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and I don't recall Congress officially declaring war on terrorism and terrorists.
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I make absolutely no argument that terrorism and terrorists should not be a top priority, and that protecting the country is paramount. However, in this case, the phrase "war on terror" can be likened to phrases such as "the war on poverty," "war on drugs." Which is completely different than phrases like "war with Japan," or "war with Germany" which stir a deeper sense of patriotism. In this case however, Republican use of the word "war" is a disgusting perversion, whose only purpose is to further a their party's political agenda. And in the face of 9/11 victims and their families, that is the most disgusting perversion of all.

Republican Senator, John McCain doesn't want the American people and the world at large to learn the Republican led White House outsourced the water torture to some of their Blackwater associates who charged a huge sum of taxpayer money per session.

Well, the more sessions the more millions of dollars. 80 waterboard sessions in 30 days on a single defendant!!! That's more than 2 per day for 30 days. The Army propaganda wing proudly trotted out and stated in multiple public press releases that the Sheik was singing like a bird after he was Waterboarded.

Its very clear after the lies and distortion, that waterboarding was a complete waste of taxpayer money and did nothing but make the defendants more defiant than they ever were.

The public trial will likely reveal that the veteran FBI interrogation term left Cheney's handpicked blackwater torture wannabe's in utter disgust over their incompetence and tactics.

Of course the Republican lawmakers are going to squeal like pigs as more of their dirty and disgusting behaviors are revealed to fellow Americans and the World.

Imagine the hypocrisy of John McCain complaining about revealing TORTURE against someone suspected of war crimes.

A. Smith
Oregon

Translation: "I have nothing but contempt for all those parts of civil life that are not the military."

As much as McCain and his party may dislike it, this is a nation of laws, not a military police state.

For Pete's sake This guy is not qualified to even have an opinion. For those who think graduting at the bottom of your military class, getting yourself shot down and captured and then sitting in a prison somehow imbues man with intellect, knowledge and a legal background, it doesn't. John, please let people who are smarter and more educated than you evaluate the decision and undertake the trial concerns.

To me, nothing would be more just and send a more powerful message than to give these thugs their day in court and give them the death penalty. Given that there were five military tribunals announced the same day, I presume these five wouldn't be sent to NY if the prosecutors didn't think they had a case, even with the difficulties of torture and so forth.

Trying to deflect all the Palin attention. Poor guy!

Dear Senator McCain:

YOU ARE NOT THE PRESIDENT. Thank God. The decision is NOT up to you.

...so is McCain saying that the US District Courts are not competent enough to try those who comitted crimes in the district? By the way, McCain, we are not at war with Islam. This isn't a war crime. Terrorism and war are not the same. Heck! There's acts of terrorism in our schools on a daily basis. Should the perpetrator of the terrorist acts be tried in the military tribunal?

Grampy-if people thought your opinions were valid, you would be President.

McCain should keep his opinion to himself. The law states that a crime was committed in NY City, the trial should be there as well. Because they are not citizens of the USA is not a valid reason to hold a tribunal in Gitmo. The important thing here is they will stand trial. Would he rather we just incarcerate the individuals indefinitely? That would be inhumane and against the Geneva Convention Act.

It is time to get over the political correctness. McCain is 100% right. If Obummie and Holder want to lay with terrorist I suggest they get a one way ticket and have at it.

War tribunal not liberal enough,
Current WH counsel not liberal enough,
The people of the US of America also not liberal enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it sends the right message, that attacks against the US will be dealt with in our courts. There was no declaration of war that would make the military tribunals relevant.

Why do people act like only a military tribunal is capable of prosecuting these guys. There was no military involved in their terrorist crime, so why is the military trying them? This was a crime, on US soil, that was committed against civilians, so why would the military be involved in this AT ALL

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."

Where the HELL are they going to find an impartial jury in the State of New York to try this case??!

Now we see what a disaster it would've been to have John McCain as President of the United States of America......

This guy lost ALL credibility when he Picked that Pathetic person from Alaska as his running mate when their were many qualified candidates to choose from....

We know that Mr. McCain will go to his grave before he ever admits picking Sarah Palin was a Disaster for the Republican Ticket....

Theres been many high profile Republicans that spoke out against Sarah Palin, so for the supporters of this MANIAC, CHILDISH, DRAMA QUEEN woman to Ignore the fact that Republicans repudiated Sarah Palin is just dumb not to recognize.....

John McCain has NO CREDIBILITY, he used to be a likeable guy, but the 2008 elections really turned him into a different person...!

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice.....They're ALL WAR CRIMINALs

When will they be PUT ON TRIAL? THEY ALLOWED 9/11 TO HAPPEN

You can't complain, McCain. You are not the president!

McCain would be dead now if he were held to the standard he is espousing.

It only sends a mixed message if you believe that our civilian courts are incapable of delivering justice. Is this what you believe McCain?

McCain....YOU ARE STILL WEAK!

The decision Obama made VIOLATES the Military Commissions Act of 2006. PERIOD. It doesn't send mixed messages, it violates a law.

Seriously, Democrats....If you're going to just let them go...do it already.

You would think McCain being ex-Military would understand the proper classification of a War Criminal. This term was used by the Bush administration to circumvent the due process of the law!! We have folks in Office now who actually understands the law

We fail to understand how it makes any difference, as long as those scumbags are meted out the stiffest punishment possible. Our verdict-either death penalty or life sentence for the rest of their miserable lives w/o parole.

Who cares what McCain says – he needs to concentrate on keeping his little girl out of the tabloids. He and his camp needs to stop bashing Sarah Palin – after all he is the one that chose the stinker.

Bull!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was why they were never held on US soil since then they would have to be recognised as war criminals. John McCain can't have it both ways. But then he did pick Sarah Palin so what can you expect

I dunno. Its kind of poetic justice that New Yorkers are going to decide the case.

Dude, get over it. GWB blew it and Obama is taking care of business. These guys will die and it will be done under the code of law that this nation is built upon. You just don't want these guys to go on the stand and prove just how stupid the Republican leadership was/is. Teabaggers Untie!

McCain has been wrong more times than not. He's a cheese that's well past it's freshness date. Gramps complains about everything, this is nothing new.

I get the sense we need to really up our fight through voice, action, on justice in America....things seem to be so messhed right now....the scales must balance. I don't consider anyone who does harm my peer...and I think most American's feel that way...so the real question is...how are you going to get a jury that is represenative of the American citizen which was the target of these criminal/war acts. I do trust the Southern tier law teams ..they are agressive and justice seekers....but God help them to get the jury that sees it that way.

Right on, Mr. McCain.

What are these administration officials thinking about?

Just when I think that I can't get any angrier at the antics of this adminstration, they do something else that is more idiotic than the last, and I see red all over again.

Thank you John McCain....this is another way the Appeaser in chief can look like he is being tough on the terrorists without being tough on them. In crimianl court they will have rights that should not be granted to them.

The 02/26/93 bombers were tried in the same Manhattan courtroom and are serving life in prison. If it was good enough for them it should be good enough for the 9/11 attackers. What difference does it make where they are tried? If the evidence is as solid as we are told then they'll rot regardless of the trial venue. I suspect there is typical point scoring taking place here.

the real irony of this is the Obama folks don't even believe in our constitution and will do everything they can to subvert it but claim in a false display of piosness that they are trying to uphold the principles set forth in it. What a crock.

Maybe John Mcain would like them tride at the World Court in Holland !

It's clear the Obama administration doesn't think we are fighting a war. We're back to the dangerous pre-9/11 days of treating these animals as pesky criminals. I guess we can expect to see combatants we capture in Afghanistan shipped back here for trial as well. It's good to know that tens of millions of our tax dollars will now be wasted to pay for these killers defense. I wish we'd just shoot them all on the battlefield and be done with it. They will exploit our justice system to make us look like fools, which the Obama administration surely is.

Give it a rest, McCain. Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist and he was convicted. I'm just so glad you are not our president.

How does this send a mixed message? The President is doing everything to keep us safe, however if mc old man had won we would be worst off around the world then we were when W was in office. There is no doubt in my mind that if this old geeser had won we would be at war with Iran scary, hes war crazy.

What would McCain have done? Let these guys sit forever or start meeting the consequnces of their crimes? It is long past due for these guys to face a court and start paying for it. The Bush administration dragged its feet and seemed to lack the committment to pursue and degree of justice for these scumbags.
McCain is off base, again seeking another day in print or on cable TV to voice his opposition that is weak, illogical and if he really felt he had a stake in it, should have said something YEARS ago, when his party ruled.
He should be telling everyone how he would catch Osama bin Laden, like he promised when a candidate but somehow that has disappeared since he LOST. He us as useless as teats on a boar hog.

The decision he made on his choice of a VP running mate should disqualify him from remarking on any decisions made by any other politician. Before he did that, I always respected, liked and thought he was a fairly intelligent man. Boy did that bubble burst after he chose Cuckoo Bird Palin. To me, a man is judged by the company he keeps. I don't have the same good feelings about McCain anymore.

We may all disagree or agree on how and where these criminals should be placed on trial, but it must be done according to the law and the Geneva Convention. McCain isn't a lawyer but he should know what guidelines we as a country must follow.

Shut up John

Just another WAR PROFITEER, don't pay attention to Mr. BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN.

Just think we could have had a man who sticks up for this country and its constitution, instead of a narccissitic Chicago thug, that wants to steal our tax money as president if the state run media had acutally done its job and been responsible.

Aren’t you glad that McCain is not in the drivers seat now along with his sidekick Sarah ?

That would have done this country in..

Take it up with Bush. He's the one who said they weren't soldier-combatants. That means they can't have a military court.

If you're saying NOW that they should have a military court, then you have to have Bush arrested for violating the Geneva Convention and tried as the war criminal he is.

Where was McCain when Moussawi, the 15th hijacker, was tried during the Bush administration?

McCain shames himself with these remarks. He was considered a terrorist by the North Vietnamese when he was captured after his failed bombing run. Did he actually think his bombs weren't hitting any women and children? This guy needs to remind himself what kind of country American is and how it differs from Mideast theocracies and totalitarian regimes. This is the United States of America, Mr. McCain, and we don't succumb to mob rule and eschew our own laws.

If memory serves correct, this horrific act I witnessed from the top of my apt. building nine years ago was committed, admittedly by Al Qaeda, on the basis of "jihad" or "holy WAR" and was an attack on our sovereign land. Why on earth is this headed to civil trial? Who are the "peers" that are going to be on this jury? I have to have faith in our legal system (holding my breath) and that the families will get justice and they will receive what's coming to them. I actually think they should get life sentences in some hole since they would likely prefer to die for martyrdom, but that is a call for others to make. But i can see the circus starting now with some defense you'd see out of Law & Order that they've been traumatized, threatened by our way of life, a momentary lapse in sanity and now deserve a chance to be understood and to turn their lives around...This is suspicious and seems ridiculous.

seriously, I cannot trust this grandpa ideas on anything; he is still feeling that "air of royalty" and thinks he is in a campaign mode. enough already repug...you lost!!!!

Today's decision does not send a mixed message about our resolve. It shows that we have a justice system and we believe in it. Why should we elevate these criminals to some special category? All they are is gangsters who use Jihadist rhetoric to justify their behavior. I think trying them in New York as criminals sends a message to the world that they are just criminals and not larger than life and it lets the people of New York get some closure.

I'm getting tired of the Republicans sissies whining about putting these guys through our justice system and keeping them in our jails. They probably get treated better at Guantanamo than they would in Sing-SIng anyway. AND WE CAN HANDLE THEM.

I very, very seldom agree with Senator McCain, but this time he is right. We need to listen to him and get him involved someway.

I'm disappointed too. They should be tried as war criminals. Just like President Bush and Vice President Cheney should.

Put a sock in it there Gramps...

I want those dirt bags put on PUBLIC trial as low-life common criminals for what they did to my fellow citizens.

Don't dignify them or their actions with the luster of military law – it's an insult to our brave service men and women and all those others who serve as real soldiers for their nations around the world.

I trust our civilian judicial system to convict them fair and square – to bad the rest of you GOP'ers don't.

Besides, we don't need what some would perceive as a military "kangaroo" court doing the bidding of behalf of the American justice system – that just opens this country up to unnecessary criticism from the rest of the world.

John McCain, I am so glad that you are not the president of the United States of America. Stop with the fearmongering. America is the greatest country on earth. This shows our strength more than any move the Bush Administration ever made. And you, are stuck in fear mode with no new ideas; stuck in your ways, as the republican party seems to want to be. However, there are many ways to show one's strength without the :in their face" , muslim bashing, torturing approach to do it. I appreciate President Obama's way. I am grateful that he won the election in 2008. The behavior of the republicans right now is to inflame anti-muslim sentiment in an attempt to bring down President Obama. When will the republican party start actually caring about the American people and recognize the danger in that tactic; No doubt about it, I will feel good to know that the great citizens of New York will order this sick minded man's death for the destruction he reeked on American soil. It will keep the terroist from attempting to drop another bomb on us. Think big, not small-minded. This is a sick way to gain your "15 minutes of fame". It doesn't look good for America's image. AMERICA IS THE BEST.

McCain lost – Obama won!

This is coming from the puppet master who brought us the Alaskan Air Head. He and his other half, Sarah The Empty, will go down in history as the laughing stock of early twenty first century American politics. Not to mention the rest of his numerous blunders during his Presidential bid and before- with his vote to invade Iraq and his involvement in the savings and loan scandal.

Is this guy still alive? He needs to retire and spend time at his 6+ homes.

It is sad that the Obama Administration made this decision, These guys aren't street corner criminals, these guys are WAR criminals. We have a long standing system for dealing with these types.
This will give these WAR criminals an opportunity to grandstand and POSSIBLY be acquited under the civil system for crimes they plead guilty to under the tribunial system. Can you imagine.
The left wing, the ACLU jand many Dems ust don't get it. This doesn't improve our standing in the worls it only reinforces the lunacy of the left and erodes our standing. WORSE....it sends the wrong message to our enemies.

What is your solution Mc Cain?????????

So these scumbags who likely participated in the murder of almost three thousand innocent american civilians within our own borders are entitled to the same consitutional rights as you and I?

HAS OUR GOVERNMENT GONE TOTALLY INSANE?! Does american citizenship mean ANYTHING anymore?!

These thugs should have been put before military tribunals and if there was reasonable evidence that they participated in the deaths of american civilians, they should have been immediately taken out and shot through the head.

John McCain is wrong. He's a former navy officer and is keenly aware that standards of evidence and presumptions of guilt are significantly more favorable to the prospecution in military tribunals than in criminal courts. His motivation is not about justice....its about exacting revenge through a kanagaroo conviction.

Further, in order to justify a military tribunal the plotters of 9/11 would need to be military representatives of a foreign power. Unless we want to recognize Al Queda as equivalent to a country (which I don't think anybody would support) the defendents simply can't be defined as representing a foreign power nor, subsequently, as military representatives of that power.

Does John McCain not have faith in our criminal justice system that a fair trial would be carried out in the criminal courts as opposed to the military?

How so McCain? Any terrorists that have ever been tried in the US were found guilty so far... except during the whole of the Bush Administration. And all those that have been tried are now locked up in our prison system for life. Why not these guys also? Attack our homeland and you will pay the price of a fair justice system. Or, do it under wraps in a private tribunal military court for all the world to assume that these folks are guilty unless proven innocent.

The fear mongering is over with. Let the big boys actually DO only what your party SAYS they'll do. Its about time our Nation and the world sees that those who are responsible for the tragedy of 9/11 be brought to justice.

John McCain is not capable of making an intelligent comment. Go home old man and stay there. You lost the election! We don't want to hear from you again.

McCain, shut the heck up! You unleashed a terror attack on America Aug 2008 and we can't seem to rid ourselves of the idiot!

Please admit you made a mistrake so the idiot can disappear!!!!!

If these guys are "war criminals" John, then the Geneva Conventions are supposed to apply. You can't have it both ways.

How come you've had to work so tirelessly to make military courts better at dispensing justice? I believe Virginia just took care of business the other day with someone who had terrorized the Washington, D.C. area and had killed civilians, citizens of the United States.

Well, if the rethuglicans don't like it, then that's pretty much proof that it's the right thing to do.

Mccain, you ran, you lost and thank God we have not bombed, bombed Iran.
Your politics and ideas are indeed scary to us and for our country.
You've heard that old saying, "It is better to be thought a fool than
speak out and remove all doubts", You, who is supposed to represent the betterment of our country continue to show you are
a fool.

Ok fine, but if Senator McCain (who I have great respect for) is right about these cowards/idiots being war criminals and trying them through military tribunals, then which court should Cheney and Rumsfeld be tried in? hunnnh... didn't think of that one, did you Senator? :):)

You are a good man, Sir. And so is President Obama. So please let him do what he is doing because he is doing it sincerely and in the best long term interest of our great country.

Sarah Palin will soon put little Johnny in his place.

You lost old man. Sit down and shut up.

As a Panama born person who ran for president, I would think that McCain, of all people, would uphold the constitution, bill of rights, the judicial system, and American democracy.

We are fortunate he is not president.

What i'm tryna understand is why all a sudden the right is all up in a bunch. White folks is the ones who allowed this to happen because they are the ones who's been ruling for years. So don't get nmad at President Obama for trying to figure out how to handle the situation as best as he see fit.
I'm sick of cnn and the repigs they are really woring my nerves.

Dear Mr. McCain,

You have your hands full with the Palin fallout.

Please allow Obama to make the big decisions, he seems to make much better decisions than you!

Shut up.

Oh, what else is new. We need to try this man and be done with it. If you are against them coming in the US, you are basically saying we have a poor justice system and we don't.

More old men shouting at clouds. I wish they would shut up and take their meds.

The Party of No, should be the Party of Go (take a flying leap).

john is another of these old white guy. angry and out of touch. needs to retire,