Misapplying the argument? No, I don't think I am. Bush argued these people were a potential threat to Americans, and as such, required detention as enemy combatants. Liberals pumped untold millions into liberal defense funds, and lawyered the terrorists up to the hilt, in order to 'defy' the president, in order to embarrass him, and for purely political motivations. Ultimately, the relentless legal challenges ended up at the SCOTUS, where SCOTUS ruled as if enemy combatants captured on a field of battle in a war, were United States Citizens, subject to Constitutional freedoms. But there would have been NO case at the SCOTUS if liberals (and you libertarian cheerleaders) had kept your nose out of US Military affairs. It simply doesn't matter what the SCOTUS ruling was, or the reasons behind it, the case should have never existed.
Now we have a dead Ambassador, a former Navy SEAL, and two private contractors, and a consulate destroyed, by a man we had captured and detained at Gitmo! Who do liberals blame? BUSH! It just blows my mind, and here you are, right back on your shining white libertarian high horse, riding in to declare liberty for all, security be damned! You are as big of a threat to national security as the Libs, maybe bigger!
