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The War On Terror: Every American has the right to an attorney. Now an army of leftist lawyers is descending on the prisoner-of-war camp at Guantanamo Bay to make sure those trying to kill us have the same right.

War is a nasty enough business without the courts saying, in essence, that U.S. soldiers must advise their opponents in combat of their Miranda rights, ruling that detainees at Guantanamo Bay -- prisoners of war captured on a foreign battlefield -- must have access to lawyers and our court system.

It's hard to tell someone trying to kill you that they have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. Yet it might come to that as an army of attorneys descends on Guantanamo in the wake of a Supreme Court decision letting prisoners challenge the basis of their detentions.

In effect, the court is telling the U.S. it must fight by Queensberry rules while its enemies indulge in every savagery and abomination known to mankind.

Organized by a group known as the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), at least 300 lawyers have signed up to represent America's enemies, providing at last count legal representation to more than a third of Guantanamo's prisoners. Many have already flown to Cuba to meet their new clients.

CCR's president, Michael Ratner, is a career anti-American radical and past president of the far-left National Lawyers Guild (NLG). In 2003, it called for the prosecution of President Bush for his "command responsibility" under the War Crimes Act.

Earlier this year the NLG condemned the conviction of one of its more famous members, attorney Lynne Stewart. She was found guilty of letting her client, terrorist Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, carry out his murderous agendas while in prison by helping him communicate with his ...