No country in the history of the world has ever offered enemy combatants who are captured the same civil rights as citizens. At least until now. Tat is exactly what Obama and the Democrats now propose to do. Obama has decided to close Gitmo and to come up with a method other than Military Tribunals to try detainees. Here is an article from neo neocon with comments from the prosecutor from the first World Trade Center bombing prosecution on why it is a bad idea to give Constitutional rights to enemy combatants.

http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/06/war-on-guantanamo/