Show trial a disaster for Bush

-Times

The stunningly light sentence handed to Osama bin Laden's former driver will dismay the White House, as the trial of Salim Hamdan was something of a showcase hearing, the very first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay seven years after the September 11 attacks.

After seeking 30 years in prison for Hamdan, in a military tribunal, before a military jury, and in a trial where many rights normally afforded defendants in a civilian court were greatly curtailed, the five and a half year sentence was nothing short of a disaster for the Bush administration.

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