Five years - one charge - how do you say "fair and speedy"?

If you had spent five years in the custody of a foreign power during which time you may have been mistreated, you had little or no access to counsel, you had almost no contact with your loved ones and you were never charged with a crime would you plead guilty to just about anything just to be allowed to go home.

I confess I probably would. If Australian David Hicks pleads guilty it will mean absolutely nothing and we will need to continue to remind the Bush administration and their right wing sycophants of that fact every time they try to use to prove that they were indeed holding "evil doers"!