These arguments about Gitmo prisoners are bogus. It's disingenuous to suggest there are no precedents.

For example, from Wikipedia:

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (born May 3, 1938) is a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who is currently serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center which is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, United States. His inmate registration number is 34892-054.[1] Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of "seditious conspiracy",[2] which requires only that a crime be planned, not that it necessarily be attempted. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the World Trade Center 1993 bombings.

We even controversially prosecuted and convicted his defense lawyer Lynne Stewart for facilitating his communications with Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya in Egypt..

Another example, wikipedia again:

Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian living in Canada, planned to bomb Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). He was arrested at Port Angeles, Washington after crossing by ferry from Victoria, British Columbia, on December 14, 1999. Customs officials then found nitroglycerin and four timing devices concealed in a spare tire well of his automobile. He and three other Algerians stood trial for the crime. Ressam began cooperating with investigators in 2001. On July 27, 2005, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Then there's that other oldie but goodie, United States of America. vs. Usama bin Laden et.al., defendants (PDF here and fascinating reading) and all that followed it.

That's not to say we haven't ruined cases against some of them nor to dismiss the problems associated with foreign nationals being picked up by military on foreign shores. But we have dealt with this in other ways.

to Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring,"

to John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" first played at Barack Obama's inauguration:

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gain'd,
To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come round right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Gifts#The_lyrics

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

-Barack Obama's Inaugural address, January 20, 2009

There was also a special little grace note I just saw on C-Span, which made me think of the haters contingent in the blogosphere: Michelle Obama gave George Bush a kiss on the cheek at the steps to his helicopter.