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Such a ruling "not only would be very damaging to the military's abili ty to win the war, but (would) no doubt be highly comforting to the enemies of the United States," Solic itor General Theodore Olson wrote in a final brief before the court hears a historic Guantanamo case next month. Attorneys for the families of 16 cap tives held in the Guantanamo prison camp are seeking access to the federal courts to challenge the administra tion's system of indefinite detention. Most of the detainees have been held about two years without any legal process. Two appellate courts split last year on issues involving the detainees' legal rights. In arguing that the detainees in Guantanamo have no rights, Olson equated the detention of about 640 terror suspects in Cuba with the thou sands of German and Japanese pris oners held during World War II. In neither case, he argued in a 62 page brief, were military captives al lowed access to courts, and to grant current detainees any rights in a civil ian court "would directly interfere with the executive's conduct of the military campaign against al Qaeda." Olson warned in his brief that any ruling that opens the door to a court for a detainee "almost certainly would lead to the filing of scores if not hundreds of follow-up actions by the relatives of other aliens held at Guantanamo" or at other bases overseas. The Justice Department has argued that the detainees are foreign fighters — most were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan — held on foreign soil, where federal courts have no jurisdic tion. Guantanamo is a U.S. Navy base leased from Cuba. International critics, including many in Great Britain, have de nounced indefinite detention as a "le gal black hole" beyond the reach of courts that sets a bad precedent. On Thursday, a German federal court thwarted the Bush administra tion by overturning the world's only conviction for the Sept. 11 attacks. The Federal Criminal Court ruled that a Moroccan who was convicted last year of aiding the suicide hijackers, Mounir el Motassadeq, had been wrongly denied the opportunity to present a defense witness who is in U.S. custody. (c) 2004, Knight Ridder/ Tribune Information Services. Bush vows to woo California in 2004 presidential election The incumbent is hoping to earn the state's vote after Californians elected Gov. Schwarzenegger By Bob Kemper Chicago Tribune (KRT) SANTA CLARA, Calif. — President Bush wrapped up his first two full days of campaigning Thursday by pledging to West Coast Republicans that he would fight to win California in the November election despite his loss by 1 million votes here four years ago. The president and his advisers said that with the election of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year and the organizational work done by Republicans during the last three years, they believe Bush can win Cali fornia and vowed to spend the time and money necessary to do so. At the very least, Republicans con cede; they could force John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee who needs California to win in No vember, to spend time and money in the state. "By electing Gov. Schwarzenegger, the voters of California have shown that no party can take California for granted," Bush said at a fund-raiser in Santa Clara that raised $700,000 for his re-election campaign. "The vice president and I are going to be spending some quality time here this coming year," he said. "With your continued help, California is go ing to be an important part of a na tionwide victory in November 2004." Jerry Parsky, Bush's California cam paign chairman, said the attention Bush has paid to California since tak ing office in 2001 will help him win in a state that has been backing De mocrats since the 1990s. Bush lost California, and its 54 electoral votes, to A1 Gore by nearly 1.3 million votes in 2000. "The president has shown he really cares about California," Parsley said. "He's gone to places other Republi cans haven't gone," such as South Central Los Angeles in 2002 to mark the 10th anniversary of the riots there. "The president unifies Republicans — perhaps for the first time in Cali fornia," he said. Besides, Parsky added, "with Arnold around it's a totally different ballgame." In addition to wrestling the gover nor's office out of Democratic hands, Schwarzenegger this week bolstered his political standing by winning pas sage of two state ballot initiatives that will help him pull the state out of a budget crisis and prevent similar fu ture crises. Just as Bush is counting on Schwarzenegger's swagger to help boost his election chances, other Cal ifornia Republicans who will be on the ballot with Bush in November are counting on the president to give them a leg up. Bill Jones, who is challenging in cumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, traveled with Bush on Thurs day. Jones, like a number of Republi can candidates, is relying on Bush to provide him with more exposure and to help him attract more money. California Republicans are partic ularly sensitive about how national candidates have tended to use their state as an ATM, withdrawing mil lions in campaign contributions but spending it in other states, virtually writing off California. Bush raised $1.5 million for his campaign on Wednesday and Thursday and $3.5 million more for the Republican Par ty. He has so far raised more than $12 million in California for the 2004 race. California Republicans have said that while using the state only to raise money is sensible for national cam paigns that must shepherd finite funding to where it would do the most good, the trend has undercut the GOP's hopes of winning political control of the state. Democrats, whose presidential strategies depend on winning Califor nia, immediately assailed Bush on an issue of particular significance in the Silicon Valley: jobs. "Last October when he was in this state (California) he promised that his tax cut package would cre ate 215,800 jobs," said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md„ the third-ranked De mocrat in the House and one of the party leaders who joined the assault on Bush. "Yet the state lost 21,100 jobs, and since President Bush took office, the state unemployment rate has risen to 6.2 percent, a 20 percent increase," he said. Moreover, it's unclear how much help Schwarzenegger would be to Bush. The California governor has staked out more moderate positions than Bush on social issues such as abortion to help him win in a Demo cratic state. The divide between the two men was apparent again this week when Schwarzenegger, after opposing the is suance of marriage licenses to gay couples in San Francisco, said he wouldn't mind if Californians changed the state law that limits mar riage to heterosexuals. Bush has just called for a constitu tional amendment banning gay mar riage, though he does not mention the issue in his retooled stump speech. (c) 2004, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder/ Tribune Information Services. Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished daily Monday through Friday during the school year by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, ► Oregon.The Emerald operates inde pendently of the University with of fices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. 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