Habeas for Bin Laden

Via Matt Yglesias, this bit of ridiculousness from John McCain:

There was no habeas at Nuremburg and there should be no habeas for Osama bin Laden.

Ha! Can you imagine if Osama bin Laden filed for a writ of habeas corpus? He'd be all like, "Uh, why are you detaining me?" And the judge would be like, "Um, I don't know, how about because you declared war on America and fucking blew up the World Trade Center? Back to your cell!" And that would be that. The whole thing would be over in approximately two seconds, and everyone will have had a good laugh about it.

So I'm not exactly sure why McCain thinks it would be so bad if Osama bin Laden had habeas corpus rights.