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Originally Posted by Xantar
Which is all beside the point because these detainees were imprisoned without a right to counsel nor reasonable expectation of a timely trial or even knowing what they are suspected of doing. Spare me all the talk about barbecue dinners and having surgical masks to hang the Quran off the ground because that's all just blowing smoke. What if there's somebody totally innocent in there? The problem with the way we're detaining people is there's no way we'd even know if there were innocent people in there. If I were detained without being able to talk to anybody or even face my accusers, somehow I don't think that having expensive food served to me would be much comfort.
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1) We don't have to let them face their accusers and and they are not protected under US or any other law that I am aware of, as I pointed out with my bit about the Geneva Convention.
2) We have released many detainees that we have captured and kept in Abu Graib and GITMO. In fact I believe that 6 (maybe more) detainees that have been released by the US have been RE-CAPTURED or killed in Iraq. They were released and then went back to kill more troop/civilians/kids/kittens. Oh those poor poor detainees. I feel so sorry for them.
Spare
me all your sympathy and indignation. We aren't keeping pick pockets in GITMO. These are bad people that do the kind of things that Crash posted above. Sorry if you can't stomach what needs to be done.
The whole problem is that no one has a damn clue about what needs to be done, besides the people whose JOB IT IS TO DO IT. So until someone comes up with a better idea on how to gain intelligence from illegal combatants and killers, I'll trust those that are trained to do so and their methods.