Are you THAT NAIVE to believe we'd waste time on someone we didn't have major concerns about? Or is it just stupidity on your part?
Didn’t we waste time on the people that have been released back to Afganistan? We did release some old guys, didn’t we?
I may have missed some posts between you and Elroy, but wasn’t there a point of having due process available to the prisons at Gitmo, and not whether we had “major concerns” about their participation in AQ or in the Taliban (which was probably compulsory)?
WFIW, Elroy’s questions don’t come from his stupidity, but from an honest confusion over the continued justification of Gitmo itself. I share that confusion, and I think that you’re not helping him on that point.
Are you telling me that no one in Afghanistan knew who was, and who wasn't, involved with Al Qai'da and the Taliban?
Hawk, I admit that I don’t know what your point is here. Clearly someone in Afghanistan knew about AQ members, but does that really mean that someone snatched off the street had a high probability of knowing something useful? Does this fact somehow justify the existence of Gitmo. Couldn’t we have put these guys in a military prison in the US with access to attorneys and the Red Cross. Given how much you know of foreign affairs, is there another country’s administration (e.g. an Attorney General) that agrees that Gitmo is the best place for these guys?
Do you actually know how many detainees are in Gitmo right now? How many have been actually held there since we overthrew the Taliban in 2001? Did you know they've released the names of all the detainees at Gitmo?
If Elroy knows or doesn’t know the answers to these questions, does that mean that we’re doing the right thing by keeping them there? Let me answer these questions: 400, 1000, yes. How do these answers change the legal status or justification for keeping Gitmo going? |
