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To: Dale Baker who wrote (23916)	7/13/2006 10:18:31 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541299

How about the rest of the world will think we are such obsessed loons LOL. You can't isolate the blame for that on our holding of prisoners. That's across the board. Even though they were directing troops who often harmed our troops and our allies. Letting them go is an option, too. You've laid out the main disadvantage to that. And implied the advantage that it would be more respectable. There are pros and cons to everything. Seems to me that both holding them indefinitely and letting them go are preferable to the can of worms that is the tribunal process. With tribunals we don't have any cause for prosecution except for war crimes and it's unlikely that most of them are anything but ordinary combatants, there's no practical way to ever give them fair trials according to our standards, and we look like loons anyway. If we're going to look like loons, it would be cleaner to do so by just holding them indefinitely. And if we are so afraid of looking like loons that we're willing to accept some casualties, then we can let them go. Tribunals are a minefield.