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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (303294)	9/15/2006 5:46:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572935

It has been said repeatedly by military personal....colonels and the above.....that most of the people at G were innocent of wrongdoing. I've never seen any real support for "most", maybe "some". That "some" would be enough to be a problem, but it doesn't mean you release them all, or that its practical to treat captured enemy in war as criminal defendants. Even a single innocent person swept up and held at Gitmo or elsewhere for no good reason would be a very bad thing. Any serious mistake by US forces in our allies in this regard is bad, and we should try to avoid and rectify such mistakes. But requiring full trials for captured enemy means one of two things, either you are going to not capture many enemy (you just kill them instead), or you are trying to fight a battle with both arms and both legs tied behind your back. You simply can't fight a war if your going to require full trials for captured enemy.