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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (203682)	9/20/2006 2:50:54 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Are you familiar with the expression, "the exception proves the rule?" It's not a good idea to form macro views based on isolated micro incidents, especially since most such incidents are typically obscenely distorted to make some extreme point. But I have to admire your logic. Let's see if I've got this right. The "liberals" in Canada are deplorable because they hold prisoners without affording them basic rights under civilized rules of justice. The "conservatives" in America are admirable because, although they hold thousands of people without charges, without the right to bail, without the right to challenge their incarceration and without the right to know who their accusers are or what the basis of the accusations against them are, and some are tortured, THEIR PRISONER'S SHOULD THANK THEIR LUCKY STARS THAT THEY WEREN'T SIMPLY SHOT ON THE SPOT. Maybe we're just too good to them? Yes, we are a nation of principled softies, leading the world toward enlightenment, aren't we? Ed

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (203682)	9/20/2006 3:21:54 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So many of the people in Guantanamo are on borrowed time, cause the US could have executed them on the battlefield. Actually a lot of those detainees weren't caught by the US on the battlefield, but were given to the US by various "allies" in the "WoT" in return for a bounty. Just as the vast majority of those who have been "detained" in Iraq were set free after some period of time because there was no evidence against them, it is highly probably that the at least the majority and perhaps the vast majority of those detained at Guantanamo aren't guilty of anything but being the wrong place at the wrong time. Are there exceptions? Like, duh...