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• Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:49 PM

  Rich D

  Greenwald being too easy in wanting more released?

  Uh , ..no. These men did NOTHING.

  The overwhelming majority of our prisoners were not not captured by the US military .( Alex Gibney's estimate : only 7% of the prisoners from Afghanistan. Red Cross estimate , re Abu Ghraib : 75-90% completely innocent.) Most were turned over by others , usually for a reward/bounty . No chance for mistakes and abuse there. Reliance on this sort of "intelligence" is what leads us to repeatedly bomb innocent people . ( Such as the wedding slaughters in recent months) Even the first commandant at Camp X-Ray thought that at least a third didn't belong there .

  Even those that may actually be enemies of this country should be released , IMO. No one, regardless of who they are , or what they have done , should be tortured, and otherwise abused, as we have done . Even if humane treatment started right now, and their cases are tranferred to civilian criminal court, with complete transparency , it's too late. Any prosecution would have zero credibility, and keeping them is an embarassment, and a "stain" . So let 'em go . If we feel the need to do something , send them to the Hague , and let the ICC sort it out . On the off chance a conviction is obtained , that would have the positive outcome of the ICC essentially declaring that terrorism is a crime against humanity . (Long shot, but worth a try; gets us unstuck from that tarbaby.)

  As for the possibilty of released detainees seeking to attack the government that tortured them , the surprise is that fewer have done so . ( & consider the source of that "information")

  —mikeinportc Read mikeinportc's other letters
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