NewServer wrote:
I find it difficult to believe that the US goverment is simply plucking random muslims off the street and torturing/executing them to quench our thirst for vengeance and justice.
I do, too. Which is why I never claimed as such.
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If you made it to Gitmo, you're there for a reason, whether you participated directly, indirectly, planned, accompliced, transported, harbored, or trained anyone planning on bringing harm to our nation or it's people. Could mistakes have been made? Of course, in the end, we're all humans and no one, person or goverment, is free from mistakes. The best they can do is go off the information provided and go from there.
We've released 420 men from Gitmo without charging them. Either we're knowingly releasing people we can prove are terrorists or else we're talking about 420 people who were picked up and we
couldn't prove that they "participated directly, indirectly, planned..." etc etc. Maybe some
are terrorists and we just didn't have the evidence collected to prove it. But that's a whole lot of people to just say "You're in Gitmo so you're obviously a terrorist who doesn't deserve basic human rights", don't you think?