Comments on: I Am Not a Bush Supporter http://www.leftist.org/haightspeech/archives/540.html Kyle and Anne Haight: Annoying People In Stereo Since 1971 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:56:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anne Haight http://www.leftist.org/haightspeech/archives/540.html/comment-page-1#comment-3680 Anne Haight Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:22:14 +0000 http://www.leftist.org/haightspeech/archives/540.html#comment-3680 Yeah, it took a while but they did get around to processing a bunch of them. As I recall, a few were later recaptured on the battlefield, but it's always going to be impossible to know for sure if a prisoner is innocent or not when you're dealing with a population as fluid as Islamist terrorists. Yeah, it took a while but they did get around to processing a bunch of them. As I recall, a few were later recaptured on the battlefield, but it’s always going to be impossible to know for sure if a prisoner is innocent or not when you’re dealing with a population as fluid as Islamist terrorists.

]]> By: Sigivald http://www.leftist.org/haightspeech/archives/540.html/comment-page-1#comment-3679 Sigivald Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:11:37 +0000 http://www.leftist.org/haightspeech/archives/540.html#comment-3679 "The prisoners should have been investigated according to military procedures to establish their crimes and involvement (to make sure we didn’t imprison actual innocent bystanders)." Uh... didn't they do pretty much <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#Release_of_prisoners" rel="nofollow">just that</a>? (Took a while, of course, since everyone claims to be an innocent bystander, but it still happened.) That's why they let so many people <I>go</i>. The press has been staggeringly bad at reporting that, of course, because mentioning it would make things look less horrible... Hell, they still have a bunch of innocent (or at least innocent of anything the US cares about) Chinese Uighurs that they can't find anyone to <I>take</i>; no country <I>wants</i> 'em. “The prisoners should have been investigated according to military procedures to establish their crimes and involvement (to make sure we didn’t imprison actual innocent bystanders).”

Uh… didn’t they do pretty much just that? (Took a while, of course, since everyone claims to be an innocent bystander, but it still happened.)

That’s why they let so many people go.

The press has been staggeringly bad at reporting that, of course, because mentioning it would make things look less horrible…

Hell, they still have a bunch of innocent (or at least innocent of anything the US cares about) Chinese Uighurs that they can’t find anyone to take; no country wants ‘em.

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