>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 20, 2004 3:10 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Airport insanity
>Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, >and in the nearly all cases the most serious of their >complaints make it sound like a beach resort, except for the >fact that they could not leave. Maybe I missed that. All but one of the comments I read about involved a lot of complaints about mistreatment, albeit often with the admission that Gitmo was still better than being in an Afghan prison. As a nitpick, though, it's not at all clear that most of the people at Gitmo were really terrorists, or even murderers. None of them has had a trial, few have even had hearings, and many were released as not a threat to us. (They may still be a threat to everyone else around them.) >A few have more serious complaints. Either they are lying or, >those who say they were well treated apart from being held >captive are lying. Surely the other alternative is that only some prisoners are subjected to torture, e.g., the ones that look to have some serious intelligence value. > James A. Donald --John