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We need to let all these guys out as soon as possible so they can take up the reigns in the fledgling new Afghan government.
by tommymachine 5y ago
We need to let all these guys out as soon as possible so they can take up the reigns in the fledgling new Afghan government.
- dustintrex 5y agoDownvoters FYI: the Taliban government includes four ex-Gitmo detainees. https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-five-guantanamo-bay-afghan-133000675.html https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-five-guantanamo-bay-afghan-13...
- drocer88 5y agoHow many have returned to terrorism? Is there a reliable source documenting this?
- pessimizer 5y agoDon't conflate the Taliban with jihadist groups. The Taliban were the government of the country we invaded, not "terrorists."
- drocer88 5y agohttps://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10604 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10604
- tommymachine 5y agoOne in your shoes may ask oneself: "why would the US military invade a country whose government was actually a cooperative ally, rather than an enemy?"
- yunohn 5y agoThe article clearly explains that they’re weren’t random Gitmo detainees, rather notorious ones that were negotiated in a prisoner swap. If the remaining ones are equally horrible people, surely the USA could bring actual charges against them, instead of indefinite imprisonment?
- ctdonath 5y agoNonetheless it was a monumental screw up of justice no bureaucrat wants to repeat in any form.
- trasz 5y agoAh, so being a Guantanamo victim is all their fault again?
- tommymachine 5y agoI know right? How could they have resisted the temptation to join an anti American terrorist network. Also please remind me the part of the constitution that guarantees a speedy trial to our military adversaries? I don’t seem to have that part in mine. Must be missing that page.
- trasz 5y agoIf they joined any terrorist network they’re would have been convicted. As for your constitution - it only matters within US and is void elsewhere. Victims of Guantanamo had been kidnapped outside the US.
- tommymachine 5y agoSo you completely understand the reason for them not getting a trial (they aren’t afforded one by law), yet you pretend as though their not having a trial means they are innocent? How long have you been a jihadi sympathizer?
- trasz 5y agoIf there was any evidence against them, we would know by now. How long have you been a nazi sympathizer?
- tommymachine 5y agoEvidence like intelligence gathered from their interrogation being used to locate UBL? Do you actually expect anyone to believe that the Jews and the Jihadis are on the same side?
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