apmom wrote:
They are enemy combatants or so we were told. If they are innocent of anything, why would we hold them? Weren't we supposed to find out and let those innocent go and try the others? Or did that change along with the reason we went into IRAQ in the first place.

Even the United States cannot just go in and start putting people in lockup without a reason. As obstinate and as big as ass as we have become won't allow that.
If they are enemy combatants, by definition they can't also be POWs. 

Many of the folks who are in Gitmo are there not because the US wants them there, but because we can't find a country willing to take them off our hands.

Gitmo is a cock up of the highest order.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson