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Originally posted by: dude1394
The author is pointing out that this is the type of uncorroborated tripe that al-jazeera would pass on.
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For more than two years now, about 600 men have been kept in American custody in Cuba, and the odds are that some — perhaps most — were merely hapless Afghan foot soldiers or bystanders swept up in the confusion of the American invasion. But it took the Supreme Court to tell the Bush administration they could not be kept there forever without giving them a chance to contest their imprisonment. [Emphasis added.]
First of all, the Times has absolutely no basis in fact — none — for this preposterous supposition
Newspaper of record my rear.
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the point dude is the charge- that the US has kept many prisoners in Guantanamo for almost two years whom have been later revealed to not have any connection to al Queda- is factual. Those same people might still be sitting in a cage in Cuba if the SCOUS hadn't ruled against the Bush Administration.
There were overzealous people who went too far in rounding up combatants, keep the ones who have information and let the rest go back home.
They've already set almost 25% of the prisoners free, and they could easily end with half of those originally seized being set free due to their lack of involvement with the Taliban or al Queda.
The question that needs answering is how the Bush Administration believed they could flaunt the laws of our country, as if they believe those laws do not apply to them.