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Posted by: Ratskii 8 months ago

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Ratskii8 months ago

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dgoodii,

I see a few problems with you're reasoning.

1) Since there is no official declaration of war against any country, the prisoners that the U.S. takes don't have any rights as a prisoner of war would have. The military is constrained as to how it can treat prisoners in time of war.

2) Regardless who you see us as fighting against and what you see the issues as being, there has to be some way to assure that people who are innocent have a chance to challenge their detention. The current system set up by the military is obviously inadequate since they have turned people loose that they've held for 7 years. It is a simple matter of what do we as Americans perceive as right and wrong.

3) Prisoners have died, either while in American custody (in Afghanistan for example) or after being turned over to other countries through extraordinary rendition. We as a nation are dedicated to doing the right thing. If the rest of the world sees us abandoning those ideals, it could go ill (or worse anyway) for our service people.

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