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Submitted by Daniel Moylan, Jan 19, 2007 17:49

Please answer: How do you know anyone there is a terrorist? How do you figure in the payment of substantial bounties for the capture of many detainees? Or false accusations to settle a vendetta? Or mistaken identity? Or how about basing this answer on evidence generated by coercive interrogation techniques? How about the Government acknowledging that most detainees did not engage in any hostilities? Or how about the Government releasing over 300 of the "worst of the worst"? What do you think "reformed" them?

Or maybe you don't care about any of these complications. Maybe like Mr. Stimson, shutting out the idea of the detainees as human beings lets you assume they deserve punishment without trial. How would you like that standard applied to anyone you know? Could you explain it to any of the detainees' children?

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Please answer: How do you know anyone there is a terrorist? How do you figure in the payment of substantial...	Daniel Moylan	Jan 19, 2007 17:49
In naming these "terrorists", we must remember what exactly we are saying here. The basic definition would break down to... [MORE]	Cody Jaster	Jan 19, 2007 03:00
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I believe that the distinction you make between John Adams and the current defenders of the terrorists is wrong. By... [MORE]	Richard Raysman	Jan 18, 2007 15:36
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The captured Israeli soldier has nothing to do with the legal proceedings at Guantanamo. If you're trying to show us... [MORE]	gregdn	Jan 18, 2007 09:44
You call the detainees "terrorist enemy prisoners in wartime". Therein lies the problem. What you and your ilk seem to... [MORE]	Charles M. Johnson	Jan 18, 2007 07:04