Why, because you don't happen to agree with the way that some of us feel about this issue? If I happen to feel strongly that these people do NOT deserve a trial for the reasons that I posted earlier, that makes this thread degenerate?

[/b][/quote]No, it's degenerated because some people are more interested in making the thread a laugh-fest with a bunch of clever quips rather than address the issue of why they presume all of these detainees to be guilty without a trial.

As far as your opinion is concerned, DC, you are still not addressing the question. I understand why you think they don't deserve a trial, but that assumes first that they are guilty.

In fact, if I were completely sure that they were all guilty, I might even agree with you.

But since we don't know whether or not they are guilty without a trial, I don't understand how you can make that assumption without first giving them a trial.

Imprisoning these people without a trial or the airing of the evidene against them does nothing more than make people wonder whether or not there actually is any evidence, and provides even more anti-American political ammunition for our enemies and those who we are trying to convert to democracy.