Reply #2: Not good at all [View All]

cross posted from http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8406039&mesg_id=8406875

I'm disappointed in this and I hope that Obama fixes this eventually but, frankly, I don't pin all of the blame for this on Obama either. With Congress (including many Democrats) trying to prevent any terror suspects from being removed from Gitmo and placed in facilities in several states (with the prospect of at least some of them eventually being freed by the courts)I doubt that it's easy for him to figure out what to do with these people even if they are tried and acquitted, which a lot of them probably will ultimately be (if tried under a real court or law) due either to their innocence or the harsh interrogation tactics and other abuses/misconduct of the Bush (mis-)administration. The "terror suspects" of Gitmo seem to have become a bunch of international outcasts/pariahs BECAUSE of Bushco and I feel really sorry for those who just got "swept up" by our forces and didn't actually do anything wrong. They've all been so tainted by the illegal tactics of the Bush (mis-)administration that they cannot be tried properly in a court of law nor can their actual guilt or innocence ever truly be known, so nobody seems willing to have them in their communities or countries for fear that they may actually be dangerous. Ultimately, however, if we are truly committed to the rule of law and correcting some of the egregious wrongs of the Bush (mis-)administration, we are going to have to put these people on trial and accept the risk that, just like in any other criminal case, a few "guilty" individuals will inevitably go free. There are already undoubtedly murderers and other people out there walking the streets right now whom, for one reason or another, managed to escape conviction of their crimes but, unfortunately, that's just part of the price of a free society. Any attempts to circumvent and/or "game" the system by using "special" rules and procedures for a select group of individuals would be little better than what we were upset at the Bush (mis-)administration for doing.