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Originally Posted by Willravel
We can try them for the crimes they were captured for. We can at least attempt justice. Imagine the innocent going free and the guilty found so based on the evidence. What a sight that would be.
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Try them were? In the U.S.? Wasn't going to happen. Fairfax County, VA was one of the proposed locations to hold the trials and folks around here went bananas just from the proposal itself. I find it difficult to imagine that the reaction would be different anywhere else.
It doesn't help that the $80M that the White House requested to close the prison was taken out of a spending bill winding its way through congress, btw.
The new system is not perfect, but it is a significant improvement, and it certainly beats the legal limbo they've been stuck in and would continue to be stuck in as the gov't tries in vain to find a suitable place to conduct trials.