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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
He has not lost that bet, the Pentagon released a study stating that 1 in 7 of the detained released from gitmo... it's not all but it's more than 0.
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I'm afraid the Pentagon released that statistic without anything to back it up. Because records on detainees are so poor, there's literally no way the Pentagon could possibly know who were actually terrorists before they were picked up or who were innocent. This has been verified repeatedly in articles that I cannot cite here, but you can google if you google, say, "pentagon 1 7 return battlefield". When you get home from the pub. Worse still, the 1 in 7 that have become "terrorists" since being released have not been confirmed. The only two names that have come up—Mullah Shazada and Abdullah Al Ajmi—are involved in supposed terrorism that is HIGHLY suspect (it doesn't appear Mullah Shazada was ever captured, and there's no evidence Abdullah Al Ajmi blew himself up after being released).
I was under the recidivism rate argument had been debunked on TFP a while ago. Maybe it was another forum.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
and that's why i'm not interested in parsing the nuances, it's wrong on it's face, but at the same time so is murder and killing, yet that's acceptable in war or skirmish.
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Sometimes they are generally acceptable, but other times not so much. We have rules of war that we have to abide by. If we break those rules, there should be consequences.