Because we've held innocent people so long in jail, we'd lose face if we didn't convict them:
And this whole thing has been about shock and awing people. How can we shock and awe people when we let them go free? It's us or them!Col. Morris Davis resigned his position as chief prosecutor for Guantánamo Bay’s military commissions after being placed under the command of torture advocate William J. Haynes. As a result of a conversation he had with Haynes in 2005, Davis tells The Nation that he doesn’t believe “the men at Guantánamo could receive a fair trial“:
“I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process,” Davis continued. “At which point, [Haynes’s] eyes got wide and he said, ‘Wait a minute, we can’t have acquittals. If we’ve been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions.’”
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So sad, and so true. BTW, I LOVE the map behind Rummy.
They have to be guilty, otherwise we tortured perfectly innocent people, and America doesn't torture. George Bush says so.
I do too, Carrie. I swiped it off of Google. I would love to know how to do Photoshopping. Just think of what I could do!
Michael, of course they are guilty. They wouldn't be in prison if they weren't. Right?
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