[staytrue]

Time was of the essence

Ok, how come no one bothered looking at the internees and releasing them as time permitted. You keep desperatly trying to come up with arguments to support and unsupportable position. Instead, you could just modify you views.

[Poohbah]

Ok, how come no one bothered looking at the internees and releasing them as time permitted.

Because there was too much money to be made in looting the internees' property, and a premature release would spoil the fun.

[SMARTY]

We would still be a colony of Britain with that way of looking at it. Instead, the founding fathers showed George III what he could do with his colonial aspirations in the Western hemisphere. We made a country and everyone has always been pretty welcome. Wartime??... Unprovoked attacks on the sovereign turf of the United States...???...Murder of unarmed civilians???...Perpetual and vivid promises of more and worse for us...??? that's another thing.