These terrorists in Gitmo aren't "our own". They're folks who in any other war in the history of mankind would be summarily executed on the battlefield. It is only because we are a singularly humane people that they are alive at all. For God's sakes, the "detainees" eat better than do most Americans! (And their religious beliefs are respected, too, for that matter.)
It only bespeaks your ignorance of the true horrors of Hitler, Stalin, or Saddam that you can compare the luxury treatment of war criminals equal to summary executions and unanethestized surgical removal of eyeballs. If these terrorists were staying at the Four Seasons, all expenses paid, they could hardly have less to complain about.
I'm not ignorant of history and i know they are not US citizens. I was making the point that holding these people will lead to incrementalism whereby US citizens could one day be held without charges.
I actually pointed this out more clearly on another thread.