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I agree....if they are a threat, they shouldn't be let out. My only concern isn't about their treatment, per se. I am just uncomfortable with the concept of no appeal for review ever. Even the most virtuous government or person, with the best of intentions makes mistakes. I'm just not sure of the best mechanism to ensure a fair, unbiased review (free from a CYA mentality if a mistake had been made) that would also maintain the required military and intelligence secrecy.

Let me ask you something---

WHAT has America ever done in the past, that would make you think that we would keep these people forever, without at least establishing what their intentions were, and are, and will be?

I know, the Japanese internment camps were awful (wasn't that a democrat President that did that?)---but we didn't keep them forever!!!! And, even after blowing up two of the biggest cities in Japan, we have established friendship with the country...

Bush's Doctrine is one of establishing democratic type governments in the whole world, but especially the Middle East, so I have no doubt that when the time comes, the ones that deserve to be let free, will go free...

BESIDES, we have US citizens that will be in cells for the rest of their lives, with only 1 hour of outside...I think Scott Peterson is one, at least for a while...

THESE guys are living better than the would be in Afghanistan...and it hasn't been THAT long, only a couple of years...how long was John McCain a POW, 5 years?

Your mistake is you keep thinking of these terrorists as criminals, they are not, they are illegal combatants and as such do not have to be charged with a crime. The Dems are the ones who want to make it a matter of the police and acting as if they are common criminals and should have a trial. They are not due a trial except as war criminals or spies, since they were not in uniform when fighting. As far as some of them being innocent of anything, this is BS. They were captured fighting against US troops. Keep them as long as we like and tell the left to go pi** up a rope.

If the left is going to try to take our freedoms, and they are already trying, they don't need Gitmo to do it, they will do it the way they have going for the last 40 years, a little every day, slinging the BS and lying through their teeth.

"I am just uncomfortable with the concept of no appeal for review ever."

All of them get regular reviews. On top of that, this is not a criminal venue. This is WAR. If we are not very careful, they will simply kill us and/or our loved ones. Remember Sept. 11th, 2001? Remember the US Cole? Remember the twin embassy bombings? During all of those events we treated terrorism like a crime. All we got for it was more dead Americans. This is WAR, not crime.