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Manic-depression also known as bipolar affective disorder is not the same as "depression." With the former, behavior can become so manic as to be violently chaotic...certainly one could not effectively interrogate a person in such a state.

On the other hand, severe depression can lead to serious physical disorders and may be even life threatening. It's difficult to interrogate someone who is so depressed they can't think straight or so sick they're on the verge of death.

I don't think this is a bi-polar issue, so much as these Al Queda pukes are a bunch of people who are very easy to lead around. They are kind of a self-selected group, because they are the ones that thought that Jihad was a good idea in the first place. They have been isolated and fed a line of BS from a very young age. So they have not been exposed to another point of view and have been made very malleable. And the terrorists in Gitmo represent the subset of these people for whom the treatment was most effective.

So it is not surprising that when somebody else is in control of their environment and feeding them a different set of inputs, that they are easily swayed. These are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, here; they just carry sharp knives. I think the process of treating them with compassion and humanity will soon yield the results we desire, as they come to realize they were wrong and give us any information they have.

Then we can take these reformed, repentent former terrorists out and shoot them and feed the bodies to the sharks.

Any Imams out there? I have a theological question: When a repentant Jihadist martyr is executed, does he still get his 72 virgins? Enquiring minds what to know!