Lately we've been hearing much criticism concerning the decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and 4 others detained at Guantanamo Bay to trial in NYC. Have any of these critics come up with suggestions as what to do with these detainees? I heard someone say: "How about lining them against a wall and shooting them?" Other critics seem to want the detainees to stay in prison FOREVER without a trial.
Why haven't these detainees faced a trial BEFORE now? Waraholic Karl Rowe on FOX news said it was necessary to detain them for YEARS in order to obtain as much information as possible concerning 9/11 and future terrorist attacks. Sure - like after a couple of waterboardings, a detainee will NOT start telling the interrogators EXACTLY what they want to hear.
Remember "Curveball"? His real name was Rafid Ahmed Alwan. He was an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq and claimed he worked in an Iraqi plant that manufactured WMD. Despite warnings from international intelligence that Alwan's information was false, Bush and his waraholic cronies nevertheless used this "information" as a justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Think about it. THOUSANDS of people were killed because of faulty information.
How do we know that any information gleamed from Khalid Sheik Mohammad and the other 4 detainees obtained under torture is without errors and of any importance? How can we trust anything they say is the truth?
Let's move on. A trial is necessary. All "evidence" connecting Osama bin Laden to 9/11 should be made public too. After all, the FIRST flip flopping reason why the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan was to capture OBL "dead or alive" because there was "evidence" of OBL's involvement to 9/11.
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