I hope you weren't considering that I "made a joke" about decontructing the identities of the detainees. I don't consider such methods acceptable either, nor do I believe the administration does, which is why I stated my belief that we haven't and won't use such techniques. I apologize if I wasn't clear on that point.
I stated in my above post that "Only if we assume that a (large) majority of detainees are not in fact terrorists does that question [What do they have to gain?] even make sense." I wasn't expecting that you actually do assume this. Ah well.
I suppose if you're going to consider the official military reports an inherently untrustworthy or at least unreliable source--even when reported by national newspapers who presumably have fact-checking resources--nothing is going to convince you short of a full independent audit. Since I obviously can't provide that, we'll just have to wait for the history books. Until then, I think this conversation has hit a bit of an impasse.
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Date: 2006-10-07 04:37 pm (UTC)I stated in my above post that "Only if we assume that a (large) majority of detainees are not in fact terrorists does that question [What do they have to gain?] even make sense." I wasn't expecting that you actually do assume this. Ah well.
I suppose if you're going to consider the official military reports an inherently untrustworthy or at least unreliable source--even when reported by national newspapers who presumably have fact-checking resources--nothing is going to convince you short of a full independent audit. Since I obviously can't provide that, we'll just have to wait for the history books. Until then, I think this conversation has hit a bit of an impasse.