Majority of Guantanamo Prisoners were Innocent

Lawrence Wilkerson, an aide to the former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell, recently accused George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donal Rumsfield of covering up the innocence of the vast majority of Guantanamo Bay prisoners. According to Wilkerson, the Bush administration was aware that the prisoners were innocent but felt that it was justifiable to lock them up, so long as some of the prisoners actually were terrorists. According to the Bush Administration it was "politically impossible" to release them, as it might do harm to the war efforts. A direct quote reads as follows "The detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were...this was not acceptable to the administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at the Department of Defense"

I'm sorry but I fail to see how keeping innocent men against their will is helping anybody. On top of that, these men were regularly tortured as if they were honest to god terrorists. Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese man, was held from March 2003 to December 2007 and claims that he was repeatedly tortured by the US agents in charge at Guantanamo. What reason would they have to torture a man which they have no hard evidence against? Even if he does admit to being a terrorist under such torture, it's probably only to get the pain to stop. A real terrorist would more than likely die before talking.

None of this makes any sense to me. I honestly believe that Cheney, Rumsfield and maybe even Bush ought to be charged as War Criminals. This senselessness should not be associated with the United States of America and the good people who live there. I said in my last blog that I would stop at very little to prevent another 9/11, however, the torture and detention of people that are known to be innocent is not something I can abide by. I don't care if the administration thinks we will look weak by releasing prisoners from Guantanamo, the fact is, as a freedom loving nation, we look like nothing but a bunch of hypocrites because of this whole situation.