there were a significant amount of people who were there on trumped-up or plainly made up charges. unless you think car thieves or random uighurs are terrorists, please stop constructing strawmen.
sulayman was making a comparison between being between two situations: being imprisoned for no discernible reason and not being given access to legal representation. this is true for the hikers, and is true for SOME of the detainees in guatanamo, bagram, etc. nowhere did he say "everyone in guantanamo is totally blameless".
"The only way you can possibly make this comparison is to assume all the Islamists in Guantanamo had nothing whatsoever to do with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or any of the other Islamist groups in Afghanistan."
this isn't true, but thanks for the representativeness fallacy though!
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Stevie
Nov 09, 2009
3:53 p.m.
there were a significant amount of people who were there on trumped-up or plainly made up charges. unless you think car thieves or random uighurs are terrorists, please stop constructing strawmen.
sulayman was making a comparison between being between two situations: being imprisoned for no discernible reason and not being given access to legal representation. this is true for the hikers, and is true for SOME of the detainees in guatanamo, bagram, etc. nowhere did he say "everyone in guantanamo is totally blameless".
"The only way you can possibly make this comparison is to assume all the Islamists in Guantanamo had nothing whatsoever to do with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or any of the other Islamist groups in Afghanistan."
this isn't true, but thanks for the representativeness fallacy though!