U2Kitten said:
As I said, the only airtight evidence is probably just testimony of comrades who will not give them up to the infidel. All hardened criminals, crazy people, even Nazis and Communists could be made to turn evidence on someone they know to save their own ass. This is a different type of person here with a different set of standards. The American system is not going to work here. They would all be set free from lack of evidence though most of them are probably guilty. Are they guilty? I think so, I don't believe they would take all this heat for a whim? There are things we don't know and the press isn't going to know. I don't trust blindly or believe just anything, but I do believe there is something to this, some reason they should not be set free, we will find out.
If there's lack of evidence, how did they get in jail in the first place? I don't like this police state mentality of locking up without charges or evidence.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a guilty person being let go - if you can't prove he's guilty, that is - than an innocent person be charged.
If US doesn't have any proof or evidence to link them to any crimes, they should let them go. (in fact, hundreds of them were let go in Abu Ghraib after the scandal)
If they do, what's with all the creepy tactics? Charge them and trial them - and I mean a fair trial, with an unbiased jury and lawyers on both sides.
(But oops, forced confessions don't fly in the court. Did you consider that a tortured person often admits things they're NOT guilty of, simply to end the hurt?)
Outside guards should be in prisons, no Iraquis or US soldiers, because obviuosly they can't be objective.
If justice worked for Nazis and dictators, it will work for them too. I bet the "smaller fish" - assuming there are any - would turn in any information or the "big fish" they have to be out of jail. Then again, if they've been locked up for months I wonder how much they really know (AFIK no terrorist big shots were captured so far, and I don't think those would reveal anything anyway) and how accurate the info is.
You said earlier those soldiers said "they followed orders". That's no excuse for such behaviour, a soldier can refuse to follow orders that clearly go against international law and/or their conscience.