Originally Posted by Rochard

Because Vendzilla is on ignore I never saw his original BS....



The man has been kept in captivity for five years. He was locked up in a cage. It's a reasonable assumption that he was "very sick". He's also now mentally ill because of this.

Not sure about you, but he looked half dead during the pick up.



I'm pretty confident the Taliban has threatened to kill him multiple times in the past five years. Now as the war is ending and US troops are pulling out, it's reasonable to assume they had threatened to kill him.



Mccain is record months ago approving this months ago.



Are the Taliban considered terrorists? Not be the state department.

Is the Taliban planning on striking at the US locally? In NY or LA? No. The Taliban is really the former government of a country we invaded, but they really aren't terrorists.




He did. If he didn't, he wouldn't have been serving in a combat zone. Until the moment he dropped out of site, he served honorably.



Did they ever?

Seems these five all served in the Taliban government prior to the US invasion in 2001. One of them was a cabinet member, one of them was a governor, one of them was a policeman. None of them seems to have fought against the United States.

It's debatable that any of them pose a threat to the US.




The US will do it's best to monitor them like we have in the past. Seems we can monitor them pretty well being as we can tell exactly whom is doing what after they have left GITMO.



The US is pulling it's troops out of the area. If we do not secure his release now, it will be much more difficult to do so in the future. The time to act was now.