there are a lot of bad leaders in this world that have done really bad things but we have not invaded their country. Isreal thumbs it's nose at the UN quite a bit. Iraq was NOT a treat to us and as for invading it's neighbors, the first Iraq war took care of that. The only thing the 3500 soldiers died for was oil..we had no right to invade iraq.

Where was those Human Right Activist when 3,000 plus American perished during the 9/11 attacks, where are they when an innocent American business man was beheaded by the same cowards they are defending, why don't they investigation when a journalist Daniel Pearl was tortured and beheaded by the same terrorist? Yeah go ahead and complain human abuse....when the CIA are doing their part to defend and safe more innocent lives. I may sacrifice to save thousands or million of American lives. We need more Jack Bauer in the field.....

Jude...Jack Bauer is not real...Wake UP!!!! Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11...get your head out of the sand and stop drinking the bush/cheny kool aid.

I just wanted to remind impeachbush999 that the Native American's are a conquered people. If you feel that badly about how the US took their land, and how evil the US is, you can start by giving up all your land, wealth, money, assets, or whatever else you own to the nearest tribe or reservation. While you’re at it, you can give up your US citizenship and move to Iran. I'm sure you'll be at home there.

You guys compare the Nazis and Stalin's government to ours, you compare torture and beheadings with secret prisons. There is no cure for your sick minds. The millions that were tortured in Germany and Russia alone are angry as I am..."Bill, you have some real anger issues" You guys are lost for good. I see that all of those statements you guys made are political ploys to get one of your politicians in the White House. But please, please, don't do it on the backs of so many millions that were reduced to skin and bones before they were gased, or on the backs of millions tortured and killed by Stalin. Don't do it for Hillary, don't do it for ANY one. You are loosing your credibility. So Bush won the White House twice, so what. I never voted for him. Put it behind you. But don't twist reality for your trivial goals. How can you even write such insults..."3,500 men and women did not die for you and I and this country, they died for nothing." You people have lost the last bit of humanity. You sound like the cowards that run to Canada during the Vietnam war. I hope that this country will never be attacked by another nation, because you would throw your hands in the air faster then the french army. Freedom has to be defended at all times not only when there is a democrat in the White House. I was not born in this country, but I would defend it just as if I were. Because it was my choice to live here. For you, your taking it for granted. All over the world, I southeast Asia, in south America, in eastern Europe, in Africa and yeah even in middle east, people gave up and are still giving up their live for freedom, now and for hundreds of years. My question to you is, what would you do for freedom? Would you give up your stocks, your SUVs, your plasma TV, how about your life? Words are very easy to throw around, but please think about what you say, they can hurt more then a bullet.

Oh, and to EDJ, ILLEGAL I got it, but morally right YOU don't get it.

Anyone should be able to understand that the only way you can ever win a war on terrorism is to demolish the enemies' recruitment base. If we had in our possession, all the ordinance on Earth, we could still never bomb and shoot our way to victory.

That said, it should be just as easy for anyone of any political alignment to understand that until we can boast to the world that we never torture, until we are so unwaveringly dedicated to human rights, to not debasing ourselves or our way of life through abuse, until it's clear (as it once was) to the world, that America is something apart and above all of that -- until we can accomplish this, we will never make a dent in their recruitment base, and we will never be done with this war.

It's amazing what people will tolerate when they're frightened... and you can almost smell the fear in a lot of the comments which approve of "anything goes" when it comes to our paranoid "war on terror".

I'm ashamed to note that a lot of these gutless wonders are fellow countrymen of mine right here in the Land of the Free, Home of the not-so-Brave.

Bill refresh my memory....what country attacked us?

There are plenty of people in this world having their human rights violated everyday, I don't see any use in wasting anyones time or energy on detainees when people who were never given a choice in life need the attention.

Larry, thank god that no country attacked us yet, because with guys like you and Dutch there will be a 5 minute war. Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden is not a country . Hey Dutch, I've seen frightened people..jumping from the Twin Towers, did you "almost smell the fear" in Daniel Pearl and many others innocent Americans, Iraqis, Japanese, Filipinos and many others before been beheaded. That is fear. This what you smell coming from me is something else that does not exist in your vocabulary. You use the word "gutless": Lacking courage or drive, lacking substance; weak or insignificant, I couldn't put it better myself. Read all the blog entries above and you decide. You guys are out of touch with reality. I hope your lady Hillary will take the White House, maybe that will bring some sense to you. You're motivated by who's in power and forget the essentials. There is no king without a country.

Meant to say "These are definitely NOT innocent individuals".

Anyone suprised not me I knew of this type of action for years. It is not something new.

Can we talk about things we know nothing about ?
Can we talk about why other people are trying to kill us and each other ?
Can we sit at home and think about what our next step in life will be ?
Can we argue about who is right and wrong without fear of gettin beheaded ?

If you answered yes to all the above you can thank this place called America and the people that die everyday for it.

Hussein may not have been a member of Al Qaeda, but he did in fact harbor a number of them and give them support within Iraq. He was attempting to find enriched uranium in Africa...in contrast to what Valerie Plame's husband tried to sell in the NY Times article. If people were as against these terror squads as much as they were against Bush, we'd have won by now...the terrorists think that they can sway public opinion back here and win ... and the liberals fall for it constantly. Probably the same crowd that is facinated with what Paris Hilton is up to.

I love the comments from the bleeding liberals. Wake up you bastards, these people are trying to kill us! I could give a damn about them. I hope the CIA puts their feet in boiling oil to get information that may save one American.

We traded Article V for this!!! We could have shipped these guys anywhere in the world and NATO was the quid pro quo in our negotiation!

This administration values nothing of value. The Constitution, our alliances overseas, the only multilateral organization that actually works, the truth...

The amount of damage that this administration and the neoconservatives have done in just six years is staggering. I thought that Lyndon Johnson would be difficult to beat considering Great Society and Vietnam, but the Bush Administration has eclipsed even him. Absolutely amazing!

Any chance ABC would post the CIA's full statement?

"Dr. Mengele NAZI"..."NAZI inspired abuses"..."torture of innocent American's, including children, inspired by psycho NAZI's"..."Gov't Gestapo Goons used D4 tactics"..."your KKK ways"..."Go put on a white sheet and go to hell with the rest of the bigots, Pharisees, and Cains"..."selling short' day before 9-11, e-mails were received by certain people in Twin Towers the day before"...these are all great points that I was never thought about. You guys are right, you won this debate. This is a lot worse then my old communist country, this is worse then "1984". Now I know why for the last 20 years there were 1 million immigrants(like me)coming to this country from all over the world to settle here...they are all Nazi sympathisers. They all want to torture some. If my old country will take me back I guess I'll go back without my white sheet, I can't live in this horrible country anymore. You guys are master debaters and I want to thank you for opening my blind eyes. I know that I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees. I thought that our government was twisting all of the UN leaders minds, but no, today I found out that our government was twisting arms. And all this for oil. Just so we get free oil so we pay again .99 per gallon. I challenge all of the above bright minds follow my example and leave this horrible country. I've been healed!!! Alleluya!!! Hope that I didn't get CIA upset at me to go after me to torture me.

I don't see how this is news. CIA has been detaining people like this since the 50's. The so-called "torture" being employed against these people have been documented CIA procedure since the Kennedy administration. The only difference between then and now is that back then, nobody knew and nobody asked.

If you want your big-screen TV's, minivans and 3000-sq-ft homes; if you want your kids to get to school without being shot at, kidnapped or blown up, this is part of the price you have to pay. Are you willing to pay it? If not, get out. Our borders are open, and I'm sure a country without the blood of millions staining its history will be more than happy to take you in. Good luck finding one.