I don't think that the vice chief of naval operations will conclude anything else then this.
And you say:
"As for the non-combatants captured on a battlefield; generally these people are identified early on and are let go. Our soldiers aren't stupid; and have no interest in holding someone who isn't in the game to harm them. To have made it to Gitmo means having engaged our troops in some fashion, lost or surrendered, been interviewed on the spot, taken back to base, interviewed some more, and subsequently been interviewed by intelligence personnel several times before being granted access to the Cuban resort. I don't believe for a second that we have some totally innocent people incarcerated at Gitmo. If we do, they sure did a lot of lying and pretending to be a combatant to get through the various interviews, checks on the info given for validity, and apparently posed a further threat - which is the reason for holding them at Gitmo in the first place"
Maybe so, but eventually you have to charge them with something and charges were never pressed against a lot of these folks. I think the US realized this when they opened Guantanamo bay and therefor put the prison outside of US borders.
Nonetheless I agree that the detainees held are probably not flowerchildren.
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