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I'm probably going to have to google around to find where I read about the supposed al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan being actually Taliban training camps for Muslims of any country who wanted to fight in their own home countries for Sharia Law. The Uighur men in Gitmo were picked up in Afghanistan where they were doing, I suppose, just this. They were training to fight the Chinese for Uighur autonomy.

"Al Qaeda", it is said, means "The Base", and it does, but it also means it in the sense of "The Latrine", "The Camp Toilet", "The Hole in the Ground in Which to Shit". There is no such thing as "al Qaeda", and there were no "al Qaeda" terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. The Taliban let OBL recruit people from their Sharia Law fighter training camps, and if these guys were caught there after our invasion, they were not with OBL.

We can just leave the probability that OBL was really just recruiting patsies for whoever here wanted to create the illusion of a big terrorist operation as mortal enemies in furtherance of his CIA connection. He's been dead a long time and we'd have to look to prove all that somewhere closer to home now.

We've been torturing, and continue to torture, men who were at worst training to free their people from the Chinese... right along with men and boys who may have been guilty of being in the Taliban, who were guilty of harboring a CIA operative... right along with complete rubes who just happened to be nabbed by people wanting the payoff from the Americans for warm bodies to call perps.

Remembering always that even if every man we have tortured were guilty of overt acts against our military or our country, torture would still be a war crime, a felony punishable to the fullest extent of our law, everyone's law, and continuing to hold prisoners without charges, or against whom the charges have been dropped is also UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and remembering that John McCain voted to absolve this administration of these crimes, what in the hell is he doing allowed to stay a Senator, let alone run for president, let alone walk around, let alone do skits on Saturday Night Live?

I'm mentioning all this, even though you probably already know most of it, because this is how your brain gets conditioned to cease functioning rationally. You get used to things this kaleidoscopically beyond the pale and everything that flows from that is, actually, also this kaleidoscopically beyond the pale.