# We were sold for bounties say Gitmo prisoners.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 1, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294 "2005-06-01T00:23:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/41 "2005-06-06T00:58:33Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> …you might consider what your credulous swallowing of everything they say does to the war effort…
Stunning. Perfectly stunning.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/42 "2005-06-06T01:02:40Z")
My, but you’re easily stunned.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/43 "2005-06-06T02:15:36Z")
It’s all the hits Nipples took from Saddam’s intercontinental scud drone aircraft tipped with nuclear anthrax nerve gas. Left him in a bit of a daze.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/44 "2005-06-06T02:33:28Z")
Oh, the horror! Herds of feral unicorn, running amok, predatory chimeras roaming the neighborhoods, and the jackelopes! Don’t even want to talk about the jackelopes!
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/45 "2005-06-06T02:41:27Z")
I thought the gryphons took care of the jackelopes. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/46 "2005-06-06T02:45:11Z")
Well, then the demons started chasing the vampires, and then it was just one damned thing after another…
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### Author:  [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/47 "2005-06-06T03:31:06Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> Oh, I don’t know… Maybe because they are **THE ENEMY**?
Holy Shit! Well, we better go and catch them again, because the Bush administration just let a bunch of **TEH ENEMY** go!!!
> [@Sam Stoned](#):
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> Why in the world would you give the presumption of truth to the enemy over your own soldiers?
> [@from the very linked article](#):
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> One Kuwaiti who was released, 26-year-old Nasser al-Mutairi, told al-Odha that interrogators said Dostum’s forces sold them to the Pakistanis for $5,000 each, and the Pakistanis in turn sold them to the Americans.
So how do you impeach his credibility? I’m sure you’ll do that instead of giving any creedence to his assertion.
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> Did you know that al-Qaida specifically trains its people to lie about conditions of captivity? They are trying to win a propaganda war, you know.
Good thing we aren’t. Otherwise incredibly stupid hyper-credulous fuckers would be believing every piece of shit thing the present administration says for years, despite reams of evidence, and would be calling people who we paid for, detained, and then released **TEH ENEMY!**
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> Anything a detainee says should be viewed with suspicion. Investigated, sure. If the investigation turns up corroborating evidence, take action. But the question “Why would they lie?” is just horribly naive.
Yes, someone here is horribly naive.
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> It’s much, much worse than if I said, “George Bush says the war is going perfectly. Why would he lie?” I’m sure you’d react to a statement like that with guffaws.
No. I’ve heard you make that statement over and over again for so long now that guffaws are the furthest thing from my response. Usually, it’s more like, “What a stupid blindly partisan asshole.” Without any guffaw. I was once, recently, pleasantly surprised by one of your responses, and moved to post to that effect. But once again, all is in its place in the world.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/48 "2005-06-06T06:56:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> > [@Sam Stone](#):
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> > …you might consider what your credulous swallowing of everything they say does to the war effort…
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> Stunning. Perfectly stunning.
Didn’t we just have a pile-on last week about the wildly inflammatory garbage the resident conservatives gleefully fling at their opponents?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/49 "2005-06-06T13:40:58Z")
It depends a bit on the precise nature of the complaint.
Does **Sam** believe, as he appears to suggest, that no such incident has ever occurred, and they are nothing but utter fabrications meant to slander America, having no basis in fact whatsoever, or…
There is some truth to these allegations, the precise extent of that truth is unknown, but a willingness to believe such allegations reveals an enmity for Freedom and a festering, corrupt disloyalty for The Leader and America.
Given the robust entreprenuerial spirit of the Afghan warlords and thier abiding, worshipful respect for portraits of Ben Franklin, I have to regard these allegations as plausible, but unproven.
If **Sam** has some incontrovertible evidence to offer that would render such a position untenable, perhaps he will be so kind as to offer it. Failing that, perhaps he will be so kind as to keep his insinuations as to our patriotism to himself.
That would be nice.
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/50 "2005-06-07T05:21:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> as to our patriotism
Bawahahahahaha
\*:: Now that was funny ::: \*
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/51 "2005-06-07T05:49:31Z")
Not quite clear on the thrust of your remark, **Gus**. Perhaps you could clarify.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/52 "2005-06-07T06:18:16Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#):
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> Bawahahahahaha
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> \*:: Now that was funny ::: \*
I do hope you understand my dilemma here, **Gus**. On the one hand, it is at least _possible_ that you misunderstood my remark, that you think I made the comment in jest.
On the other hand, the most apparent conclusion would be that you intend some snark, a drive by slur that you have neither the wit nor the evidence to substantiate.
If such is the case, you are cordially invited to tongue the brown grease out of my Nixon.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-were-sold-for-bounties-say-gitmo-prisoners/306294/53 "2005-06-07T07:50:20Z")
The problem here Sam Stone and others, is that we are having problems proving that these people who were released were the enemy. Sure, they probably are now but we can’t really blame them for that now can we.
Also, Gitmo has been problematic from the gitgo. There hasn’t been much information coming out of there that has been positive. When there is a problem, it’s always denied until the hubub dies a bit.
At the least, these charges deserve an investigation. This sort of crap is not helping us win the war on terror.
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