Actually, I think that over-simplifies things. Bush was treating these prisoners as enemy combatants. Obama wants to try these people under civilian law. If they'd done that in the beginning, it would have made more sense, but after leaving them at GITMO for 8 years, and then trying them, I would be surprised if every one of them don't join with terrorist groups.

          If I have been captured and treated the way those people were treated, if I ever managed to get free, I would most certainly become a terrorist enemy of the United States.

          Another problem is, if there were enough of them, they could really swamp the civilian court system. And an additional problem is one of their immigration status. If the government captures them and brings them to the US, they aren't really illegal immigrants, so can they be deported, are is the government simply setting up multitudes of terrorists to live in the country?