But Ireland, one question is how do you know a person has information that could prevent an attack? You aren't going to find that out till you have tortured him. And it seems most likely that, regardless of what was first told to the world, those people being held in Guantanamo Bay are mostly nothing more than foot soldiers in Afghanistan with very little info about any future plans of al-Quaida (and surely the plans get changed as soon as anyone with any knowledge is captured....). So should we torture them all just to be sure they don't know something?

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