Now, do you REALLY promise to stop that nasty terrorism this time?

Ex-Gitmo detainees are returning to the terror war - and - surprise - this is after they promised to be really, really good.

At least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence.

At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid on a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico, a Pentagon spokesman. Others are at large.

Additional former detainees have expressed a desire to rejoin the fight, be it against U.N. peacekeepers in Afghanistan, Americans in Iraq or Russians in Chechnya.

Against U.N. peacekeepers? Who the hell fights against U.N. peacekeepers? Why attack a group that has already hoisted the white flag of surrender? Target practice, I suppose.

U.S. officials released 146 detainees from Guantanamo, but only after determining the prisoners no longer posed threats and had no remaining intelligence value.

Pentagon officials acknowledged that the release process is imperfect, but they said most of the Guantanamo detainees released have steered clear of Islamist insurgent groups.

Imperfect? Really! I'm impressed by this level of candor.

What the hell is going on at the Pentagon? This kind of touchy-feely idiocy is the kind of mentality that will get us all killed. These "detainees" should never have left Afghanistan - they should be pushing up daisies right now with Osama and his cronies at Tora Bora.

If this is how we're going to fight the W.O.T., maybe we should just go ahead and surrender.

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