Just to review, the US is holding incommunicado people it has stolen off the streets of Europe, torturing them only to find out they know nothing and had nothing to do with terrorism, but are releasing chemical weapons makers from the former Iraqi regime?!?

Well, I don't know why you seem so boggled by this--clearly, it makes perfect sense... how can you charge someone with making weapons of mass destruction when you can't find them? Besides, I'm sure there was a deal made and they are off to release their terrors on the prisoners we don't keep elsewhere that we don't torture.