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==Was your intent to protect Oliver North's reputation?==

Was your intent to protect Oliver North's reputation? If not, why didn't you consider a rewording, rather than an excision? Was North mistaken? His claim is at odds with information from other journalists. Don't you think the wikipedia's readers deserve to have access to the information they need to reach an informed decision about the credibility of North's claim? -- Geo Swan 17:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I gave you a couple of days to go back and rewrite the passage you excised. When you didn't, I rewrote it myself. What matters is not preserving North's reputation, by suppressing information that shows that he was either writing without doing the research necessary to know what he was talking about, or that he was counting on his reader's not knowing what he was talking about. What matters is presenting the information our readers need to form a fair interpretation of the credibility of the claims.

The claims that Guantanamo captives returned to the battlefield just aren't credible. If these captives were held in Guantanamo why aren't they listed on the full official list of captives?

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 13:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you please look at this talk [1]. It seems to me that all but the 1st two bullets in the un-named section [2] are redundant to the section right above it or do not merit inclusion? Please provide insight. Thank you. Tscrum 23:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)