From the Washington Post:
The president answered questions about his Guantanamo policy when asked, but only once in two years, other than in a major speech at the National Archives, did he raise the issue on his own. Guantanamo was competing with other legislative priorities, particularly health care, that consumed most of the administration's attention.It's no longer "Bush's fault" with Obama, it's now ObamaCare's faul.
"During 2009 and early 2010, he is totally engaged in the struggle to get health-care reform," a White House participant said when asked about the president's engagement with the effort to close Guantanamo. “That occupies his mind, and his time.:
Obama has conceded that Guantanamo will not close anytime soon. “Obviously I haven’t been able to make the case right now, and without Congress’s cooperation, we can't do it," he said this month in an interview with the Associated Press. "That doesn't mean I stop making the case."
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Why don't you ask the Republicans why Gitmo is open since they have screamed bloody murder about and have blocked a new prison in the US?
ReplyDeleteThis is one area that Cheney was right. These guys are enemy combatants and are there because they deserve to be.
Idiot.
ReplyDeleteBoth houses of congress and the Presidency were under democrat control until the '10 election. Why didn't Gitmos get closed then?
"Ask Republicans"?
No. Democrats knew this idea was a huge loser.
Ask them.