So Obama, How’s the Gitmo Closing Going?
Not to well as we all know it’s still open, and for all intents and purposes, no one’s going anywhere since the closest they’ve come to doing anything was sending these killers to about 30 miles north of my suburban Chicago neighborhood has been blocked by the Illinois senate and we’re closing in on 2 years of the Obama regime and nothing.
His main campaign promise and source of the loudest whining from the liberal loons around the globe and this LA Times piece addresses this on the one year anniversary of this..
Today is the official one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama repeating why he signed the official closing order for the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility on his second day in office in January of 2009. (See photo above and video below.)
No prison is supposed to look hospitable; that's the point of prison. Hence, the locks and guards.
But the prison facility on the island of Cuba looked particularly bad to Democrats and looked bad internationally.
Promising to close the place — the “mess” as the president called it — was a very useful unifying metaphor for Obama's change-to-believe-in from eight years of you-know-who, who started up the place back before the global war on terrorism became a series of attempted man-caused disasters.
And maybe you remember Obama's re-statement of the urgent need to close Guantanamo just happened to come at the same media time as a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was one of the main architects of building it as a secure refuge to keep those terrorist types away from the homeland.
Which seemed like a real good idea to many living outside prisons in the homeland, regardless of how it was viewed in overseas countries that weren't exactly lining up to receive those lethal lads into their lands.
So Cheney re-explained why the Bush administration had built the place and Obama re-explained why Guantanamo was going to be but a bad memory by the end of 2009.
And here we are nearly five months after the facility's closure. Except, wait, it hasn't been closed. And won't be closed for another year at least.
continued here Los Angeles Times.
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