Spare us the bull shit. Gitmo's still open and even if he follows through with closing it, Bagram is still open and I haven't heard him talking about closing that site.
Gitmo is no longer taking new prisoners and they are in the process of trying the few remaining prisoners.
Nobody is saying don't use it as a base just don't use it in a lame attempt to circumvent international law the way BushCo did.
The CIA renditions continue.
Spare Spud the bullshiat. Extraordinary renditions as practised under Bush have been eliminated under Obama and now yer back to the process as practised by several previous POTUSes.
We still have the Patriot Act and the Obama justice department shilling for Bush's abuses of power.
Parts of the Patriot Act have been allowed to expire so it's not a complete wash and yeah Spud is pissed that Dumbya hasn't being brought up on charges but quite frankly never really expected it. Did you?
And escalating the war in Afghanistan
He campaigned on putting more resources in Afghanistan and going after AQ based in Pakistan which is exactly wot he's done.
we can't afford it and more people will die - for what? So we can save face from Bush's fuck up?
So we can minimize the worst blowback from Bush fuck-up, yes.
And on Iraq he's just following through with the status of forces agreement set in place during the previous administration. Hardly a sea change.
Considering the GOPhers running in 2008 were promising "Double Gitmos" and even more wasted dollars on both wars it's definitely an improvement.
Obama's accomplishments in his first 16 months in office are nothing short of remarkable.
Be Well.
/Exiting the DR as ya do
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