Danni: So he gets the blame instead of the people in Congress who prevented him from closing it?? That's ridiculous. The people responsible are the one's who prevented the prisoners from being transferred stateside.
Soheifox: You mean the Democrat-controlled Congress he had for his first two years?
That's the one. Don't act like you don't know about Blue Dogs in the Congress or the fact that the GOP also threatened to kill any legislation to close Gitmo in the Senate where the so-called 60 vote majority vote was mostly a myth due to Kennedy's illness and Franken being deliberately delayed in taking his seat. Obama tried again and again to get funding to move the prisoners from Gitmo to the US and was cock blocked time and time again by Republicans deadset on preventing Obama from fulfilling a campaign promise.
Which he is still trying to fulfill, btw.
FTA: White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Mr. Obama still wants to close Guantanamo because "it's the right thing to do for our national security interest," a view that he says is shared by senior members of the military. He noted President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, while running for president in 2008, also supported closing the prison.
"The commitment that the president has to closing Guantanamo Bay is as firm today as it was during the campaign ... I think this is a process that faces obstacles that we're all aware of and we will continue to work through them," Carney said.
People who try to pretend that not closing Gitmo wasn't a cheap political ploy by the Repubs are usually also the same morons trying to assert that the Repubs didn't hold middle class tax cuts and unemployment relief hostage to keep the BushCo tax cuts to the rich.
Which is to say, they are either radically uninformed, deliberately misinformed or just idiots.
Some combination of the above anyway.
Be Well.
