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TheWraith

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1. Gitmo has been impossible to close since Congress banned closing it.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 01:56 PM

Jan 2012

Nobody apparently remembers that whole thing back in 2009 when Obama's first executive order was to shut down Gitmo, and it was promptly overridden by Congress.

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Gitmo has been impossible to close since Congress banned closing it. TheWraith Jan 2012 #1

Oh, yeah, the super criminals that no ordinary high security prison could hold. RC Jan 2012 #2

Yeah, those grandfathers and bakers and religious tourists and goat herds. nt EFerrari Jan 2012 #7

Mission Accomplished. ixion Jan 2012 #3

When you try to make everyone happy, you make no one happy. This is why our president Sarah Ibarruri Jan 2012 #4

So difficult to know what the right thing to do is, isn't it? gratuitous Jan 2012 #6

People like you, who remember, need to speak up to the rest. Right now things are a mess, and Sarah Ibarruri Jan 2012 #8

K&R Solly Mack Jan 2012 #5

Too bad we didn't elect a liberal Consitutional scholar _ed_ Jan 2012 #9