for a number of detainees whose own countries will not allow them to be repatriated and who were unquestionably guilty of the crimes they were detained for, that's the worse option of two. They can stay in Gitmo or we can compel them onto their nations of origin who will most likely machine-gun them or torture them to death. They can't be turned over if we believe they will be summarily executed without adjudication...meaning we'd have to put them into a permanent detention facility...like Gitmo.
It's really a lovely boondoggle of a corner the Bush White House painted us into and which we're probably permanently stuck with now. Basically, we can no more close Guantanamo Bay ever than we can time-travel to prevent it opening in the first place.
The die is cast, so to speak.
Edit: To be clear, we can and should be emptying it as much as possible by releasing those we have no reason to detain and who can be released. There's just 15-20% we're just going to be stuck with detaining in Gitmo forever unless we shoot them or try them and move them to Florence ADX.
Edit 2: We're not going to shoot them and trying them is largely impossible...so 
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