Mounting Tensions Escalate Into Violence During Raid at Guantánamo Prison

[AnotherMcIntosh]

5. Amazing. Obama is so helpless that he can't close Gitmo and can't go after war criminals.

Apparently, he's also so helpless that he cannot call Mitch McConnell on the phone and say something along the lines of

"I'ld like your cooperation in closing Gitmo. If I can't get that, I'm going to go after some of the Republican war criminals who openly admitted their involvement in the water torture called water-boarding."

Who would have thought? Here's a guy who can have endless wars and occupations in the Middle-East, who can help push hundreds of billions of dollars to the banksters, who can have agencies to spy upon all of us, who can have an underling involved with the harvesting of public assets by privatizing public schools, who can have TSA employees feel-up whoever in the flying public that they want and call it a "pat-down," and yet he doesn't have the power to close Gitmo.

He's so smart and informed. He's so powerful. And yet he can't close Gitmo.