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mnottertail -> RE: Gitmo Trials to Resume (3/8/2011 5:46:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Obama restarts Guantanamo trials
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.
Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year, a deadline that came and went without him ever setting a new one.
So, two years later, and without having the simple decency to admit President Bush had already made the only workable choice, the Gitmo detainee trials will be resuming.
Two fucking years it takes him to figure this out??? And then he whines about how he doesn't like it, but isn't competent to get his vision through Congress? Don't even start about how the Repubs have the House, because he had a good long run of failing to deliver while Pelosi was in charge, too.
God help us all when the phone rings, and he has to make an immediate decision, without any do-overs later.
That is all wrong. The congress has made it impossible to try these folks in civilian court in the united states, or to send them to other countries.
There is no Bush was right component to this. After two years of trying to do this via the civilian system and being stopped at every turn, the administration decides to sell what's on the cart.
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