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2014-10-01 Home Front: WoT

Obama Goal Of Gitmo Closure Stalled At Pentagon

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Why do the powers that be keep wanting to close Gitmo when nobody truly wants it to be closed???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-01 00:22|| 2014-10-01 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Something about the American Gulag I think.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-10-01 00:36|| 2014-10-01 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Afghan detainees are catalogued under the Joint Priority Effects List (JPEL) rap sheet with the 'previous GITMO detainee box' clearly checked, or unchecked. The recidivism rate for these people is indeed staggering.

Releasing them now would only cause more regional mischief and complicate the regimes withdrawal strategy. While clearly reneging on Champ's campaign plan to close GITMO, retaining these vermin at GITMO produces much higher near-term value. To steal an award winning phrase from yesterday, verbal campaign promises aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-01 03:32|| 2014-10-01 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Tell Obama don't feel bad about this.
The Pentagon has for years been where ideas go to die. If they can't kill it outright, they'll work it to death.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-10-01 07:33|| 2014-10-01 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if it has occurred to Champ, or ValJar, to re-evaluate his ~~promise~~ heartfelt desire to close Gitmo - you know, in light of the recent events in the middle east, which no one could have possibly foreseen?

Can't seem to admit he might have been wrong, eight years ago?

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-01 07:42|| 2014-10-01 07:42|| Front Page Top

No memory or file storage on one of these Bobby. In fact, they're hoping you'll forget. Every day is a new beginning, new hopes, new changes.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-01 07:46|| 2014-10-01 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Likely every so often a big-bucks donor accosts Mr. Obama at one of the many fundraisers and mentions "Gitmo" and "retirement fund" in the same breath. Hence the dutiful follow up.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-01 09:48|| 2014-10-01 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Retire obooboo to gitmo.

Posted by M. Murcek 2014-10-01 10:00|| 2014-10-01 10:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Government by Wishfull Thinking

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-10-01 10:54|| 2014-10-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

#10 DARPA still having development problems and delays with the tracking implants?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-01 10:54|| 2014-10-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

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