Discussion: Obama Makes One Last Plea To Congress Over Guantanamo

Obama to lawmakers: You have put “politics above the ongoing costs to taxpayers.”
Lawmakers to Obama: Who?

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Many millennials (and others) blame President Obama for not making good on his promise to close Gitmo. However, they seem to forget that Congress wouldn’t allow this to happen. I’ll never understand exactly what motivated this. The claim was that these “horrible prisoners” can’t be kept safely in any of our US prisons, but there was no evidence of any danger to any communities.

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Well NIMBYsm is a hell of a drug.

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