Another Obama lie: Guantánamo Bay unlikely to shut down before 2013

obama-pictureLets see. We are only a few days from July, which means Gitmo should have been closed about 6 months ago. If you were actually gullible enough to believe any of his promises. One of Obama major campaign promises was to close Gitmo by January of 2010. Of course that’s now come on gone. Now, according to the New York Times, it’s unlikely that Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013!

There is a lot of inertia” against closing the prison, “and the administration is not putting a lot of energy behind their position that I can see,” said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and supports the Illinois plan. He added that “the odds are that it will still be open” by the next presidential inauguration.

And Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who also supports shutting it, said the effort is “on life support and it’s unlikely to close any time soon.” He attributed the collapse to some fellow Republicans’ “demagoguery” and the administration’s poor planning and decision-making “paralysis.”

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June 26, 2010 · Filed Under Gitmo


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  • http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SavingGraceAtGuantanamoBay.html Montgomery J. Granger

    Obama is realizing that he needs to act more like a Commander-in-Chief, and do what is necessary to win the Global War on Terror and preserve the Union, just like his hero, President Abraham Lincoln did during the American Civil War. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and established military commissions for civilians, among other creative things, all in the name of preserving the Union. He did a great job, perhaps too great, but Obama must learn quickly that in order to preserve his place in history he must fight to win every day, and Gitmo is an important ingredient in a winning recipie. It is the safest and best place for detainees, who are treated with dignity and respect.

    In my new book, “Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior,” I tell the real story of detention and medical duty from my time there as the ranking U.S. Army Medical Department officer. It is a riviting account of what it’s like to have to take care of bad guys every day who you know whould like nothing better than to kill you.