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Yes, but Guantanamo should have been closed (Obama promised to do this! he didn't do it!) and the people who masterminded it should have been thrown in jail. Bu
by KerrAvon 1y ago
Yes, but Guantanamo should have been closed (Obama promised to do this! he didn't do it!) and the people who masterminded it should have been thrown in jail. But, no, we had to "look forward" and not punish the war criminals in our immediate past.
- xnx 1y ago> Obama promised to do this! he didn't do it! True, but important to know that Republican congress stopped every attempt he made. He still got the number of prisoners down from 242 to 55.
- croes 1y agoDidn’t some Democrats help stopping?
- i80and 1y agoThe EO was signed in 2009. The 2009-2011 Congress was Democratically controlled.
- alabastervlog 1y ago"Close our terrible and unnecessary human rights black hole" was, sadly, too far "left" for a bunch of Democrats, and of course Republicans love that kind of stuff, so they weren't going to help.
- femiagbabiaka 1y agoThis trend of: > Democrats fail to do something > it's because they universally wanted to but were obstructed. Doesn't really work in a post-Trump era. They could've done whatever they wanted to, if they were willing to try.
- i80and 1y agoObama did sign EO 13492 requiring Guantanamo to be closed, in fairness, with a deadline and everything. He could have and should have done more, but the blame for that one mostly falls on Congress (at the time firmly controlled by Democrats) blocking said EO