Obama Refuses to Retreat on Closing Guantanamo

[greatunclekevin]

When will you Sheeple realize that Obama and Bush have the same agenda? There is no left and right, rather it's a paradigm to keep the weaker minded folks,(namely the ones who think they are liberals) fighting among themselves while they pull off their plans for a one world government.

[hookalakah]

"Indeed, the failed effort to close Guantanamo was reflective of the aspects of Obama’s leadership style that continue to distress his liberal base — a willingness to allow room for compromise and a passivity that at times permits opponents to set the agenda." --Washington Post, April 23, 2011

[fastedu1]

LYING BASTARD

[BlackRepublican2010]

Obama resumes gitmo trials...Where's the chants of war criminal liberals? Show some fairness!

[capotegabriel]

Mr. B. H. Obama, Where is your original birth certficate?

Why Gauntanamo still working?

Why are you G. Soro's worker?

[mulhollanddose]

Well a little shit in the face of Democrat sheep is always enjoyable to witness.

[davitals]

I for one am so proud that Owebama finally closed Gitmo! Ha Ha Ha!

[whiteowlonfire]

I'm ashamed to be american- because of its government.

[BasicallyImPro]

ur all fuckin retarded. If Obama COULD close guantanamo he wudve by now. long and difficult process? Thers like 200 ppl there. And to the dumbass talking about getting water splashed on ur face...lol waterboarding is the simulation of drowning. One of the worst ways to die. Those poor people get electrocuted beat raped limb-stretched and pissed on when they're NOT being tortured. Fuck off and watch some spikeTV to make u feel like a man u piece of shit

[TheFleurieuLA]

Can't retreat if you're standing still.

[FredericAaron]

It seems to me none of you listened to your President, ashaming!

[saikodelicat]

Pfff terror is just a huge joke... Obama is equal to Bush...just the made a change to make all of you dumb asses be again happy...

[Alfrunk]

He hasn't closed it yet! What a loser.

[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

Obama is an idiot. Giving Illinois jobs? This is a joke. America does not need more JAIL Guards, and all the stupid UNION dues & pensions and having the tax payer foot the bill. The stupid senators and UNION bosses basically will get a huge payday. This is very corrupted. Also these terrorists should never step on our soil again. Plus we now have a place where other terrorists will try to set them free.

[k3304]

OBAMA =====SOFT ON TERROR

[TyPaen]

Obama should not have promised to close Guantanamo.

[frankgon4]

@TyPaen He promised lots of stuff. He even said everyone deserves their day in court. He signed an order to assassinate an American citizen that is over in the MIddle East helping terrorists. This is the same type of activity that he chastised Bush for doing. He promised that all proposed bills would be reviewed (this is recorded on video), yet the Health Care Bill was passed without being read, Transparent Govt. etc. etc. etc.

[myjanuary151987]

Liar, liar, liar. He doesn't complete his promises, have been given before election.

No more credits to him. I thought this man is responsible for his spoken words. I thought that this man would bring some new things in dealing between Russia and USA. But he is just a liar and a FRS puppet.

[kght222]

someone please tell me why these people can not go through our system of justice, the chance of releasing them into the america is unlikely, even if they win, they are still not american, they will be deported back to their home country, and those who lose will spend the rest of their life in max security solitary confinement, to me the entire idea that we need to hold prisoners outside the usa is horrible, a slap in the face of betsy ross, and an unweaving of the stars and bars.

[kght222]

we are a nation of laws, if we cannot deal with these people then we should not deal with them, we should drop our pants turn our backs, and wait for the knife

[kght222]

oh forgot to mention this, if our justice system can not handle them, it is to me a confession that our system of justice does not work

[Aegis4843]

Stop whining about the torture. Last time I checked, getting some water poured over your face isn't half as bad as some guy cutting your head off.

Dumbass liberals.

[911insidejob81]

PLEASE STOP torture

imagine yourself in their position

it is horrible

STOP TORTURE NOW

and CLOSE Guantanamo!!

[flapjackmaka]

you do know who the terrorists we are fighting now right? They are radical muslims who want to kill us over someones religious beliefs. At guantanamo they have better healthcare then in most of America. they get three meal a day. the quran (muslims bible or something). The only torture they get is sleep deprivation and a tiny bit of water on their face. If they had American hostages, they wouldent do this, they would fucking kill us.

My god, you liberalist code pink losers

[80ynniv]

Our enemies hate us regardless, so stop with the hippie crap.

[Popcultureguy3000]

Hey evertbody just stop saying the economy is more important than guantanamo because this issue effects how other countries percieve the U.S. and may affect how our legislaters interpret our laws!

[not8upwthit]

Hey lets like worry about our jobs- Barak needs to get over himself

[911insidejob81]

please STOP torture!!

it is inhumane

imagine youreself in thier position :(

God bless these victims of CIA torturing

it is really sad

[ALADDIN806]

Poor terrorists! They can cut off our heads and get cheered for it. We use harsh interrogation techniques on 3 of their worst to extract info that saves so many American lives and you want to condemn us? Put out all of the info instead of hiding behind your liberal smear campaigns. Just show the facts and lets talk about it. I know it will be hard for liberals to talk about anything that won't further their agenda but try it anyway!

[ParadiseOnLand]

Hitler was funded, in large part, by the Rockefeller Foundation. Obama's first boss was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger's allegiance to David Rockefeller's C.F.R. is well known.

[soldner234]

Yeah focus on some bullshit issue Obama. Maybe it will make you look decisive. .

[vantuba25]

My question is why is Obama focusing on Guantanamo bay first when the American economy is so screwed up! Priorities first. The unemployment rate is almost at 12 percent! Do you think someone who just lost his or her job is feeling confident about the way America is going right now! Guantanamo should not be on the main priority list right now.

[ladylordess]

An Obama in Bush clothing.

[GeminiAzules]

oh no, lets not do anything thats challenging. 0:35

Oh but wait, he says the legal challenges would happen whether or not he closed gauntanamo... 0:43

No terrorists have escaped that anyone wanted to take responsibility for... 02:32

[dkkght46]

Zero threw a tantrum in stating he will close down gitmo, when even the liberal hacks in the congress dont buy it. this pathetic cretin posing as a leader, what a joke. he still finds one standard to high to reach, that of being a man.

Even if Gitmo WAS quite simply a mess when it was inherited from Bush, Holder claims the prison is NOW run properly.

Just like PM Netanyahu said of Zero over his "Two-State Solution" same goes for closing GITMO, its simply "childish and stupid."

[squanto2]

best representative of any nation on earth at this moment.

[dkkght46]

This is what you get when you have an ideological inexperienced empty suit running for president, and an empty-headed uneducated clueless electorate that elects him. The only thing Obamas ever run is his mouth, and thats the ONE thing he wont quit doing. Its all he knows.

[pantherprowl22]

squato2:

How is Obama the "best representative" of any nation? Are you that big of a dumbass zombie?

Obama been laughed at by other countries -- for being naive, inexperienced & ignorant

Obama's doing everything EXACTLY as Bush, including "reserving the right to use enhanced interrogation methods"

When rug-muncher Maddow is pissed for him doing exactly as Bush, you know there's a problem

LMAO! Obama could say "shit poo poo shit" & you libs would say, "he's such a great leader"

[squanto2]

You are a dummy.

If he ended all the world's problems tomorrow (which he won't), you half-wits would still be stuck on "he's not a citizen" and all of your pathetic SORE LOSER talking points.

Waaaa!! Aren't you late for a banjo lesson or some shit?

Rug muncher? What an asshole you are.

Really.

You are a dummy and you will always be a dummy. Congratulations!

[dkkght46]

A smart person never dives into unknown waters without first checking the depth of the water below the surface. Obama leapt before he looked when he announced the closing of Gitmo. And he did it to score cheap political points with Europe and the Code Pink crowd. He didnt have a plan to close Gitmo BEFORE announcing its closure, his dive into unknown waters is likely to end up badly. Even if he doesnt bash his head on rocks below the surface, hes likely to come up with mud on his face.

[bleupeony2]

Send the Chinese Uighurs in Gitmo home to China. They were in training in Al Q terror camps in Tora Bora.

Now, what do you think they were doing there?

They claim that they are innocent of planing attacks on America. But they asked for sympathy and understanding, stating they were planing attacks on China, which is a communist country.

So, Obama, is it OK to harbour terrorists that attack China but not the US?

Are we secretely funding the Uighur dissidents to create mahem in Chiina?

[RoscoePatterson]

OBama knows that you cant let government sanctioned immorality seep into the public conscience. Today it's a little bit of waterboarding, tomorrow its 20 million jews in a gas chamber.

If a captured American soldier got waterboarded by "terrorist" and footage was released for us to see, no one among us woud say that the soldier wasnt being tortured.

[oliverb2009]

Great speech Mr President. I'm a conservative who supports the president on everything he has done so far. Thanks God for education.

[imbubba56]

Obama is a national disgrace. He got his butt kicked today.

[Oglenthorne]

Odumbo refuses to retreat even in the face of opposition from his own party leaders because he's a malevolent narcissist who cannot admit to ever being wrong. He is very dangerous.

[petelegory]

blah blah blah....he is such a cry baby. My administration inherited this. Why did he take the job if he's going to bitch about it? He spoends more time talking about Bush than doing his job. You can't change the past, only the future. So why is he so focused on things that have already happened that he can't change?

[mrmorg79]

Why not put em in genpop? I think the problem would solve itself then =)

[greenboy215]

The prison system is the new slave work system, by making prisoners work for 10 cents /hr, corporations profit and stocks go up.

[abarzilai664]

Supermax, the left is shuddering at thought that the detainees would be sent to a facility where abuse of human rights is commonplace. From Gitmo to supermax to them is transferring them one one circle of hell to another.

[Chubearishere]

A Supermax operates on the laws of this land and global laws. Gitmo operates with no legit laws or regulations.

Why do we act scared of these people? There are guys in normal prison facilities in this country that make these guys look like kittens and we're afraid they'll come here to a supermax, escape and kill 50 million Americans each?

Yeah right. This is all Republicans have in their arsenal - create nonsensical fear. It's what they know it's what they used to get us into this insane mess

[abarzilai664]

There have been allegations that prisoner abuse is endemic at the supermax ranging from sleep deprivation to neglectful medical attention as well as other acts that can be noted as torture.

[Chubearishere]

So if you believe gitmo is the same as Supermaxes here in the states... then what's the problem bringing them to be tried and imprisoned here then?

[abarzilai664]

Or maybe torture dated long before the two terms of Bush, bear in mind renditions were practiced under Clinton as well.

[petelegory]

Waterboarding is nothing compared to the butt rapings and beatings that happen in U.S. prisons.

[Chubearishere]

GO GET 'EM MR PRESIDENT! WOOOT!

[3star2nr]

yup Obama do the right thing.

Prosecute cheney next

[lildwayne21]

That's not going to happen

[swansandtyphus]

In the Republic of Ireland, suspected terrorists involved in the Provisional IRA were tried and sentenced by specially appointed non-jury courts and incarcerated in segregated maximum security prison blocks. In Britain, IRA terrorists suspects in the past and Islamist terrorists today are tried by judge and jury and sentenced to the same high security prisons as other criminals.

The Guantanamo system is needlessly harsh and the use of enhanced interrogation or torture was not necessary.

[RantingTrent]

Guantanamo has been a stain on the honor of this country for far too long. I look forward to it's closing.

[petelegory]

The reason why Guatanamo has been a stain on the U.S. is because of liberal media making it a stain. You disagreed so much with the previous administration, you stop of nothing even ruin America's image just to prove a point. I'm not a bush fan but trying to make an issue about this is just hurting our image. Why do you want America to have a bad image anyways? Would you try to hurt your mothers reputation like that?

[JointBuster]

let the prisoners go in peace. they miss their families

[cyklonb1989]

some of those are fucking terrorists you noob.

[3star2nr]

operative word is "SOME"

[ladylordess]

Those who were not a threat have already been removed during the Bush/Cheney admin. All of those that are left are a threat to our security.

[swansandtyphus]

These prisoners are people who were involved in terrorist attacks and plots against the United States. They should be tried by law and sentenced if they are found guilty of these crimes

Releasing them so they can commit further acts of terrorism is total insanity.

[Chubearishere]

You REALLY belief we are looking and trying to release criminals? You really think Obama is trying to bring terrorists here to be our neighbors? then you've got to be one of the glen beck morons roaming this earth.

How else are we supposed to try and sentence them by law if we dont' have them before a court of law but instead just keep people in some weird limbo.

They committed crimes in on this nation and they should be imprisoned in this nation under our rules and laws.

[ladylordess]

I slept better when I knew Cheney was protecting our country!!!!!! The terrorists think we look weak because of this president.

[3star2nr]

who cares what the terrorist thinks? We are americans we shouldnt fear them they should fear US!

[ladylordess]

Exactly!!!!! THEY SHOULD fear US, but they DO NOT because of Barrack.

[Chubearishere]

... who exactly is "they". I'm hoping you're talking about terrorist that seek to do us harm. The ones that operate mainly in the Afgan/Pakistan boarders.

Cause if that's what you're talking about that you'd know that yes, they are frikgen scared cause Obama is focusing on them now and not misleading the American public about some axis of evil BS

Bombs have been raining down in that region more than ever under Bush and they're scared to hell. It's only a matter of time before we push them out.

[3star2nr]

oh because we no longer do enhanced interogation TORTURE we are all of a sudden not inteimidating to terrorists? Do you even know about the military might of the US?

Stop being a terrified wimp.

Let them try!

[Chubearishere]

Yes, you felt safe with Cheney murdering hundreds of thousands of people and creating millions of Kids who saw America kill their mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles and families

... and you think these kids won't be looking for revenge? You think if Iraq did to us what we did to them, our kids would let bygones be bygones?

Riiiight. Bush/Cheney not only made us insanely unsafe but created an unsafe world for our kids and grandkids to live in.

Use your brain gaddamn it.

[Ken2234]

I cant believe it, people are very naive and don't understand the impact our military does. You are absolutely right, we where more safe before we stuck our noses in the middle east. Our fellow Americans need to realize our repercussions and the hate we cause to our own nation. It makes me sick when I think about whole families getting obliterated, and for what? A FAKE FUCKING WAR?

[frankgon4]

@Chubearishere Blanket statement. Provide details. Who, What millions, when , where, How, etc. Otherwise more political rhetoric with backing up statement.

I don't feel safe with either party. Neither seem to know what they are doing.

[lilshanaynay]

@Chubearishere terrorists deserve to be fucking killed. they don't deserve rights.

[PleaseSeeThis]

@lilshanaynay sorry, they deserve a FAIR trial and if one cant give them that, who is the terrorist?

[lilshanaynay]

@PleaseSeeThis the person killing innocent people is the terrorist. aka "THE ONE WHO DESERVES TO BE KILLED"

[PleaseSeeThis]

@lilshanaynay well in the USA there used to be a thing called innocent until proven guilty. so according to centuries old US law. those being killed are innocent because they have not been "PROVEN" guilty. SO who is doing the killing?

[SkyDaddy7]

You are soooo NAIVE!!

[FoShizzle951]

Obama better respect the right of habeas corpus.

[AnthraxMuffin]

Seems like he's making the right choice, don't release prisoners that are suspected to be highly dangerous just because you've mistreated them, try and correct the situation as much as possible.

[SkyDaddy7]

Exactly...However, these simple minded right wing nuts think the show "24" is real and that is how you get things done!

They need to stop watching FOX News & listening to Cheney.

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

let them go... bush is a fucking IDIOT! all those arrested are TALIBAN! guantanamo is a racist way of some sick anti muslim message. besides, guantanamo is part of CUBA! give that back too!

[ecwaufisxtreme]

When Palin becomes POTUS in 2013, she will REOPEN Gitmo and send all the worst prisoners and captured terrorists BACK to Gitmo.

[shenmueryu]

Ask Palin what Gitmo is now she will think it is a TV show or something...doesnt matter who is in office. They do what private interest tells them to do

[AriasFco]

Bureaucracy is one of the goverment cancer... if a goverment isn't a cancer itself.