Obama Pushes To Close Guantanamo Bay Prison

Calling the last 8 years a "season of fear", President Obama continued to push ahead with his plans to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison which has been holding hundreds of terror suspects without trial for many years.

The President made his speech in a building that houses copies of the constitution and the bill of rights. The President referenced those documents in his speech saying "We can not keep this country safe unless we enlist our most fundamental values"

Here is a summary of our twitter feed on the speech

"Our values have been our best national security asset". Enemies surrender to us in battles because they know they will treated well

"We have been the nation that shuts down torture chambers"

Our govt. made some hasty decisions based on fear rather than foresight. Trimmed facts- set aside principles as "luxuries"

Obama: "Ad hoc" ways to fight terrorism was neither legal or effective.

Obama: I banned the use of "enhanced techniques" of interrogation. - Not effective! (HUGE APPLAUSE)

Obama: Waterboarding undermines the rule of law and increases the will of our enemies to fight us, risks the lives of our troops.

Obama : Waterboarding did not advance our war against terrorism, it undermined it.

Obama on closing Gitmo: we had a total of 3 convictions of terrorist in 7 years. Meanwhile 500+ detainees were released by Bush.

Obama: Gitmo forced us to defend positions that undermined the rule of law.

Obama: Gitmo likely created more terrorists than it every contained. Cost of keeping it open are more than closing it.

Obama: Gitmo is a "misguided experiment" , a "mess" the Obama admin has to clean up.

Obama: we are not going to release anyone from Gitmo if it endangers our security.

Obama: whenever possible we will try terrorists in our federal courts.

Obama: Terrorists have been tried and convicted in our federal courts. Detainees from Gitmo will face the same.

Obama: Detainees that violate the rules of war will be tried by military commissions. This is the appropriate venue

Obama: This i...

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[frankj1000]

well, that's your retarded thinking, but the real weakness and naivety was Bushs war policy. The standing of your country has never been worse as in the Bush years. Almost the whole world hated Bush and his dangerous policies. Only now under Obama people being to again respect the US. These are the facts, if you want to ignore them do so, but then you are quite the idiot.

[frankj1000]

Your comment couldnt be further from the truth. The world laughed at Bush while it largely respects Obama. You might not agree with Obama, but you should at least acknowledge this truth.

[Balanceboardboy]

He is going to let them all go

[weho1]

@ryanking909780 You say you Spit on the U.S. President in time of war? Why don't you move to Iran?

[ryanking909780]

Fuck barock obama...wanting to close down a terrorist prison???WTF guys!!!!!!

Where the fuck is he going to put them???,,in a overcrowded state or federal penn???

OBAMA IS A POOR EXCUSE FOR A PRESIDENT..I SPIT ON HIM.

[mjhasdied1]

hey! at least he's trying that more then bush ever did!

[RoyalDemonforChrist]

what a liar

[roscoe85cj]

lol .. jesus wants you to pick up your room and leave the heavy lifting to big people

[yosoydame]

x.x lol funny I'm just against the cussing, be mad all you want. Jesus loves you =)

[roscoe85cj]

by all means lets let 'political correctness' dictate the tone of the debate while we roust the communists out of OUR whitehouse and close Gitmo and the Democrap corruption machine formerly known as ACORN

polite my butt !

[yosoydame]

could have been a little more polite about that.

[roscoe85cj]

Oh no, Barack O'BlahBlah breaks another promise to the libfucks that supported him ... NO JANUARY 2010 CLOSING FOR GITMO ! ... reality sucks eh ? .. you code pink pussies just got your first lesson