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I figured that rather than trust any of you clearly partisan windbags I should go look it up for myself.
The bottom line is that neither party really wants to close it that badly but it keeps getting brought up to try to embarass Obama over a failed campaign promise. Naturally Obama's supporters counter by blaming the other party.
Hey, obama promised lots of things...all politicians do.
On 07th January 2011, President Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which, in part, placed restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to foreign countries, thus impeding the closure of the facility.[17] U.S. Secretary of Defense Gates said during testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on 17th February 2011: "The prospects for closing Guantanamo as best I can tell are very, very low given very broad opposition to doing that here in the Congress
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On 20 May 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90–6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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In November 2012, the Senate voted 54–41 to prevent detainees being transferred to the United States
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Originally Posted by Minethatbird
Did Republicans promise to close Gitmo? I hadn't heard this.
Maybe not, but they have alleged for years that they favor less government/less spending while demonstrating their lying hypocritical ways on an almost daily basis.
Maybe not, but they have alleged for years that they favor less government/less spending while demonstrating their lying hypocritical ways on an almost daily basis.
This is perhaps the largest deflection fail that I've ever seen on this forum. Congrats!
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