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Congress repeatedly blocked him because, as usual, they are packed with opportunistic demagogues who love fearmongering to a large ignorant pants-shitting large segment of the public who they know are ignorant, gullible and cowardly enough to fall for such tripe. ...

This is spin.

Until December 2010, the Democrat-controlled Congress simply prohibited funds from being used to "release" prisoners into the territory of the United States without first providing a plan to Congress about the safety/necessity of doing so. See H.R. 2346 [111th] - Summary: Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (GovTrack.us)

Mr. Obama didn't lift a finger to transfer them to a facility in the U.S. or release them in his nearly two years in office. At the end of the last Congressional term, additional criteria were introduced into the current spending bill, which put restrictions on funding "transfer" as well. But that came after nearly two years of the administration doing nothing to keep its promise.

I think we can safely chalk this up as a broken promise ... particularly in light of the fact that it was supposed to be closed within one year.

Good to see indefinite detainment coming to an end...

Don't kid yourself. It's not going anywhere. http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/whit...ml#post1816560