Posted on 02/02/2010 9:52:33 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
One of the first things that Barack Obama did after being swept into office on the wings of "hopenchange" was to sign an executive order that would close the terrorist detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Obama gave a one-year deadline after which he triumphantly informed us the facility would be closed. Well, we are at one year plus ten days after the signing of the order and Gitmo is still open. Yet few stories expressing outrage about this lapsed promise have made the rounds in the Old Media.
On January 22, 2009, Obama signed the Executive Order that gravely asserted that Gitmo would be closed "no later than 1 year from the date of this order." That was January 22, 2009. It is now February 1, 2010. I'd say a year and ten days after the order was signed just might constitute more than "no later than one year," wouldn't you?
Naturally, last year when Obama signed this order the Old Media covered it quite heavily. It was big news and was represented as an example of Obama's fulfilling a campaign promise. All one need do is type "close Guantanamo executive order" into Google and page after page of Old Media coverage of the signing of the EO will be discovered....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Outrage from who? The commie left? They and Castro are the ones who want it closed.
Just another example of why puppets don’t make good Presidents!!!
He intended to close gitmo. That was nice. Europe loves us now.
Rush predicted this.
The media now realizes that it must be maintained as a place to put conservatives when the SHTF, so they’re shutting up!
But we even have conservative commentators who seem disappointed that the Obamunist hasn’t fulfilled his promise of closing Club Gitmo.
Like most other conservatives, I don’t want the enemy combatant detention facility at Gitmo closed.
I’m just ticked off at the MSM and their double standards and deliberate lack of reporting. The overhyped reports of torture as a method of embarassing Bush bordered on propaganda.
Let all Americans, liberal and conservative, just admit the truth...Gitmo was a good idea and reports of mistreatment were largely unsubstantiated. Leave these dangerous people outside of our borders. Bringing them to NYC for a civilian trial is just about the biggest boneheaded decision that I can recall.
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