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Where's the Outrage: 1 Year Later, Gitmo Not Closed
Publius Forum ^ | 02/02/10 | Warner Todd Huston

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...


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; obama; terrorism
Obama lies about his signature issue and the media is silent.
1 posted on 02/02/2010 9:52:37 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Where's the Outrage: 1 Year Later, Gitmo Not Closed

Outrage from who? The commie left? They and Castro are the ones who want it closed.

2 posted on 02/02/2010 9:56:11 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Just another example of why puppets don’t make good Presidents!!!


3 posted on 02/02/2010 9:59:08 AM PST by Stayfree (Patriotic Americans United.com also operates The Obama Disaster.com!!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Like all liberal grand schemes, it doesn't have to actually work. It just has to be a nice idea.

He intended to close gitmo. That was nice. Europe loves us now.

4 posted on 02/02/2010 10:01:00 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ETL; Mobile Vulgus; PJ-Comix; Charles Henrickson
Oh, the outrage is there on the commie left. It's just that the DU/KOS/Huffy communities get little attention for their rants from the MSM (the MSM wants to keep them hidden), unlike over at DUmmie FUnnies...
5 posted on 02/02/2010 10:01:17 AM PST by bcsco (Obama is the navel of his own universe.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Rush predicted this.


6 posted on 02/02/2010 10:01:43 AM PST by zorro8987
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The media now realizes that it must be maintained as a place to put conservatives when the SHTF, so they’re shutting up!


7 posted on 02/02/2010 10:07:05 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: bcsco

But we even have conservative commentators who seem disappointed that the Obamunist hasn’t fulfilled his promise of closing Club Gitmo.


8 posted on 02/02/2010 10:24:30 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
I am Outraged
9 posted on 02/02/2010 10:50:57 AM PST by Waverunner ( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

10 posted on 02/02/2010 10:55:45 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


11 posted on 02/02/2010 10:55:59 AM PST by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

12 posted on 02/02/2010 10:56:46 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Mobile Vulgus
"No One Cares About Gitmo Any More!"


13 posted on 02/02/2010 11:14:17 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Obama is a LIAR!


14 posted on 02/02/2010 12:01:41 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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