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NBC: 'Hopes' of Gitmo Terror Detainees Were 'Crushed' By Obama's Failure to Close Prison
MRC ^
| Friday, March 22, 2013
| Kyle Drennen
Posted on 03/22/2013 9:52:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In a report for Thursday's NBC Today, investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff reported on plans for a $150 million renovation of the Guantanamo Bay prison still housing 166 terror detainees and sympathetically described how "despite improvements in recent years" of the facility, "the detainees' hopes of getting released were crushed when President Obama stopped talking about closing it."
Isikoff noted that some of the detainees were "engaged in a hunger strike...as an attempt to regain attention." A sound bite played of new the commanding general of the prison expressing his frustration with President Obama: "Nothing in the inauguration speech about closing it. Nothing in the State of the Union. You know, he's not re-staffing the office that was, you know, focused on closing or transferring."
Isikoff forwarded the Obama administration defense: "White House officials say they're still committed to closing Gitmo as the President once promised....But they say their hands are tied by Congress..."
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TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cuba; gitmo; gtmo; hopeychangey; waronterror
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posted on
03/22/2013 9:52:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
03/22/2013 9:52:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: SunkenCiv
I love how the leftwing bed wetters all cried about how closing Gitmo was the most important thing in the world during the Bush Administration. It's very existence made us worse than the Nazis in the eyes of the world.
Actual DU screen capture:
Then Obama decided not to close it and the pukey little hypocrits timidly agreed not to care about it anymore.
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posted on
03/22/2013 9:58:50 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: SunkenCiv
The things you read when you’re fresh out of peanut butter.
To: SunkenCiv
Hunger strike my ass. These devils are playing Br’er Rabbit. They never had it so good.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:02:27 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(Long ago Huxley, Orwell and Rand warned us about 0banana's USA.)
To: SunkenCiv
$150 million renovation of the Guantanamo Bay prison still housing 166 terror detaineesHow about just have the guy from Terminix do an hour there and we have no terror detainees at a cost of $150?
To: bigheadfred
Old fashion firing squad would save even more money.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:10:13 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(The rabbit hole that Obama is leading us down just gets deeper and deeper.)
To: SunkenCiv
Poor little terrorists did not get help from our Marxist savior. Marxism has mass murders so you terrorists would be only side notes to the rest of us who Zero seems to want dead. Good, evil, the progressives have it backward.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:13:15 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
To: SunkenCiv
So they had their villas and small businesses all picked out in the Caribbean?
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:16:03 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: doc1019
Yeah. Congress sucks. oh wait...what thread is this???
To: SunkenCiv
American Muslims vote for Obama 100%
These prisoners are the walking dead.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:24:57 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
To: SunkenCiv
Good old Hope & Change disappoints another constituency block.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:26:48 PM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: bigheadfred
LOL fred ... now that's funny.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:30:02 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: SunkenCiv
I love the pictures. Kind of makes one think they are on a spaceship.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:31:59 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: SunkenCiv
they just built\renovated soccer fields for 750k
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:33:09 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(obama - Fredo smart)
To: bigheadfred
fred ... I'm blaming this on you ... LOL
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:33:12 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: SunkenCiv; bigheadfred; everyone
My apology SunkenCiv and bigheadfred. Love you’all!
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:35:46 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: SunkenCiv
CLOSE GITMO NOW!!!
(With the jihadis still inside)
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:36:06 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
To: SunkenCiv
Do they have a Hallmark card for that?
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:38:31 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
To: SunkenCiv
Isikoff is the same fool who falsely reported that Gitmo guards had 'flushed a Koran down a toilet'. That sparked a bunch of deadly riots in Pakistan and elsewhere, a few years ago.
He should go flush himself.
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posted on
03/22/2013 10:50:10 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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