Posted on 07/26/2015 11:56:09 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
During Monday’s flag-raising ceremony at the newly reopened Cuba embassy in Washington, D.C., Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez made a point to note to reporters that the reestablishment of diplomatic relations would not be complete for the communist dictatorship without the “return” of the entire Guantánamo Bay military base to Cuban sovereignty.
With the continued existence of a prison on the military base arguably the most major blight of President Obama’s record in the eyes of his liberal base, could handing it off to a rogue state be the President’s way to finally keep his promise to “close” Gitmo?
“The historic events we are living today will only make sense with the removal of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, which causes so much deprivation and damage to our people, the return of occupied territory in Guantanamo, and respect for the sovereignty of Cuba,” Rodríguez told reporters. His relatively conciliatory statements otherwise contrasted significantly with what was published in the pages of Cuban state newspaper Granma, where a bevy of celebrity attendees to the ceremony referred to the flag-raising as a “victory for our people.”
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Ending the lease on the base entirely would, of course, make the detention center go away. Whether President Obama can single-handedly end the American lease on Guantánamo Bay is a matter lawyers will contentiously debate. At least one attorney–Thomas Wilner, an expert on foreign policy–tells the Spanish-language CubaDebate that President Obama “does have the unilateral authority to do this,” though “it is highly unlikely that any head of state, Democrat or Republican, would end a deal like this without at least having the tacit approval of Congress.”
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He will probably pay them for back rent too.
Loadem into C-130s.
At 25,000 feet, put crew on oxygen.
Depressurize C-130.
Wait 30 minutes.
Slow down, open cargo ramp, apply climb power, raise nose.
Islamic terrorists fall out of C-130, become shark food.
Problem solved!
I believe Congress has a say in whether Gitmo is returned to the Cubans?
Ophonybama cannot just “give it back” on his own, I don’t believe.
If he can “give away” US property without Congress approval, we are in some really deep shit!
no diplomatic relations until Cuban citizens are free to travel here. No, they can’t have Guantanamo back. Yes, we look forward to recovering all those classic American cars that they drive!!!!
What’s the use of closing Guantanamo. The entire country will still be a prison.
Saaaaaay. That’s a heck of an idea! Maybe there is some obscure fishing treaty we can use as a pretext for giving it back to mexico?
I doubt the President has the “the unilateral authority” to give away Gitmo. But since when does Obamo let that stop him?
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