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Guantanamo Bay: Obama Announces Plan to Close Controversial Detention Facility
NBC ^ | Feb 23, 2016

Posted on 02/23/2016 7:54:27 AM PST by nuconvert

President Barack Obama on Tuesday presented a long-awaited plan to Congress to shut down the controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, insisting that keeping the prison open is "contrary to our values."

"It's been clear that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security," Obama said from the Roosevelt Room at the White House. "It undermines our standing in the world."

The plan, which has been on Obama's agenda since he took office in 2009, hinges on the transfer of between 30 and 60 detainees to U.S. soil, and suggesting several possible locations in South Carolina, Kansas and Colorado. The rest of the 91 detainees at the prison would be sent to other countries.

There are currently 35 detainees eligible for transfer, and the plan

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cuba; gitmo; gitmoclosing; guantanamo; obama; obamagitmo
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To: nuconvert

Articles of Impeachment should be drafted immediately. I don’t care if he only has 10 months left. Expedite the hearings.


61 posted on 02/23/2016 8:45:42 AM PST by hollyweed
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To: nuconvert

Imprisoning killers and terrorists is “contrary to our values”?


62 posted on 02/23/2016 8:47:37 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: butlerweave
And don't forget the Muslim Brotherhood connections.

The Muslim Brotherhood Comes to the White House

63 posted on 02/23/2016 8:51:07 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: nuconvert
More violent terrorist killers to be released to kill and rape, building up Obama’s Islamic Terror army.

Obama will attempt and probably be successful in giving Gitmo to Cuba.

A big mistake.

64 posted on 02/23/2016 8:54:15 AM PST by Syncro (Obama's plan to destroy America is well under way-God please intervene)
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To: BuffaloJack

General Pershing style!


65 posted on 02/23/2016 8:56:58 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: butlerweave

I posted the same thing only without a date before reading any replies.

You may very well be correct.

Help the brothers (Muslim Brotherhood also) sure, but more to undermine the ability of the USA to protect itself.


66 posted on 02/23/2016 8:57:51 AM PST by Syncro (Obama's plan to destroy America is well under way-God please intervene)
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To: nuconvert

Send them to the Land of Obama — either Hawaii or Kenya.


67 posted on 02/23/2016 8:58:21 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: ScottinVA

He can try to give Alaska back to Russia, but he has no authority.


68 posted on 02/23/2016 8:59:51 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: nuconvert; All

What gives him the right to give away a part of the United States of America?

Nothing, this must be stopped.


69 posted on 02/23/2016 9:00:25 AM PST by Syncro (Obama's plan to destroy America is well under way-God please intervene)
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To: nuconvert

Does Congress have a say in this?

This guy shouldn’t unilaterally be able to do this.


70 posted on 02/23/2016 9:12:06 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I suggest the most secure building in the world. The white house


71 posted on 02/23/2016 9:13:05 AM PST by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Does Congress have a say in this?

Mitch is sounding Mitch-tough at the moment.

But just give him a little time.

72 posted on 02/23/2016 9:13:35 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: nuconvert

Well, it certainly is contrary to HIS values.


73 posted on 02/23/2016 9:20:35 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Empireoftheatom48
Wait until he travels to Cuba, that's when he announces his intention to return Guantanamo to Cuba.
74 posted on 02/23/2016 9:20:44 AM PST by Rummy2
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To: Pinkbell

His home state balked under a D governor . . . how much more will they reject the idea under an R?


75 posted on 02/23/2016 9:22:00 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Yes, about 36 hours seems to be his breaking point.

I tried and I tried folks, but they were too formidable, in their minority numbers...

76 posted on 02/23/2016 9:24:36 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: nuconvert

Obama wants to gift the Cuban thugs who run the hellhole...


77 posted on 02/23/2016 9:39:12 AM PST by GOPJ ("Please explain why Hillary Clinton felt the need to own a private server." H.A. Goodman - Salon)
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To: nuconvert

Oh, hell no.


78 posted on 02/23/2016 9:59:13 AM PST by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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79 posted on 02/23/2016 10:03:20 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: nuconvert

Controversial to who?

To the Islamic terrorists and their sympathizers?

Well okay, but I’m not here to make their lives easier.

Leave it open, and let it remain highly controversial to them.

Screw the sympathizers...


80 posted on 02/23/2016 10:04:29 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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