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Didn't Obama want Gitmo closed down? I remember that being part of his campaigning, if I'm not mistaken. What happened?
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He instituted a series of moves to close it down, but the problems were (to be brief):
1) Trials against people who have been torturred are... difficult. Information obtained from the people who were tortured is not admissable. This leaves us with people who we know are terrorists, but we can't try because Bush's FUBAR tactics, and we just can't let go... because they're terrorists.
2) Gitmo was such a hellhole people who were sent there on false pretentions (which happened quite a bit, as telling a tribal society, "Point out the terrorist and we'll give you money!" has obvious negative implications) - and who were innocent - have often times turned to terrorism once being freed. Whoopsy daisy!
3) Say you want to release someone. Great. Good luck finding a country who wants to take them in.
4) Those who are guilty, or can't be tried, have few other places they can go. They've begun renovations on a Super-Maximum Security Prison in NW Illinois for this purpose.
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It's really amazing how Bush managed to screw up Conservatism so badly.