President Barack Obama will make a statement Tuesday about the status of Guantanamo Bay from the White House’s Roosevelt Room at 10:30 a.m. ET.
Watch the address live, via NBC News:
Obama To Make Statement On Guantanamo Bay At 10:30 AM ET
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February 23, 2016 8:32 a.m.
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What I´m hoping he does is announce that we´re going to give Gitmo back to the Cubans, whose land it is, and that in exchange, the Cubans handle repatriating the remaining prisoners. I wish we had a functioning gov that could give - or could have given, rather - these men a fair trial, but it´s way too late for that.
All the libertarian pro-civil liberties Miesite Paulbots’ hearts are a flutter, first they get to cheer on Apple defying a court order, now they get to cheer for the closing of Guantanamo. right?
Obama:
Hey haters, not only am I gonna nominate another SCOTUS justice, I’m about to close Guantanamo too. Cheers!
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Republicans keep saying Obama is a lame duck, but Obama doesn’t seem to know.
And at 10:35 AM heads on right will start to explode and brainless talking heads will claim how Obama is making us less safe . . . again. And somehow they will get a reference to Chamberlain into their talking points.
Trump will announce during a rally that not only would Guantanamo stay open if he was President, it would be stuffed so full of terrorists they’d be drowning in the ocean for lack of anywhere to be housed. And they’d be waterboarded daily. And they wouldn’t be permitted possession of the Koran. We’d be punching them. Taking them out on stretchers. Maybe lure their families to visit and them kill them in the visitor lobby. Add in your own inhumanities to suit.
The crowds roars!!! Yay!!! Harrumph!!!