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doxydad

(1,363 posts) Fri Jun 6, 2014, 06:02 AM Jun 2014

What Republicans Don’t Want You to Know: 500 + Detainees Were Released from GITMO Under Bush

Yet another pointless, time eating, banal, boring exercise in exploring the depth of Republican hypocrisy and hysteria. This one is about OH MY GOD IMPEACHING OBAMA BECAUSE GITMO TRANSFEREES!

Republicans are acting as if Obama never should have done this. Senator [Ms.] Lindsey Graham is talking impeachment if Obama releases any more prisoners or tries once again to close Gitmo. Yet, in 2009, PolitiFact confirmed that “More than 500 Guantánamo detainees were released or transferred under Bush.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/05/500-detainees-released-transferred-guantanamo-george-w-bush.html

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What Republicans Don’t Want You to Know: 500 + Detainees Were Released from GITMO Under Bush (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP

Was any law requiring prior notice to Congress in effect then? merrily Jun 2014 #1

merrily

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1. Was any law requiring prior notice to Congress in effect then?

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 06:10 AM

Jun 2014

If not, doesn't that make the situations entirely different?

I don't want to make it seem like we're faulting Bush for letting people held in violation of the Constitution out of Torture Central Prison.

And when did Bush's conduct become the gold standard for judging Presidential behavior anyway?

I approve of the Bergdahl exchange, but some of the efforts being made to justify it are awful.

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