Obama Vows to 'Do Everything I Can' to Close Guantanamo: CNN Interview
Source: Reuters
Obama vows 'do everything I can' to close Guantanamo: CNN interview
Sun Dec 21, 2014 8:06am EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. president Barack Obama said in a TV interview set for broadcast on Sunday that he will do "everything I can" to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after four Afghan detainees held there were sent home.
Obama promised to shut the internationally condemned prison when he took office nearly six years ago, saying it was damaging America's image around the world. But he has been unable to do so, partly because of obstacles posed by the U.S. Congress.
"I'm going to be doing everything I can to close it," Obama said on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley," program in an interview taped on Friday.
"It is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the world, the fact that these folks are being held," he said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0JZ0FY20141221
Renew Deal
(81,858 posts)Two things I am not surprised by are Cuba reconciliation and closing Gitmo. There is no way there are still prisoners there when Obama leaves office.
Republicans are so spiteful, the next republican president might find people to put into Gitmo.
Reter
(2,188 posts)If he needs congressional approval, he's not gonna get it. For the rest of his term, he will have a Republican majority.
Renew Deal
(81,858 posts)He will find a way. I don't think he's worried about it.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)line here.
mahannah
(893 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)within his power to close "gitmo" now....Then did he not have said "power" 6 years ago? Why did he wait 6 years to do it when when he had a way more "dem" congress 6 years ago?
Waiting until the GOP takes both houses seems futile to me...
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)once he finds his comfortable shoes.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)for more than a decade without even charging them with a crime. The closing of Gitmo doesn't mean very much to me if he just continues to hold those prisoners in a new location.
SnakeEyes
(1,407 posts)Considering he ran on closing Gitmo back in 2008