ALERT! New Bullshit Meme Just used on MSNBC (on Andrea Mitchell)

The reporter used this line when being questioned about the closing of Gitmo: "Look, even President Bush wanted to close Guantamo"

If these meme gets repeated, we'll know the MSM is increasing efforts to rewrite history.

she is such an evil harpy.

because he wanted to close Gitmo (and made NO attempt to do so) we're suppose to believe he was really a reasonable, but misunderstood president?






And they kept us 'safe' AFTER 9/11.....

He did claim he wanted it closed, Just words, I know, still....

Clearly with Cheney's reinforcement of the program and the insistance of possibly using toture in the future had theyh had a hypothetical 3rd term they would of carried on as they were.

From
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-14-bush-gitmo_x.htm

"I'd like to close Guantanamo, but I also recognize that we're holding some people there that are darn dangerous and that we better have a plan to deal with them in our courts," Bush said at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden.

It was the second time in recent weeks that Bush has said he hoped to eventually shut down the prison, where 460 mostly Muslim foreigners are being held as unlawful enemy combatants.

The suicides on Saturday of two Saudis and a Yemeni, who hanged themselves with bedsheets, has increased pressure from groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to close the prison. European leaders renewed criticism of the facility and might press the point with Bush when they meet him in Vienna for a European Union summit on June 21.

..."No question, Guantanamo sends a signal to some of our friends — provides an excuse, for example, to say the United States is not upholding the values that they're trying to encourage other countries to adhere to," he said.
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EOM

to quit it.

cheap. He didn't do shit. This President is taking steps to do something with it...but you go ahead and crap on the President and lift bush up for what he "wanted" to do.

:eyes:

Hmm.

did I defend Bush.

"Original Message
Attack Obama, defend Bush?"

You take a shred of truth, and blow it all out of proportion.

Yes, bush *said* he wanted to close Gitmo. Did he ever act on it? Pfff.

Obama is *trying* to close Gitmo... but of course he's so stupid he can't see how cut and dry it is, like all of our expert geniuses here at DU.