I mean, for crying out loud:
President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday.
With debate looming on Obama’s spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo’s 241 detainees.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the proposed changes to the bill were to be unveiled later.
The administration has yet to develop a plan for what to do with the detainees, and Obama’s promise to close the facility is facing strong GOP opposition.
It appears to be a tactical retreat. Once the administration develops a plan to close the facility, congressional Democrats are likely to revisit the topic, provided they are satisfied there are adequate safeguards.
But this is the American gulag! The place where Nazi-like Bush-bots ruthlessly torture people picked up at random for nothing at all! How can Democrats refuse to fund the closing of this miserable, inhuman hell hole?
Oh, because the campaign against Gitmo was just political BS designed to slander Bush and help Democrats to win – they don’t really want these terrorists on the loose and/or getting ACLU representation in American courts. I mean, are you kidding me? Did you leftists really think that (a) Gitmo was the horror your leaders said it was and (b) that anyone with any sense at all wanted to close the place? To be sure, it will eventually be closed – some time after November of 2012 when it can’t affect Obama’s political fortunes, plus or minus, ever again.
Won’t close it now. Won’t admit they were wrong. Of course, you lefty foot soldiers, just what will you do now? Is it too much to ask that you start thinking?
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