Because in this, as in everything else related to the War on Terrorism, Bush was right, liberals are wrong:
(White House Counsel) Craig said Thursday that some of his early assumptions were based on miscalculations, in part because Bush administration officials and senior Republicans in Congress had spoken publicly about closing the facility. “I thought there was, in fact, and I may have been wrong, a broad consensus about the importance to our national security objectives to close Guantanamo and how keeping Guantanamo open actually did damage to our national security objectives,” he said…
To translate from the liberalese: “heck, we were told over and over again by the liberal leadership and the MSM that closing Gitmo would be easy and was necessary…who knew that President Bush was right about this?”
A lot of assumptions were built up on the left after 9/11 – foremost among then being that President Bush was wrong about everything. This was not an accurate assessment of the situation – and now Obama and Co are caught…a leftist base which is still demanding that all of Bush be undone (because they really believe that Bush was wrong about everything – its what their masters have told them, and “gullible” doesn’t begin to describe rank-and-file leftists) standing against the sheer common sense of having a prison in which to hold people who would murder millions, if they got a chance. Obama is spinning between both of them – and I firmly believe that no real decision will be made on Gitmo until after election day, 2012.
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