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Obama: I Should Have Closed Guantánamo Bay on Day One
Mediaite ^ | 3/18/15 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 03/18/2015 6:37:54 PM PDT by Nachum

During a Q&A session following his speech on middle class economics to the City Club of Cleveland Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama revealed on thing he would do differently if he could start his presidency over knowing what he knows now. “I think I would have closed Guantánamo on the first day,” he told the crowd. The reason he didn’t, Obama said, is that at the time there was bipartisan agreement that the detention facility should be closed. Instead of making it happen right way, the president chose to sign an executive order that tasked a group with figuring out

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KEYWORDS: bay; closed; cuba; guantnamo; obama
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1 posted on 03/18/2015 6:37:54 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 03/18/2015 6:38:12 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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Obama is only criticizing Obama because he’s racist.


3 posted on 03/18/2015 6:40:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Nachum

Right, and some of those released gems killed many more of our guys back in the fight.
We should have traded Obama for anyone or anything the first day instead.


4 posted on 03/18/2015 6:40:08 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Nachum

US media moral score card:

R POTUS >>> Terrorist in jail laughed at with underwear on head >>> EVIL

D POTUS >>> Terrorist killed with Predator drone >>> GOOD


5 posted on 03/18/2015 6:42:24 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Nachum

The Islamic terrorists HIRED criminal withHOLDER’s
lawfirms. Millions have been paid for the treason,
and the Moslem Impostor-by-Pelosi’s-Fraud MUST deliver.


6 posted on 03/18/2015 6:43:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Only the white part can be racis.


7 posted on 03/18/2015 6:43:22 PM PDT by The Toll
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Especially since it’s even odds that he’ll wind up behind bars there.

The right wing DOJ under a RIGHT WING POTUS is going after these communist scumbags from top to bottom.


8 posted on 03/18/2015 6:47:25 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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So his biggest regret is the “discomfort” of America’s enemies. That tells you what he things of America. I’m with Giuliani. The man does not love America.


9 posted on 03/18/2015 6:50:02 PM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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I would have rather that Obama had just checked in himself on day one.


10 posted on 03/18/2015 6:51:37 PM PDT by Lowell1775
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If we are going to play “Soulda-Woulda” I say Barack (or whoever he is) shoulda stayed in Kenya.


11 posted on 03/18/2015 6:58:12 PM PDT by Iron Munro
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With any luck, 0.00 will be spending his time, post-White Mosque, at Gitmo, enjoying halal eats and perhaps bacon with every meal. Sharing facilities with his fellow muhamedan domestic terrorists.

Of course, all this in a perfect world.


12 posted on 03/18/2015 6:59:18 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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Obama: I Should Have Closed Guantánamo Bay on Day One ,but I only found out where it was in my second term


13 posted on 03/18/2015 7:00:14 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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Woulda....Coulda....Shoulda...


14 posted on 03/18/2015 7:00:34 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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"Obama: I Should Have Closed Guantánamo Bay on Day One"

Should have closed his mouth on day one.

15 posted on 03/18/2015 7:11:15 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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In a more perfect world Obama would be incarcerated in Guantánamo Bay prison.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 7:26:09 PM PDT by NoncompliantOne (Non Compliant)
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“Obama: I Should Have Closed Guantánamo Bay on Day One”
Should have closed his mouth on day one”

Umm .....closed his mouth around a 9 millimeter even better.


17 posted on 03/18/2015 7:27:56 PM PDT by DAC21
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0bama should never have been President of the United States.


18 posted on 03/18/2015 7:32:19 PM PDT by windsorknot
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No, you disgrace. You should have resigned on day one.


19 posted on 03/18/2015 7:39:46 PM PDT by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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To: Nachum

And we should have boarded up the White House the same day.


20 posted on 03/18/2015 7:48:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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