Posted on 04/08/2013 1:11:37 PM PDT by haffast
Despite his 2008 campaign promise to close the U.S. government's detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama's administration last week announced plans to spend $195 million on renovation and new construction there—strongly implying that the nation’s taxpayers can expect to pay to imprison the center's 166 inmates, 86 of whom have been cleared of wrongdoing, for many years to come.
Initially, on Wednesday, General John F. Kelly, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, requested $150 million to $170 million for renovations to the prison complex, including $99 million for two barracks facilities, $12 million for a new mess hall, and millions more for consolidating scattered legal, medical and communications facilities. He also made a cryptic reference to “other projects that I couldn’t talk about here in the open but do have to do with replacing one of the camp facilities where some of the detainees are—special detainees are housed.”
Pressed for details, Lt. Cmdr. Ron Flanders, a Southcom spokesman, admitted that Southcom also needed an additional $49 million to build a new building at Guantánamo for so-called “high-value” detainees like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. That brings the total amount requested up to about $195.7 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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"Hagel echoed his predecessors, Leon Panetta, who said personnel costs had put the Pentagon on an "unsustainable course," and former Pentagon chief Robert Gates, who bluntly said in 2009 that "health care is eating the department alive.""
http://www.stripes.com/news/pentagon-struggles-with-high-cost-of-health-care-1.215545
I thought he was going to get us out of there.
Obama is an idiot.
I’m just guessing:
HDTV (65” LCD)
Al Jazeera 24/7
Waterbeds
iPhones
iPads
VPN Internet connections
800 sq. foot cells
Waterboard Resistance Training videos via YouTube
What Obama is really doing is stealing our taxpayer money to line his own pockets.
If the AllGov material is true, maybe we're going to spruce up the place a little before we hand it over to the Cubans in a couple of years. Dear Leader keeps his promise, adds to his "legacy"? Everybody happy happy.
You don't want want to leave the place in a mess do you? They might think poorly of us.
Documentation File on the harmful impact of the Counterculture of Obamanation on America.
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Barry Soetoro, aka B. Hussein Obama, 5 days before the end of GWB’s Presidential term, told ‘The Gullible’ the following: “We are five days away from FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!”
Going on 5 years now, the best friends that Obama could have had to help him achieve his above stated dastardly goal were the RINO leaderships in the US House and Senate, AND THEY ARE STILL IN POWER!
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IMHO, the Counterculture of Obamanation will continue to destroy America for as long as the US Congressional RINOs allow it to, and not one minute more!
If the effing elite liberals are on board with this - it’s going to be a ‘re-education camp’ for Christians.
...spruce up the place a little before we hand it over to the Cubans in a couple of years.
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That was my thought, as well. Also, possible money laundering going on.
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