Despite doing exactly nothing to actually close the facility, and loudly praising Congress for defunding his first pledge to do so for lacking an actual plan, the White House insists President Obama totally wants to close Guantanamo Bay, and that it is entirely the fault of Congress that the facility remains open.
“It is the president’s view that facility ought to be closed,” insisted Press Secretary Jay Carney, accusing Congress of raising “obstacles” to the closure that kept President Obama from fulfilling his campaign promise.
President Obama promised to close the facility within a year of taking office, but after issuing a single, ill-defined plan more or less scrapped the matter. Earlier this year, he shut down the only office involved in considering the shut down, guaranteeing that no officials will be involved in trying to close the site throughout President Obama’s second term.
The issue has become more serious recently, as detainees, many of them cleared for release for years, engaged in hunger strikes to protest their continued detention, and over the weekend troops cracked down on detainees, forcing hunger strikers into solitary confinement, sparking a clash with them.
And of course the White House omits any mention of the fact that it was President Obama's decision not to return the 60+ Yemeni prisoners to Yemen (even though they had been cleared for release from further detention) after the terrorist bombing attempt by a Yemeni unrelated to any of the prisoners at Gitmo. Obama is happy to take the credit for summarily killing (alleged) terrorists, but he apparently feels no responsibility for freeing prisoners whom he knows to be innocent of any wrongdoing.
Obama will say and do anything to shift the blame from his spineless actions to some other genie.
This Nobel Peace Prize winner is the most gutless of all American Presidents and will go down in history as the most shameless.