Paul Chehade - Obama's false promises about Guantánamo.

Paul Chehade – Obama’s false promises about Guantánamo.

BARACK OBAMA is promising to do something he had the last four years to do, and never did.

But it’s easy to answer “why” Guantánamo is still open today. Because the Obama administration has carried out virtually the same “war on terror” policies–often exactly the same policies–as its predecessors in the Bush administration, including the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantánamo. Many detainees are even cleared for release, but they instead remain consigned to the hell of the prison camp because of politics in the U.S.

Obama’s failure to close Guantánamo remains one of his most prominent broken promises to the millions of people who supported him in 2008 in the expectation that he would set a fundamentally different course from the Bush administration’s, including on the “war on terror.”During his campaign for the presidency, Obama criticized the Bush administration’s indefinite detentions at Guantánamo.

In January 2009, Obama signed an executive order requiring that the prison camp be closed within a year. ” In December of that same year, with the prison camp still open, Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and repeated his promise yet again in his acceptance speech. But years later, Guantánamo remains open, and the “standard bearer in the conduct of war” continues to inflict what human rights advocates describe as torture on the detainees who remain.

As Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald points out, Obama never actually proposed closing Guantánamo. Instead, his administration floated the idea of opening “Guantánamo in the Midwest”–transferring the prisoners to a defunct prison in Illinois. Once Republicans blocked that plan, the Obama administration stopped trying to close down Guantánamo–until now. As Greenwald wrote.

We want to get out of this place. Now…!!!!

Paul Chehade:.
Honor and Truth

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