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A good majority of the detainees were released and their charges were acquitted in their respective countries after they were re-located.

Did I ever say that this was acceptable? No. I was talking about him clearing out Guantanamo. Let's stay on topic here, buddy.

Osama Bin Laden declared war on the US. He was wanted dead or alive. There was no requirement to bring him in alive.

There were over 200 prisoners at Gitmo when Obama became President. That was cut in half by 2012, from there, the release of prisoners slowed down due to restrictions placed by the republican-led congress in budget bills. Now there's about 60 left with about 20 eligible for being released.

I never said anything about Trump, but since you brought him up. He has fully supported the idea of keeping Gitmo running, and encouraging torture and illegal interrogation methods on those detained at Gitmo. He also talked up placing even MORE people in Gitmo. So there's that.

Trump made so many grandiose promises while on the campaign trail(e.g. Eliminating/replacing Obamacare, defeating ISIS, term limits, lobbying ban, label China as currency manipulator, remove federal funding from 'Sanctuary Cities', travel bans, tax relief legislation, etc.), spouting off all of the things he was going to do in the first 100 days of his presidency. He has nobody to blame but himself for others pointing out his failures.

Well a fucking miracle is going to need to happen because his 100-day approval rating is one of the worst any president has had in modern times.

Indubitably.

Oh I agree completely. We have been fucking around with other countries' elections for decades. It really is karma coming to bite the CIA and the US Gov't in the ass.

Moving them to Thomson was supposed to at least clear out Gitmo for it's full shutdown. Dealing with their legal status was likely going to be played out after the move. In 2011, Obama started military trials for the remaining detainees in Guantanamo, but wanted to have them face trial in the States instead with military trials or civilian trials, but Republicans blocked him every time on this through budget bills.

Unfortunately, now that Trump's in charge, he's come out saying that he wants to keep Gitmo open to send the "Bad Dudes" from ISIS there. He's fully condoned outright torture of Gitmo prisoners, too.

I figured they would rather have Pence. At least with him you have a more stable lunatic than with Trump.

It's incredible how childish our congressmen are allowed to act. I'm glad to hear that there has been a rise in town halls where constituents are calling out their representatives for their unacceptable behavior. Unfortunately, the representatives evade the town halls and cower in fear of the retribution they deserve.

If this were the case the House Intelligence Committee Republicans wouldn't be dragging their feet on the Russia investigation.

They may not like Trump, but they hate the Democrats more, and if they were to start working with Democrats, they'd upset a good number of their voting base.

He actually WAS working on closing it down, by transferring detainees out of Guantanamo. He was making pretty good progress until Republicans took over congress under his watch. The Republican congress refused to produce a bill for Obama to sign that didn't restrict funds being used to continue the shut-down of Guantanamo. He had vetoed a number of bills that included language that restricted his ability to close Guantanamo, but they continued to push it on nearly every spending bill that came his way. He either had to sign the bills reluctantly, or go without funding for our military or our government in general.

Nobody on his staff realized just how complicated "The Cyber" really was, I suppose.

Continuous behaviors of ineptitude in the highest office of this land. With precedents like this being put in place, all of our future POTUS' don't even need to worry about lifting a finger in Washington.. You can just work on your golf game for four years on the taxpayer dime.

That's a Bingo!

I believe you're talking about PCP. That's what PCP does.

On a sidenote:
I've smoked since I was a teenager and have had edibles numerous times and not once have I ever considered jumping out a window, shooting myself, or driving like an idiot. All it makes me want to do is listen to music, eat some food and watch TV.

I sincerely apologize if this doesn't fit your perpetual ignorance of the true effects of marijuana.

Would you just shut the fuck up and smoke a joint, please? It will help with removing that extremely pointy stick from your ass.

So UK scientists run by different rules and can kill people carte blanche while administering psychedelic drugs with complete disregard for the Government?

It's still a controlled substance in the UK, where the studies were performed, much like the US. From doing some reading, they had received licenses after going through a bunch of red tape. Finding someone who'd be tightly monitored by the UK Gov't for the purpose of manufacturing the drugs is apparently mind-numbing.

They received licenses by the UK Gov't to administer the drugs. Now will you pull that stick from your ass, sir?