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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
I still don't see how one can bash Bush on Gitmo, but not bash Obama. We'll agree to disagree on that score...
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I think he did pander and overstate what he could do... my gut is that he has not been adding a huge number of new detainees, and I suspect, that if they are most are not random targets... a lot of the early heat on GWB about Gitmo was that it was more of a wide cast net, that has been thinned down... many needed/deserve to be there; many did not... that's why Bush got crucified for it...
think progress is not my 'trusted source' but I see the same number in two articles... 171, down from 779; it doesn't say how many added, but my sense is not many....
you view at as 'doing the same thing' I see them as one ordering the drinks and one stuck with the tab.....
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