May 28, 2009

Gitmo, the economic driver

One of President Barack Obama’s campaign pledges was to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He’s since kept that pledge and recently requested $80 million from Congress to do so. The U.S. Senate’s 90-6 vote, in a rare bipartisan effort, refused to provide funding for Gitmo’s closure thus handing him his first major political setback as president.

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