2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton: "Guantanamo has inspired more terrorists than it has imprisoned."
Jesse Lehrich @JesseLehrichHillary Clinton: "Guantanamo has inspired more terrorists than it has imprisoned. It has not strengthened our national security; it has damaged it."
djean111
(14,255 posts)bigtree
(85,998 posts)...GITMO also housed 9-11 suspects and accused combatants from Afghanistan.
Trying to blame Clinton for GITMO is absurd, especially citing her IWR vote. That vote may well be all sorts of wrong, but it has zero to do with the existence and persistence of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)... what they are talking about.
dr60omg
(283 posts)Let's go back to when she was a Senator and she was running against Senator Obama http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/01/barack-obama/clinton-changed-on-torture/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/upshot/the-senate-votes-that-divided-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders.html?_r=0 Note she voted to bar detainees from prisons in the United States
Although she did change her position during the 2008 election http://www.politico.com/story/2007/09/clinton-backs-off-support-for-torture-006050
And of course her position on GTMO which does not include other black op sites http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/sanders-praises-obama-gitmo-plan-clinton-stays-silent
It seems to me to be one of those problematic issues where she has changed sides contingent on ?????