Comments on: The Real Guantanamo Bay http://www.redstate.com/towdogincal/2009/11/16/the-real-guantanamo-bay/ Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: civil_truth http://www.redstate.com/towdogincal/2009/11/16/the-real-guantanamo-bay/#comment-738 civil_truth Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:16:58 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/towdogincal/?p=846#comment-738 Castro has wanted it back, and for decades the hard left has agitated to turn it over - but haven't been able to get Congress to go along because of the obvious military advanatage of having an American base on the Cuban mainland. More recently, the use of Guantanamo as a holding place for terrorists has made if physically impossible to turn over this base. Hence, with a large Democratic and dominance of the hard left in the current Congress, the left has its best opportunity in a couple of generations to surrender the land - but only if it can clear out the prisoners first. Hence the longstanding campaign against Guantanamo as a prison during Bush's term - and the rush to clear out people before the 2010 elections. Castro has wanted it back, and for decades the hard left has agitated to turn it over – but haven’t been able to get Congress to go along because of the obvious military advanatage of having an American base on the Cuban mainland.

More recently, the use of Guantanamo as a holding place for terrorists has made if physically impossible to turn over this base.

Hence, with a large Democratic and dominance of the hard left in the current Congress, the left has its best opportunity in a couple of generations to surrender the land – but only if it can clear out the prisoners first.

Hence the longstanding campaign against Guantanamo as a prison during Bush’s term – and the rush to clear out people before the 2010 elections.

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