Wolosky, Lee - short clip - BiPartisanSupportforClosingGtmo
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- | It's very important to remember | 0:03 |
that closing Guantanamo was a bi-partisan policy | 0:05 | |
until just the past few years. | 0:09 | |
President Bush released over 500 people | 0:13 | |
from Guantanamo without the security assurances | 0:16 | |
that we put in place and that I described here today. | 0:19 | |
He concluded by the end of his second term that, | 0:23 | |
and he wrote this in his memoir's decision points, | 0:27 | |
that it was important to close Guantanamo | 0:29 | |
because it was a recruitment tool. | 0:32 | |
And for people the people who | 0:34 | |
were inciting hatred against the United States, | 0:36 | |
and that was a distraction for our allies. | 0:38 | |
That's basically what he wrote. | 0:41 | |
So it was his policy to close Guantanamo. | 0:42 | |
McCain, John McCain, during the 2008 Presidential Election, | 0:46 | |
said that he was in favor of closing Guantanamo. | 0:49 | |
Obama said that he wanted to close Guantanamo. | 0:52 | |
So, it's only been in the past several years, | 0:55 | |
that closing Guantanamo has become a political hot potato. | 1:00 | |
So we talked about all these things with our friends | 1:06 | |
and partners and you know, fortunately, we were able to | 1:08 | |
move a lot of people out of Guantanamo | 1:13 | |
with their cooperation and assistance. | 1:17 |
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