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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i think Obama takes any chance to get rid of the people in Gitmo, he probably would have given them 10 in exchange if they had asked for it
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He could've gotten rid of gitmo years ago. This was a political move to get the press to stop talking about the VA scandal.
He rushed this deal through because just before this, every news story was about the VA Hospitals in the US all being fucked up and veterans dying on waitlists, well actually these veterans dying weren't even technically on wait lists - the hospitals were doing some shenanigans so they would hit bonus incentives for reducing patient lead time. This was the biggest story in the states for the entire week before Obama did this.
Then this story came out, and the US press stopped covering that scandal.
