Gitmo is still open, So was Obama lying or was Bush right?

Ok Sherman, let’s step into the WABAC machine and return to the headline of two years ago.


January 22, 2009

Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility

Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.

During a signing ceremony at the White House, Obama reaffirmed his inauguration pledge that the United States does not have "to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals."

Now fast forward to today’s headlines

Obama restarts Guantanamo trials

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.

Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year, a deadline that came and went without him ever setting a new one.

So, Was President Obama being something other than honest back in 2009 when he signed that executive order. I mean, did he know all along that the much maligned prison would not only be kept open but that the military-style tribunals for suspected terrorists would resume as well?

OR?

Did the President come to realize over time that his predecessor George W. Bush was absolutely, 100% right on target when it came to holding dangerous terrorists indefinitely in a secure, offshore location and trying them as enemy combatants.

It has to be one or the other doesn’t it?

What do you think?