Hillary Clinton: "Guantanamo has inspired more terrorists than it has imprisoned."

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Jesse Lehrich ?@JesseLehrich
Hillary Clinton: "Guantanamo has inspired more terrorists than it has imprisoned. It has not strengthened our national security; it has damaged it."

[djean111]

1. And just think - if we had not gone into Iraq in the FIRST place........n/t

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2. non sequitur

...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]

3. I never thought I would find an online comment section where there is someone who actually knows...

... what they are talking about.

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[dr60omg]

5. Actually it is far more complex than the memo to the President let's look at some of her votes

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 ?????