Washington (CNN) - Attitudes about the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have changed dramatically since President Barack Obama took office, according to a new national poll. Support for closing the facility has dropped 12 points over the past 14 months, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey indicates.
Shortly before Obama's inauguration, 51 percent of Americans said they thought the facility in Cuba should be closed. Now that number is down to 39 percent, and six in ten believe the United States should continue to operate Guantanamo.
Gee, you think that might be because folks took a closer look at:
a) who was actually in the detention center;
b) what the proposals were to deal with said detainees; and/or
c) the recidivism rate of those released
and started to realize that having these folks released, either to be tried on US soil or sent home to their respective countries would be a Really Bad Thing?
It's one thing to sit in an ivory tower and pooh-pooh that evil Chimpy McBushhitler's claims that these are bad people, knowing full well that they'll never see the light of day with Darth Cheney pulling the strings. It's another thing entirely when Señor Hopey Changey, himself no stranger to terrorist connections, is poised to release a bunch of these "DEATH TO AMERICA" types into your sleepy little burg.
Especially when one considers that, under the much ballyhoo'd Geneva Convention, these bastards should have been shot on sight...
That is all.
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But... it's still Bush's fault, right?
The prospect of moving the ones who weren't released into our "backyard" made a difference in Illinois, I noticed.
I was able to get full attention from a few people by wondering aloud what was being done to harden the local schools in the small towns within helicopter flight of the proposed prison site on the Mississippi. After all, prior experience tells us that one way of getting your point across as an Islamic terrorist is to take and hold a school while demanding the release of your comrades, then kill everybody and then yourself when you're told no.
Breaker Morant said it best:
"We shot them under Rule 303."
Apparently, bad polls are yet another thing they inherited from the Bush administration
Meh- And they're STILL blaming Bush... sigh...
You folks missed the reason this is the way it is.
Just like the liberals walking the BLACK CAUCUS through the tea party protest in hopes of finding some racism. WHEN NOTHING happened like that ... oh well we will make it up.
Polosi and Odumba don't care about human rights ... they were uncle tomm'ing the detainees to get some votes. WE CALL THIS using Useful idiots.
Now that the Orange Jackets have served their purpose they intend to keep them there and maybe even add of few domestic terrorist like .....
YOU !!!
I think that voters got all caught up in Obama's charisma (which escapes me) and didn't pay attention to any part of his message that wasn't "I'm not George Bush."
Now that he is President, people are paying attention to his deeds more than his words. Seems that many of them, if not most, don't like what they are seeing.
Tell me again, who were the rubes?
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