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Obama To Close Guantanamo

January 19, 2009 | ISSUE 45•04

President-elect Barack Obama is planning to issue an executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay on his first day in office. What do you think?

I thought he would spend his first day in the White House running around the place like John Goodman in King Ralph.

Chris Holcomb
Systems Analyst
Is that really what he should be worrying about on his first day in a new house? Shouldn't he be looking over carpet swatches, or something?

Pam Cannuccairi
Budget Assistant
This move appears to be a dramatic break that contradicts and even invalidates much of the previous administration’s foreign policy agenda.

Wesley Illades
Operations Shift Supervisor

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