Even Enemy Combatants Are Down on Obama

Heartache at Club Gitmo as a failed Obama promise leads to frustration for the poor, misguided souls who woke up one day only to find themselves terror suspects by the evil Cheney/Bush regime.

Unless he decides to change course, to close Gitmo the president must still find support in Congress to pay for a super-secure prison in Illinois for some of the detainees he wants to continue holding. He must also get additional money, likely hundreds of millions of dollars, to provide extra security to put some suspects, including Mohammed, on trial in federal courts.

Since Obama took office a year ago, more than 40 detainees have been removed from the naval base in Cuba - sent off to their homelands or to other countries. If the administration cannot quicken that pace, it would take until a hypothetical second Obama term to actually empty the site.

A hypothetical second Obama term? Heck, I thought that was carved in stone just a year ago. Nice to see because of Obama's moral preening and pandering to the rest of the world we have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars that we don't have rather than following what was working. And not only is the left crushed by the demise of Hopenchange, now even the terrorists have their laments.

The Obama administration, which sent a group of Yemenis home from Guantanamo just days before the failed airliner bombing, has halted any further transfers to Yemen for the near future.

Len Goodman, a Chicago lawyer who just returned Tuesday from a visit to the prison, said the delays have only embittered his client Shawali Khan, an Afghan detainee who was captured in 2002 and has long claimed he is innocent.

"His level of frustration is greater than I've ever seen it," said Goodman. "Everyone had high hopes for Obama, but sadly I think nothing has changed from Bush to Obama, except the conditions are better inside for the detainees. But all in all, it's just promises made and promises not kept."