Did Obama create the Gitmo problem himself?

No, of course not. And to suggest otherwise, as one CNN reporter did yesterday, is uneducated and foolish.

Obama never opened the Gitmo facility. He never allowed torture on its premesis. THAT was the Bush administration.

Yes, Obama promised to close it, and he's right.

The only problem here is that there is a minority number of the US public that doesn't want the prisoners on US soil. Which is really very childish as they would present no more threat than the mass murderers, mass rapists, and sadists already in US prisons.

And then there's a problem with the fact that McVeigh and Nichols were both housed on American soil (McVeigh until his execution, and Nichols for life imprisonment) for the Oaklahoma terrorist bombing.

Whats the difference? Yes, those two are American citizens but thats honestly beyond the point. They were also terrorists. There is no difference other than nationality.

The prison needs to be closed. Rather than spending American money on a, for all intents and purposes, foreign prison, on foreign land, it should be spent on US soil.

The rock and hard place does not exist for Obama. Its the people that are creating the rock and a hard place because they aren't thinking things through.

Obama needs to close it because of what it symbolizes and because of the money that is being wasted on foreign soil supporting the prison.

Americans, you need to wake up. We cannot be children anymore. Humanity must grow up. Grown ups don't torture things.