Obama plans Guantanamo deadline

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 04:14 GMT,
Thursday, 18 December 2008

Obama plans Guantanamo deadline

Barack Obama has said he aims to close the
Guantanamo Bay detention centre and put
a clear end to torture in the US within two
years of becoming president.

The president-elect told Time magazine he
aims to restore the balance between US
security needs and the Constitution.

-snip-

'Clear end to torture'

US President-elect Obama was speaking to
Time having been named its Person of the
Year for having what the magazine called
"the confidence to sketch an ambitious
future in a gloomy hour".

Asked how voters would know whether his
administration was succeeding in two
years, Mr Obama listed a series of
benchmarks his team had set during his
presidential campaign.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7789005.stm

[lapfog_1]

1. "within two years"

Wow, I'm sure the time will just fly by for those detained.

:sarcasm:

[democrank]

2. TWO years?

It shouldn`t take any president two years to put an end to a morally repugnant program or policy.