In terms of the republican counter attack on obama's initial proposal to close quantanimo, they so emphasize the danger of relocating these people into the united states. This is really something that anyone who wanted, any new yorker who ever wanted closur for nine 11, should forever blame michael bloomberg and ray kelly as well as the capital controlled community boards of lower manhattan. They saw this as first, blumberg entirely reverses himself. It's the copse and capital that turn against it because they consider it like, supremely disruptive.
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