If this is how we close Gitmo ...

President Obama recently requested $85 million to close the Guantanamo detention facility. Congress rejected his request until he presented a plan.

Since then a small island nation in the Pacific, Palau, agreed to take 17 detainees, Bermuda has taken four, and Italy has agreed to three. Is it just a coincidence that Palau will receive $200 million in economic aid; Fiat, Italy’s largest auto manufacturer, receives a stake in the new Chrysler company for no money up front; and the ex-penses for the four detainees are paid for by the U.S. taxpayer?

If these three events are all related to closing down Gitmo, then the cost to the taxpayer will run into the billions of dollars.

Jim Darlington
Albemarle County