Obama abandons key pledge by restarting Guantanamo trials 09 Mar 2011 Any last vestiges of doubt that President Barack Obama had abandoned entirely on his election pledge to close down Guantanamo Bay evaporated last night as he gave the green light for military trials there to resume and laid down the rules for holding some of the detainees inside the camp indefinitely. In the wake of a long Pentagon review on how the tribunals should be conducted, Defence Secretary Robert Gates will now be expected to lift a ban on new [kangaroo] trials at Guantanamo that has been in place since early 2009 when Mr Obama came to office promising to shut the infamous facility within 12 months. [Obusha has broken *every* election pledge. I sincerely hope the 'Birthers' find or fabricate evidence that precludes this closeted Repuke from running as a Democrat in the 2012 elections. --LRP]