Every time Obama has said he will close Guantanamo

US President Barack Obama unveiled a new plan for closing Guantanamo today (February 23). "It is closing a chapter in our history," he told a press conference. "It reflects the lessons we have learned since 9/11, lessons that should guide our nation in the future."

The text of the plan opens with many of the platitudes of Obama close the notorious detention center at sea:

The closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a national security imperative. Its continued operation undermines our national security by strengthening propaganda recruitment of violent extremists, making it difficult relations with key allies and partners, and drain resources from the Department of Defense.

In the seven years since President signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, a plan that met with huge decline of Congress and the public-Obama has regularly delivered variations of these same arguments. They often came in a statement after its annual signing of the Defense Authorization Act, which included provisions consistently from Congress that would block the president's efforts to close the facility.

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