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Bush to say would keep Guantanamo prison open if elected
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:06am EST
Bush to say would keep Guantanamo prison open if elected
CHARLESTON, S.C. | BY STEVE HOLLAND
Republican Jeb Bush will pledge on Wednesday that if elected president next year he will keep open the disputed U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as long as the fight against Islamic militants lasts.
Bush, looking to show he is capable of being commander-in-chief in the face of multiple threats abroad, will lay out a national security strategy in a speech that he retooled in order to take account of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday.
The Bush campaign provided details of his plan in advance of the speech at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston.
He will vow to restore $1 trillion in cuts to the U.S. military that President Barack Obama agreed to as part of a budget-cutting deal with Congress. He would add 40,000 personnel to the U.S. Army and 4,000 to the U.S. Marines, and would bolster U.S. relations with key allies from NATO nations to the Middle East and Asia.
To counter Islamic State militants specifically, Bush would embed U.S. special operations forces with Iraq forces to help identify enemy targets. He would build an anti-militant international coalition and include regional partners. He is not calling for a massive reintroduction of U.S. troops to Iraq.
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Bush to say would keep Guantanamo prison open if elected
CHARLESTON, S.C. | BY STEVE HOLLAND
Republican Jeb Bush will pledge on Wednesday that if elected president next year he will keep open the disputed U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as long as the fight against Islamic militants lasts.
Bush, looking to show he is capable of being commander-in-chief in the face of multiple threats abroad, will lay out a national security strategy in a speech that he retooled in order to take account of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday.
The Bush campaign provided details of his plan in advance of the speech at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston.
He will vow to restore $1 trillion in cuts to the U.S. military that President Barack Obama agreed to as part of a budget-cutting deal with Congress. He would add 40,000 personnel to the U.S. Army and 4,000 to the U.S. Marines, and would bolster U.S. relations with key allies from NATO nations to the Middle East and Asia.
To counter Islamic State militants specifically, Bush would embed U.S. special operations forces with Iraq forces to help identify enemy targets. He would build an anti-militant international coalition and include regional partners. He is not calling for a massive reintroduction of U.S. troops to Iraq.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/18/us-usa-election-bush-idUSKCN0T70GS20151118
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not one fucking lesson learned from his idiot brother's mess. 
