Bush predicts successor will keep Gitmo open.

By Faiz Shakir on Oct 5, 2007 at 11:35 am

The Guantanamo Bay detention center “must remain active until at least 2009 to allow the next president to decide whether it should be continued, President Bush says in a just-published book.” Bush predicted that his successor, whether Republican or Democrat, will keep the facility open. “I suspect they’ll find that it is necessary,” Bush said.

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