The Only Way Out is a Box."

It was back in 2009 in the first 100 days of the Obama administration, promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.

The president said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to "restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism."  The decision to close the detention facility received immediate backing from Obama's general election opponent, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.

McCain, in a joint statement with South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, said he supported Obama's decision to "reaffirm America's adherence to the Geneva Conventions, and begin a process that will, we hope, lead to the resolution of all cases of Guantanamo detainees."

That was over 4 years ago, and now the feeling among the detainees is a sense that the current legal process leaves them in limbo indefinitely, and the only way out of Guantanamo is death. So much for a break from Bush.