"As I said during the inauguration, we are not going to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals," said Obama, IHT reports. "We are going to win this fight but we will win it on our terms."
President-elect O bama plans to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office, to show his disapproval of Bush's approach to the war on terror and effectively "change" American politics, say two officials close to the transition, according to CNN.