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U.S. has deployed military advisers to Somalia, officials say
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| 1/10/14
| Craig Whitlock
Posted on 01/10/2014 1:55:40 PM PST by Nachum
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Sorry Mr. President. We told the troops to go in on the mission, but they just said that since they were told their pensions were cut, their health benefits were cut, and since they would be prosecuted for defending themselves under the new rules of engagement that they just wouldn't go.
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posted on
01/10/2014 1:55:40 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
01/10/2014 1:56:51 PM PST
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Nachum
The only thing we should be deploying to that sh!thole, is our nuclear waste.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:00:36 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Nachum
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:05:56 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Nachum
Is there a country, save for perhaps the DPRK, where we don’t have a contingent of troops? No wonder congress wants to cut retiree and disability pay. Imperial Rome, in it’s heyday, didn’t station troops everywhere.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:10:19 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
To: Nachum
Caesar can send he legions where he pleases.
Too be fair, our spineless, corrupted Congress also deserves their share of the blame for acquiescing to the establishment of the imperial presidency over the past decades.
To: Nachum
U.S. has deployed military advisers to SomaliaNot. A. Good. Idea.
Well, I thought if I said it slowly, the people at the NSA could tell 0bama, and maybe he would understand.
Nah.
5.56mm
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:13:59 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: skeeter
Take up the White Man's burden
The savage wars of peace
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:14:44 PM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: skeeter
“Not again.”
My God. Do we never learn?
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:15:54 PM PST
by
beelzepug
(if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
To: Nachum
As I recall, “the Black Hawk Down debacle” was due solely to micromanagement by, or the ineptness of, the BJ Clinton team.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:20:07 PM PST
by
frog in a pot
("To each according to his need..." -from a guy who never had a real job and couldn't feed his family)
To: Nachum
What could possibly go wrong? </sarc>
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:27:40 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
To: Nachum
To date, Obama has failed to start a war in the US and after searching the world over, maybe he has finally found a place for a war he can finally call his own.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:30:02 PM PST
by
Toespi
To: Nachum
100 advisers in Nigeria
Drone bases in Niger, Kenya, Djibouti, etc
Squadron of F-15s moved to Djibouti
100 advisers in Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda chasing the LRA
Bombed Libya
SEAL raids in Libya and Somalia
Drone strikes in Somalia
Support aircraft for the Mali invasion
Support aircraft moving troops to CAR
Just add this to the new African entanglement list.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:30:20 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: skeeter
Those advisors are not issued and ammunition and are not allowed to defend themselves under mac daddies rules.
Another great foreign policy move by the clueless mac daddy administration that has no credibility.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:30:33 PM PST
by
chiefqc
To: chiefqc
And when they decide to send them into harms way with ammunition they will deny them armor.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:34:24 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
What could possibly go wrong?
/sarc
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:34:51 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: PowderMonkey
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
I fear you may have cast this pearl before swine....
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:43:37 PM PST
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
To: Nachum
That entire toilet of a country isn’t worth the life of one more American military member.
If Obama wants to sacrifice some more Americans in another African fly-blown pest hole let him send in some democrat senators and congress critters.
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:44:37 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: Kolokotronis
Kipling must have forseen the coming of an Obama when he closed the first stanza of “The White Man’s Burden” with this line:
“Half-devil and half-child.”
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posted on
01/10/2014 2:48:27 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: Nachum
> U.S. has deployed military advisers to...
This never ends well.
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posted on
01/10/2014 3:17:59 PM PST
by
ArcadeQuarters
(Socialism is slavery.)
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