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Secretary Mattis resignation letter
Document Cloud ^ | Dec 20, 2018 | Sec Def

Posted on 12/21/2018 8:39:00 PM PST by robowombat

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To: onyx

Did you miss the part where he said we must do everything possible to advance an international order?


41 posted on 12/22/2018 5:08:49 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: aquila48

Greg Jarrett said Mattis wanted to bring a lot of dems into White House positions, as he is a Democrat himself.


42 posted on 12/22/2018 5:11:56 AM PST by zeebee
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To: DesertRhino

We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances.

He said the above himself. You’re right, and seems to be me like he wants to be part of the one world government.


43 posted on 12/22/2018 5:14:16 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: robowombat

So it would seem that Mattis is a globalist. I suspect if you forced him to define what he means by the ‘common defense’ he would fall on the side of globalism and not nationalism.

JoMa


44 posted on 12/22/2018 5:37:48 AM PST by joma89
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To: joma89

Isolationism kills


45 posted on 12/22/2018 5:41:30 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: bert

Isolationism is like North Korea. Not playing policeman and meddling around in other countries business is not isolationism.

We need a clean slate because we cannot stay in all these countries forever. The O admin was just horrible and caused more trouble we didn’t need.


46 posted on 12/22/2018 5:51:19 AM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: dforest

Please define these and forever


47 posted on 12/22/2018 6:11:30 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: bert

We are in many places. Too many. Places like Syria, Afghanistan. So far, over the past Bushobama wars, we are still there and Americans are still dying for nothing.

Easy to wanna stay when it isn’t your family doing the dying.


48 posted on 12/22/2018 6:16:59 AM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: dforest

So,you value the life of your volunteer family over the country


49 posted on 12/22/2018 6:25:51 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: robowombat
"It is clear that China and Russia, for example, want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model gaining veto authority over other nations' economic, diplomatic, and security decisions to promote their own interests at the expense of their neighbors, America and our allies."


"Every nation gets the government it deserves." --Joseph De Maistre












50 posted on 12/22/2018 6:40:54 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: robowombat

China tests submarine-launched missile capable of range of 9,000km
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3714595/posts


51 posted on 12/22/2018 6:44:32 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: bert

Syria and Afghanistan are not our country. It is you that values external meddling over our country and troops. THEY pay the price.


52 posted on 12/22/2018 8:58:19 AM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: snoringbear

Clemenceau


53 posted on 12/22/2018 9:02:29 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: DesertRhino

Yes, Constitutionalism is about as relevant as Assyriology to contemporary US politics. The carefully designed structure of checks and balances and limited though strong government designed by the Framers is virtually never really referred to in DC other than ‘the common good’ phrase to incorporate any idiocy. Did the Framers really consider the transgendered (and they were around in the 18th century, just research the strange person who called himself the Chevalier D’Eon de Beaumont while mostly posing as a woman.) to possess special rights as a ‘sexual minority’’? The Constitution has become instead of the lodestar of our political system a vulcanized item that can be stretched to cover anything some special interest is pushing.


54 posted on 12/22/2018 9:25:08 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: DesertRhino
In this case it appears it was the CMC Gen Amos that did the Pontius Pilate act.
Considering the huge feces storm the Haditha incident created Frank Wuterich and his men were fortunate not to have been sent to prison, not that they should have been.
55 posted on 12/22/2018 9:38:44 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: robowombat

FUJM!

I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your own blood.

When they made you, they forgot to put in the loyalty.

I stand with the President!


56 posted on 12/22/2018 10:26:45 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: robowombat

This is a snippet of what Gen (R) Barry McCaffrey makes of all this. “We’re in trouble... on very shaky ground. The President sounds erratic, impulsive and making fundamentally bad decisions... Congress [is] going to have to... step in. provide oversight over what increasingly looks like a rogue presidency”- https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3?lang=en


57 posted on 12/22/2018 11:52:15 AM PST by damper99 (pu)
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To: damper99
I had a higher opinion of McCaffrey before I read your post. WTF. The President is doing nothing ‘rogue’. He is not listening to the echo of K Street coming from his supposed professional defense advisers. Trump is actually performing his office as the Framers meant it to be. As the Chief Executive of a Constitutional Republic he is in ultimate control of the military forces and foreign policy of the nation. What he is doing is a clear exercise of ‘The Buck Stops Here’ leadership. McCaffrey is certainly neither stupid or ignorant so either his monetary masters are pulling his strings or the permanent government really has gotten above itself and truly believes the experts by self-definition rule and not the people or the people's elected representatives.
58 posted on 12/22/2018 2:13:59 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: onyx

Mattis is a deep state POS. Good riddance.


59 posted on 12/22/2018 2:15:52 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: robowombat

Anyone is replaceable, even Gen. Mattis.


60 posted on 12/22/2018 2:16:36 PM PST by marajade
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