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'Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday the Sunni fundamentalist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) poses a threat not just to the government in Baghdad, but to the United States as well.

"This country should not make any mistake on this, nor anyone in Congress — this is a threat to our country," Hagel said while meeting with troops at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia.'

This is a very significant thing for the Secdef to say. It looks like some sort of administration test to see if a hostile response comes from Congress. If it does, the Prez wasn't involved, it was just a cabinet officer overstepping. If not it is the first straw in the wind that something more than half assed NEO Ops planning and some SOF being deployed may be required. This is interesting. The phrase 'imminent threat' normally is the step before a warning order for launching an operation.

1 posted on 07/11/2014 2:32:29 PM PDT by robowombat
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Mostly due to our wide open border...


2 posted on 07/11/2014 2:33:10 PM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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Obama can’t be bothered. He has the agents stationed 45 miles NORTH of the border.


3 posted on 07/11/2014 2:34:53 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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Hagel: ISIS poses an ‘imminent’ threat to US

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Uh-oh. Barky and Moose better cancel their two week vacation to Martha’s Vineyard.


4 posted on 07/11/2014 2:34:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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If they come here and start chopping our heads off I would hope that Hussein would maybe do something for once. If they come thru the border it lays squarely on Hussein’s shoulders and the democrats in congress who want open borders, that goes for the RINOS to—heck, it’s all of Congress’s fault.


5 posted on 07/11/2014 2:36:55 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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What are they going to do make us raise a billion foreign children?


6 posted on 07/11/2014 2:37:43 PM PDT by The Toll
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Thanks for posting this. I’d not seen it elsewhere, and it should have gotten more coverage.


7 posted on 07/11/2014 2:41:14 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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LOL. Your boss, and you, too, Chuckles.

Hey, didn’t some of us try to warn your boss and you about cutting and running from Iraq?

Yep.


8 posted on 07/11/2014 2:43:41 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The rat bastards brought us to this point, now they want us to be frightened


9 posted on 07/11/2014 2:43:43 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Hagel created and trained ISIS at Obama’s orders, so he must know what their mission is, right?

ISIS has now declared itself to be The Islamic Caliphate.

That is, in their minds, a global government.
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10 posted on 07/11/2014 2:50:58 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Impossible.


12 posted on 07/11/2014 2:57:27 PM PDT by petitfour
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Hey, Chuck. I've got a great idea on how to counter this dire threat...

Let's pink slip our returning combat veterans and use the money to hire lawyers for the "children" coming across our almost completely unguarded southern border. Then we'll release these illegal aliens - whom we don't know and really don't have a clue about who they are or where they will end up - all over the country in the hopes they'll someday show up again.

Oh, wait. The Administration you are a part of is already doing that. Never mind.

17 posted on 07/11/2014 3:20:48 PM PDT by Gritty (Obama's governing as president of a Latin American republic, where only the president matters-MSteyn)
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I’m convinced nuclear weapons will be used again in the near future thanks to Obama.


18 posted on 07/11/2014 3:25:26 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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Hagel: ISIS poses an ‘imminent’ threat to US

No more so then the muslims that were in control. They all follow islam and islam dictates that we all die...


19 posted on 07/11/2014 3:37:14 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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Ping


21 posted on 07/11/2014 3:45:45 PM PDT by Velveeta
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Hagel: ISIS poses an 'imminent' threat to US

That poses a real problem for Hagel, since if he wants to go after the ISIS leader, he's going to have to get past the Secret Service guys at the White House front door.

24 posted on 07/11/2014 4:07:52 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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Chuckie, baby, how about, then, you NOT support THAT SAME GROUP in Syria.

...or am I asking for too much?


28 posted on 07/11/2014 5:00:44 PM PDT by BobL
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Active Duty ping.


32 posted on 07/11/2014 9:56:09 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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This administration is an “imminent threat: to the US!


33 posted on 07/12/2014 6:44:38 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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This administration is an “imminent threat: to the US!


34 posted on 07/12/2014 6:44:38 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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When a nuke goes off in the US from a suitcase bomb, the Tea Party folks who called for gutting the US military because of the Sequester can assemble the blame.

There was a reasonable way to cut Defense Spending. This wasn't it.

We cut so fast that the US military is now a hollow force.

But hey, we gots Da Fud Stamp!

35 posted on 07/12/2014 11:27:42 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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