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Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense
The Washington Post ^ | December 1, 2016 | Dan Lamothe

Posted on 12/01/2016 1:17:17 PM PST by conservativepoet

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform, according to people familiar with the decision.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cabinet; defense; jamesmattis; maddog; mattis; military; secdef; trump; trumpcabinet; trumprebellion; trumpsecdef; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain; wardept
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To: Jim 0216

Has that Patton look. Love it.
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Damn, look at those eyes. That’s Patton reincarnated sure enough!


281 posted on 12/01/2016 5:29:35 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: conservativepoet; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; ...

Active Duty ping.


282 posted on 12/01/2016 5:30:36 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Candor7

Hahah!!!

Can you HEAR the leftardnik heads exploding right about now....

Yup... That ain’t Christmas Bells ringing... Ha!!!


283 posted on 12/01/2016 5:31:53 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: forgotten man

And hopefully he’ll get women out of combat and reinstate DADT. The only thing I disagree with him on is waterboarding. He thinks its torture. Strange for him to say that. Waterboarding is not torture and most generals as well as most interrogation experts agree its not torture.


284 posted on 12/01/2016 5:32:32 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: RatRipper

The Democratic Party - they are every bit as much of an enemy to America and the Constitution as ISIS is
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I am in absolute agreement with that statement, and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops every day for the next eight years of the Trump presidency and the following eight years of the Pence presidency.


285 posted on 12/01/2016 5:35:19 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: NKP_Vet
reinstate DADT

NO! Go back to before Clinton made being a homo in our military optional.

286 posted on 12/01/2016 5:36:08 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Our Military is jubilant tonight!


287 posted on 12/01/2016 5:36:37 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: goodnesswins

Yes, I just saw that he announced Mattis at the Cinci rally. Great theatre! Said the closest he could get to Patton. Lots of cheering.


288 posted on 12/01/2016 5:41:32 PM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.....


289 posted on 12/01/2016 5:43:38 PM PST by dfwddr (Lock her up !)
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To: ASA Vet

You’re right. To hell with DADT. Get the sodomites out. Since the founding the military would not accept them because their sexual perversions are not compatible with good order and military discipline.


290 posted on 12/01/2016 5:44:28 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: conservativepoet
In honor of this momentous pick, a dramatization from "Generation Kill" featuring GEN Mattis.
291 posted on 12/01/2016 5:46:38 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

292 posted on 12/01/2016 5:47:43 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: Lisbon1940

Is it true he’s an egghead?
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I read somewhere, possibly on FR, that his staff totes a box of his military book selections along, and he never leaves home without them. I believe I also read that he encourages his grunts to cultivate that reading habit.


293 posted on 12/01/2016 5:50:15 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: Publius

Ivory handled sidearm.

“Only a pimp in a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl handled pistol.”
— George Patton
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Hell of a good catch!


294 posted on 12/01/2016 5:52:00 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: dfwddr

HilLIARy would have appointed JFKerry or maybe JoanBaez


295 posted on 12/01/2016 5:53:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: conservativepoet

Best quotes from Mattis......

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/the-best-from-mad-dog-mattis/


296 posted on 12/01/2016 5:53:51 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon.)
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To: workerbee

..Oh man.... we’re gonna need bigger safe spaces!!
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LMAO Now that’s quotable!


297 posted on 12/01/2016 5:55:51 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: laplata

“Obama’s legacy will be the same as used toilet paper being flushed.”

Obama will go down in history as the 21st century incarnation of James Buchanan.


298 posted on 12/01/2016 5:56:19 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
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To: Cap Huff; Dog; TigerLikesRooster
Excellent

Just before Marine Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis was getting ready to deploy with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to Iraq in early 2004, one of his colleagues asked him about the importance of reading for military officers who sometimes find themselves "too busy to read."

https://www.usabreakingnews.net/2016/11/this-viral-email-from-general-james-mad-dog-mattis-about-being-too-busy-to-read-is-a-must-read/
299 posted on 12/01/2016 6:00:32 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Much worse than Buchanan. Buchanan was bad but Obama is a pure unadulterated Evil enemy of America and all she stands for.


300 posted on 12/01/2016 6:00:49 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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