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Robert Spencer: Champagne Time! It’s a “Bloodbath” at the State Department
Geller Report ^ | February 19, 2017 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/20/2017 11:32:30 AM PST by Lera

It’s a bloodbath at the State Department,” the New York Post hyperventilated last Friday: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.” In Donald Trump’s America, so much has happened so quickly to set the nation on a course decisively different from the one it was on during the regime of his disastrous socialist internationalist predecessor that this particular bit of good news was largely overlooked. But if a housecleaning at the State Department isn’t a cause for celebration, nothing is.

“Many of those let go were on the building’s seventh floor — top-floor bigs,” the Post tells us, and adds that this is “a symbolically important sign to the rest of the diplomatic corps that their new boss has different priorities than the last one.”

Pop the champagne!

And not only that, but “this week’s round of firings marks the second time State Department personnel have been cleared out since President Trump took office last month. Four top officials were cleared out of the building at the end of January.”

Break out the hats and hooters!

We can only hope that with the departure of these failed State Department officials, their failed policies will be swept out along with them. Chief among these is the almost universally held idea that poverty causes terrorism. The United States has wasted uncounted (literally, because a great deal of it was in untraceable bags full of cash) billions of dollars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, and other countries in the wrongheaded assumption that Muslims turn to jihad because they lack economic opportunities and education. American officials built schools and hospitals, thinking that they were winning over the hearts and minds of the locals.

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To: Lera
Chief among these is the almost universally held idea that poverty causes terrorism.

Sometimes known as the Marie Harf Memorial Foreign Policy.

41 posted on 02/20/2017 1:33:05 PM PST by JustaCowgirl ( If a regime would be happier in the afterlife than this life, that regime is not subject to threats)
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To: RitaOK

Marie Barf was just hired as a Fox News contributor.


42 posted on 02/20/2017 1:34:55 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: RitaOK

No one at State is actually out of a job yet. The people involved are career Foreign Service or Civil Service and have simply been ‘reassigned’ to less-senior positions.


43 posted on 02/20/2017 1:39:17 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Navy Patriot
Perhaps they will be given parting gifts of Christopher Stevens dolls to remember the good old days,

Sadly funny. I keep hoping there will be some justice for the people killed there, including Stevens. More importantly, they didn't just leave those 4 there to die, they left everyone to die!!! It was only because of the 3 that defied orders that the others survived.

44 posted on 02/20/2017 1:58:48 PM PST by ExpatCanuck
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To: Liz

To find any of our State Department “cash investments’ in countries abound with sand, would be equal to the Rabbi’s success looking for a copper penny in the corner of a round room.

The present Republican House can, and should, halt all monetary transactions enacted by the State Department, constitutionally.


45 posted on 02/20/2017 2:00:36 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Lera

I thought it was just that their positions were eliminated and they were transferred to other positions. Are they actually out the door?


46 posted on 02/20/2017 2:10:48 PM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: LucyT

Audit the Department of State NOW


47 posted on 02/20/2017 2:25:15 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: faithhopecharity

This task is akin to the cleaning of the Augean Stables.


48 posted on 02/20/2017 2:29:11 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: BlueLancer

If that Bat Signal doesn’t get Batman out of his cave - nothing will.


49 posted on 02/20/2017 2:37:31 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: HotHunt
Marie Harf was just hired as a Fox News contributor.


50 posted on 02/20/2017 2:43:02 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

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51 posted on 02/20/2017 2:50:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Danger, skinny, flat chested women with dandruff, often carry a grudge...
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52 posted on 02/20/2017 2:56:57 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: editor-surveyor
Stick with Trump chicks. They aren't crazy. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
53 posted on 02/20/2017 3:09:40 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice

Sorry, but I’ve already seen enough. A chick that hot....crazy.....


54 posted on 02/20/2017 3:12:21 PM PST by Professional
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To: Liz

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55 posted on 02/20/2017 3:13:55 PM PST by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: tumblindice

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56 posted on 02/20/2017 3:13:58 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

If you see my defibrillator, would you leave it at the front desk?


57 posted on 02/20/2017 3:19:43 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Liz

I went through congress.gov to send a message to my House Rep. Thanks for the info about MCC.


58 posted on 02/20/2017 3:25:31 PM PST by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: BlueLancer

That Chicago ?


59 posted on 02/20/2017 3:41:53 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: tumblindice

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If she can’t defibrillate you nothing can!
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60 posted on 02/20/2017 3:45:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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