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Sleeping Dog Mattis
US Defense Watch ^ | February 20, 2018 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 02/20/2018 9:56:10 PM PST by pboyington

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To: stanne

Yeah higher than that if the truth were known.


21 posted on 02/20/2018 11:39:28 PM PST by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: Olog-hai
Sadly, your quote predicts what we now have!

God save us!

22 posted on 02/21/2018 12:10:15 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: pboyington

Physically painful to read.


23 posted on 02/21/2018 1:04:47 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: pboyington

My understanding is that the troops love Mad Dog. Is this not true?


24 posted on 02/21/2018 1:07:22 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: pboyington

Cry havoc!


25 posted on 02/21/2018 2:20:10 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: DesertRhino; RaceBannon

Ping.


26 posted on 02/21/2018 2:20:32 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: xrmusn

I agree with that. Citizenship for service goes back to Rome. If someone is willing to die for our country, I think that puts them at the front of the line.


27 posted on 02/21/2018 2:40:02 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: DesertRhino

You mean his bombastic comments are not all true?

//sarcasm


28 posted on 02/21/2018 2:41:21 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Vermont Lt
".....Citizenship for service goes back to Rome. If someone is willing to die for our country, I think that puts them at the front of the line."

I agree. If they serve and are honorably discharged after their service they go to the head of the immigrant to citizen line in my book.

29 posted on 02/21/2018 3:05:55 AM PST by Sa-teef
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To: Bodleian_Girl
it’s hard to trust a man who never needed a woman.

He has had girlfriends. He has said that given his job in the marines it was impossible to imagine family life.

30 posted on 02/21/2018 3:18:30 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: pboyington

Ah but he’s now killing Russians who are in Syria to kill al Qaeda who we are sheltering and training at bases in Syria which we occupy under no rational national security justification
The US Senate loves this
Mattis is just what deep state wants
Patton probably with some compromising life secrets


31 posted on 02/21/2018 3:21:18 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Sa-teef

I visited Pearl Harbor a few weeks ago. On leaving through the visitor’s gate near the Arizona Memorial I passed a group of what appeared to be airforce ROTC cadets. A full 25% of these 17 - 20 year olds had enough tats on their arms to look like combat Marines who had already done their first enlistment. But what really bothered me was all the grab-@ssing going on. Several were grappling and slapping eachother around — IN UNIFORM. There appeared to be no officers or enlisted supervisors. But no detail should be left without somebody in charge, so I assume that would be the senior Cadet-officer. This is what you’re getting America.


32 posted on 02/21/2018 3:22:05 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: pboyington

I would take this as deep state propaganda. Why would a defense news publication attack Matthis? Well, some several defense contractors are probably getting their oxen gored right about now. He is s a marine’s marine. He takes care of his troops. Defense contractors take care of themselves, first and always. Some deliver way overpriced products that work. Some don’t.


33 posted on 02/21/2018 3:24:23 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Sa-teef

I always thought that that the military service path to citizenship for immigrants applied to LEGAL or Green Card holding immigrants, not illegals like the so-called 20-30 something gang banging MS13 DACA ‘kids’.


34 posted on 02/21/2018 3:33:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Well, Green Card-holding immigrants don’t need a special path to citizenship, they just need to live in the USA and not commit any crimes for five years. It was always my understanding that military service was one of the few ways to fix being in an “uninspected” or illegal immigrant status.


35 posted on 02/21/2018 3:42:27 AM PST by billakay
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To: Olog-hai
Appropriate verse, but you didn't give the wording:
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind,
They are all ignorant;
They are all dumb dogs,
They cannot bark;
Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

36 posted on 02/21/2018 3:57:33 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: EliRoom8

I presumed familiarity with the wording, on this forum. If not, then there are several online Bibles where it can be looked up.


37 posted on 02/21/2018 4:02:54 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: billakay

t was always my understanding that military service was one of the few ways to fix being in an “uninspected” or illegal immigrant status.

and that’s were it all began to go wrong. No path for illegal no matter what. We do not need more impoverished, uneducated, unskilled, Spanish speaking only illegals.


38 posted on 02/21/2018 4:12:51 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: pboyington

and remember what Chesty said: “Son, when the Marine Corps wants you to have a wife, you will be issued one.”...lol


39 posted on 02/21/2018 4:37:19 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: Vermont Lt

Citizenship for service goes back to Rome.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
OTOH,
IF you just feed & house the illegals it bankrupts you.

IF you feed, house, arm & train illegals they will kill you.

Got to be a ‘happy medium’ in there somehow....

Course BEST way is keep em out and ‘sell’ patriotism to the home grown (or bring back the draft)

Then again can do what ‘we’ did way back when - When it was ‘inconvenient’ to bring Blacks into ‘White USN’, the powers that be imported Philipinos to do the ‘$hiite jobs (mostly were orderlies into the 60s or Stewards Mates) I think they were granted citizenship after a set point of service.

When ‘accepted’ into fleet wide you would more than likely see them in ‘Supply type roles - Storekeepers, Ships Serviceman, Disbursing etc’


40 posted on 02/21/2018 6:15:00 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""Assume this is preceded by 'there is somebody somewhere who will say'")
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