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Obama's Pentagon
Human Events ^ | 10/27/2008 | Robert Maginnis

Posted on 10/27/2008 8:48:57 AM PDT by PurpleMan

If Barack Obama becomes president, his defense agenda and team will cut defense spending, rely on international organizations for our security and push for radical social change. His Pentagon appointees will come from liberal think tanks, Ivy League schools and the Clinton administration

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: danzig
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1 posted on 10/27/2008 8:48:58 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan
His Pentagon appointees will come from liberal think tanks, Ivy League schools and the Clinton administration

Will they pass background checks?

Recall that in the Clinton White House, background checks for White House staff were suspended so that he would not have any problems getting the people he wanted in there.

2 posted on 10/27/2008 8:50:26 AM PDT by weegee (Barack Hussein Obama is a SOCIALIST.)
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To: PurpleMan

Got a link?


3 posted on 10/27/2008 8:50:34 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: PurpleMan

I have friends at the Pentagon. A number of O-4s and O-5s throughout the fleet already have written their resignations and are awaiting to see if The One wins. An Obama win will gut the military of its best future senior officers. Way to go, Obama!


4 posted on 10/27/2008 8:51:56 AM PDT by pabianice (Inexplicable and infuriating.)
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To: weegee
Recall that in the Clinton White House, background checks for White House staff were suspended so that he would not have any problems getting the people he wanted in there.

Oh, you don't have to worry about that. Clinton practices will come back in spades, buddy. Bigger and better than before!

5 posted on 10/27/2008 8:52:36 AM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: PurpleMan
First time I saw the headline, I thought it said "Obama's Pentagram" ...

And I thought "that explains everything ..."

6 posted on 10/27/2008 8:53:34 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Admin Moderator

Oops. Link below. Can you fix?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29190


7 posted on 10/27/2008 8:53:46 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: pabianice

That’s exactly what Obama wants. They should stay and fight.


8 posted on 10/27/2008 8:54:44 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: PurpleMan

Obomber: "My future Secretary of Urban Renewal, Mr. Ayers, will begin by finishing his blowing up the Pentagon."


9 posted on 10/27/2008 8:57:09 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: weegee

The article talks about Hagel, a sitting Senator, and Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy.

Ya think they’ve been cleared before?


10 posted on 10/27/2008 9:00:27 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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Nominees, according to the whack jobs over at Kos, on Obama's list of potential Secretaries of Defense includes:

Rep. Neil Abercrombie (HI) - member of the House Armed Services Committee, member of the Out of Iraq Caucus, voted against Iraq War resolution

Louis Caldera - West Point graduate, fmr. Sec. of the Army

Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) - member of the Senate Armed Services Committee

Richard Danzig - fmr. Sec. of the Navy (The guy who said told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that "...the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else. Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: 'Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.' ”

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) - Vietnam War Veteran, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Lawrence Korb - fmr. Asst. Sec. of Defense, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

Sen. Carl Levin (MI) - Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted against Iraq War resolution fmr. Sen. Sam Nunn (GA) - fmr. Chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee

Gen. Colin Powell - fmr. National Security Advisor, fmr. Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fmr. Sec. of State

Sen. Jack Reed (RI) - West Point graduate, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted against Iraq War resolution

fmr. Sen. Chuck Robb (VA) - fmr. member of the Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations, and Intelligence Committees, fmr. Chair of the Iraq Intelligence Committee

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (CA) - member of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees, voted against Iraq War resolution

Sarah Sewall - fmr. first Deputy Asst. Sec. for Peacekeeping, Dir. of the Carr Center (Harvard), Obama advisor

Sen. Jim Webb (VA) - fmr. Sec. of the Navy, member of the Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Veterans Affairs Committees

Togo West - fmr. Sec. of the Army, fmr. Sec. of Veterans Affairs I TREMBLE FOR MY COUNTRY. Loretta Sanchez, for crying out loud.

11 posted on 10/27/2008 9:01:55 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours.)
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To: PurpleMan

Link updated


12 posted on 10/27/2008 9:02:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: PurpleMan
If you liked Wes Clark, Doc Foglesong and Joe Ralston (all Clintonians) then you're gonna love Obama’s folks.
13 posted on 10/27/2008 9:05:12 AM PDT by starlifter
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To: Admin Moderator

Tanks


14 posted on 10/27/2008 9:07:17 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: weegee

And once again, we shall have “political” generals filling the top eschelons of the military, the junior officers then leaving the service in droves, and the services unable to meet even modest enlistment goals without resorting to a military draft. The military establishment shall once again become a vast social experimentation laboratory, testing the proposition of allowing openly gay individuals to serve, and to demand full gender integration of all units, including co-ed housing, which has worked so well in any number of college campus locations.

ROTC shall become a thing of the past, with officers “democratically” elected from the ranks of their peers, after, of course, they have been properly “vetted” by the CO.

Yeah, the New New Army will really be a major force for - change.

Too bad they would not be able to fight their way out of a paper bag, or lick their weight in postage stamps.


15 posted on 10/27/2008 9:08:28 AM PDT by alloysteel (For me, the election is over. I voted early for Sarah.)
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To: starlifter

You didn’t like Carl Mundy, Jr., Charles Krulak, and James Jones?


16 posted on 10/27/2008 9:18:30 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: weegee

“Recall that in the Clinton White House, background checks for White House staff were suspended “

In the current campaign, background checks for White House candidates have also been suspended, apparently.


17 posted on 10/27/2008 9:24:05 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: PurpleMan

Don’t recall mentioning them. Marines generally stay above politics.


18 posted on 10/27/2008 9:25:06 AM PDT by starlifter
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To: pabianice
An Obama win will gut the military of its best future senior officers. Way to go, Obama!

Didn't we go through that in the 90's? Then we had to fight a messy ground pounder war with the "army we had". Is it any wonder, "mistakes were made"? History will repeat.

19 posted on 10/27/2008 9:25:25 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: ArrogantBustard
OK.


20 posted on 10/27/2008 9:26:03 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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