Posted on 04/16/2009 12:24:26 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans in a FOX News interview after a DHS report labeled returning troops at risk for embracing right-wing extremism.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans after a report issued by her department said troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing extremists.
"To the extent veterans read it as an accusation ... an apology is owed," she said during an on-air interview on FOX News Thursday, a day after veterans' groups and members of Congress blasted her for the report, which they said libeled members of the armed forces.
"This was an assessment, not an accusation," Napolitano continued. "It was limited to extremists those who seek to commit violence within the United States. And all this was meant to do was to give law enforcement what we call 'situational awareness.'"
"The last thing I want to do is offend or castigate all veterans. To the contrary, let's meet and clear the air," she said.
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“To the contrary, let’s meet and clear the air,”
There’s no air to clear. You insulted all veterans. They don’t need to meet with you to explain anything. Apologize like an adult and be done with it.
Never, ever trust anyone who speaks or writes in passive voice. They completely lack accountability.
Jan baby:
To the extent I understand your apology to be sincere,
I ventilate my backside in your general direction.
td
“Napolitano you dike-looking biotch...apology NOT accepted.”
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It cannot be not accepted—it was not an apology....
Or “to the extent...”
In other words, this hate-filled woman meant what she said. She's just sorry that we were offended by the "assessment" that the non-socialist majority and particularly Christians, those in the NRA, and prior military are bigoted potential terrorists.
I hate apologies when they are preceded with “If I offended you” or “If you took it out of context”...
If these words and this non apology were made to certain ethnic or homo groups they would not accept it and would throw a tantrum until the person was forced from office.
I move that we do the same!
So you agree with us. That SHOULD be the last thing you do. Now resign and make that come true.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!
Leave the country you communist biatch!!!
What a B:
“while there is no specific information that domestic right-wing terrorists are planning acts of violence, such acts could come from unnamed “rightwing extremists” concerned about illegal immigration, abortion, increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms — and singled out returning war veterans as susceptible to recruitment.”
If it was limited to extremists who seek to commit violence within the U. S., then apparently, in the view of DHS, only rightwing extremists, as categorized in the report, seek to commit violence in the U. S.
If she survives this, I suspect we'll see and hear exclusively from spokespeople for Napolitano from this point forward, and never again from her directly. She is apparently incapable of defending herself out of a wet paper bag.
And only right-wing extremists seek to commit violence and not left-wing extremists,who are all sweet and misunderstood benefactors of mankind(gag)?
MSNBC was only going to be allowed one question to Napolitano. I would have asked : BOXERS or BRIEFS?
1. Obama's first message to vets comes on inauguration night, where he is the first president in fifty-six years to snub the Medal of Honor recipients' ball. He fobs Biden off on them instead. Democrats gloat... "That'll teach 'em."
2. Obama then floats a proposal to charge wounded warriors for treating their injuries... the better to provide free medical care to crimmigrants, I suppose. Vet haters (mostly inside the administration and media by now) celebrate.
3. Obama immediately cuts the DOD budget 11% while providing billions for every silly cause in perdition. American enemies breathe easier.
4. Obama unilaterally begins disassembling a functioning antimissile defense system. Putin sneers.
5. Obama orders the DOD not to use its most effective radar to track the NK missile launch. Kim doesn't even say thank you.
6. Obama pledges unilateral nuclear disarmament, sooner or later. Tyrants dance in glee.
7. Obama's holdover SECDEF cuts the knees out of our ability to deploy the coming smaller military, by canceling the C-17 along with several other vital weapons systems.
8. Obama's SECSTATE says that we can only solve pirate problems "with no loss of life," i.e. to the pirates.
9. Obama receives 17 or 18 briefings on the pirate standoff, votes "present." For days the Navy is forbidden to act... finally they are given "heads we take credit and tails you take blame" orders. When they act, the President who did all he could to inhibit them lunges for the credit.
10. Now Obama's bull-D DHS secretary publishes a report, written by an "analyst" with a long history at left-wing pressure groups, that calls our vets extremists and calls for them to be monitored.
11. Meanwhile, the NY Times (of all things) reveals that the Obama DHS and NSA (a DOD function) have blown past Bush-era restrictions on domestic spying. The Napolitano report tells us who they want to be spying on. (That would be us).
Boy, this guy sure supports the troops.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I’m so glad that other people picked up on this non-apology. She stated that an apology is owed.... she didn’t actually apologize.
Apology not needed though... she should just step down.
Doesn’t sound like an apology to me.
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