Posted on 04/16/2009 1:39:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Acknowledging that “an apology is owed,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised Thursday to “meet and clear the air” with veterans groups that were offended by her agency’s report citing “returning veterans” as terrorist risks to the U.S.
“To the extent veterans read it as an accusation,” Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.”
“I’ll meet with the leaders of some of the veterans groups,” she promised on “FOX & Friends.” “The last thing we want to do is offend or castigate all veterans. To the contrary, let’s meet and clear the air.”
Napolitano said she was briefed on the report, including the warning about returning veterans, before it was released.
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“I have to tell you, I was the United States Attorney for Arizona in the 90’s when Tim McVeigh bombed the Murrow building in Oklahoma City and unfortunately he was a vet — that’s where he got his training,” she said. “And so when I was told about the report, it rang true with me. This has happened in the past.”
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Roger that, Jim!
But you'll never get a decent one from Napolitano or anyone else in that Administration.
Sounds like the puppetmasters are wetting their panties that one of their dopier flunkies offended the people that can seriously put the brakes on their little Bolshevik Party if they wanted to.
Oops...
“To the contrary, let’s meet and clear the air”
Well that’s kind of impossible, isn’t it, Janet? I mean, considering how much you’ll stink up the place?
Hey Hey Ho Ho, Nappy Ho has got to GO!
She needs to resign.
The Cranks vs. The Rats
Are we taking bets on when she gets slipped under the heavily populated bus? I pick next Tuesday at 1 pm eastern~
She is the instrument of fascism,folks. Make no mistake about it.
Obama is a nationalist socialist. His agenda is to redistribute wealth using "historic justice" for the benefit of the downtrodden at the cost of the "greedy" whose ancestors were the alleged persecutors. The children of those so called persecutors must pay the wages of their ancestry. Sound familiar? The same argument was rife in Europe about 70 years ago. No one resisted them , and millions of people died. The same will happen here if Obama remains undefeated.
This is not communism.It is the same position taken by fascists in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, using "historic justice" arguments of a different color than todays but the same none the less.
Obama is not a communist. He is a nationalist socialist evolving towards fascism. We see the fascist aspects in the conduct of Napolitanos recent Homeland Security politically based brief on "Right Wing Extremists" . We see it in the use of NSA intercepts of Americans non foreign communications, which were made inside the USA.These are all very real signs as to the true policy of the Obama nationalist socialist hidden agenda. We see Laws passed in congress without full readings, closed caucuses on legislation without Republican representatives. You might think this distinction is unimportant , but it is, because Fascist must be fought differently than Communists using different weapons. Fascists respond reactively to ridicule and derision, communists respond only to the barrel of the gun, force majeur. In this you must understand why the Obama administration has over-reacted with such fear of the tea party movement. This is why the Obama movement is so sensitive of any criticism, because the truth is the greatest weapon against him. It must be presented as derision and ridicule to burst the narcism and so called charismatic motivation of the movement, their greatest weakness.
Just as Mussolini and Hitler had to destroy the conservative wealthy classes of their respective nations, so Obama does the same today, for he cannot impose his fascist Utopia on America while conservatives still have power through the vote and free speech.Therefore the seek to destroy conservatism utterly as witnessed by the recent attacks by Obama on Rush Limbaugh for example.
In short, these reasons are the very essence of why American citizens are arming themselves, for the government will seek to remove their freedoms through redefining them as only relative to certain situations within a fascist government.A fascist can have free speech, but when a conservative exercises the same freedom of speech, it is branded "hate speech," and not protected, for example.
America can vote out Obama by educating the electorate, or America might have to fight the federal government at the state level, or in the streets. It really depends how far Obama wants to push his Utopia rather than governing our Republic from the center as most presidents are required to do historically. The weaker patriots appear, the harder Obama will push. So far he has been pushing his Utopia pretty hard.Obama controls the MSM through a misplaced ideological morality, trucks with the traditional enemies of America,fires the head of GM without shareholder input, reduces military spending across the board, and sequesters billions of dollars to establish a national socialist infrastructure of politial organizers nationally , paid for with tax dollars under several laws, including the "Give" law.
America is beginning to awaken to the Obama threat, and now Homeland Security seeks a way to subvert Americans growing understanding of the threat to liberty that Obama and his plans represent.It is everyone's hope that Obama can be voted out. If not, the patriots of America will have to stand to once again, or relinquish the Republic into the tender mercies of a Natonalist Socialist State, wherein only the Socialist party faithful will be allowed wealth, power, influence, and a measure of peace. Social progress and upward social mobility will only occur for the defined politically correct, through membership inin the Obama nationalist Socialist Party. All others will have to leave the country, fight, or lick the hands of their nationalist socialist conquerors. That is the signal that Napolitano has sent, they will push to destroy the Republic.
In this conclusion there can be no mistake.
They must be stopped by exposing them to the public in any way possible. At ALL costs.
Not accepted. Nice try Janet.
I don’t think she actually will meet with anyone.
She’ll claim she’s sorry, but never actually apologise.
It's a “Somebody should apologize if you’re offended” apology.
Fully argee autumnraine.
Napo’s use of the phrase, “’To the extent’ veterans read it as an accusation, an apology is owed.” - is well known, canned, lawyer-speak, and intended to provide ONLY a limited, curt and ‘conditional’ response. In my view, it’s NOT an apology at all. It also implies that Vets misread the information.
MANY STATEMENTS in this partisan report are reported or implied as “fact”, but (as has been discussed), NO supporting data was provided, whatsoever. It’s all partisan hype.
- Napo and Obama will use the DHS as a POLITICAL PROPAGANDA MACHINE. This is the ONLY “FACT” contained in the report.
It is an old attorneys device to defame and demonize their opposition with swipping (unsupported) accusations, misstatements and overt falsehoods, and in doing so, they seek to appeal to the “emotions” of their judge or jury. Such statements are NOT considered facts at all. It’s pure rhetoric and designed to inflame and manipulate.
Napo should APOLOGIZE AND RETRACT ALL THE outrageous false statements contained in this partisan attack piece, or resign.
I don’t have brakes on my stopper !.......:o) and I will not let the likes of this band of polidiots and presstitutes channel me into a kill zone of their choice. I have been pissed off by professionals and these propagandists wouldn’t get my shoe strings damp with their best efforts on their best day !
I listened to a AM radio show today where she was stating that Tim McVeigh came home from the gulf war as an angry veteran with skills he used to blow up OKC’s fed bldg.......
Crazy nutcase McVeigh was, came about as he sat at Waco watching Janet I performing the Clintonista dirty work on those children. McVeigh of course showed himself no better later by killing children and innocent okies as well. But his deep hatred of the clintoon administrations activities were not from anger hauled home from the Gulf. It was created by the Clintonista Socialists. Clinton stirred up those idiots like McVeigh IMO.
As to skills he garnered from the military McVeigh was a Bradly driver not a demolitions specialist.
Janet II is a liar.....but then we already know that from her BS in AZ !
Doom on em .....doom on em all !
202-282-8495 is the comment line.
I just called the operator line which is 202-282-8000, and reported myself as an extremist since I go to church....the operator was not amused.
Oh, well...made me feel better being a bit of a pain in the rear.
That is SO not an apology
“I’ll meet with the leaders of some of the veterans groups,”
And how many questions will you allow THEM to ask, Janet?
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