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Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings
NYT ^ | 2/16/11 | Mark Landler

Posted on 02/16/2011 7:40:42 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.

Mr. Obama’s order, known as a Presidential Study Directive, identified likely flashpoints, most notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers who are also valuable allies of the United States, these officials said.

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To: Nachum

It’s still a work in progress-—means he can re write it however he wants too.

Drawn to Indonesia, his boyhood home, -now that didn’t surprise me.


41 posted on 02/16/2011 8:30:29 PM PST by Freddd
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To: eyedigress

I see knuckleheads even now calling for this great reform in the ME.

They call it democracy, but it is anarchy, and we know how dominant forces fill the gap in power vacuums in the ME.


42 posted on 02/16/2011 8:31:04 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: mylife

YES HE IS ..AND WE ARE DOING WHAT ABOUT IT ?


43 posted on 02/16/2011 8:32:21 PM PST by sonic109
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To: cpdiii
Absolutely.

Obama’s handlers and sycophants alike clearly understand that he has stepped on his own schlong big time with the whole Egypt mess.

By now, supporters in the media as well as other cheerleaders, even those people who were previously willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, can see undeniable signs that Obama and his hand-picked advisors are little more than clownish incompetents who are in way over their heads. (With special thanks to Clinton, Biden, Panetta and Clapper for their cameo roles in this debacle)

This story was planted with the NYT, in what will ultimately be seen as a futile effort, to rehabilitate the phony image of Obama as Commander in Chief - cool, calm, and in control. It will fool nobody.

44 posted on 02/16/2011 8:32:59 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: sonic109

The best we can.


45 posted on 02/16/2011 8:33:54 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: mylife

Yes, he is a Trojan Horse. He only hates autocratic rulers that are our allies. Those that are our enemies such as Iran, you don’t hear a peep.


46 posted on 02/16/2011 8:34:12 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
...especially since they started working on it this Monday. (snark)

I think you actually nailed it.
47 posted on 02/16/2011 8:34:46 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bingo


48 posted on 02/16/2011 8:36:28 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: MtnClimber

And WHY has not one reporter or Republican called him out on this Why is he not called out on his undeniable connection with Soros and the Egyptian riots. HE IS THE ENEMY . Am I the only guy who sees this? There is NO question about it and no one even approaches him on it . Amazing


49 posted on 02/16/2011 8:38:44 PM PST by sonic109
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I have no doubts at this point that Obama and all his academic politburo friends are trying to divide and conquer the masses.


50 posted on 02/16/2011 8:40:28 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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Lil Barry

The freaking world is coming unglued and he has us fighting over birth certificates.

51 posted on 02/16/2011 8:42:52 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: sonic109

He is a community organizer. Riots is what they organize. He is in his sweet spot. The leftists in media are too invested in him to attack him if they even object at all. They have not done much of a job reporting about the 150 million or so people killed by their own leftist governments in the last 100 years so why would they report about this? Seems they have sold their souls to the devil.


52 posted on 02/16/2011 8:46:16 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: Rome2000
A woman in the grocery store today said that she was in Kenya right before the last pres election...some of the local women came up to her, a White woman they didn't know, and said, "Obama bad. Obama bad."

She was surprised...but agreed with them.

53 posted on 02/16/2011 8:47:41 PM PST by lonestar
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To: MtnClimber

I heard the “Peaceful” Egyptian riots reported on ABC radio today as 365 dead not including military or prisoners.

WTF does that mean?


54 posted on 02/16/2011 8:49:10 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: lonestar

Read up on Robert Ruarke and his writing on the Mau Mau Uprisings and Jomo Kenyatta.

Obama has hate in his heart.


55 posted on 02/16/2011 8:51:47 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: MtnClimber

So what is the Lefts end game then? So we have a world wide radical Islamic force armed with nukes ..and then what ?
Do the CBS reporters and Oprah and all these other jerk offs in Hollywood think they will be welcomed friends? When the USA crashes and it WILL , then what?


56 posted on 02/16/2011 8:51:50 PM PST by sonic109
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To: mylife

365 dead is just a small start to truly evil leftists.


57 posted on 02/16/2011 8:52:39 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: mylife

I don’t need to read that to kno wthat . I knew what he was when he first ran. The Marxist have waited 35 years to get their trojan horse in place in the USA> Any moron who could read knew what he was.


58 posted on 02/16/2011 8:53:15 PM PST by sonic109
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To: Nachum

So
356 people where killed and Lara Logan brutalized and raped

So Soetor0 could claim he is spreading something good??


59 posted on 02/16/2011 8:54:31 PM PST by omega4179
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To: Nachum
Mr. Obama’s order, known as a Presidential Study Directive, identified likely flashpoints, most notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers who are also valuable allies of the United States, these officials said.

In other words, find the places where the least amount of input from Obama and his friends can cause the maximum amount of damage to the United States.
60 posted on 02/16/2011 8:56:06 PM PST by aruanan
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