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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

CIA covering their @ss. IIRC, we spend $80 Billion a year on intel alone...at least the produced a report


81 posted on 02/17/2011 5:35:42 AM PST by mewykwistmas ("If the Egyptians are hungry, let them eat ethanol")
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To: mylife

Was this commissioned before or after the Ayers-Dorn Gaza Flotilla?


82 posted on 02/17/2011 5:41:37 AM PST by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: Nachum

That is why in 2008 I had a bumper sticker made up:
Obama is America’s Greatest Threat


83 posted on 02/17/2011 5:44:43 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: Nachum

DumBO’s primary accomplishment is to put Carter into second place in the worst president category. Carter was particularly apt at stabbing friends in the back.


84 posted on 02/17/2011 5:44:57 AM PST by depressed in 06 (The only thing the ZerO administration is competent at is bad ideas.)
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To: mylife
I have said before that the body count resulting from the election of Obama is going to be incredible. The only question in my mind is where the biggest pile of bodies will be.
85 posted on 02/17/2011 6:04:33 AM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Nachum

I see the source is the NYT which means it is a fairy tale unfit for print in a real paper.


86 posted on 02/17/2011 6:08:12 AM PST by artificial intelligence (Your data will be processed by me for future input. Thank you.)
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To: Nachum

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Zero believes he is the ONE to change ALL political systems HE finds autocratic. Just think of the mindset of the bunch he is relying on for this “study”.


87 posted on 02/17/2011 6:24:11 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Nachum

So he knew exactly where to push


88 posted on 02/17/2011 6:37:18 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz; HollyB
I also see it clear.

He is a major proponent of a Islamic Caliphate.

His speech to the Muslim world from Cairo in 09' was titled "A New Beginning."

89 posted on 02/17/2011 6:38:54 AM PST by 444Flyer ("The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." -Daniel Webster)
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To: Walkingfeather

Our allies know how our govt works. Probably better than most Americans do. They know they can only trust the current administration as long as its politically expedient.


90 posted on 02/17/2011 6:40:43 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Nachum

This is CYA. A couple of weeks ago, Obama was complaining about the lack of advance warning of potential uprisings.


91 posted on 02/17/2011 6:47:05 AM PST by popdonnelly (If Obama isn't socialist, then neither was Karl Marx)
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To: cpdiii
The president usurper clearly had no idea on what had happened, why it happened or what to do.

NONSENSE! That islamo-fascist communist PLANNED the whole thing to give his buddies in the muslim brotherhood the foothold they needed.

Do you really think it was all coincidental that BO/BS gave his much touted "muslim" speech in Cairo? How about the fact that his old friends from the Weather Underground, unrepentant domestic terrorists,
Billy Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be in Cairo last year along with the George Soros anti-American front group, Code Pink?
In fact, Code Pink was in Egypt for the rioting fun last week. Coincidence? I think not!

Do you really believe the moron soiling the People's House had no clue? C'mon ... THINK! It was all by design, but Mubarak almost blew it by not stepping down sooner. THAT was the act BO/BS was clueless on as he thought it would be a cake walk with Mubarak fleeing quickly.

92 posted on 02/17/2011 7:02:27 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: Nachum
There is indeed something fishy about this belated, after-the-fact attempt to make Obama seem prescient, in-control, and even prophetic. But there was nothing in his public statements that was consistent with this. He spent the entire first year of his administration apologizing to the Middle East autocrats, apologizing for the Bush Doctrine of freedom and democracy, and turning his back on the Iranian dissidents.

It has been a dogma of left-liberal politics for a generation (at least) that freedom and democracy aren't really all that important, what's important is free health care and welfare. Hence their love of Castro.
93 posted on 02/17/2011 7:06:39 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rome2000

Finally some one gets it!


94 posted on 02/17/2011 7:08:53 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: Nachum

Prairie Fire. The silver-spoon revolutionaries like Ayers and Dohrn, Frances Piven, Alinsky and the Obamas only think to start fires. It’s pathological. Obama was looking to spur on conflict, especially (or only) among allies.


95 posted on 02/17/2011 7:12:41 AM PST by bvw
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To: sonic109
This is the best post I've seen on FR in a long time, yet I notice you are ignored.

I still don't know what a marxist is, although that is a commonly used word these days. What I do know is BO/BS is an islamo-fascist communist hell bent on destroying the USA and ushering in islamic fascism and sharia law world wide.

You are correct that 2012 will be far too late!
WAKE UP AMERICA!

96 posted on 02/17/2011 7:17:18 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: PieterCasparzen

“Also those jews, don’t forget, he hates them. Unless they are solid communists who thoroughly reject their faith. He never met a commie he didn’t like.”

Undoubtedly true.

I’d never thought I’d see the day I could theoretically betray my country for another, but the way Obama is attacking Israel puts me squarely opposed to our country’s official policies.

Let’s pray this remains a theory.


97 posted on 02/17/2011 8:02:20 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: sonic109
2012 is way way way too late; ya know , I’m sick of it already . Maybe we deserve it .

Well, it seems the PROPAGANDA dispensed throughout our culture are working.

That is the same type thought that leads to concluding that Lara Logan 'deserved' to be molested.

We can 'fix' our country. But it won't be done in a day, a month, or a year. It will take 20-30 years.

98 posted on 02/17/2011 8:15:20 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: Arm_Bears; mylife

Obama is an international terrorist using Alinsky’s “community organizer” tactics to overthrow foreign governments which are friendly to the West AND also Western governments too (you can bet he is undermining the rest our allies — what few we have left).


99 posted on 02/17/2011 8:31:28 AM PST by Aroostook25
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To: MtnClimber
He is a community organizer.

Riots is what they organize

Here is 0bambi flipping a coin to see where next the riots will start.

Just to calibrate what we are talking about.

100 posted on 02/17/2011 8:48:49 AM PST by spokeshave (WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
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