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Panetta: Obama Can Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’
CNSNews ^ | 6/13/11 | Matt Cover

Posted on 06/13/2011 8:01:10 AM PDT by CNSNews

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To: gov_bean_ counter

Someone on this thread mentioned martial law.

The communists have been using the muzzies for years to do their dirty work for them.

What is not to say that the entire Arab Spring wasnt fomented by the communists to put Obama in a position to abandon israel?


41 posted on 06/13/2011 8:43:51 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarah Palin, the only candidate to be vetted by the NY Times, the Washington Post and NBC.)
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To: CodeToad

Aren’t we “warring/fighting” IN five countries?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Libya
Yemen


42 posted on 06/13/2011 8:46:54 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: circlecity

A little history on using military for domestic disputes, which is not the exact point of this article but related.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2732715/posts

Federal Troops Sent In 100 Times in Our History

Washington, June 9, 1944- Federal troops have been employed more than 100 time in the nation’s history to suppress domestic disturbances, prevent interference with the mails and interstate commerce and for similar purposes

An outstanding instance of the use of soldiers in a labor difficulty was the railroad strike of 1894, when President Cleveland sent troops to Illinois over the protest of the Governor.

Cleveland acted then on pleas by Federal court officers that they were unable to enforce judicial processes

Troops were sent to West Virginia in 1921 to control disturbances accompanying widespread coal strikes. A request for Federal aid was made then by the Governor.

The widest use of Federal troops in domestic disturbances was in connection with strikes in 1877 growing out of a railroad wage reduction.


What say this group? When is it proper to send in federal troups for domestic disturbances.


43 posted on 06/13/2011 8:52:43 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( getting closer to the truth.................)
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To: CNSNews
obama can order a nuclear attack without congress?
obama can start WW4 without congress being involved?

At what point does Panetta’s statement become ridiculous on its face? Panetta has been admiring communism for too long. His thinking shows that. No wonder he was picked by the regime

44 posted on 06/13/2011 8:53:19 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: CNSNews

Any SenateWhore who votes to accept this Constitution busting bastard should be charged with treason for an attack on our government during a time when we are at war in multiple places. The fact that the recent additions to the wars are illegal should amplify the crime.

Trying to overturn the basis of our government is acting in the service of the very people we are at war with because it undermines (with intent to destroy) everything that has made our form of government work (and work BETTER than any other government in human history).


45 posted on 06/13/2011 8:55:26 AM PDT by Sal (Islamo Bamma is the star, writer, director and producer of AS THE WORLD BURNS.)
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To: Beckwith; All

Thanks for posting that link, I was going to do so. Panetta has some very questionable associations and as far as I’m concerned, is right in there with the Anita Dunn/Cass Sunstein/Carol Browner Marxists floating around this administration.


46 posted on 06/13/2011 9:00:39 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Tired of being seen as idiots, the American people went to the polls in 2008 and removed all doubt.)
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To: CNSNews

SCDC - Same Circus Different Clown


47 posted on 06/13/2011 9:07:29 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: All
“unilateral presidential power to initiate U.S. military action absent an attack or imminent threat”

Surely there has to be a safety valve.

Bibi shows up the Boy king. The Boy king gets pizzed how dare he question my authority and attacks.

48 posted on 06/13/2011 9:11:57 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: CNSNews

So this will be his National Service Act.


49 posted on 06/13/2011 9:42:34 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: CNSNews

Really, we might as well have two Constitutions, one for when we have a Democrat and one for a Republican.


50 posted on 06/13/2011 9:45:25 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: CNSNews

John McLame, the White Obama. We didn’t loose much by not electing this bastard. His administration would be like “boiling a frog.” Same stuff as Obama, just slower so we wouldn’t notice.


51 posted on 06/13/2011 10:11:00 AM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

They are going to use the authority of the UN to use the military to impose 1967 territory lines on Israel. They would never get Congressional approval for that so... They also want to deploy a “UN peace keeping” force on Israel’s border.


52 posted on 06/13/2011 10:31:08 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Gee, I wonder if he holds this opinion when there is a GOP in the White House?


53 posted on 06/14/2011 8:11:15 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Beckwith

Damning evidence, but I bet Congress will not even bother to look at any of it.

Rubber stamp Republicans aiding Socialist, power hungry Democrats.

Business as usual.


54 posted on 06/14/2011 8:16:04 AM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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