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Panetta: We’ve Lost Track of Syrian Chemical Weapons
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Posted on 09/28/2012 12:19:33 PM PDT by Perdogg

The U.S. has lost track of some of Syria’s chemical weapons, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday, and does not know if any potentially lethal chemicals have fallen into the hands of Syrian rebels or Iranian forces inside the country.

“There has been intelligence that there have been some moves that have taken place. Where exactly that’s taken place, we don’t know.” Panetta said, in a Pentagon press briefing.

(Excerpt) Read more at e-ring.foreignpolicy.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bushsfault; chemicalweapons; epicfailure; iran; nationalsecurityfail; obama; obamafailure; obamaforeignpolicy; obamasfault; obamaswar; panetta; proislamist; puetta; saddamswmds; sodomhusseinobama; syria; syriachemicalweapons; wmd; wot; wtf
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To: gaijin
That's three yeps. Very well planned out. Plausible deniability the whitehut thinks in D.C. they have in place. This is terrible news, and the whitehut puts out a plausible deniability and runs for a cover-up. Am truly discouraged.
61 posted on 09/28/2012 1:41:34 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: NormsRevenge

so much for the Clinton Bump...

Under the Clinton admin they lost nuclear secrets behind a copier and they left the “football” behind after some social event.

I guess Obama is trying to catch up.


62 posted on 09/28/2012 1:45:27 PM PDT by OwenKellogg
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To: Perdogg

Of course you have. All available assets have been diverted to getting Obastard elected.


63 posted on 09/28/2012 1:46:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: NormsRevenge

These bozos shouldn’t be entrusted with an outhouse in the woods, much less our poor Nation.


64 posted on 09/28/2012 1:47:41 PM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: penelopesire
Hmmmmmm......Hannity just said on radio that rumors are circulating that big news is about to break too having to do with Benghazi it sounded like.

Oh, will Geraldo be breaking the big bombshell news because you know he is "the" expert of the region and actually invented the term Benghazigate. ;)
65 posted on 09/28/2012 1:48:19 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Perdogg

Ah, ok...lemme get this right:

1. DHS has bought about 1.5 BILLION rounds of military ammo that legally CANNOT be used outside the USA. And that’s an amount that would have supplied US forces in Iraq at the peak of the fighting there for...17 years.

2. Now there’s all these chemical weapons floating around...or at least the mind of the public has been planted with that story, promulgated by an Administration that was OK with exporting thousands of machine-guns to the worst people south of our border

3. Hussein is facing a reallllly “iffy” re-election

Now...with that stuff laid out there like that what new and utterly insane option might Our Betters have open to them...?

Hmmm....?


66 posted on 09/28/2012 1:48:33 PM PDT by gaijin (R)
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To: Perdogg

Obama’s fault!


67 posted on 09/28/2012 1:48:33 PM PDT by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: Perdogg

this has to be a joke, obama’s freign policy is , well has fallen to bits and in a mess.

Course THIS MEDIA WON;T REPORT THE FACTS AND QUESTION THIS ADMINISTRATION.

So all is clear and wel for them and the masses have no clue who they are really voting for


68 posted on 09/28/2012 1:50:33 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Miss Didi

Oh gads....I hope not...lol.


69 posted on 09/28/2012 1:51:52 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: Perdogg
Yet another Obama Administration Intelligence Failure.

I sure hope the Romney camp is keeping track of these so when he's asked about his "foreign affairs" experience during the debates he can respond with the littany of Obama failures! Surely Romney would be better than Obama - we saw that after the Libyan embassy attacks.

To wit I'll note that the American Electorate now sees Romney as better on Foreign Affairs according to today's polling data shown on Drudge.

70 posted on 09/28/2012 1:52:10 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: NonValueAdded
They wouldn’t admit this unless they thought the weapons would be used soon in an unexpected place

Bingo.

71 posted on 09/28/2012 1:52:59 PM PDT by bgill
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To: gaijin
I mean they might have that capability FOR YEARS

Nothing new.

http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/asmp/MANPADS.html

72 posted on 09/28/2012 1:57:53 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Perdogg

All this would be hilariously entertaining if it were a offbeat comedy and not real life.
The President has made a mockery and a joke out of everything and he and his media buddies are all having a good ol’time.


73 posted on 09/28/2012 1:59:49 PM PDT by Leep
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To: Hardraade
If it smells like fresh-mown grass it’s Obamaspring sarin.

Soman and cyclosarin as well.

74 posted on 09/28/2012 2:00:12 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Bruinator
Giles Prentice: A broken what?

Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 strategic theatre emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.

Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier: losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

75 posted on 09/28/2012 2:02:20 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Perdogg

Another Democrat “leadership” screw up...and from one of the individuals at least approximating behavioral adulthood in this crowd.


76 posted on 09/28/2012 2:02:37 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: penelopesire
Hmmmmmm......Hannity just said on radio that rumors are circulating that big news is about to break too having to do with Benghazi it sounded like.

Have you heard anything more on this?

77 posted on 09/28/2012 2:05:07 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: bgill; kristinn

IOW, Panetta says, “it’s not my fault.” That must also mean that he has credible evidence that he warned Obama and warned him, and warned him ... there’s a briefing book history tied to briefings never attended, recommendations that the weapons were about to go rogue and intervention was needed NOW but President Jarrett said “no.” This time Panetta couldn’t finesse her, the Bin Laden raid was a one-time thing and she caught on to the process. He is washing his hands. This is going to rip wide open.


78 posted on 09/28/2012 2:07:09 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Obama gives us the gift of downward mobility)
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To: BlatherNaut

Your link only overviewed MANPADS up to the SA-18 model and did not include the SA-24, which locks on in just 3 seconds or so and generally will not be deceived by countermeasures as simple as flares and chaff.

But even if it had, if we had knowledge that 15,000 samples of MANPADS as old as the SA-7 were in the hands of AQ, then that instead would be news, and it would be very bad news.


79 posted on 09/28/2012 2:07:34 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: dforest

Please don’t underestimate Obama and his goons. They may be stupid but they have completely hidden the fact they are Muslim sympathiesers. This is not incompetence. This is TREASON. They are helping the Muslim’s and playing dumb. Obama loves Iran and it’s tiny little SCRUNT leader. Ignores Bibi? WTF?


80 posted on 09/28/2012 2:08:53 PM PDT by DrDude (OBAMA/BIDEN=DUMB & DUMBER 2012)
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