Posted on 12/18/2015 5:29:30 AM PST by TigerClaws
Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had just sat down with his wife for a quiet dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant in northern Virginia when his phone rang. It was the White House on the line. President Barack Obama wanted to speak with him.
It was Aug. 30, 2013, and the U.S. military was poised for war. Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a âred lineâ by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway, and Hagel had spent the day approving final plans for a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against Damascus. U.S. naval destroyers were in the Mediterranean, awaiting orders to fire.
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Referencing National Security Advisor Susan Rice and White House clique.
This is the national Washington Government metastasis at work. At the beginning and through the early 1900s, the Cabinet Secretaries WERE the Presidential Advisors, so much so that it was an item of comment when someone like Col House was an advisor to Woodrow Wilson.
Now, in modern Washington, the Cabinet Secretaries ‘REPRESENT’ their departments to the President. Their time is spent attempting to manage departments that, in terms of employees and budget, are amongst the largest organizations on EARTH!
Now the President is ‘advised’ by in-house staff like the National Security Advisor and similar people for various functions. These shift from President to President as the interest and trends change. For some Cabinet Departments, Interior & Commerce for example, I doubt if they meet with this President except at formal meetings of the entire Cabinet.
Here is a fun question for which I have no answer; what ‘ranks’ higher, an Executive Sub Secretary or a Deputy Under Secretary? Meaningless to us peons but probably very important to Beltway Dwellers!
Even in grief-stricken Paris, when diplomacy of the highest art was necessary, he could not resist bashing Republicans claiming they are afraid of women and children (not battle-hardened Syrian refugees he is pouring into our communities). Then San Bernadino happened ....as a vengeful female jihadi exhibited her practiced killing skills.
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Responding to a Paris reporter, Obama actually said..... w/ a knowing smirk.....that he expects a Democrat to succeed him. Makes you wonder what he knows that we don't know, doesn't it?
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.....the Obama Administration is willfully deaf right now....but soon he will have a rude awakening when he becomes aware Americans are onto the deadly, treasonous game he is playing......
He was able to fool a lot of people into thinking he was an actual American...even a Christian. Now the masquerade is over....his mask has slipped. Obama looms large as a most vile creature.....a treasonous president.
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Americans are witnessing well-coordinated Islamic terror to overthrow the West......terror squads working together smoothly to get the killings done. They apparently are getting help from the very top.
BACKSTORY Recall couple weeks ago, the smirking Valerie Jarrett,
Obama by her side, telling Americans "big things are coming."
Then San Bernardino happened.
Americans need to consider the worst...that this WH scum is being bribed and are part of the terror squads....b/c it certainly looks that way.
Americans demand to see the wire-transfers (1) in and out of Valerie Jarrett's office, (2) those in and out of Obama's two foundations (two that we know of), and, (3) wire transfers into his library fund.....as well as other networks (perhaps CAIR) they might be using to launder bribes.
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He makes it up as he goes along. I heard the tail end of a news report .....mentioned Obama wrote on a policy statement that "he" thought the rule against it was "unconsitutional."
Join forces with an anti-American degenerate and what did this fool opportunist loser expect?
The likely reason his requests for one-on-one meetings with Obama were denied is because Obama is incapable of understanding military terminology, strategy, consequences, and impacts to the rest of his anti-American objectives.
But again, Hezbollah is part of the protected islamic terrorist class. Like “Syrian” refugees.
While the White House sought to stay out of the conflict in Syria, the Islamic State's lightning advance into northern Iraq in June 2014 - with Baghdad's army collapsing in retreat - came as a "jolt" to the administration, Hagel said.
Asked at a press conference in August of that year about the nature of the threat posed by the Islamic State, Hagel told reporters that "this is beyond anything that we've seen." He cited the group's military skill, financial resources, and adept online propaganda as an unprecedented danger that surpassed previous terrorist organizations.
Caca ! Obunghole aided, abetted, armed and supplied the Islamic State. Wake up Chuck.
Sisi ignored Hagel's entreaties and continued his brutal campaign to repress the group. (Muslim Brotherhood).
Sisi had to do whatever it took to stop Obunghole's Muslim Brotherhood pals and save his country. He was wise to ignore you Chuck.
Gee, Barry sure does dress for the occasion. No doubt has his golf shoes on ready to hit the links.
Have a drink, Chuck.
He can call someone who cares, I don’t.
Staff Sergeant Hagel should have known what would happen with this military hating administration. But Staff Sergeants dont get paid to handle the big picture.
Lol.......good one.
Frustrating to have to join to read one article. No thanks FP, you are not worth it.
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How do we know that if chemical weapons were used that it was not ISIS itself who used them?
At this point we cannot afford to believe one word that comes out of Obama's mouth.
They had everything to gain by using CW on civilians ( probably villagers they had kidnapped since the neighborhood of the supposed attack had been pretty much abandoned ) to make it look like Assad using WMD on civilians and crossing obama openly stated “ red line” ( another stupid WH breach of OPSEC) and bring obama into the war against Assad
The CW weapons came through Turkey, were not part of the Syrian stockpile ( which the Russians took over after this attack )
There is more , possibly linked to Benghazi
Will the truth ever be known
Bump, exactly correct. Sisi saved Egypt from the Despotism of Obama's Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists. And Morsi and his MB Terrorists are still in jail. Many under death sentences.
I hate to use this trite word, “Karma,” but there I go again.
Karma, it’s what for dinner!
Aside from it being an isolated prison, why do we want that prison in Cuba. Are we so incompetent that we can’t build a secure-enough prison in America?
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