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CIA Director: The Middle East Is The Worst It's Been In 50 Years With 'Unprecedented' Bloodshed
businessinsider.com ^ | February 10

Posted on 02/14/2016 2:25:16 AM PST by Helicondelta

John Brennan, the CIA director, told a Senate committee Tuesday that the violence and instability in the Middle East was the worst it had been in 50 years, painting a dire picture of a region he said was facing "unprecedented" bloodshed.

Brennan spoke at the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual worldwide-threats hearing, emphasizing the threats the US faces as the Middle East devolves further into chaos.

"The Middle East right now I think is racked by more instability and violence and inter-state conflict than we've seen certainly in the past 50 years," Brennan said. "And the amount of bloodshed and humanitarian suffering is I think unprecedented."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: bhomiddleeast; bushobamalegacy; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; trumpwasright
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1 posted on 02/14/2016 2:25:16 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

Hmmmm..Someone encouraged and enabled sooo many elements of ME chaos over the last how many years? Now who could that be?


2 posted on 02/14/2016 2:35:03 AM PST by catbertz
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To: Helicondelta

John Brennan, the converted Muzzoid, helped in the demise of the Middle East by supporting MuzzieBroHood/al-queda.


3 posted on 02/14/2016 2:36:02 AM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Helicondelta

more like the last 7 years


4 posted on 02/14/2016 2:43:25 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: Helicondelta

The obamian legacy. More dead people.


5 posted on 02/14/2016 2:46:25 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Helicondelta

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

Thanks for your help.

(did Barry take a pledge for/to the United States of America, or South America?)


6 posted on 02/14/2016 2:49:20 AM PST by This_far
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To: Undecided 2012

Obama has screwed up all over the place. Is there anything he’s touched that has not turned to crap?


7 posted on 02/14/2016 2:51:11 AM PST by 1035rep
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To: newfreep

He could have just joined AA!


8 posted on 02/14/2016 3:04:45 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Helicondelta

We’ve been hijacked by musims who support and aide the caliphate


9 posted on 02/14/2016 3:29:06 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Helicondelta

Obviously we need a leader who can not only hit the enemy in the pocket with a baseball bat but then takes a shotgun to their face.

Trumps reputation will precede him.

The Trump Effect is in effect, watch foreign news about Trump.

Watch BBC, PRAVDA, SKY.


10 posted on 02/14/2016 3:38:19 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: Helicondelta

GOOD,
Hope they kill off each other.
ALL of em.


11 posted on 02/14/2016 3:52:47 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz ,Keep stirring the pot Donald.)
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To: Helicondelta

Just the last 50 years? I don’t think it’s peaked yet. Give’m another year and I bet it will be “of all time”. Just the way Soros wants it guided by his father, Satan.


12 posted on 02/14/2016 4:15:45 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Helicondelta

Obama’s fault.


13 posted on 02/14/2016 4:17:09 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: jsanders2001

Trump continues to say that going into Iraq would destabilize the middle east.....He was right once AGAIN.


14 posted on 02/14/2016 4:18:10 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Helicondelta

another O “legacy”-— complete with his islamonazi pals targeting the nukes he’s enabling them to build — directly at their “great Satan” —


15 posted on 02/14/2016 4:31:46 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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Actually, there is a lot LESS bloodshed than there was four years ago. 200,000 people died in a single year in 2011 in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Nigeria. Russia is bringing the Syrian Civil War to an end. The U.S funded Al Qaeda affiliates are losing, and the CIA is freaked.


16 posted on 02/14/2016 4:32:10 AM PST by dangus
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To: DaveA37
Trump continues to say that going into Iraq would destabilize the middle east.....He was right once AGAIN.

Yup... he was right along with a bunch of other people who were saying that many years ago...

The truth is Bush going into Iraq did destabilize the region, but at the cost of a lot (too much) of american blood and treasure the region it was basically pacified until Obama decided to empower the Muslim Brotherhood though the Arab Spring...

It's hard to say where we would be today if McCain had won in 2008, but certainly the world would be a safer, more stable place today...

17 posted on 02/14/2016 4:43:01 AM PST by Popman
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[[John Brennan, the CIA director, told a Senate committee Tuesday that the violence and instability in the Middle East was the worst it had been in 50 years, painting a dire picture of a region he said was facing “unprecedented” bloodshed. ]]

And we can clean it all up by bringing all the islamic terrorist here and giving Iran money to buy long range missiles and nukes./s

Stop giving the islamics money and weapons . None of these people are our friends , none of these people will ever benefit this country. They are a curse were ever they go and bring nothing but destruction following them.


18 posted on 02/14/2016 4:47:41 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Popman

Agree with you despite the use of McCain and stable in the same sentence.


19 posted on 02/14/2016 4:48:08 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: newfreep

[[John Brennan, the converted Muzzoid, helped in the demise of the Middle East by supporting MuzzieBroHood/al-queda.]]

He and ilk are a huge part of the problem.


20 posted on 02/14/2016 4:49:49 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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