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Brutal: Former Defense Secretaries Openly Slam 'Inexperienced' Obama White House War Micromanagement
Townhall.com ^ | April 7, 2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 04/07/2016 11:00:56 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: huldah1776
It was a good show. If Obama were a “privileged white man” he would have been impeached by now.
21 posted on 04/07/2016 11:32:01 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Kaslin

Where were day during Obama’s reelection campaign?!!!!!!!!!!!!!


22 posted on 04/07/2016 11:35:02 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: TTFlyer

“for the rest of his natural life.”

His life has never been “natural!”


23 posted on 04/07/2016 11:45:18 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Innovative; Kaslin

Typo in my previous post. I meant:

“Where were they during Obama’s reelection campaign?!!!!!!!!!!!!!”


24 posted on 04/07/2016 11:49:33 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Kaslin

Meh it won’t do any god- Fox news has had several military big wigs making negative comments about dear leader for years now- the MSM just ignore the comments- and noone but fox news folks really care anymore because if the MSM doesn’t say it, it isn’t the truth- according to them

So while it’;s refreshing to conservatives to hear folks telling it like it is, it won’t amount to much because the MSM has protected dear leader for all these years- insulated him against all negative reports etc-

These and other commanders have been trying to raise the alarm that dear leader has been systematically dismantling and neutering our military, while coddling terrorism for years now- but the MSM simply won’t do their job and warn the public that our dear leader is trying to endanger this ocutnry- Sadly the MSM would rather protect him than alert the public to a growing very real threat that radical islamic terrorists pose- instead they criticizes those who try to warn the folks that dear leader is importing hte enemy right into our own country-


25 posted on 04/07/2016 12:03:12 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DIRTYSECRET

They did, Obama has run through four Secretaries of Defense in seven years:

Gates (holdover from G.W. Bush)- Jan ‘09- Jul ‘11
Pannetta- Jul ‘11-Feb ‘13)
Hagel (Feb ‘13-Feb ‘15)
Carter (Feb 15-Current)


26 posted on 04/07/2016 12:11:41 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: Mr. K
Leon Panetta is the one that should be given credit for getting Bin Laden.

He was easily Obama's best cabinet appointment. Still a Dem, but he always took national security stuff seriously. It's what makes Feinstein occasionally bearable.

27 posted on 04/07/2016 12:22:25 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Who on earth STILL doesn’t get that everything coming out of the Whitehouse is spun, an outright lie or propaganda?

Forget not letting a crisis go to waste. LAME DUCK OBAMA and his minions will twist the smallest notion into the biggest pile of crap anyone has ever seen!

They’ll lie when the truth would serve them better!


28 posted on 04/07/2016 12:39:22 PM PDT by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Panetta is a rare democrat that actually cares what happens to our country. Baraq has surrounded himself with people who are on a suicide mission for the US. They have been creating the conditions where the terrorists can attack us and hit us hard. When that happens, the baraqiis will be jumping for joy.


29 posted on 04/07/2016 12:43:10 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=CPUSA)
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To: Texas resident

He was a Republican early in life, and worked for some Republicans.


30 posted on 04/07/2016 12:49:40 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: HamiltonJay

BO looked furious in the Sit Room photo. Everyone else looked concerned or worried, he looked angry.


31 posted on 04/07/2016 12:52:16 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Yes, he’s a manboy, Panetta completely cuckolded him with that call.


32 posted on 04/07/2016 1:01:27 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Mr. K; HamiltonJay

I want to make this public prediction and hope you guys will be my witness when it is lroven true.

Obama is going to clise gitmo...not just where we house the terrorists...the entire naval base.

He is gling to give it back to the Castros by abandoning it.

He will also close the terrorist jail by dling this and those terrorists that he cannot find a way to transfer wlswhere he will leave behind and say he transferred them to the Cuban govt.

That is how hw both clses the Guantanamo terroists jail and gives back the naval base to Castro.

It all fits in line with his ideology and gets around congress saying he cannot bring them to the usa


33 posted on 04/07/2016 1:04:17 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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To: Kaslin

This is why the existing MSM must be destroyed, they protected this idiot from day one and mny good people died.


34 posted on 04/07/2016 2:18:38 PM PDT by crazycat
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To: crazycat

You got it.


35 posted on 04/07/2016 2:23:04 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Yet all three of them bowed down to Obama every day instead of calling a press conference and resigning in protest.

Reminds me of that bastard McNamara who knew we couldn’t win in Vietnam, the way it was being fought, yet continued to send more troops in to die. May they all rot in hell.


36 posted on 04/07/2016 4:10:50 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: VerySadAmerican

McNamara held the JCS and the military at large in contempt. He was personally responsible for the strategy implemented in Vietnam. LBJ shares some of the blame.

McMaster’s Dereliction of Duty is maybe the best book on the subject.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?80828-1/book-discussion-dereliction-duty


37 posted on 04/07/2016 4:19:43 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Kaslin

Honestly, all the blame belongs on GOP Congresses which had a Constitutional obligation to shut down Obama’s illegal wars, and instead collaborated with him.

We should never have destroyed Libya.

We should not be destroying Syria.

We should not have overthrown the legitimate government of Ukraine.

We should not have wrecked Honduras to enable a despotism there.

We should not still be in Afghanistan 14 years later.

We should not still be in Iraq 13 years later.

In less than five years we will have young men (and, abominably, women) who will be fighting in wars in those two countries that started before they were born.

We should not still be in Germany and Japan 70 years later, and Korea 60 years later.

The defense of Germany is a German problem.

The defense of Japan is a Japanese problem.

The defense of South Korea is a South Korean problem.

The defense of Saudi Arabia is a Saudi problem. Those jerks deserve to all get beheaded anyway. The 28 pages show that we should have invaded and conquered them, not Afghanistan.

We should not be pledging nuclear defense of minor statelets on the borders of Russia by including them in NATO when we explicitly promised not to do just that.

The above facts are a damning and irrefutable indictment of post-Cold War US foreign policy.

None of these interventions have had a positive effect on US national security. All of them have had dramatically negative effects on our national fiscal position. There is no justification for the blood of a single American soldier to be spilled in defense of any nation other than the United States of America.

The US government needs to put the interests of Americans first, that is its lawful and moral duty and obligation. The rest of the world is not its responsibility and for the most part is none of our damn business. We have way too much to clean up here at home before telling anyone else what to do.


38 posted on 04/07/2016 4:55:27 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Kaslin

For later. Thx


39 posted on 04/07/2016 6:28:55 PM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kaslin

Wow, gee, yeah, that takes a lot of balls NOW...

Too little, too late.


40 posted on 04/07/2016 8:43:03 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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