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Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech
Washington Post ^ | June 1, 2016 | Anne Gearan

Posted on 05/31/2016 9:20:11 PM PDT by Innovative

Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion. He just thinks Republican Donald Trump is too dangerous to be president.

“It will be the first Democratic presidential candidate I’ve voted for in my adult life,” said Mansoor, a professor of military history at Ohio State University.

Clinton’s campaign hopes that there are many more national-­security-minded Republicans and independents who would vote for her, even grudgingly, rather than see Trump win the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: Ohio
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To: Innovative
Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor is an obvious POS lib. No one in his right military mind would ever vote for Hitlery.

And he is a very poor judge of character.

61 posted on 05/31/2016 10:59:23 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Innovative

I did my five years in combat arms and then watched my son go to Afghanistan for two tours, so I am not hateful of the military. However, I also realize that for the 54 years of my life this country has basically been in low boil war - not declared by Congress, for nearly 30 years. I truly hope that Mr. Trump’s statements about not being so swift to send our fellow citizens on another war du jour is true. Aren’t we all sick of it? No country can stay a country if it is continually in war.


62 posted on 05/31/2016 11:02:00 PM PDT by jjdcoach
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>> He just thinks Republican Donald Trump is too dangerous to be president.

Trump had nothing to do with the 1st Trade Towers bombing, nor the 2nd, nor the Balkins, nor Benghazi

Guessing Mansoor isn’t the bang for the taxpayers’ buck.


63 posted on 05/31/2016 11:10:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Innovative

Hillary who ran a private e-mail server and flouted government security rules, is gonna lecture us on the danger Trump represents?

I mean - the woman couldn’t keep a government secret if her life is depended on it, is going to tell us Trump can’t be expected to keep America secure.

Do tell it, Hillary! We’re all ears.


64 posted on 05/31/2016 11:35:02 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: hal ogen

Did he have a head wound?


65 posted on 05/31/2016 11:37:09 PM 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
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66 posted on 05/31/2016 11:39:13 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: dodger

I noticed the name as well.


67 posted on 05/31/2016 11:43:34 PM PDT by jazminerose (o)
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To: Grampa Dave

Doesn’t matter.

Hillary’s ABCNNBCBS press corpse has decided she is innocent. Because she has a vagina. Right?


68 posted on 06/01/2016 12:47:38 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Innovative

Mansoor???? Isn’t that a MUSLIM name??


69 posted on 06/01/2016 1:14:15 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Innovative

A military professional who,sees Clinton as a competent POTUS is a danger in any position of influence.


70 posted on 06/01/2016 1:40:16 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes Mansoor is lucky he wasn’t in Benghazi on that day or his family would have received a coffin and a hug from hillary with assurances that a video maker would be brought to,Justice


71 posted on 06/01/2016 1:42:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Innovative

This worthless excrement took place in the rape of Serbia.
He’s just another CFR hack.

That said, he can’t be much of a man.


72 posted on 06/01/2016 3:52:08 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Roger Kaputnik
none of there supposedly patriotic and conservative US citizens made a peep about Obama or Hillary

You have to admit that Obama and Hillary are still in favor of putting our soldiers in harm's way on behalf of various groups of Islamic thugs.

There are still some people who believe themselves "national security conservatives" and who think our foreign policy is only showing results when body bags are coming home.

73 posted on 06/01/2016 3:58:07 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon ("I play to people's fantasies." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Innovative
“It will be the first Democratic presidential candidate I’ve voted for in my adult life,” said Mansoor,

I call Bull.....

74 posted on 06/01/2016 4:10:43 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Innovative

Seems like a strategic mistake for someone facing possible indictment for violation of the Federal Records Act, the Espionage Act and perhaps Treason to make a central argument in her political campaign.


75 posted on 06/01/2016 4:15:06 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: Innovative

You cannot make this stuff up. The jokes write themselves.


76 posted on 06/01/2016 4:18:18 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Innovative

If Hillary is going to talk about “national” security, first we’d better ask her to define “the nation”.

I suspect she defines the nation as “a certain land mass between Canada and Mexico, and all individuals therein present, plus any individuals present elsewhere who need taxpayer dollars, plus any business enterprises employing foreigners who pay taxes to the US Treasury”.


77 posted on 06/01/2016 4:24:33 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: Innovative
In a lengthy interview with Colonel Mansoor, the Post reporter recorded this:
Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Ms. Gearan? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Ma'am. How does that coincide with your Donald Trump conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Trump supporter works. I first became aware of it, Ms. Gearan, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Ma'am. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Ms. Gearan...but I do deny them my essence.

78 posted on 06/01/2016 4:28:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: free-in-nyc
Hillary - the hero of Benghazi! Landed under sniper fire in Bosnia! A national security genius!

mansewer, just another camel jockey that supports the hildabutchbitch because she won't say radical islamic terrorist.

79 posted on 06/01/2016 5:07:57 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Anyone else would have already been indicted.


80 posted on 06/01/2016 6:00:37 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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