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Rex Tillerson accused of violating law on child soldiers
NY POST ^ | November 21, 2017 | Reuters

Posted on 11/21/2017 6:29:19 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Edited on 11/21/2017 6:47:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boysoldiers; sostillerson

1 posted on 11/21/2017 6:29:19 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Apparently this was okay with HRC when she was SecState...


2 posted on 11/21/2017 6:32:23 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: COUNTrecount

I’ll be the first, fake news. Disgruntled staff directed by the “deep state”.


3 posted on 11/21/2017 6:32:42 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: COUNTrecount
So according to these Deep State operatives, Rex Tillerson is not meddling enough in the traditions and culutures of other countries.

That's a bit of good news—Tillerson knows that changing 1000 year old tribal cultures doesn't work and is not our business.
 

4 posted on 11/21/2017 6:40:12 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: COUNTrecount

I’m fine if these “dissenters” want to make these lists mean what they say. But the lists have always been used for leverage in a wide range of negotiations, not just for the stated purpose. I’d expect state dept employees to understand that.

Can the dissenters show a history of dissenting on Obama’s lists? Or do they just hate Trump? Maybe this dissent is only released/published because the media hates the current president. Let’s see the dissents over the last 8 years?

If dissenters don’t have a history of consistency, do they have a plan to make the lists mean what they say in the future regardless of who is president? Or is their concern only going to last until the next D/RINO president?


5 posted on 11/21/2017 6:40:15 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: COUNTrecount

State dept scum alert....


6 posted on 11/21/2017 6:42:28 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: COUNTrecount

So, the Obama holdovers/sympathizers have been identified.


7 posted on 11/21/2017 6:42:34 AM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: rjsimmon

The law was also intended to prevent arms trade by the United States with suspected countries, although the president may waive this rule in the national interest. President Barack Obama most recently waived the application of this rule in September 2016 to Burma, Iraq, and Nigeria, and partly to Somalia, South Sudan, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3][4]


Were they on the list before?

Afghanistan was not on the list in 2016, under Obama.

http://www.newsweek.com/loophole-allows-us-fund-child-soldiers-442393


8 posted on 11/21/2017 6:48:24 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I don’t understand - we’ve been allied with Afghanistan and Iraq for over 10 years providing much military aid. Why is this suddenly an issue now? Oh wait...


9 posted on 11/21/2017 6:58:44 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Skywise

They are setting themselves up as whistleblowers so it will be impossible to unseat them.


10 posted on 11/21/2017 7:12:08 AM PST by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: rjsimmon

It was common knowledge contractors and subcontractors in Iraq were breaking child labor laws under Hillary State Dept contracts. The Dept knew it and did nothing.


11 posted on 11/21/2017 7:48:51 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: COUNTrecount

Bush and Obama had no problem with our Afghan “allies” having boy sex toys in their bunks.


12 posted on 11/21/2017 7:48:56 AM PST by montag813
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