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Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President
NYT ^ | 10 17 2019 | Admiral William H. McRaven

Posted on 10/17/2019 2:36:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

If President Trump doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office.

Last week I attended two memorable events that reminded me why we care so very much about this nation and also why our future may be in peril.

The first was a change of command ceremony for a storied Army unit in which one general officer passed authority to another. The second event was an annual gala for the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) Society that recognizes past and present members of the intelligence and Special Operations community for their heroism and sacrifice to the nation. What struck me was the stark contrast between the words and deeds heralded at those events — and the words and deeds emanating from the White House.

BIG SNIP

And if this president doesn’t understand their importance, if this president doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, both domestically and abroad, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office — Republican, Democrat or independent — the sooner, the better. The fate of our Republic depends upon it.

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


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To: All

This individual like many others get promoted by being Democratic Party minions or butt kissers.


61 posted on 10/17/2019 3:44:09 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Chgogal

How come you jerks can’t win against Afghanistan after 18 effing years????


Nobody wins against Afghanistan. Nobody. Their national “sport” involves a weighted goat carcass and two teams of men on horseback. The use of knives is considered foul play. If and when we get out and don’t get slaughtered on the way out we can count ourselves lucky.


62 posted on 10/17/2019 3:45:15 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: yesthatjallen

This is just more crap from the New York Times!


63 posted on 10/17/2019 3:45:16 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: yesthatjallen
A political speech, pure and simple...

...if this president doesn’t understand their importance, if this president doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, both domestically and abroad, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office...

Well, duh...obviously a true statement but based on big "ifs" - with no offer of examples Trump has failed in either sense.

He is giving Seals a bad name with this Schiff-like political hot air.

64 posted on 10/17/2019 3:47:10 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Arguing the Founders intended the weakest of 2 possible forms of NBC for our leader is a scam.)
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To: yesthatjallen

In my estimation the OSS was a necessary evil but still an evil. It allowed British agents to act on US soil, a real loathsome occurrence if you think about it. And it birthed the CIA, now an organization I don’t think can be saved.


65 posted on 10/17/2019 3:47:49 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: P-Marlowe
Reeks of sedition. Encouraging a military coup. Strip him of his rank and benefits.

This.
66 posted on 10/17/2019 3:50:40 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: yesthatjallen

Mcraven is bought and paid for by the Soros crime syndicate.

Mcraven belongs to the International Crisis Group.

The Soros Family is behind the International Crisis Group.

Mcraven should go lick his master Soros’ hand.


67 posted on 10/17/2019 3:50:46 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Innovative

There is a reason why, after I layed the NYT on the bottom of my birds cage he refused to go in


68 posted on 10/17/2019 3:54:50 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: yesthatjallen

I am waiting for the Times to interview their employee, Sarah Jeong, about what should be done to white people.


69 posted on 10/17/2019 4:04:09 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: yesthatjallen

McRaven was thrown out of SEAL team 6 for being a pussy. He is a disgrace.

We sure have created a bumper crop of leftist deep state fellating globalist spec-ops and military guys guys in recent years. Crenshaw, McRaven, Mattis, Petrayus, Buttigigity, McMasterbator, McChristol, Hayden, etc.

All want the childlike life of life on base for all of America. They are not defenders of the US Constitution.


70 posted on 10/17/2019 4:20:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: piasa

“There must have been some real political monkey business with the OBL raid>”

He crows about it endlessly. He watched it on TV back at HQ.


71 posted on 10/17/2019 4:22:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Read the whole thing. All generalities, hyperbole

Obviously a political hit job. From a left wing U President, to a promotion by OCommie. This guy And has zero credibility sucks

A hack, not a man if class, dignity, nor intelligence.

Strip his pension. A traitor


72 posted on 10/17/2019 4:39:34 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN?)
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To: Sam Gamgee

“In my estimation the OSS was a necessary evil but still an evil. “

And OSS was disbanded immediately after the war. Truman knew it had no place in American government. But then the deep state swung into action and got the CIA created. Supposedly as a “clearing house” collating and organizing intel from all government sources and making it orderly for presentation to the President.

It was not meant as a spy agency or as an operational black military unit. And it certainly was not meant as a policy making organization. After they assassinated JFK, Truman immediately penned an OpEd saying how they had had become malignant, needed drastic rooting out, and he regretted ever creating them.

http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman%27s%20CIA%20article.html

As you read it, realize it was published 3 weeks after JFK was buried. When JFK was murdered, Truman ran to his typewriter and wrote this. Pretty telling.


73 posted on 10/17/2019 4:49:26 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Obama kissass.


74 posted on 10/17/2019 4:50:45 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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To: Bookshelf

“As I stood on the parade ground, one retired four-star general, grabbed my arm, shook me and shouted, ‘I don’t like the Democrats, but Lincoln is destroying the republic.’”

The General is an un-American globalist hack. No General since Schwartzkopf has been worth a tinker’s damn.


75 posted on 10/17/2019 4:53:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

So the ret Admiral is encouraging a coup?


76 posted on 10/17/2019 4:56:25 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: DoughtyOne
The second event was an annual gala for the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) Society that recognizes past and present members of the intelligence and Special Operations community for their heroism and sacrifice to the nation.

I wonder who got the award this year. Maybe Comey, or Schiff, or Brennan, or Mifsud, or Nellie Orr for her daring ham radio communications from behind enemy lines in Maryland.

77 posted on 10/17/2019 5:07:58 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats only believe in democracy when they win elections.


78 posted on 10/17/2019 5:24:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win elections.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If weak leadership was impeachable, Carter would have been impeached several times over.


79 posted on 10/17/2019 5:25:26 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: yesthatjallen

The NYT is an affront to individual liberty. Always has been and always will be.

Nothing gets into that paper by accident. The only news that fits to print is propaganda that advances the globalist agenda. So if they publish an article praising the dea or fbi, cia etc., and even if it actually is something positive for country, we need to realize that they’re only interested in protecting a key deep state institution.


80 posted on 10/17/2019 5:25:50 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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