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Trump to welcome military working dog Conan to White House
Boston ^ | 10/30/19

Posted on 10/31/2019 1:13:37 AM PDT by Libloather

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every dog has his day, just not at the White House.

President Donald Trump tweets that the military working dog injured in the raid last weekend that killed the Islamic State leader will leave the Middle East for the White House sometime next week.

And the president appears to have declassified the dog’s name: Conan. That had remained a military secret because of the classified nature of the mission in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died.

**SNIP**

Conan was hurt after being exposed to live electrical cables but has returned to active duty, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Gen. Frank McKenzie, who leads U.S. Central Command, told reporters the dog was injured when it came in contact with the cables as it pursued al-Baghdadi in a tunnel underneath a compound in northwestern Syria.

McKenzie said the dog has worked with special operations forces for four years and taken part in about 50 missions. He said such working dogs are “critical members of our forces.”

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


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KEYWORDS: conan; dog; k9; military; pooch; trump
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To: Libloather; Bullish; BipolarBob; LeoWindhorse; DivineMomentsOfTruth; FES0844; Viking2002; ...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/dogs-that-saved-american-lives-now-tortured-dying-in-jordan/

Once again, the United States government has deplorably neglected vulnerable servicemembers: our military working dogs.

A blistering report, released by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General last week, found that since 2008 at least 100 American bomb-sniffing dogs have been starved and abused, and at least 10 — possibly more — neglected to death by our ally Jordan.

One American veterinarian, among five sent to Jordan by the State Department in 2016, unequivocally told the US government to shut this program down.

Instead, State sent 66 more dogs to Jordan, where they were ignored, left to languish in filthy kennels under extreme heat. Their Jordanian handlers expressed nothing but contempt, throwing the dogs’ food on the floors — floors with improper drainage, broken and sharp tiles, floors covered in dirt and feces.

These are dogs whose only purpose is to save human lives. It is what they are bred for and trained to do.

Fresh water bowls were nowhere to be found. The dogs have suffered rampant tick bites that go untreated, causing engorgements, disease and death.

Even their nails are left to grow wild.

These warrior dogs are spared no indignity by the Jordanians.
see also
Troops betrayed as Army dumps hundreds of heroic war dogs

The first to die — according to this report, which only dates back to 2016 — was Zoe, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois who died of heatstroke. A State Department veterinarian reported that all of the MWD heat-related deaths have been caused by outright negligence — not accident — and that this manner of death is brutal.

Next was a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois named Mencey, who arrived in Jordan healthy. Nine months later, a tick-borne disease led to renal failure, and he was sent back to America, where he was euthanized.

As ugly as this is, here’s something uglier — something neither the OIG report, nor most subsequent news coverage, will admit: Dogs in Jordan, as in much of the Middle East, often are loathed. They are viewed by many as akin to rats, dirty and diseased, never to be touched. Abuse is not just condoned but considered normal.


41 posted on 11/01/2019 12:54:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: EvilCapitalist; Just mythoughts; milagro; bramps; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Delta 21; ...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/dogs-that-saved-american-lives-now-tortured-dying-in-jordan/

Dogs that saved American lives now tortured, dying in Jordan

Once again, the United States government has deplorably neglected vulnerable servicemembers: our military working dogs.

A blistering report, released by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General last week, found that since 2008 at least 100 American bomb-sniffing dogs have been starved and abused, and at least 10 — possibly more — neglected to death by our ally Jordan.

One American veterinarian, among five sent to Jordan by the State Department in 2016, unequivocally told the US government to shut this program down.

Instead, State sent 66 more dogs to Jordan, where they were ignored, left to languish in filthy kennels under extreme heat. Their Jordanian handlers expressed nothing but contempt, throwing the dogs’ food on the floors — floors with improper drainage, broken and sharp tiles, floors covered in dirt and feces.

These are dogs whose only purpose is to save human lives. It is what they are bred for and trained to do.

Fresh water bowls were nowhere to be found. The dogs have suffered rampant tick bites that go untreated, causing engorgements, disease and death.

Even their nails are left to grow wild.

These warrior dogs are spared no indignity by the Jordanians.
see also
Troops betrayed as Army dumps hundreds of heroic war dogs

The first to die — according to this report, which only dates back to 2016 — was Zoe, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois who died of heatstroke. A State Department veterinarian reported that all of the MWD heat-related deaths have been caused by outright negligence — not accident — and that this manner of death is brutal.

Next was a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois named Mencey, who arrived in Jordan healthy. Nine months later, a tick-borne disease led to renal failure, and he was sent back to America, where he was euthanized.

As ugly as this is, here’s something uglier — something neither the OIG report, nor most subsequent news coverage, will admit: Dogs in Jordan, as in much of the Middle East, often are loathed. They are viewed by many as akin to rats, dirty and diseased, never to be touched. Abuse is not just condoned but considered normal.


42 posted on 11/01/2019 1:00:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: GOPJ

SON OF A B!TCH !!!!! F$&@!€#!!! ragheadcamelhumpinggoatrapingcanineabusers !!!! GIVE ME 1 DAY WITH THOSE M0@$&F¥€#%, JUST ONE DAY With a .50 Cal and an M243 !!!

President Trump, You need to get Our Troops and K9’s OUT OF THE SAND PIT. Those living in the sand pit are SUBHUMAN SCUM !!! Get Our People and K9’s OUT !!! Leave the pit, remove all of the American Assets.

Wait until the hoards arrive at mecca and make Glass out of the place. We can come back in 100 years and Bulldoze it back into sand and make a Resort.

JUST DAMNED IT !!!

I have to go take some BP Meds...


43 posted on 11/01/2019 1:24:14 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Delta 21; tubebender; Lockbox; OldMissileer; carriage_hill; ...

AAAAAASRRRGGHGH !!! PING


44 posted on 11/01/2019 1:29:01 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: GOPJ

f-ing wogs.....


45 posted on 11/01/2019 4:46:54 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Libloather

He ought to bring him into the US House, sitting him next to Melania when he does the next State of the Union Address.


46 posted on 11/01/2019 4:53:53 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Libloather

I’d have never believed that if I’d not seen this video for myself. I can see why the ISIS leader was crying like a sissy.


47 posted on 11/01/2019 5:06:25 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Mr. K

Or honoring a hero. I’m sure the handler will be there too.

Our military appreciates a CIC who appreciates them.


48 posted on 11/01/2019 5:08:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: GOPJ

Why for the love of Pete are they doing this ?! Please Lord save these Hero dogs. President Trump needs to know about this.


49 posted on 11/01/2019 5:34:30 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: MomwithHope

WOW! MALIGATOR!!


50 posted on 11/01/2019 6:17:40 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: mabarker1

Warning, Warning.... Angry Lib Event Coming....


51 posted on 11/01/2019 6:33:22 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Someone needs to get the information to Tucker or Hannity...they’ll fight this ....


52 posted on 11/01/2019 9:53:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: LS; Liz

LS - can someone get this information to President Trump....

https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/dogs-that-saved-american-lives-now-tortured-dying-in-jordan/

Dogs that saved American lives now tortured, dying in Jordan

Once again, the United States government has deplorably neglected vulnerable servicemembers: our military working dogs.

A blistering report, released by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General last week, found that since 2008 at least 100 American bomb-sniffing dogs have been starved and abused, and at least 10 — possibly more — neglected to death by our ally Jordan.

One American veterinarian, among five sent to Jordan by the State Department in 2016, unequivocally told the US government to shut this program down.

Instead, State sent 66 more dogs to Jordan, where they were ignored, left to languish in filthy kennels under extreme heat. Their Jordanian handlers expressed nothing but contempt, throwing the dogs’ food on the floors — floors with improper drainage, broken and sharp tiles, floors covered in dirt and feces.

These are dogs whose only purpose is to save human lives. It is what they are bred for and trained to do.

Fresh water bowls were nowhere to be found. The dogs have suffered rampant tick bites that go untreated, causing engorgements, disease and death.

Even their nails are left to grow wild.

These warrior dogs are spared no indignity by the Jordanians.
see also
Troops betrayed as Army dumps hundreds of heroic war dogs

The first to die — according to this report, which only dates back to 2016 — was Zoe, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois who died of heatstroke. A State Department veterinarian reported that all of the MWD heat-related deaths have been caused by outright negligence — not accident — and that this manner of death is brutal.

Next was a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois named Mencey, who arrived in Jordan healthy. Nine months later, a tick-borne disease led to renal failure, and he was sent back to America, where he was euthanized.

As ugly as this is, here’s something uglier ... They are viewed by many as akin to rats, dirty and diseased, never to be touched. Abuse is not just condoned but considered normal.


53 posted on 11/01/2019 9:55:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: mabarker1

“SON OF A B!TCH !!!!! F$&@!€#!!! ragheadcamelhumpinggoatrapingcanineabusers !!!! GIVE ME 1 DAY WITH THOSE M0@$&F¥€#%, JUST ONE DAY With a .50 Cal and an M243 !!!”

I understand your anger...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/dogs-that-saved-american-lives-now-tortured-dying-in-jordan/

Dogs that saved American lives now tortured, dying in Jordan

Once again, the United States government has deplorably neglected vulnerable servicemembers: our military working dogs.

A blistering report, released by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General last week, found that since 2008 at least 100 American bomb-sniffing dogs have been starved and abused, and at least 10 — possibly more — neglected to death by our ally Jordan.

One American veterinarian, among five sent to Jordan by the State Department in 2016, unequivocally told the US government to shut this program down.

Instead, State sent 66 more dogs to Jordan, where they were ignored, left to languish in filthy kennels under extreme heat. Their Jordanian handlers expressed nothing but contempt, throwing the dogs’ food on the floors — floors with improper drainage, broken and sharp tiles, floors covered in dirt and feces.

These are dogs whose only purpose is to save human lives. It is what they are bred for and trained to do.

Fresh water bowls were nowhere to be found. The dogs have suffered rampant tick bites that go untreated, causing engorgements, disease and death.

Even their nails are left to grow wild.


54 posted on 11/01/2019 9:58:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
Why for the love of Pete are they doing this ?! Please Lord save these Hero dogs. President Trump needs to know about this.

Amen...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/dogs-that-saved-american-lives-now-tortured-dying-in-jordan/

Dogs that saved American lives now tortured, dying in Jordan

Once again, the United States government has deplorably neglected vulnerable servicemembers: our military working dogs.

A blistering report, released by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General last week, found that since 2008 at least 100 American bomb-sniffing dogs have been starved and abused, and at least 10 — possibly more — neglected to death by our ally Jordan.

One American veterinarian, among five sent to Jordan by the State Department in 2016, unequivocally told the US government to shut this program down.

Instead, State sent 66 more dogs to Jordan, where they were ignored, left to languish in filthy kennels under extreme heat. Their Jordanian handlers expressed nothing but contempt, throwing the dogs’ food on the floors — floors with improper drainage, broken and sharp tiles, floors covered in dirt and feces.

These are dogs whose only purpose is to save human lives. It is what they are bred for and trained to do. Fresh water bowls were nowhere to be found. The dogs have suffered rampant tick bites that go untreated, causing engorgements, disease and death.

Even their nails are left to grow wild.

These warrior dogs are spared no indignity by the Jordanians.

The first to die — according to this report, which only dates back to 2016 — was Zoe, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois who died of heatstroke. A State Department veterinarian reported that all of the MWD heat-related deaths have been caused by outright negligence — not accident — and that this manner of death is brutal.

Next was a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois named Mencey, who arrived in Jordan healthy. Nine months later, a tick-borne disease led to renal failure, and he was sent back to America, where he was euthanized.

As ugly as this is, here’s something uglier — something neither the OIG report, nor most subsequent news coverage, will admit: Dogs in Jordan, as in much of the Middle East, often are loathed. They are viewed by many as akin to rats, dirty and diseased, never to be touched. Abuse is not just condoned but considered normal.

55 posted on 11/01/2019 10:10:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (This is the Democrat Party using its vote advantage to overturn the results of an election-BenLurkin)
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To: GOPJ; Salamander; JoeSixPack

I am sickened.


56 posted on 11/01/2019 12:24:24 PM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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To: Daffynition

But I bet you’re not shocked.

The cruel deeds of the soulless.


57 posted on 11/01/2019 12:35:46 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: GOPJ

You need to research what happened to all the K9s of the Vietnam Nam war.

I’ve known about this kind of thing for decades.

Perhaps some will understand better why I tend to go ballistic on dog threads.

/don’t even get me started on Muz-infected Spanish “culture”


58 posted on 11/01/2019 12:41:35 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Salamander

FWIW, I emailed Dana Perino and begged her to talk to the President about this; I know she has his ear.

Having lived in Turkey for 2 years, I know the moslems hatred of dogs. As fate would have it,a dog came w/ the apartment we rented, on the Turkish economy. It had been left behind, by a enlisted USAF personnel when he was deployed else ware. The dopes.

Well, since he was so sweet, we *adopted* him during our time there. He was smart enuf to survive/avoid the poison the locals left out in meat.

Our upstairs neighbors, a corpsman & his wife, were going stateside, and took him with them. He was a survivor, by any means.


59 posted on 11/01/2019 12:44:57 PM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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To: Daffynition

The poison meat in public places is happening here now but we’re not allowed to say who’s doing it.

When I have my dogs out they’re not allowed to even think about sniffing the ground.

Bless you for helping the doggo.


60 posted on 11/01/2019 12:57:19 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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