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Panetta won't meet with soldier unless they lock up their guns first
New York Times ^ | 3/14/2012 | ELISABETH BUMILLER

Posted on 03/14/2012 8:06:55 AM PDT by DManA

I will give you a summery of what is being reported by ELISABETH BUMILLER in the NYT this morning.

Panetta made a surprise visit to Afghanistan yesterday. Before he would meet with the soldiers they were ordered to place their weapons outside tent and return unarmed.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; banglist; democrats; military; panetta
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To: DManA

This reminds me a story my late uncle told me. He was an Army MP in Thailand during the Vietnam war. He told me when President LBJ visited their base, the MP’s were all given unloaded guns to pose with while he was speaking to the troops. Only the Secret Service were allowed to be armed in LBJ’s presence.


41 posted on 03/14/2012 9:02:43 AM PDT by Tamar1973 ("Never care what the other guy has, it is not yours and someone always has more."--isthisnickcool)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Great video.

It wasn’t a preplanned, handpicked audience all snapping pics of the One using the same kind of “loaner” camera...as is usually the case with a Hussein visit.


42 posted on 03/14/2012 9:03:05 AM PDT by moovova (Is Fluke REALLY pronounced Fluck?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; RJS1950; Hemingway's Ghost; hoosierham; OldCorps; AppyPappy
I knew a guy who fought in WW II in the South Pacific. They were all disarmed an hour before MacArthur mysteriously showed up.


43 posted on 03/14/2012 9:04:36 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Chainmail

Not all the MPs who were assigned during LBJ’s tour were fully armed...see my note #41


44 posted on 03/14/2012 9:06:48 AM PDT by Tamar1973 ("Never care what the other guy has, it is not yours and someone always has more."--isthisnickcool)
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To: DManA

Speaks volumes to anyone with 1/2 a brain........


45 posted on 03/14/2012 9:10:09 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: Tamar1973

I very clearly remember during Vietnam, leftists encouraging soldiers to frag their officers.


46 posted on 03/14/2012 9:10:17 AM PDT by DManA
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To: real saxophonist

I was barely willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, hoping spending time with military folks might give him a modicum of respect for us. Apparently, the doubt wins.


47 posted on 03/14/2012 9:12:33 AM PDT by jagusafr ("Write in Palin and prepare for war...")
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Note: The people around Bush are relaxed and smiling.

With dear leader,not so much.


48 posted on 03/14/2012 9:17:10 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: jagusafr

You actually had any respect at all for that turd???

WOW...

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49 posted on 03/14/2012 9:24:06 AM PDT by flatfish
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To: Chainmail
Since when are our leaders afraid of their own troops?

Since the Obama Administration was installed. And with good reason.

Obama and his backers are on the OPFOR side.

50 posted on 03/14/2012 9:26:51 AM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: DManA
Democrat Presidents, beginning with only Clinton, required that we lock up all the weapons on post in the Arms Rooms, accounting for weapons and ammo. Now we have another administration belonging to the next democrat president, Obama, with the same fobia of the military. Presidents who screw the troops are afraid to be around them, and it is only prudent from a liberals thinking. Only their security detachments will have weapons.

The best time in the world to attack a US military installation for any reason is when a Democrat President or members of his administration are at the base.... Republican presidents have never stowed the arms, since they support the troops.

51 posted on 03/14/2012 9:26:54 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: crosshairs
Mr. Middle Finger _resident probably told him to do/say this

You think they have rumblings of the "c" word?
52 posted on 03/14/2012 9:27:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DManA

Is this story really true? I just can’t conceive of any Sec’y of Defense making such a request. Is there any precedent for this?


53 posted on 03/14/2012 9:30:28 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: krb; All
It was SOP for Clinton to have the troops disarmed. Maybe that is what gave you the idea.

Leon Paneta is a Clinton retread.

54 posted on 03/14/2012 9:31:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: flatfish

Actually, according to major media, both Panetta and (Hillary) Clinton have vigorously opposed certain Obama policies. It wish fairly recent article(s). I wish I could remember what it was about, but I was (somewhat) impressed. It also made Obama look all the more outside the mainstream, which isn’t hard to do.


55 posted on 03/14/2012 9:33:07 AM PDT by PghBaldy (What an exciting time to be alive.)
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To: DManA

The reporter is amazingly ignorant of SOP’s.

Anytime you have a mixed group of friendlies and locals meeting a friendly VIP, the friendlies disarm to prevent locals, whom may not be vetted, from disarming a friendly and attacking the VIP.

The reporter is anti-military and attempting to show that friendlies cannot be trusted and are unstable.

No story here.


56 posted on 03/14/2012 9:33:57 AM PDT by gandalftb (11th MEU, 2/4 Echo, TRAP Force)
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To: DManA

someone should tell him how dangerous gun free zones are


57 posted on 03/14/2012 9:42:25 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: DManA

That’s a real slap in the face for our military. I assume the New York Times ass*oles are lovin’ it. Shame on Panetta...


58 posted on 03/14/2012 9:44:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: DManA

Both Obama and Paneta should stay completely away from American troops. They are not fit to be in the presence of our great American soldiers. I would not want my children or grandchildren to enter the military if it meant serving under these men.


59 posted on 03/14/2012 9:56:24 AM PDT by Reddon
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To: Jumper

You’ll like this - it’s a tape of elite liberal journalists talking about conservatives. They don’t know they’re being recorded.

After watching it, you’ll understand why newspapers want conservative citizens disarmed - not just criminals. And why they fear the military. They hate us so much, they assume we feel the same...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080


60 posted on 03/14/2012 9:57:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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