Posted on 08/03/2024 10:27:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Defense Secretary and former CIA Director Leon Panetta responded to President Joe Biden scolding Israel for seemingly assassinating Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh by saying that “one of the things that we’ve encouraged Israel to do is to target the leaders of Hamas that were involved in the attack on Israel.” And that this is what Israel should do. Panetta acknowledged that the killing could have an impact on ceasefire talks, but argued, “that is what war is all about. And ultimately, it’s the price you have to pay in order to be able to make sure that you’re going after those responsible for killing Israelis.”
Host Andrea Mitchell said, “The President was asked last night, at Andrews, about will this — what is the impact on the ceasefire talks? And he said, it’s not helpful, grimly. Because the U.S. believed that they were on the precipice of something really big. The risk/reward here –.”
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Seriously. Doesn’t he have better things to do, like lying about Hunter’s laptop?
> Who dug up this Clinton reject? <
Somebody who wants the Democrats to appear more “balanced” before the November elections.
But the day after the election the Democrats will go back to being pro-Hamas and anti-Israel. Panetta will return to obscurity, and we’ll get to be lectured by folks like Ilhan Omar and AOC again.
Panetta is one of the 51 scoundrels who signed the statement before the 2020 election swearing up and down that the Hunter Laptop scandal was “Russian disinformation”. Panetta has nothing to say to me.
He put Andrea Mitchell in her place, to his credit
We will hear from his son, Jimmy Panetta who sits in the House representing Leon's old congressional district in CA.
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