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Chuck Hagel Goes Full Fearmonger: "ISIS Poses Greater Threat Than 9/11, Prepare For Everything"

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US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel talks about the "imminent threat" ISIS poses to the US and the World.. .and pulls no punches in his total fearmongery..."ISIL poses a threat greater than 9/11. ISIL is as sophisticated and well funded as any group we have seen. They're beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology with a sophisticated strategic and tactical military prowess and they're tremendously well-funded. This is way beyond anything we have seen. We must prepare for everything. Get Ready!" Time for some QE-funded deficit-busting war spending...

 

 

 

Clip 1...

"They're beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology with a sophisticated strategic and tactical military prowess and they're tremendously well-funded. This is way beyond anything we have seen. We must prepare for everything. Get Ready!"

 

 

Clip 2...

"Evidence is pretty clear. When we look at what they did to Mr Foley and threatend to do to all Americans and Europeans. There is no other way to describe it but barbaric. They have no standard of decency of responsible human behavior. They are an imminent threat to every interest we have."

 

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Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:07 | 5126840 john39
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silver shorts?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:22 | 5126940 Squid Viscous
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It went east, west, north, and south of where the missile hit the Pentagram...?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126772 spieslikeus
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And how is it they can't somehow follow the money? Well-funded? WHISKEYTANGOFOXTROT?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:17 | 5126911 passenger_pidgin
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FACTA will keep us all safe...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:22 | 5126942 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Follow the money?!?!?!

Hagel has the original receipt for the equipment they've got now.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:24 | 5126954 Squid Viscous
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remember when the Zio-Nazis tried to block his confimation, seems he got the message loud and clear

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126774 czarangelus
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Well, the rules of magical aggression dictate you have to warn your victims first...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126775 MilwaukeeMark
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"So of course.. ah ..  that'll mean we'll need more domestic spying and ..  um ..  more restrictive speech laws, and controls over the internet .. and er ..  new addendums to our Martial Laws on the books .. and um .. we'll need to beef up the cops some more with more military gear .. and .. ah .. we'll have to take guns away from law abiding citizens  so that they don't fall into the wrong hands .. and, oh yeah .. we'll have to raise taxes and run QE a few more years to pay for all this .. Am I missing anything?"

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126776 Otto Zitte
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Oh, shit! OH MY GAWD! We can't help you, you're on your own! Shelter in place! Get your 4 mil plastic sheeting - its on sale at my chain store.

Oh, and give us your guns & ammo.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:59 | 5126777 Calmyourself
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"well funded" by whom you idiotic asshole, Yellen, Prince Bandar, do tell??  Americans falling for this shit again get what they deserve..

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126779 sixsigma cygnus...
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You say well funded, I say well sponsored.  Now the question is, who's pulling the strings?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:58 | 5126784 skbull44
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"...When we look at what they did to Mr Foley and threatend to do to all Americans and Europeans. There is no other way to describe it but barbaric. They have no standard of decency of responsible human behavior...."
Yes, because raining hellfire missiles down on someone from the seat of a computer console miles away is SO much more civilised.

http://olduvai.ca

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 16:59 | 5126787 HamRove
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BA BA BA Bullshit!

Keep it in the pants Hagel..... I know you have a hard on right now, thinking you may get to do something at your desk other than rubbing one out to pictures of Barbara Bush, but just remember, the grass is always greener right before the dawn.

Oh and stfu. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:00 | 5126790 Jack D. Ripper
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For Hagel, ISIS is another justification for a budget increase.

ISIS: funded mainly by our good friends the Saudis. With friends like them, we are sure to have plenty of enemies.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 19:59 | 5127772 falconflight
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I guess not many have followed Mr. Hagel's career and his stint w/ the DoD to date.  His quadrennial review recommends and it will happen....curtailing projection of power to fighting in one theater of operation rather than the 2 plus since the end of WWII.  There hasn't been 5 minutes of media coverage on a strategic shift not seen in our lifetimes.   Such a policy basically ends the American military pre eminence.  It sets the stage for a black swan event that cannot be overcome should it occur without the most dire consequences of unconventional warfare. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:00 | 5126791 Shameful
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In before false flag nuke attack!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:19 | 5126924 Squid Viscous
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let's play guess the city for the next "attack" - my guess is mid-America mid market size like Toledo/Akron... got to get the folks with the progam

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:47 | 5127076 bitterwolf
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might have sumpin there slippery squid,that meme is 15 yrs old now, what if elite split on massive mushroom damage $$$ and same result(temp. martial law) can be accomplished with simultaneous nationwide VBIED attacks on major shopping ceters(btw, trial run in Boston recently supports my thesis).Good folks would be screamin for .gov to protect them from the ISIS and wouldnt'cha know all the legal frame work is already in place...

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:56 | 5127464 espirit
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The question is whether intend to maim, kill, or just scare the bejesus out of everyone.

Cleanup is a bitch since the responders are a little wary now, and anarchy sets in without an immediate and identifiable villian.

I always thought when/where the ball drops would be a sucker play.

Just Saying.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:01 | 5126792 thetruthseeker
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Couldn't the American public to stand behind a war on Russia, so they decided to go back to the old Muslim Extremists fearmongering.  Make no mistake, if there is an attack on this soil do not believe a word they tell you until you see incontrovertible evidence confirming the identity of the perpetrators.  These guys can't fix the economy so they are trying to distract the American public through fearmongering as always.  Pathetic.  And yes, these ISIS guys are crazy.  But hell, we funded them and helped to make them who they are.  If we stayed out of this shit, the public in those regions woud overthrow these subhuman Muslim fanatics.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:05 | 5127800 Herd Redirectio...
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I imagine they couldn't sell the troops on a war w/ Russia either!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:00 | 5126794 Dead Man Walking
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Rather than fear, let's IMPEACH

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:05 | 5126830 Bear
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Impossible ... Democrats control the Senate. The only way this can happen is to vote out every Democrat on November 3rd.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:49 | 5127436 falconflight
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The GOP in control will get us no closer to impeachment.  McConnell in Senate, Boehner of the House?  The Party might be damaged by enforcing the Constitution. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:00 | 5126796 Son of Captain Nemo
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"Operation Full Retard"

Reporting for duty Sir!

Every day is like living a new Monty Python's Flying Circus episode.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:03 | 5126812 Bear
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More like The Full Monty ... These guys are Naked Idiots

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:07 | 5126844 skbull44
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Listen, strange women lying in ponds is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:03 | 5126807 Bear
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WTF ... The Secretary of Defense didn't know before now that ISIS was a significant threat? What is he like Obama that has to read about it in the NY Times?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:03 | 5126809 p00k1e
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"well funded"

 

All I know is Bitcoin'ers must be funding the Terrorists.

A person can’t pull more than $10,000 out of a bank without triggering a currency transaction report (CTR)….  How else would the Terror’ers get the loot? 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:07 | 5126842 Tenshin Headache
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On pallets?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:58 | 5127473 espirit
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From C-130's?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:04 | 5126814 Duc888
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Worse than 911 hugh?  Well, since the worlds most expensive military and security forces were not able to protect us from 911..........  Why doesn't Hagel and his whole useless Neocon crew just resign, shut the fuck up and go home.  Save us taxpayers some money.

Not one single person who "slipped up" and let 911 "happen" was ever held accountable.

Fire everyone in the Pentagon, send 'em home and turn it into the worlds largest roller skating rink.

Get ready for a really big shit-show.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 19:57 | 5127768 samsara
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"...Accountable.." ??

Bush gave Tommy Franks and George Tenet the Metal of Freedom.
Ain't that enough?

Obama Gave one to George Bush too.
Ain't that enough?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:05 | 5126816 Itchy and Scratchy
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OMG! The phoney hysterias get more and more desperate & pathetic! What's next Disco Fever?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:05 | 5126821 p00k1e
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Go long, Magnetic Yellow Ribbons!!!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:04 | 5126823 uncle_disgusting
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It'll be 9/11 times 100...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:05 | 5126829 ThroxxOfVron
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"This is way beyond anything we have seen. We must prepare for everything."

Well, what the fuck are you half-wits waiting for?

IF this is a bigger threat than Japan was in the late stages of WW2 it is a no brainer to nuke the living shit out of everything that ISIS has a foothold on and the civilians be damned.

It's FAT BOY time.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:57 | 5127865 ThroxxOfVron
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Well which is it?  

Is ISIS pure propaganda and/or CIA/Mi5/Zionist merccenaries OR the real deal?

One way or another Hagel and the Administration are fuck-wits that deserve the captured journalist treatment.

I for one do not want to expend even one more cent or deploy any further soldiers and/or armament to the ME, and the nukes have been gathering dust since the 1940s -arguably the most expensive and least useful weapons systems in the arsenal for over 60 years.

Use it or defund it and decomission the stockpiles.  

Bomb them and get it over with or fuck off and pull out.

Enough wasting our treasure and men on this bullshit.

 

The open border is another failure to hang traitors from both parties over when we get around to that...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:09 | 5126843 Itchy and Scratchy
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What could possibly be more terrifying than a hooded dude in Nike runners with a British accent who has to share his weapons and steal cars? Fuel up the bombers we're goin' to Def Con 2!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126889 joego1
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The British created the environment that incubates this whole thing. Islamic codlers.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:08 | 5126846 lakecity55
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Chuck: "Uh, pay no attention to the fact we armed these guys thru Libya after we knocked off Kadaffy. We thought these guys would 'play ball-' and they are, but with peoples' heads."

Backdoor Barry: "You just can't trust the help these days. Fore!"

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:21 | 5126933 Pareto
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+100 Nice.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:08 | 5126848 p00k1e
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"Prepare for everything"

Like an Ebolaian leaving an Atlanta hospital?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:08 | 5126851 ptoemmes
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That's what you get when the good ole USA perfects it program(s) to create the next bogeyman.  I mean we trained abnd supplied UBL in Afghanistan against the Russkies and look at all the war profits he generated.  We supplied and trained the pre-ISIS rebels in Syria - come on you know we did - and the profits of said groundwork are ready to be reaped.

I've told my wife...within 90 days we'll be all in - again.

 

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:08 | 5126853 George Washington
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Let's drop some ebola patients on ISIS ... two birds with one stone!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:12 | 5126873 joego1
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Uh Oh, get ready for the tsa lobotomy and colonoscopy before you board your next flight.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126893 Itchy and Scratchy
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Right on brother. There goes the last of the citizens privacy and liberty! Get ready 4 yur anal implants!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:12 | 5126876 Eahudimac
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Just shut the fuck up Hagel. We know your creation called ISIS is going to attack the US. You fuckers created them, fund them, arm them and will give them all the access they need to kill as many people as possible, just like your tribe did in 9/11. It's a good thing your mind-control programs work so well or you would be strung up by your fucking balls and beat to death like a pinata. Fuck you and your ISIS fucks. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:13 | 5126877 Itchy and Scratchy
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The NeoCons are goin' nutz tryin' to find something to bomb when they go after a motley crew like this!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126881 HippieHaulers
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I'm ready with duct tape...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:57 | 5127148 jon dough
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Start with some big strips over Hagel's piehole...cover the nose, too, if you have to, it's for the childrenz...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:24 | 5127879 ThroxxOfVron
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5 or 6 rolls should be enough to mummify him properly.

The Saddam Memorial Spiderhole is the perfect place to dump him, too.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126882 Son of Captain Nemo
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"They're beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology with a sophisticated strategic and tactical military prowess and they're tremendously well-funded."..

By whom Chuckie?... "Tremendously well funded" by whom???

Do tell ?????

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126887 Hongcha
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Dual citizenship Chuck?  U.S. not good enough.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126890 Awesome-O
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That must be some JV squad.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5126891 Stumpy4516
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Prepare for what they (US/Israel) are going to do to you.

Some things they will claim needed to be done to protect you from ISIS, others things will be done and blamed on ISIS.

But YOU will be on the receiving end.

ISIS = CIA/Massod

So, is the war with Russia off the table for now, which then requires ISIS to be made the focus.  I just wonder what kind of horrible false flags they have already put in place and were going to initiate when live shooting with Russia started.  Now they may still occur but blamed on ISIS.

Prepare

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:15 | 5126896 Awesome-O
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That must be some JV squad.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:15 | 5126897 maneco
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....and they are funded by the Saudis!!!!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:15 | 5126898 Yen Cross
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     These NSA, TOTUS tribesmen, can't even get their stories straight with each other. You funded the murderous thugs to do your bidding Chuck.

  "ISIL is as sophisticated and well funded as any group we have seen. They're beyond just a terrorist group."

   WTF Chuck?  If it walks,  talks, and acts like a CIA duck, then it's probably a CIA duck...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:23 | 5126950 Itchy and Scratchy
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ISIS make lots off S&P 500 ETF's!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:34 | 5127009 Yen Cross
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  They also do well robbing remote CIA bank branches in Mosul Iraq.

  ISIS' half-a-billion-dollar bank heist makes it world's richest terror group - Telegraph

   They're also quite proficient at trading the SPOT crude markets.

   ISIS ‘making millions’ out of stolen oil revenues in Iraq — RT News

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:36 | 5127026 Itchy and Scratchy
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No robbing done .... they all have gold plated ATM cards!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:16 | 5126899 TabakLover
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Hey Neo-cons.  Blow us.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:16 | 5126901 pcrs
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Note also: western passports have been contaminated, soon no travel for you terrorist.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:16 | 5126902 kill switch
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Chuck Hagel Goes Full Fearmonger: "ISIS Poses Greater Threat Than 9/11, Prepare For Everything"

 

I don't need no fucking preparedness,,,,I have the NSA looking out for my ass!!!

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:16 | 5126903 edifice
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So... By 'prepare', does he mean, go long MIC stocks?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:17 | 5126905 Jack Burton
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Nothing personal about Hagel, as least he paid his dues the hard way in Vietnam, which was a hell hope beyond anything the Iraq war could cook up. But reall? Hagel, you stupid CUNT! Washington DC, Obama, AIPAC, CIA are still sending money, weapons and trainers to Al-Qaeda training camps in NATO nation Turkey, and worst of all the big terrorist traing camp in Jordan where many ISIS fighters got their start after arriving from Europe. This is fact, not a lie, not me shooting my mouth of, it is proven fact! Yet, Washington and Hagel will not admit to this! No, they and the media are silent about the thousands of terrorists American funds, arms and trains. All this in hopes out "good terrorists" well knock out Syria and kill Assad. But there is no real border between Iraq and Syria, the American trained terrorists cross back and forth with American weapons and training to fight in Iraq! Now, Hagel says these very same America allies are a deadly threat to the homeland.

I am serious, how can these fucking clowns get away with being allies with ISIS in Syria and deadly enemies with ISIS in Iraq. And furthermore, Americas great and loving allie is Saudi Arabia, who is 100% responsible for operating Al-Qaeda and ISIS. And the EU does nothing to stop thousands of it's own citizens from going to Turkey and Jordan to get Americna training, arms and money and then filter into ISIS and wage war on Iraq and American troops?

Look, if this sounds insane to you, it does to me too! But I challange anyone to point out with evidence that anything I said above is wrong!

I said this before. And after the US led Nazi coup in Kiev, I relly meant it. The Washington DC and Tel Aviv axis has become the center of evil in the modern world. I don't mean America is evil, I mean Washington DC is evil. The politicians are evil liars and greedy corrupt puppets of the Miltiary/Industrial/Spy/Cop complex. Liars and warmongers. 10,000 dead in Ukraine already, and Washington DC has just threatened Russia that Washington will begin to support even heavier attacks against Donbass with more modern and heavier wepaons for the Kiev Fascist Junta.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:45 | 5127077 Global Hunter
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Jack, I read earlier today estimate of 40,000 dead from Ukraine Army alone.  I searched around for the source/link but couldn't find it (I am at work an not concentrating).  UA 24th, 30th, 72nd and 79th destroyed and 4500 men in each approx so I believe it could be up there.

Interesting vid posted yesterday of survivors 30th Mechanized Brigade and their families confronting a base commander.  83 men returned, 4700 set out on the operation.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VayoSyshgZA

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:50 | 5127105 Monty Burns
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Doesn't sound in the least insane. The real axis of evil you refer to is quite likely to plunge the world into nuclear war at some stage.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:22 | 5127231 rwe2late
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Jack,

No need to be deferential or apologetic toward Hagel.

Furthermore, he is crafty, not "stupid".

At the time of his appointment in January 2013, the MSM was fawning all over him as a "moderate" & "realist" who disliked war because of his Vietnam experience and opposed the "surge" in Iraq ... just like his pal Obama.

"While serving in the Senate, Hagel became close with then-Sen. Obama ..."

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/06/chuck-hagels-views-on-war-forge...

Well, despite the hoopla, for Hagel, just like his pal Obama, the only meaningful lessons of Vietnam were to practice greater duplicity and secrecy and avoid using a drafted army.

C'mon, Hagel is still trying to peddle the Vietnam "domino theory"!

As I pointed out back then at another website:

"Hagel chairs the pro-empire Atlantic Council.
Hagel ALREADY advises as co-chair of the Intelligence Advisory Board.
Hagel supports the Homeland “security” “war on terror”.
Hagel has made clear his willingness both to support Israel and attack Iran.

Hagel is a false “moderate” who will only provide cover for new crimes.
Bottom line, Hagel advocates an expansive global Pentagon militarism."

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:32 | 5127312 Gadfly
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This is how empires collapse.  They get greedy.  Then they bite off more than they can chew -- financially and militarily.  Then they go broke.  Then they are defeated militarily.  This has been the history of the world.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:32 | 5127912 andrewp111
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They helped create something that they can no longer control, now Hagel is crapping his pants.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:18 | 5126908 zerocash
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Maybe he should look at Mc Shitstain for conspiring with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: 

http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.nl/2014/08/us-senator-mccain-met-...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:25 | 5126912 Itchy and Scratchy
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How long is Amerika gonna keep this pathetic charade goin'? Until the next 100 generations of taxpayers are bled completely dry?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:18 | 5126915 SmittyinLA
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A recap of 9/11:

  • They* voluntarily let Muslims enter legally
  • They* voluntarily let Muslims remain here illegally
  • They* voluntarily let Muslims train to fly jets
  • They* let voluntarily let Muslims on planes
  • They* voluntarily let Muslims into the cockpits.
  • Shockingly the Muslims flew the planes into buildings.

The problem isn't that we have enemies, but that we have enemies running our government immigration and visa system.

People like Hagle* are the problem, they are the real enemy.

Americans have had and always will have foreign enemies, intentionally letting them into prey on Americans is new.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:20 | 5126930 Itchy and Scratchy
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Don't buy into the Mulsim fear-mongering! It's a big steamin' pile of doggy doo doo! Honest injun!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:47 | 5127085 Monty Burns
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"the Muslims" didn't fly those planes, you idiot. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:00 | 5127160 Moe Howard
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Dancing Israelis. I will never unsee that.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:20 | 5126925 Downtoolong
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I just shot my cat. Fucker ran away for a day and came back looking at me kinda funny. After hearing this news, I think he might have been ISIS.

Don't worry Chuck, I got your back. You too Rick Perry

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:34 | 5126936 Itchy and Scratchy
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LOL - u make me laff lots! Damn thats gud!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:19 | 5126926 himaroid
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Seal the borders, stop all international trade and travel, put up star wars missle defense shield, party on. Let them fuck themselves for a change.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:26 | 5126961 himaroid
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OR, we could just get the fuck out of the way and iran would stomp a mudhole in their ass.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 22:55 | 5128372 stormsailor
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+1000,  a win, win.  

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:34 | 5127013 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Seal the borders

rayciss! </sarc>

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:20 | 5126929 Elliptico
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Moar War!!!!  Dow 20,000!!!  Kill! Kill! Kill!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:22 | 5126938 atthelake
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I don't believe a word Hagel says but he's right about one thing. It's time to prepare. You know, sooner or later, they're going to pull another big stunt. If you have a year or two of fuel, food, drink, meds and supplies and nothing happens, then you have a year or two of food. If something happens... Ebola, ISIS, Martial Law, whatever, you're prepared for it. Better to wonder, Why, in Heaven's name, did I buy all this stuff than to wish to God you had.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:45 | 5127078 Monty Burns
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And I used to think that Hagel was the one decent Senator (sigh). One thing, he sure doesn't look happy with this charade.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:15 | 5127841 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

One thing, he sure doesn't look happy with this charade.

That's just a temporary side effect of the soulectomy.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:30 | 5127903 andrewp111
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I am less concerned about the IS Caliphate pulling "a stunt" than just waking up one morning and hearing that they took control of Saudi Arabia in a blitzkreig operation aided by massive support from inside the country. If there is anything which could bring a sudden end to all the bull markets, this is it.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:22 | 5126939 European American
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The CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS are beyond just terrorist groups. They marry ideology with a sophisticated strategic and tactical military prowess and they're tremendously well-funded. This is way beyond anything we have seen. We must prepare for everything. Get Ready. They've gone Rogue.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:24 | 5126944 Son of Captain Nemo
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Everything else the CIA/NSA and DoD have done has blown up in there faces and the piggy bank is all dried up... Soooo... How do we keep a military presence around the globe with over 1,000 military bases to threaten USD "holdouts" and cull the herd of useless eaters back home at the same time???....

Gettin rather interesting now folks, wouldn't ya say?!!!

This is why GW's post here earlier today with the CFR's announcement is so telling.

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:23 | 5126951 docmac324
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Call it what it is, job justification.  You need us!  My ass.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:26 | 5126960 cougar_w
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"threatend to do to all Americans and Europeans"

There are like -- what -- maybe 10,000 of these ISIS pukes? 50,000 tops. And now all of America and Europe is under the axe? Across oceans and continents? Who comes up with this crap?

Smells like desperation, baby. Their oligarch shit is coming unwired and they need an enemy and need one right now.

So yeah there is a problem, but ISIS isn't it.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:59 | 5127155 Moe Howard
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Cancel all DoD spending cuts. We need a ten billion man army. And some F-22s.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:06 | 5127173 Son of Captain Nemo
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Smells like desperation, baby. Their oligarch shit is coming unwired and they need an enemy and need one right now....

c_w

Beware of the desperate suicidal psychopaths that use to be the center of attention and in control that lose everything...

Now how many "9/11s" do we need to get everyone on board for the long haul???

I think we're all in agreement that in addition to needing a divine benevolent and omnipotent presence that can fly among the clouds -we also need people inside the machine that are willing to risk everything in order to stop those chain of 9/11's from coming off!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:17 | 5127241 Jethro
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When dealing with fundamentalist Muslims, could'nt  they easily be distracted by steamy Thrusday nights, herds of supple female goats, and Justin Bieber?  I mean, if you were to conduct a tally, Ron Jeremy has gotten more head than ISIS....

All joking aside.  You can't live in a state of fear.  I refuse to.  I'm more likely to be killed by my physician than some goat-fucking Muslim.

 

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:27 | 5127893 andrewp111
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That is why ISIS requires that the hind end of goats and sheep be covered with a veil (seriously). They know their own vermin better than anyone else does.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:25 | 5126964 lasvegaspersona
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A paranoid part of me wonders if the Foley execution was a false flag.

The people of the USA could not be conned into war in Syria. Now with the horror of this event folks are upset. Could this be the way to convince voters to finally support a war effort in that country.

The IS is/was our guys a few months ago. Now that they are committing atrocities they can be painted as a reason for war. Once we commit to war we could easily be shifted from a war on IS to a war on Assad. The American people largely do not even know who he is.

After all worse things have been used to start wars. What would it take to convince the right people that sacrificing one American would be worth it if we could finally get the war they seem to desperately want.

Nah...too far out... were the good guys and simply would never use such dishonorable means.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:41 | 5127057 Monty Burns
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After all that's happened nothing would surprise me.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:27 | 5127306 Otto Zitte
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Thats not a paranoid part of you. Thats your better judgement.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:21 | 5127866 TheFourthStooge-ing
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What would it take to convince the right people that sacrificing one American would be worth it if we could finally get the war they seem to desperately want.

What's one American to Vichy DC when they've already shot down at least one airliner? Plenty of Americans are going to die if/when they get the war they've been ginning up.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:28 | 5126974 Itchy and Scratchy
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Damn ... these grifters will say pretty much anything to rape & pillage the taxpayer!

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:28 | 5126978 Tracerfan
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So why did we arm & train ISIS in Jordan and Turkey, because we are trying to create another 9-11?  ISIS exists only because the US Government brought it into existence, armed and trained its members.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:03 | 5127180 falconflight
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The best that I can analyze from the available information is that the US didn't support the non jihadists in the beginning of the Syrian revolution, and by the time US began sending assistance, the Free Syrian Army  was usurped and purged by the jihadists.  But, considering  that the US believed it could influence and forge an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and their proxy Hamas, it isn't much of a jump to cohort with the members of this group, whatever the lastest d/b/a is.  I'm just tired of being fed that the US has to fight them over there or they'll overwhelm the Motherland (the inference).

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 20:25 | 5127884 andrewp111
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The Saudis created and funded ISIS, we armed it, and now it is too big to control. Prince Bandar was fired for creating this monster. Now it could be too big to stop without a real war, and Hagel is about to shit his pants. But Obozo is only thinking of his putter.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:29 | 5126979 Uncle Remus
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Oh FFS.

This is starting to smell like full-retard - on steroids.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:38 | 5127007 22winmag
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Sorry, no steroids left after the cops got their paws on them.

 

Cops love steroids... just like that aggressive 'roid head at the gym, only with a badge and gun.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:38 | 5127039 Monty Burns
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"ISIL poses a threat greater than 9/11. "

Wow, worse than Mossad, the CIA and Larry Silverstein combibed??  This ISIS must be some operation.


Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:29 | 5126984 GroovyChick
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I don't know what they think the problem is. It's not like ISIS has any umbrellas.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/08/20/gunman-reported-at-csu-san-marcos

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:29 | 5126985 johngerard
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What, "dogs and cats, living together", as Bill Murray said in Ghostbusters?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:32 | 5126990 Atomizer
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Barry can kick off a Bacon Summit.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:31 | 5126993 goldhedge
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Its called Blowback u dumb fucks.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:32 | 5126999 TheABaum
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Let's for the sake of argument, say Chuck is giving an honest assessment.

How is it that this unprecedented threat emerged? Who's been in charge the 5.5 years? Did this suddenly emerge after the 2012 elections?

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:43 | 5127066 samsara
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"Who's been in charge the 5.5 years?"

Who's been in charge?  The SAME ones who have been in charge for the last 14.5 years(+).

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:32 | 5127001 SantaClaws
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Maybe Hagel was convinced by Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row" (1965): 

"They're selling postcards of the hanging/they're painting the passports brown/the beauty parlor is filled with sailors/the circus is in town..."  http://www.metrolyrics.com/desolation-row-lyrics-bob-dylan.html

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:32 | 5127004 socalbeach
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I guess if you believe that 19 Muslim dropouts and a bearded Afghani caveman out-maneuvered US air defenses on 9-11, then tens of thousands of Mulsim ISIS members would be a threat also.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:33 | 5127005 abatis
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I wish the US had more a parliamentary form of government. The "No Confidence Vote" is long over do here. Sad days in USA no leadership.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:34 | 5127014 Son of Loki
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"This means Moar Woar!"

 

I'm going out tonight and better prepare...more duck tape, scissors and desks I can hide under, and so on...

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:35 | 5127017 Moccasin
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They are done sheering the sheep, they are going to make mutton out of us. DoD and the rest of the lunatic fringe have created this mess. They (US gov and allies) have continued to fund proxy armies that go rogue on our ass on their terms, not ours! They have the sheep in a psychological state ready to run them through the slaughter house gates. Our nation is falling apart quicker then I could ever have imagined. The MSM has helped the state create a boogeyman at every turn and the sheep feel they have to trust the pathological psychopath liars that run the show and the sociopath MSM are cheering and leading the sheep to their demise.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:35 | 5127020 loregnum
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Lookout! Some group is going to take over the world. 

I want to know WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS CRAP. Those that do should just go and die already and help rid the world of some stupidity.

I get a chuckle when those in the govment say this crap and imply the country's monster defense spending and military might is really useless and that some hack group could take the country over. Either they figure the sheeple are too dumb to see that or they are simply that dumb they can't see it themselves. 

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:36 | 5127028 SantaClaws
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Sounds like Obama's been scolding Hagel about the golf interruptions.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:36 | 5127032 homiegot
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Yes sir. I'll be turning in my guns tomorrow and submitting to a full cavity search. I'm confident you will find nothing objectionable. You may also implant any sort of microchip you'd like. Feel free to monitor 100% of my communications. Thanks for keeping us safe.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:41 | 5127059 RichardENixon
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While you're at it don't forget to do the ice bucket challenge and post the video to your Facebook

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:49 | 5127101 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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And afterwards help cure stupidity and take the plastic bag challenge (put it over your head and seal).

Just make sure you nominate people before doing the challenge.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:36 | 5127034 notadouche
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9/11 was never a threat.  It was an event.  Before 9/11 we all weren't running around worried about the "threat of 9/11".   

What else are you going to say about a group that just destroyed or took control of all the shit the US spent trillions rebuilding after first destroying it?  You going to come out and say they are a rag tag bunch of rank amateurs that pose no risk and are nothing but cowards?  This happened on your watch so naturally they must be vastly superior, more well funded and cunning than any group ever assembled before or since.  Otherwise your competency might come into question.  Couldn't have that now could we?  

War on Terror and the narrative of "keeping us all safe" has been the biggest most successful wealth transfer since well ever I suppose.  How much of the tax payer money has the government spent in the name of "keeping us safe"?  

Looks to me like the best way to keep safe is to not go to the Middle East.  I hear a lot of folks are dying over there.  Journalist too.   Hagel appears to be oblivious of a fellow name Danny Pearl.  This poor journalist isn't the first to get beheaded over there and likely won't be the last as long as they keep going to that area.

What a damned shame that so many lives have been ruined, so much money has been pissed away in the name of what exactly?  Blame Bush, Obama whatever.  It's well past time we stop worrying so much about who's fault it is and look to removing ourselves from this quagmire.  If it makes you feel better to blame Obama over Bush or vice versa, to steal from Hillary, "What does it matter at this point?"  Cheney the evil doer.  Bin Laden, thats for the freakin' puppet heads on TV to fight about.  The political leaders (oxymoron)  need to step up and show some courage.  Is it so hard to put the interest of the American people first, second and third and screw foreign countries at least until our house is in order?  Our way of life has drastically changed for the worst since 9/11 and only eroding.  What is the end game?  Where or how does this end?  The US totally rot from the inside out?

How can one drowning country help another? 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:39 | 5127044 samsara
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It's good to know that they now have a group they can really count on when it comes to staging Phase II False Flag Events.

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 23:00 | 5128386 stormsailor
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just send chuck norris over there, he will kick isis ass.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:40 | 5127056 falconflight
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Watching and hearing Hagel, the years long CAIR rectum-sniffer...I can't but muse on the rich irony of his siren call.  Obviously, ISIS isn't an imminent, or even an existential threat to the US or the World.  Better to say Mecca is such a threat.  Check this RINO's historical statements and positions, and this latest utterance borders on the bizarre. 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 21:35 | 5128114 Boubou
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Speaking of existential threats. during the real cold war, both sides had plans which would have done for life on earth/ Now that was a threat. Abd yet we now have a richer vein of  hysteria than back then.

As it turns out , The Russian missiles probably could not have hit the right continent and the CIA knew it but - hey - why spoil the fun?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 23:35 | 5128487 falconflight
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My entire youth was during the height of the Cold War; SAC, MAD, and NATO.  It's a different society today, and a frightening cadre of people occupying the halls of power.  I felt more secure then than today.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:43 | 5127067 mrs
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Memo to Chuck Hagel - then stop funding them! 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:44 | 5127069 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Can't have Ricky out fearmongering the WH to control who gets to use weapons on the populace. All in the name of keeping us safe of course.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:47 | 5127079 Notsobadwlad
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Obviously Hagel cannot tell the truth which seems to be that the US and Israel created ISIL, hoping to set it loose against Assad, but couldn't because the people would not support the US softening up Syria and so Assad would have stopped ISIL before it started.

... and now because they are running behind schedule with their plan, they let ISIL loose in Iraq, gave it US weaponry and are now trying to make the American people fearful so that we will not question the government's abuse of authority.

Most likely the US government will attack its own people again and blame the bogeyman, ISIL that it created, who somehow came across the border disguised as Guatamalan children... the economy will crash as planned and we will be under marshall law as we are restructured.

I guess it is hard planning a world war (if we are to believe the tenants of the great work then both Islam and political zionism are to be eliminated in the third war) and economic reshuffling, but these turds seem to be exceptionally incompetent at it. It reminds me of the comical beginning of "The Princess Bride", where Prince Humperdink is trying to "off" Buttercup and blame Guilder so that he can start a war. But who will be our Wesley?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:40 | 5127383 Infinite QE
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Great summary. Zionism the greatest threat the world has ever known.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:47 | 5127086 Amish Hacker
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If you live long enough, you get to see an entire turn of the wheel. Anyone remember when the Sandinistas, just like ISIS, were going to march right up through Mexico to Harlingen, Texas, and lay waste to the USA? The message then, as now, was Be afraid, be very afraid. It's easier to control you that way, no matter how ludicrous the imagined threat. Likewise with decades of Cold War. Duck and cover, Billy! Good boy! Oh, and the Cubans, they're only 90 miles away. We're doomed!

Can we all just take a few deep breaths and regain control of our collective imagination? You are NOT going to be decapitated by ISIS. Ask yourself who benefits from making you think you will be.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:53 | 5127094 Westcoastliberal
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Let's set the record straight Chuckie...didn't the U.S. fund/support the Muhjadhadeen (headed by Osama Bin Boy when they were fighting the Ruskies in the Afghan war?  In fact they made a movie about it starring Tom Hanks "Charlie Wilson's war".  And did not the Muhjadhadeen evolve into Al Queda?  And did we not support Al Queda in the overthrow of Libya (i.e. the Bengazi scandal), and later in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian government (remember the propaganda about Assad using chemical weapons on his own people?)?  And isn't ISIS (the new, improved name for Al Queda) using weapons we left in Iraq?  Seems to me the "Military-Industrial Complex" is jumping for joy...they're selling ammo and weapons to both sides now.

Hope 'bout we withdraw from these overseas imperial excursions, OR invade the REAL perpetrators of 9/11.  And that would be the tag-team of Saudi Arabia and Israel.

 

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:52 | 5127108 Equality 7-25-1
Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:52 | 5127115 robertocarlos
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Not another inside job. Can't they just let us live in peace?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:54 | 5127122 Dead Man Walking
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Raise the warning indicator from "Ridiculous Threat" to "Ludicrous Threat"

Just hope plaid doesn't happen.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:02 | 5127172 Jethro
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Plaid is too manly for this administration.  Maybe a tasteful paisley print is in order?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:54 | 5127130 Moe Howard
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Seems to me we are going to experience a long period of negative rights and negative interest rates.

 

Correct me if I am wrong please.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:56 | 5127131 QQQBall
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Some folks are dangerous

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:56 | 5127132 robochess
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well, hell, Hagel, just have your boss sit and have a beer with isis and talk things out. Kinda like what that fuckstick administration is good for... talking like a neighborhood lawyer... "I think you got a case and I wouldn't ordinarily take a case like this but your's is special. Can you afford a retainer?"

 

fuckheaded shitdipper putterfucker.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:00 | 5127164 Jethro
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Maybe Obama can take the ISIL/ISIS/AQ guys out for a game of golf and smooth the situation out?

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:57 | 5127141 Jack Burton
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Hagel now has bigger problems. Ukraine's American backed Anti Terrorist Operation to cleanse the Donbass of anti government forces and ethnic Russia populations has run into awful trouble. Too many disasters to write about, but the 30th Brigade alone was smashed in battle and 4,000 men are unaccounted for. Then there is this information posted today from Urkainian sources.

" observing the current tendency in the development of military actions, the junta increasingly understands that this won't be over in the Summer and there will be an Autumn campaign and a Winter one is also quite probable, which is best encountered not in the field with cut communications, but in defense on well-fortitifed positions with support of major settlements. In the case of final failure under Donetsk, the junta will sooner or later be pushed, both south of Donetsk and north of Luhansk."

So there you have it. "WINTER WAR"  Hagel's allied army of Kiev is going to be in the field and fighting this winter, further infomations says Kiev is already building a defense line to hold back the rebels if, as it seems nearly certain, the current offensive aginst Donetsk collapses into total defeat.

What this means is America will need to give Kiev 8 billion dollars to pay for operations uo to this day, and perhaps 10 billion to keep the Kiev army in the field all the way deep into winter. Not to mention the massive losses in material means America may need to pay for and ship around 6 billion dollars worth of tanks, apc's, trucks, artillery, and othe vechicles which have been massacred in the last 2 months. My rough number as of this day is that American taxpayers are oblgated to pay Kiev 20 billions American tax dollars, to pay for gas, buy new tanks, fund a field army, restock ammunition, food and uniforms for newly drafted troops. Winter war remains to be fought, but if the Russian call for a cease fire and peace negotiations as of today is ignored by Washington DC and it's Kiev pupper government, then I think 20 billion of our tax dollars will not be nearly enough. A full on winter war going into spring? God knows what that will cost Washington's tax collectors. Be SURE of one thing, Washington DC will be at your door with it's army of tax collectors and demand the many billions Kiev needs to keep the Kiev Junta in power and on the battle field.

Thu, 08/21/2014 - 18:01 | 5127170 Bankster Kibble
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Interesting.  Sounds like we are going to be too busy setting fires in Ukraine and Syria to worry about Iraq.  ISIS will just have to get in line, and we'll jump off that bridge when we get to it.

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