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More Scaremongery: Inhofe Warns ISIS "Developing A Method To Blow Up A Major US City"

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Last night it was SecDef Chuck Hagel who warned ISIS was a bigger threat to America than 9/11 and primed the narrative for the next round of defense-spending (and this deficit-boosting, QE-enabling money printing). Today it is Senate Armed Services Committee member Jim Inhofe who told Fox that "we're in the most dangerous position we've ever been in as a nation." While that seems a little bit of stretch (oh and hasn't the Senator seen stocks?) he adds - rather ominously, "they're crazy out there and they're rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city and people just can't believe that's happening." But then again, when have we ever needed to 'believe' anything anyway (especially without YouTube clips to prove it).

 

Senator Inhofe explains...

 

As Fox notes,

ISIS, they are really bad terrorists, they're so bad even Al Qaida is afraid of them,” Inhofe said reflecting on the recent beheading of American journalist James Foley. Beyond the beheading, Inhofe said the current terror organizations are not going to stay contained to the Middle East. “They're crazy out there and they're rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city and people just can't believe that's happening.”

 

Inhofe blames policy decisions from the Obama administration and cuts in defense spending for putting the country in what he calls a dangerous situation.

 

He's [President Obama] going to have to come up with something that we're going to do because they're holding another hostage in place and the problem is, the President says all these things and he never does them,” Inhofe said.

 

Inhofe said he hopes after the mid-term elections there will be more Republicans in the Senate and more of a willingness for both parties to work on restoring cuts to defense spending.

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So - to confirm - this is a massive threat that needs a solution, that is Obama's fault because he cut spending, but we need to cut spending more? Okeydokey then...

 

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Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:31 | 5131125 chistletoe
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what are thy going to do,

 

send in one actor to dress up as a cop

and shoot an unarmed black teenager?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:37 | 5131155 Itchy and Scratchy
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The most recent ISIS pics shows a masked guy wearing Gucci shoes. He must be their nuclear physicist!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:38 | 5131158 withglee
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Last night it was SecDef Chuck Hagel who warned ISIS was a bigger threat to America than 9/11 and primed the narrative for the next round of defense-spending (and this deficit-boosting, QE-enabling money printing).

That would have been a perfect time to ask him, "Chuck, Why did WTC7 fall down?"

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:39 | 5131163 Itchy and Scratchy
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You wud have thought #7 wud have been lucky!?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:41 | 5131167 Boubou
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 "we're in the most dangerous position we've ever been in as a nation."

 Don't think so. USSR and USA all set to vaporize the world - that was serious. But that's history - probably beyond the senator.

Existential threat - no.

We just spent a few trillion to increase the threat of terrorism to a new level. This is not what  the neos promised.


Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:47 | 5131209 luckystars
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I recall being under my school desk during the Cuban missile crisis as a kid.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:51 | 5131230 Itchy and Scratchy
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I used to also. Especially when the girls wore skirts to school!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:32 | 5131433 Cumulus Nimbus
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I think JFK was under his in the oval office too!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:03 | 5131518 AdvancingTime
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History shows we came damn close to making a "fatal" mistake in the middle of that fear filled crisis! At times lower level clowns had control and were in charge of the button.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:42 | 5131177 db51
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LMFAO.   I can't wait for the big blowup.     How many shoe bombs and little girls in suicide vests does it take to vaporize a major city?    Ridiculous fear mongering.   If they had any intention or capability to actually carry it out....you'd never hear about it until BOOM TAKE THAT MOTHER FUCKERS!@  Just saying.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:41 | 5131179 Itchy and Scratchy
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I think ISIS wants the Kardashians!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:44 | 5131189 Absalon
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Oh for Christ's sake.

 

The ISIS is not going to develop the means to blow up a city - they are going to have to steal a device or buy one from Pakistan or North Korea, if they want one.

 

Obama has shown that he is perfectly willing to send troops into Pakistan or Syria if there is an American purpose.  Not much purpose in having one hundred thousand Americans in Iraq being shot at just to distract the Iraqis from shooting at each other.

 

If America really wants to stop terrorism it is going to have to murder a few of the oil billionaires who have been financing the terrorists. 

 

 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:46 | 5131202 Anarchy 99
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"If America really wants to stop terrorism".......it will have to shot itself in the head.

 

there, fixed for you.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:29 | 5131417 Cumulus Nimbus
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I dunno. I heard they were developing a superfart. Apparently they have hundreds of willing minions eating spicy food and drinking beer and collecting their farts in a bottles. Then they plan to collect all the bottles, suck out the farts and condense them into one lethal superfart which they can release on ths subway at rushhour. Think of the carnage! Thousands will be crushed in the stampede to the exit. 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:48 | 5131211 rum_runner
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Jesus.. I mean he can't even throw together some buzz words like bioterror or dirty bomb.. no, ISIS is devleoping "a method" to "blow up" a US city.  Just take the mask off and snarl at the camera that there will be total obedience and to turn your guns in tomorrow.

Summer's giving way to false-flag season.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:48 | 5131219 p00k1e
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Who is the target audience the good Mr. Inhofe is trying to reach with terms like “Blow Up”???

Sounds hillbilly/bible belt to me. 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:37 | 5131448 Uncle Remus
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Senator from the great State of Oklahoma. Oil/gas industry tool.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:51 | 5131234 Flybyknight
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Washington and the Pentagon have the Weapons of Mass Destruction and are fucking up the world. Maybe ISIS has the  right to blow up a city, as long as its Washington

Do as you would be done by.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:54 | 5131254 TheABaum
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How about if it's yours.. you need to put down your chips before you sit at the table.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:53 | 5131241 TheABaum
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You know, just because the government is full of liars, doesn't mean these guys would try to make 9/11 look like a firecracker.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:54 | 5131248 Duc888
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Radical MJ,:Any actual use of weapons of mass destruction against one or more American cities would change everything more than we can imagine. (Personally, I will probably presume that was another inside job, false flag attack, but that will not make any practical difference ...)

 

 

you're a little late...

The science backs it up.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/01/mystery-solved-the-wtc-was-nuked...

 

 

Since when does Jet-A fuel melt granite and turn concrete into a river?  It doesn't.

 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:04 | 5131255 Hannibal
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Mossad getting ready to strike,...again!?....and  its almost Sept 11/

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:54 | 5131256 Itchy and Scratchy
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If ISIS shows up and starts lootin'  the7-11's & licker stores will the rassiss cops do anythin' 'bout it?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:01 | 5131274 Hannibal
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So the US, the world's foremost super power, super everything, can not protect its own land from murdering monsters. Pathetic.!

ISIS is CIA.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 15:59 | 5131275 MsCitizen2
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 Hagel and Inhofe are simply towing the party line.  Senator McCain started rattling this saber two days ago.

YELLOWCAKE anyone?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:00 | 5131282 fatlibertarian
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ISIS outside my window!

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9iN22hBj3C0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:02 | 5131289 Duc888
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"Regardless, Cartalucci states in a separate article, “NATO’s Terror Hordes In Iraq A Pretext For Syria Invasion,”

In actuality, ISIS is the product of a joint NATO-GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] conspiracy stretching back as far as 2007 where US-Saudi policymakers sought to ignite a region-wide sectarian war to purge the Middle East of Iran's arch of influence stretching from its borders, across Syria and Iraq, and as far west as Lebanon and the coast of the Mediterranean. ISIS has been harbored, trained, armed, and extensively funded by a coalition of NATO and Persian Gulf states within Turkey's (NATO territory) borders and has launched invasions into northern Syria with, at times, both Turkish artillery and air cover. The most recent example of this was the cross-border invasion by Al Qaeda into Kasab village, Latikia province in northwest Syria."

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/08/nato-using-foley-and-isis-as-pretext...

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:02 | 5131291 fatlibertarian
Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:01 | 5131292 Comte d'herblay
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If anyone doubts that there is another attack on a major city or several of them already in the late stages of execution,  then they just don't know the Law of Big Numbers.

The longer we go without a major attack, the closer we get to the event. It's going to happen all we don't know is when and where. 

Our borders are as open as Kate Winslut's legs. 

Our ability to protect them (not her legs, our cities) about the same as any other government function. 

Our tendency to distraction is fine, because 90% or more of us have no reason to do other than live our lives to the fullest. Without fear. 

There is no reason to fear it, because as we should know, fear acts as a suppressor on action.

I don't think it will be a relatively low profile city like Cincinnatti, Columbus, Omaha, or Compton. So you're fairly safe from attacks there. In which case the geographical likelihood of 330,000,000 of us or more, having anything to fear, it is moot.  Don't evern bother about it. 

I pay about as much attention to threats like this as I do to the beisobol Scores. (however, Castillo is a phenom, Under 5'10 and weighs 210, and swings a bat faster than the speed of light), 

 

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2014/08/...

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:24 | 5131393 WhyWait
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Comte, this misses the point.  The people who are planning this attack have access to the Vault at Ft. Knox, the inner sanctum at Los Alamos or the grounds of the Bohemian Club if they want.  Or anywhere else. Border controls are irrelevant. They are telling us what they plan to do. In order to prepare us for who we should blame.

The only thing that could possibly stop them is enough people calling "Bullshit!"  Now.  Before it happens.

And enough people making it clear that, in the terror following the attack, amid the terrifying government response, the hysterical outcry from the media and the illusion they generate that all of America is united in blaming and crushing the designated villian, anyone in any way connected to them and anyone who stands in their way, we won't lose our heads or our courage but will go on shouting Bullshit!

That's why we should pay attention.  

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:08 | 5131313 WANLAG
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Did u allready pack the 3 day emergencie backpack? 

 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:19 | 5131370 Satan
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Detroit?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:23 | 5131391 One of We
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What happens when false flags don't generate the proper manufactured outrage the culprits intend?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:35 | 5131414 luckystars
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My prediction is the NY Stock Exchange due to NY having Sun Leo / Moon Taurus

Could be Sunday/Monday (Monday more likely due to news) as Mars in Scorpio will conjunct Saturn and square Venus in Leo.=Violence, bomb, fire, financial institution. Scorpio is "our money" as opposed to "my money" therefore it rules the stock market. Stock exchange Leo Ascendant conjunct Uranus receives the square.

Stock Exchange has Aries Moon with transit Uranus and Pluto squaring that now.

 

 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:47 | 5131481 Wahooo
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I'll be on my porch rocker with an ice cold lemonade. Can't say I give a damn what happens elsewhere.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 23:44 | 5133222 WillyGroper
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>>>our money as opposed to my money.

>>>>>Uranus receives the square.

Not sure how to interpret that. Where's Cathartes?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:35 | 5131440 Equality 7-25-1
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So if we don't surrender our lives and wealth to the international criminal ziocon cabal's unlimited war of aggression on passive civilians in Eastasia, they threaten to proactively target a random passive civilian population in the USA with WMDs? Ar matey!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:37 | 5131451 Leraconteur
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You tinfoilers better hope nothing happens.

This planet will really and truly suck if someone nukes a USA city and the best any society will ever be able to asympotally hope to approach is China as the rest of the planet will be far to the Right of them.

Haven't been to North America in 4 years. This happens, I won't be going back ever.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:40 | 5131465 luckystars
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We better hope? We don't control any of this, they do and they are outright telling us its going to happen.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:39 | 5131458 hoist the bs flag
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Man... I know I heard something before from some politician about mushroom clouds...sumtin sumtin..strategery..fooled me once...uhmm,...

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:44 | 5131476 Atomizer
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Jim Inhofe, they're coming after folks like you. We have our popcorn. Watching this new entertainment.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:48 | 5131487 AdvancingTime
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 For years Americans have been more concerned for their safety then necessary, could be because we are a coddled bunch. Looking across the world we live in one of the safer and more secure nations, yet many Americans claim that they live in fear of being attacked. In an opinion piece written by Ted Koppel and printed in the WSJ last year titled;  "America's Chronic Overreaction To Terrorism" Kopple delves  into terrorism over the last several decades. Some readers thought Koppel was acting as a mouth piece for Obama but in fact Obama is in no hurry to stop the NSA program. 

Kopple wrote; Terrorism, after all, is designed to produce overreaction. It is the means by which the weak induce the powerful to inflict damage upon themselves. At home, the U.S. has constructed an anti-terrorism enterprise so immense, so costly and so inexorably interwoven with the defense establishment, police and intelligence agencies, communications systems, and with social media, travel networks and their attendant security apparatus, that the idea of downsizing, let alone disbanding such a construct, is an exercise in futility. More on how Americans should show a little spine in the article the article below.

 http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/08/americans-should-show-little-spin...

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:49 | 5131492 css1971
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rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city

 

So... a Weapon of ... Mass Destruction?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:06 | 5131551 Coletrane
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It's DIFFERENT this time

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:54 | 5131508 jacship
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They wouldn't dare

would they?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 16:59 | 5131525 Coletrane
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didnt they report that these guys had confiscated a bunch of uranium over there when the iraqi army deserted ?

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:03 | 5131534 Totin
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Obama IS doing something. He's letting them in through the Mexican border so that they can be spied on when they make phone calls. The smart guys in the Government will catch them before they ever have a chance to blow anything up.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:06 | 5131548 Coletrane
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smart guys in the government ?

 

 

LMAO

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:07 | 5131553 SmittyinLA
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They couldn't do worse than Democrats with Detroit 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:18 | 5131606 BeetleBailey
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Yeah....the fucker....blow up Detroit..save money on razzing...the whole Magilla needs to be blown up anyway

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:16 | 5131592 roadhazard
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OMG !!! 911 !!! 911 !!!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:23 | 5131623 tony bonn
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isis = israel = mossad = cia

dick cheney, one of the leading players in the 9/11 attacks, has warned repeatedly that he and israel were going to attack the usa again. the goal is kill 100-200,000 people and it will be with nuclear devices. as of yet we do not know the city.

cheney, bush, and the rest of the ziocon psychopaths are traitors of the worst sort.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:40 | 5131708 loregnum
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They're going to blow up a major city. Fact! Just like how good ol former boogeymen AQ were going to nuke a bunch of cities and go all hell on the U.S. Explains why in 13 years since their alleged terrorist act (that confused the entire country's defenses and all their agencies not to mention defied the laws of physics, all by some cave dwellers with utility knives) they did all of nothing else. Look out here comes ISIS!

People who believe in all this garbage must be ancestors of those people who believd in witches back in the middle ages. The stupid gene has done well surviving all those generations. 

Sat, 08/23/2014 - 13:24 | 5134433 Farqued Up
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Witches were misidentified people, people believe in more incredible figments than that....GHOSTS!  Uh, spirits.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 17:41 | 5131711 luckystars
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Do not forget the leader of ISIL is a Mossad agent.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/04/french-report-isil-leader-mossad/

 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 18:52 | 5132041 mendolover
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It's comin' bitchez!  Get the video cams charged up and be ready for the fakery!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 18:56 | 5132064 zipit
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Yes, it's cuts in defense spending that makes AMerika more dangerious, not that it's going around the world making enemies.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 19:57 | 5132336 Laughing Sawfish
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I guess since OBL is "officially" dead, they have to conjure up a new bogeyman.  I just can't believe so many people keep falling for the same old crap.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 21:41 | 5132821 WillyGroper
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 >>>>>Okeydokey then...

OkieDookey. 

Fixed it.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 23:02 | 5133109 luckystars
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ISIS and its twin sister ISIL have their faces covered because they aren't Arabs.

They are Chechen's, Mossad and contractors like Blackwater or whatever they call themselves now.

It was Blackwater that blew up the Golden Mosque in Iraq to start the civil war, and they were masked as well.

The jewboy that leads ISIS is wearing a rolex watch, just like that fake OBL did. Muslims don't wear jewelry, jews do.

 

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 23:49 | 5133236 WillyGroper
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>>>>Muslims don't wear jewelry, jews do.

That's not true. They value gold also.

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 23:37 | 5133206 Hook Line and S...
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Oh mighty ISIS is going to give BJ's to everybody in a big city? 

huh?

Count me in!

Fri, 08/22/2014 - 23:44 | 5133223 TheRedScourge
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"Inhofe said he hopes after the mid-term elections there will be more Republicans in the Senate and more of a willingness for both parties to work on restoring cuts to defense spending."

 

Restoring cuts in this instance means undoing cuts, i.e. restoring what was cut. Therefore, the concluding sentence of this article is based on a misunderstanding.

Sat, 08/23/2014 - 01:40 | 5133412 ken
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Dear Dick and Mr. Hagel, Better not allow them to do the staged event in San Antonio, Texas. Most corporations, and higher priced property is in Austin, and there is a large Hispanic population in San Antonio. I'm sure it would be targeted by the Criminal Network within the MIC, if it weren't for the five? military bases. But then again, maybe that makes it easier to carry out? DON'T BLOW UP SAN ANTONIO!!! I've met a few people who seem like they could be operatives, where they do mass hiring at a certain government agency, and at certain social gatherings. They say Mossad is the most highly represented spy agency in the the USA. And our military and politicians seem enamored with these bastards. Does Israel run our government, our police force, and our intelligence agencies? Just wondering.

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