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"We Fired Some Folks..." President Obama Discusses Chuck Hagel's Resignation - Live Feed

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The earlier 'under pressure' resignation of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel means President Obama has to make a personnel announcement... explaining exactly what characteristics he is looking for as he prepares to invade the middle east? One wonders if he will assume the duty of SecDef?

 

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:41 | 5482134 Jonathan Equine...
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Hey, do you hasbara trolls know something we don't about criminalizing criticism of Israel?

http://thebilzerianreport.com/israel-admits-campaigning-global-free-spee...

 

FUCK.

YOU.

The entire world is waking up to what Zionism is.  Racism, hate, and violence dressed as Perpetual Sacred Victim.

My God didn't choose you.  In fact, he warned us about you, you snake.


http://www.voltairenet.org/article186019.html

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:22 | 5482039 NotApplicable
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Who taught Mohammed, again?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:46 | 5482165 LFMayor
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The Catholics.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:46 | 5481866 Bear
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LoveFest 2014

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:50 | 5481876 El Gringo
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Why not just cut to the chase and appoint Benjamin Netanyahu to the position? 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:58 | 5481882 Hannibal
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Not good. Hagel kept the ZioCons sociopaths from going nuke.

(just my opion)

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:16 | 5482019 Atomizer
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Ding, ding, ding.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:57 | 5481914 fishwharf
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In the pantheon of DC sociopaths and money grubbers Hagel seemed fairly reasonable, so of course he had to go.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:59 | 5481919 Jonathan Equine...
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I'd wager Obama will appoint:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/flournoy_michele

Not a neocon but will make the neocons happy, establishment, CFR, CIA, woman...  good chance she already understands that ISIS is an USraeli golem.

 

She's got all the credentials, Harvard, etc. but like many out of that institution, is not a particularly philosophical or iconoclastic thinker.  A useful tool for the globalist/zioglobalist/Rothschild crowd.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:00 | 5481923 koan
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Did Obama actually say "We fired some folks" because that is a major faux pas, you never say you've fired anyone from positions like that, you allow them to step down.

Yes most fo us know they were asked to leave but I don't think I've ever seen anyone "fired" from high level positions.

Truly tasteless.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:02 | 5481935 Jonathan Equine...
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Wow.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:03 | 5481944 SickDollar
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what did you expect from Obamus, this time they did not  give him a speech to read from the teleprompter

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:20 | 5482030 lakecity55
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You should know by now Backdoor Barry has no class.

And, since he sealed his records, it is unlikely he ever attended any, either.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:34 | 5482108 Mac Avelli
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It should be pretty obvious by now that Obama claimed Indonesian citizenship to get scholarship money. Seal the records, print a fake birth certificate to misdirect the investigation... voila! President for two terms (maybe more to come) and no one has progressed in any investigation. 

We were all suckered by Obama and the Democtratic Party.

As for natural born citizen, what if he is Franks son, then he is a natural born citizen.... (although his moms underage criteria messes that up too!)

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:45 | 5482162 red_pill
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Or the son of Malcolm X, as some have claimed. Compare pics of him and Malcolm...a lot closer looking than Frank IMO.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:04 | 5482238 TweedleDeeDooDah
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As his mother was a "natural born citizen", that AUTOMATICALLY makes him a "natural born citizen", also.

My kids were born in a foreign country to a US citizen father and a foreign citizen mother. After registering their births at the US embassy, they were allowed dual citizenship in their country of birth, which doesn't recognize such dualities (under most circumstances)... except that the US Dept of State issued a letter to the foreign government stating that as I, their father, was a US citizen, they were, and I quote from the notarized, apostilled US State Dept document, "Natural Born citizens of the United States of America".

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:21 | 5482031 NotApplicable
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That's a lot of damn words just to say, "I didn't get the joke."

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:32 | 5483118 TomGa
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And this is why you don't elect a community organizer to do a President's job.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:09 | 5481973 Atomizer
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Mr. Hadel, just retire and enjoy the remainder of your life. We’ll pick up the pieces. He thinks he’s a unstoppable force. Quite the opposite. I need your help. Contact me. I’m in the phonebook.. (LOL). Call me. Thank you.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:15 | 5482009 ThisIsBob
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So now Mr. President has an Attorney General and a Defense Sercretary to appoint and get confirmed.  "The Circus is coming to town!"

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:20 | 5482029 NotApplicable
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Well, the sooner they have to start talking about Hitlery's ascension to the thone, the longer she'll have to fuck it up.

So... diversions are in order.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:52 | 5482444 I Write Code
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And a surgeon general.

Something about the word "general", maybe?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:19 | 5482525 all-priced-in
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He can always just use an EO - or use a recess appointment (whether congress is in secession or not who gives a fuck).

 

Who would / could stop him?  

 

About 40% of the country would cheer no matter what he does.

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:17 | 5482022 NotApplicable
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Wow, this thread sure is fucking weird. I had no idea there were this many suffering statists around here.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482067 Atomizer
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If you see something, say something. Where are they? Because, you know I love to tantalize these statist motherfuckers.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:28 | 5482079 venturen
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can we assume he will be replaced by a power hungry lesbian...Obama does like Rice and Jarrett 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:42 | 5482149 Atomizer
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NEW ISIL Horror Threat

 

How will Obama cover his cockroach tracks with the lights on?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:48 | 5482176 SmittyinLA
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this is actually "bullish" for America, Hagel was  a whore/idiot/traitor he axed the A-10 and bought $53 billion worth of Ospreys, I hope Obama sends the entire Osprey fleet to Israel as this decade's defense subsidy and Thank You from America.

 

Fuck these people 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:03 | 5482178 lakecity55
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"I have decided with my pen and phone to assume command of the OKH. It will now be under the official command of the OKW, where I will assume all power of the Armed Forces."

"In a similar move, I am relieving all Cabinet Members of their duties. After I assume direct command of all Agencies, the efficiency of these departments will increase."

"Additionally, by EO, I have transferred the Authority of the Congress and Courts to my personal command. Our country faces dangerous times, and only one man can handle the threats that face us."

"The 2016 elections will be held, with only a 'yes' or 'no' vote confirming my continued administration of this great country. New dhs troops will be present at all polling places to make sure vote counts are correct, and to ensure order."

"Van Jones will be our new dhs chief. William Ayers, my oldest comrade, will take the co-ordination of our Armed Forces under my direct command."

"Many Americans, who are misguided about our new policies, will be sent to special facilities in our SW deserts, to be properly trained in the new direction our country must take."

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:57 | 5482205 Jonathan Equine...
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"Chuck, we have a different vision as to the reason for the existence of US soldiers and Marines and Special Ops..."

 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...

 

 

^nutshell

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:01 | 5482209 franciscopendergrass
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So much promise.  Hated by AIPAC and against the Iraq War.

Don't feel bad for the guy.  He will find a job in industry just like Phil Gramm and Chris Dodd and make millions of dollars.  A lot of people owe Chuck favors.  One of the perks of being a politician.

Janet Napolitano did pretty well for herself.  

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/16/local/la-me-ln-uc-rental-20130916

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:22 | 5482307 graveheart
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Brutus Hagel was way too close to the military. It makes Caesar nervous.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:27 | 5482341 Son of Captain Nemo
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What's already a known quantity and why President Obama needed to "fire some folks"!...

I think it's safe to say Lancelot Link gets another kind of medal for owning up to his promise In Miami before taking the Democratic nomination away from Hitlery in 2008?... And if we're still alive in North America and 2016 roles around, Hitlery will be salivating like a regular kosher Zionist ready to earn her keep!

So true what they say... Absence truly does make the heart grow fonder...

Especially when you were prepared to do just about anything the last time opportunity came knocking when she didn't get "the nod"!

If Magna BSP was unsuccessful in installing more cameras on commerical nuclear reactor facilities in the U.S. and Europe before Fukushima, that will more than likely be changing when the next DoD Secretary gets the nod from the "Tribe"!  At the rate we're going maybe Mike Chertoff will install those new cameras next to his full body scanners in every Western/NATO commercial airport?

Talk about killing two birds with one stone?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 18:02 | 5483233 Plato's Law
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Do you refer to Michael Chertoff, dual citizen Israeli Zionista, member of Chabad Lubavitch, the most caustic form of Holocaustianity (Judaism) on earth...the guy who while he was US Attorney, obeyed his Zio-masters and put Cong. Trafficant in prison for committing trivial crimes which other Cong. get away with daily...solely because Trafficant was not for sale to Israeli-money interests?  And then Zio-scum Bush rewarded Chertoff later by making him the first Homeland Sec. Chief and later gave Chertoff millions of dollars for cancer causing scanners banned by law in Europe? 

That Chertoff? 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:27 | 5482348 Atomizer
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Hagel, you did a great job. No one ever compliments. Don't feel rejected by this asshole illegal Kenyan US President. Please call. We have work in progress to discuss.

:)

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:33 | 5482367 JR
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There are news sources and there are news sources. To be informed one needs several. Blacklisted News is often on top of the contrarian view, often with the real news. Its breaking Chuck Hagel story is an example:

Hagel Warned Of Rogue ‘New World Order’, Now He’s Fired

Source: Steve Watson

November 24, 2014 --Chuck Hagel has been fired by Obama from his position as Defense Secretary. Hagel, a former GOP Senator, was appointed by Obama in early 2013 and therefore was scheduled to serve for the entirety of Obama’s second term.

Prior to his appointment, Hagel is said to have visited the White House in 2009, and personally warned Obama that he should look out for rogue elements within the Pentagon that were leading a ‘new world order’.

This was not reported on some internet conspiracy forum, it was a leading report published shortly before Hagel’s appointment, by Bob Woodward, an award winning journalist and associate editor with The Washington Post.

According to an account that Hagel gave, he told Obama: “We are at a time where there is a new world order.”

“We don’t control it. You must question everything, every assumption, everything they” — the military and diplomats — “tell you. Any assumption 10 years old is out of date. You need to question our role. You need to question the military. You need to question what are we using the military for.” Hagel is said to have told the President.

The Post report also stated that Hagel warned Obama about becoming “bogged down” in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, saying it would define Obama’s first term. Hagel reportedly later privately questioned the wisdom of sending additional troops to join the conflict.

“If Hagel is confirmed, as appears likely, he and the president will have a large task in navigating this new world order.” The Post report concluded at the time.

It remains to be discovered as to whether or not Hagel attempted to oust the rogue elements within the military industrial complex. The last straw for Hagel, though, may have been comments he made last week during a sit down interview with Charlie Rose at the Pentagon.

During the exchange, Hagel expressed a belief that US military action against ISIS was “indirectly benefiting” the Syrian President Bashar Assad, comments that were sure to have been unwelcome by the powers that be, given its push for airstrikes against the Syrian government last year.

Hagel also said that “The world is damn dangerous,” adding that the US military is unprepared.

Hagel criticized defense budget cuts and stated outright “We won’t have the readiness. We won’t have the capability. We won’t have long-term investments that this institution requires to stay ahead of everybody else, as we have since World War II, with the technological edge, with the ability to continue to recruit and retain the best people.”

Hagel was also critical of US foreign policy, noting that “policies are predicated on historical knowledge and cultural awareness and all that goes into that. Have we made mistakes over a series of many years? Yeah, I think we have. I think anybody would agree to that.”

In short, Hagel is no longer in a job because he alluded to rogue globalist elements within the US military, criticized the long imperial march to war, and admitted to detrimental blowback in the ‘war on terror’. Yeah, that’ll do it.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Hagel_Warned_Of_Rogue_%E2%80%98New_World_Order%E2%80%99%2C_Now_He%E2%80%99s_Fired/39394/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:34 | 5482376 Jonathan Equine...
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I feel exhausted in advance, anticipating the onslaught of Israel's army of hasbara trolls, and the regurgiated Ziopathic bloviating of "neocon" Israel Firster nutjob warmongers inside the Beltway and on the talk shows.

Israel – America's Biggest Frenemy - Antiwar.com

 

It's likely going to be Purnoy.

As always, if/when the mostly Jewish and Zionist neocon news mafia largely get behind someone, it's not because they feel it is the best choice for the United States.

 

ISIS is part of the Oded Yinon plan. It is a distraction, for the most part, with the warhawk 'realist' efforts to encircle and fracture Russia, although the neocon/Jewish role in Ukraine is absoluely obvious. 

 

They're already starting to stack Clinton's neocon/neoliberal war machine.  Clinton's 'kosher kitchen' will look like Friday afternoon at the mosque compared to Hilary's.

 

Junk away, but mark my words.

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:00 | 5482471 JR
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Israel doesn't negotiate. It threatens. And Raimondo's article that you cite hits every key point on why we're hearing again from this aggressor nation. A talk of peace for Israel is a time to threaten:

Justin Raimondo:

Today [November 24, 2014] is the deadline for the closing of a deal with Iran regarding their nuclear program. No one should be surprised that Israel is marking this deadline with a threat to attack Iran regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. As the Jerusalem Post is reporting on its front page:

"Israel has issued a stark, public warning to its allies with a clear argument: Current proposals guarantee the perpetuation of a crisis, backing Israel into a corner from which military force against Iran provides the only logical exit."

This is a lie, and is widely recognized as such: the Israelis don’t have the military capacity to take out all the Iranian nuclear sites without American assistance. Aside from that, however, they never attack those capable of hitting back in any significant way, so we can write off this latest threat as just so much kvetching. Yet one has to wonder: is this the way an ally is supposed to act – never mind one that we enjoy a purported "special relationship" with?

The reality is that Israel is our biggest frenemy.

For decades the Israelis have lived off our largesse without having to offer anything of value in return – unless Israeli interference in American politics is considered of value. We’ve handed them over $3 billion a year in tribute, stood by while they subjected their Palestinian helots to conditions not seen since South Africa’s apartheid, and smiled tolerantly, as one would at an obstreperous child, while they noisily spat in our faces at every opportunity. And what have we gotten in return? Insults, interference, and outright threats – not to mention one of the most effective (and obnoxious) spying operations conducted on our soil by a foreign power....

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:47 | 5483190 Plato's Law
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Best member paragraph of the month?  Year?  Ever?

"I feel exhausted in advance, anticipating the onslaught of Israel's army of hasbara trolls, and the regurgiated Ziopathic bloviating of "neocon" Israel Firster nutjob warmongers inside the Beltway and on the talk shows..."

Do you like your Israeli-first propaganda with a left leaning, or ultra-right, or a smidgeon of both?  Either way, it don't matter, same old Zio-motherfucking shit sandwhich, different day.

When baby Bushy was here, Dems, especially scum of the earth like Pelosi and Boxer, are all anti-war all the time.  Now with Jesus Obombya in office, you can't find a fucking anti-war Dem if your fucking life depends on it. 

Israeli money buying Congress much?  Ya fucking think?

No fucking Zionist Christian influence in the USA, no more wars, plain and simple.  Line up the fucking "Zio-pastors" and behead every fucking one of these scum bags first please.    

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:35 | 5482381 Jack Burton
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His problem was he was not one of the Club. No West Point Ring for him! No Naval Acaademy Ring for the Marine Corps Officer. Nope, he was "little people", an enlisted rank combat vet. How he ever rose to high civilian office is a mystery.

His leaving is a bad sign, because he doubted the Syrian War policy that the Generals now are lining up behind. Simply put here is the next year in a nut shell. Airwar on Syria and ground troops across the Syrian and Iraqi lands. Arms for Kiev, sending the civil war into overdrive by early next summer. War, war and more war. Higher military spending at home, massive transfers of money and arms to allied stooges abroad. Taxpayers will see mass borrowing and printing to fund a global world offensive by the USA.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:39 | 5482396 Jonathan Equine...
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Ukraine troubles me precisely because the media blackout is so complete and across the board.

 

The complete Orwellization of who shot the plane down really just goes to a media that is controlled by government minders, corporations and Zionists/Jewish managers - which should merely be obvious, but mobius-strip-like, is not because of who controls the media.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:46 | 5482405 Son of Captain Nemo
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JB

You're forgetting about the non-West Point grad that "earned" his 4 stars that became the garbage collector running the PR censorship for My Lai and waving that vile of powder in front of the UN to sell a second holocaust in Iraq with "Operation Iraqi Freedom"!

One thing is certain.  For the Powell(s) Dempsey(s) and Hagel(s) there will never be a supply shortage in the U.S. military!  And it's been that way long before you and I came into this World!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:41 | 5482406 Jonathan Equine...
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fwiw, what I'm hearing is this has to do with Syria, hitting Assad/Syrian infrastructure, as well as arming what may as well be considered ISIS

 

http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/06/15/arming-isis-in-syria-then-bombing-the...

 

Which is just a name for Salafist-Zionist paid mercenaries we pretend to fight over here as we arm and assist them over here.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:44 | 5482414 falak pema
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Here is a good summary of Pax americana's wayward ways in the ME :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-bacevich/iraq-assumptions_b_6210920...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:49 | 5482439 Jonathan Equine...
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Meanwhile, while you were looking at Obama's other hand...

 

Obama Authorizes Wider War in Afghanistan

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:01 | 5482472 Joenobody12
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Obumpma to Hagel " All my failures are your fault. I resign you. "

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:10 | 5482495 vegas
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Who needs a Defense Sec. wHen you're EMPEROR. The guy was worthless anyway, but as everybody knows, Chalky is his own best military adviser.

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:18 | 5482526 illuminato
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Hagel was one of very few good guys in this admin. His Middle Eastern approach made sense and he wanted to work closer with Iran and Syria to fight terrorists groups funded by Saudi Arabia. All makes sense, cant have a guy like that, a peacemaker, in government.

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:31 | 5482813 geno-econ
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You could tell something was wrong when Chief of Staff, Gen Dempsey at Congressional hearings talked about what he would or would not recommend to the President as far as troop deployment which placed him in a policy making position and circumvented Hagel.  Obviously Hagel tried to de-escalate while forces in DC are prone to foster aggresive foriegn policy goals in ME and Ukraine.  McNamara cried after Vietnam for the rest of his life.  Hagel can walk out proudly.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 17:04 | 5482987 jacship
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in  banana republic,

Who said?

" Obola doesn't attend security meeting's "

Daily,weekly, or monthly

shtf  today

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 21:46 | 5484128 blindman
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glad to see the man escape the shit show for his own sake,
the rest, all of us, will suffer his predecessor, who ever
that be; the poor stupid shits that we are.

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