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Former CIA Deputy Director Gives A Stunning Reason Why Obama Has Not Attacked ISIS' Oil Infrastructure

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As we pointed out a week ago, even before the downing of the Russian jet by a Turkish F-16, the most important question that nobody had asked about ISIS is where is the funding for the terrorist organization coming from, and more importantly, since everyone tacitly knows where said funding is coming from (as we have revealed in an ongoing series of posts "Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President", "How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence" and "ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection") few on the US-led Western Alliance have done anything to stop the hundreds of millions in oil sale proceeds from funding the world's best organized terrorist group.

We concluded by asking "how long until someone finally asks the all important question regarding the Islamic State: who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?"

To be sure, the only party that actually did something to halt ISIS' oil infrastructure was Russia, whose bombing raids of Islamic State oil routes may not only have contributed to the fatal attack by Turkey of the Russian Su-24 (as the curtailment of ISIS' oil flows led to a big hit in the funds collected by the biggest middleman in the region, Turkey, its president and his son, Bilal not to mention Israel which may have been actively buying ISIS oil over the past year) but prompted questions why the bombing campaign by the US-led alliance had been so woefully incapable of hitting ISIS where it truly hurts: its funding.

This past week, someone finally came up with a "reason" why the Obama administration had been so impotent at denting the Islamic State's well-greased oil machine. In an interview on PBS' Charlie Rose on Tuesday, Rose pointed out that before the terrorist attacks in Paris, the U.S. had not bombed ISIS-controlled oil tankers, to which the former CIA deputy director Michael Morell responded that Barack Obama didn’t order the bombing of ISIS’s oil transportation infrastructure until recently because he was concerned about environmental damage.

Yes, he really said that:

We didn’t go after oil wells, actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls, because we didn’t want to do environmental damage, and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure.

In other words, one can blame such recent outbreaks of deadly terrorist activity as the Paris bombings and the explosion of the Russian passenger airplane over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Obama's hard line stance to not pollute the atmosphere with the toxic aftermath of destroyed ISIS infrastructure.

Brilliant.

As the Daily Caller adds, Morell also said the White House was concerned about destroying infrastructure that could be used by the Syrian people. Such profound concern for a people which has been traumatized for the past 5 years courtesy of a US-funded effort to destabilize the nation courtesy of US-armed "rebels" whose only purpose has been the deposition of yet another elected president, and where the emergence of the CIA-created Islamic State has led to the biggest wave of refugees to emerge, and flood Europe, since World War II.

But back to Obama's alleged decision that not polluting the environment is more important than halting the funding artery that keeps ISIS in business.

Morell continued "Prior to Paris, there seemed to be a judgment that … look, we don’t want to destroy these oil tankers because that’s infrastructure that’s going to be necessary to support the people when ISIS isn’t there anymore, and it’s going to create environmental damage. And we didn’t go after oil wells - actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls because we didn’t want to do environmental damage and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure, right.”

Then we started asking questions, others joined in, and everything changed: "So now we’re hitting oil in trucks and maybe you get to the point where you say we also have to hit oil wells. So those are the kind of tough decisions you have to make."

Of course, the lunacy gets even more ridiculous when one recalls that none other than one of the democrat frontrunners for president, Bernie Sanders, suggested in all seriousness that the real cause for terrorism is climate change, an allegation subsequently echoed by both UK's Prince Charles and none other than the chief of the UN, Ban Ki-moon himself.

So here is the purported logic: climate change leads to terrorism, but one can't eradicate the primary funding source of the biggest terrorist threat in the world, the Islamic State, because of dangers it may lead to even more environmental damage and climate change.

We are truly speechless at this idiocy.

Meanwhile, the real reasons behind ISIS massive wealth build up: the illicit oil trade facilitated by, and involving NATO-member state Turkey, whose president and his son collect billions in illegal profits by arranging the charter of Islamic State oil to Israel and other international buyers of ISIS' cheap oil, and which involves such "highly respected" commodity traders as Trafigura and Vitol, continues to this day, and only Putin has done anything to put a dent in it.

For those who can't believe any of this (and it took us quite a while to realize this is not some elaborate prank) here is the clip proving the former CIA deputy director actually said it all.

 

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Sun, 11/29/2015 - 18:55 | 6853987 Amish FinEng
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Possible global warming from all the heart warming Obama actions....

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:56 | 6852983 Zinu
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But but... didn't ZH trolls told that US main stream media is controlled by NWO Nazi Banking Anglo Lizzard people?

ha ha ha :D 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853020 nnnnnn
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you forgot to add the broken "criminal putin" record

ha ha ha :D

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:32 | 6853131 Fractal Parasite
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Mistakes are inevitable when those soulless fascist trolls have to work long shifts with tough production targets just to get their miserable Galician daily potato from aunt Vicky.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 18:52 | 6853974 HowdyDoody
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Wot, no captagon? The potatoheads are really getting a shitty deal.

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:56 | 6852985 VWAndy
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Yep that line of BS is only for the green cult faithfull. They will eat any shit with a green sticker on it.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 19:19 | 6853998 Amish FinEng
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Obama-like niggas think the joos will help them rise to the top given their substantially low IQ's.

Problem is the only background that the niggas have on the joos is what they learned from Spei;birg. HA!

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 01:44 | 6855284 Lore
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All groups are infiltrated, manipulated and exploited. Peel another layer off the onion.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:58 | 6852987 roadhazard
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That Damn Obama, not wanting to pollute the air. Once you light them up they stay lit until Red Adair can get there. Russia Would be bombing them any minute now though because they don't give a shit. The reason they don't is ISIS is fighting the rebels. Don't you love the fucking Mid East.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853024 nmewn
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The ME is a great place to test peoples fallacies or beliefs. So the takeaway here is, St.Pooty is trying to kill the planet.

Maureen Dowd is furiously typing something up about it even now ;-)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:16 | 6853491 bid the soldier...
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You mean 

 Don't you love the fucking Mid East.

You mean the Children of the Palestine Mandate.

Another English fuck up. 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:58 | 6852989 falak pema
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While I support the logic of ZH on the issue of ISIS, to misconstrue the potential of ecoterrorism in the future is to underestimate the rampage EL Nino and ocean rise/acidity will play on the economies of the third and Asian islands world.

3 to 4 billion people are concerned and have no answer.

It could become a breading ground for nihilist terrorism amongst the "LOs Olvidados" type destitute youth looking for a wealthy group to hate  and violate for their desitute state; whose dystopia can only grow much to the indifference of those who create this biospheric evolution of climate deregulation by their own selfish hyperconsumerism.

ZH is blind in many ways : by being anti state to the point of the absurd and by being a climate skeptic denier; "all because of Al Gore!"

Blame it all on Mame!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:12 | 6853066 SantaClaws
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So you're saying that this guy owns prime oceanfront property in Malibu or on Nantucket and is angry that he hasn't found someone else to pay to reverse his beach erosion?  Good idea -- blame it on the ecoterrorists and wait for the Army Corps of Engineers to get on it.

 

Meanwhile back at the favelas where the rest of us live....

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:18 | 6853088 falak pema
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don't confuse jihadism with other forms of terrorism that world climate change can create in the coming times.

You logic is unfathomable. What r u drinking?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:53 | 6853203 hound dog vigilante
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Before rambling on about anthropogenic 'global climate change' please do us a favor... PROVE IT.

The planet is now in a 'cooling' cycle - a fact that even the manipulated NOAA/UNCCC data sources cannot hide.  

Furthermore, the developed western economies have been steadily reducing their emissions for decades (having shipped their manufacturing functions to asia), so if man-made climate change is your 'terror' du jour, then start posting in mandarin because it's china (and india + SE asia) that will be doing the bulk of the world's polluting for the next century or so...

Why would anyone sign-up for a voluntary global "sin" tax scheme that excludes the biggest sinners?

If climate change heroes want to be taken seriously (ever) then they must start with 1) actual facts, and 2) china.  If you don't have facts or chinese commitment, then don't waste our time...

 

 

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 19:51 | 6853463 falak pema
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come to paris.

And don't forget climate change contribution is attributable to where the product is consumed.

By making China the world factory does not absolve those who buy the icrap from their responsibility. Its the hyperconsumerist that should contribute most.

USA is tops per capita on global farts !

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 23:09 | 6854924 nmewn
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You're last sentence carries some weight with me falak.

I just want you to know (and I will be so presumptuous as to speak for the "collective masses" here in America) that you have our permission to keep O'Barry THERE ;-) 

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 00:53 | 6855179 SheHunter
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Minority rules. I am # 3 to uptick your post.  Down with sheeple.

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 02:19 | 6855343 trader1
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#4 here ;-)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:58 | 6852990 jtg
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The US and EU media are thoroughly penetrated and managed by CIA operatives. Several EU journalists have gone public on how they took money to push CIA narratives. Same goes for the US media.

They must be getting desperate to use climate change to cover US support for terrorism.

Or have their psyops studies told them that the American people are now dumbed down to now believe anything?

When US officials open their mouths they lie.

The US and its Anglosphere and EU vassals and their vassal proxies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel can all go to hell where I am sure history will send them.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:11 | 6853064 Junerberno
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The New York Times admits to running its stories by the State Department prior to ppublication.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:48 | 6853574 azusgm
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Judging from the bilge on NPR and PBS, their content contributors should all be rich.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:58 | 6852993 larz
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Morell looks and acts like McFly

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:03 | 6853016 L Bean
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"Whew! Time to change that oil, Mike!"

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 13:58 | 6852994 Jack Burton
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Russia is actually building an all-over air defense zone in Syria, according to Russian Zvezda TV channel. The Hmeymim air base, Russian jets and also pilots will be protected by the most advanced Russian weapons. Looks like the Turkish shoot down will amount to a massive blunder, as Russia moves to protect all of Syria from air attack. Shutting the door to NATO and Israeli plans to attack Syrian Arab Army at will. It is impossible to over estimate how much this changes the Syrian states prospects. With air cover of Syria, the Syrian Army can act to defend it's space without Israel coming in to bomb them as they near a victory over Western backed ISIS.
Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:14 | 6853070 Miss Expectations
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"I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely, cleared of all these false charges.  But, I'm a superstitious man.  And, if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot in the head by a police officer or if he should hang himself in his jail cell or if he's struck by a bolt of lightening...then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room.  And then I do not forgive."

Vito

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 19:32 | 6854131 gonetogalt
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@ Jack Burton, Looks like Russia has decided to put some 'asymetrical' pressure on Syria..

 

http://tapnewswire.com/2015/11/us-and-turkey-cease-flights-over-syria-as...


Mon, 11/30/2015 - 14:26 | 6857405 Jack Burton
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Outstanding link! +100 ! Thanks.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:01 | 6853007 Spiritof42
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We are truly speechless at this idiocy.

I'll bet the arguments were tested on focus groups before they went public.

It's a variation of save-the-polar-bears.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853026 Dre4dwolf
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Save the polar bears, join ISIS 

-Obama

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:16 | 6853076 Jack Burton
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You know, you are probably right! The State Department is full of Public Releations PHD's, and I bet they do actually run focus groups for their planned talking points. In fact, given how much money the State department and CIA spend on publicity and image management, I say it is a sure bet that millions are spent to focus group nearly all bullet points and talking points.

Our tax money, these fuckers spend it like it is limitless!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:23 | 6853104 L Bean
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"Won't someone please think of the children/women/environment???!"

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 07:34 | 6855600 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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 "these fuckers spend it like it is limitless!"

 

It is limitless. They print (counterfeit) it up out of thin air. They just tax your labor for shits & giggles while they're at it.

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 15:27 | 6857659 FixItAgainTony
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By design because the US must eventually default, putting their lumpen and a heaping helping of world economic wealth at zero.  The very rich insiders will buy up the distressed assets and the survivors will be introduced to an even more powerfully centralized and aristocratically aloof system to limit one's free agency.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:01 | 6853010 luna_man
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Yes, just another CRIMINAL!

 

keep putting it out there...My Main Man

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:03 | 6853013 Dre4dwolf
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Environmental damage?

lol

If I was president there would be non-stop carpet bombs on those fields.

And

We would be drilling the fuck out of yellowstone to tap the Geo-thermal.

The great hypocrisy of banning geothermal energy production at Yellowstone to "protect the environment"

Yellowstone is a super volcano that will erupt during the next 1000 years or so, how stupid is it not to tap an energy resource like that to preserve the environment??? when clearly the environment will ERUPT AND DESTROY ITSELF EVENTUALLY ANYWAY?

 

Developing yellowstone would be like adding 10 hoover dams to the power-grid, electricity costs would go to 0.01cents per kw/h accross the country and make a huge difference in Americans lives.

 

The environment doesn't have feelings,dirt doesn't care if 10,000tons of explosives detonates on it, it doesn't care if a billion barrels of oil spill on it, its an oil field... full of oil the ground is filled with oil, spilling some on the top instead of the bottom doesn't do anything, and half these areas are desert nothingness no one cares about turning some sand black jeez...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:03 | 6853014 Chris88
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We didn’t go after oil wells, actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls, because we didn’t want to do environmental damage, and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure.  

 

..damage a perfectly good CIA creation.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:05 | 6853018 Francis Marx
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My question...is the mainstream people that stupid to acually believe this?  or... is the administration so stupid, to think people will believe this?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:05 | 6853029 L Bean
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Most people don't even watch PBS. This is propaganda for the "educated" class. And of course they "believe" it. Faith in authority is the only thing left in USSA.

 

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:07 | 6853038 Barrack Chavez
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The mental giants that work in media went along with the spin, almost like they were counting the seconds before they got to ride in Air Force One *

(* only supportive media personalities get to ride in AF1)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:45 | 6853176 Winston Churchill
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Yes.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 17:00 | 6853619 azusgm
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Do people actually sit down and intently watch and listen to TV news/talk shows anymore? Don't people mostly let the shows play while they text, play games, write out lists, eat, walk through the room, etc.? Trash like the Charlie Rose show achieves its propoganda value by what amounts to subliminal suggestion. Almost nobody pays enough attention to catch the idiocy but they take in the surface message that is spooned out to the type of audience that would leave the channel tuned to that show.

Truly a case of nodding off to sleep and dreaming about being awake.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853021 DanDaley
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"...environmental damage..." -that's on par with Congressman Hank Johnson who was concerned that the Island of Guam would TIP OVER!...these people are just beyond stupid!

 

 

Congressman Hank Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853022 dumbStruck
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Attacking oil wells would light them on fire would it not ? Burning wells need to be put out ah la Kuwait after Saddam right ? Putting out wells in ISIS terror-a-tory means bringing in some company like Red adair which means you need boots on the ground to protect them while they put out the fires. Lots of boots I would imagine. How many burning wells would there be ? Whats to stop them from being used by ISIS again if you leave after capping them ? Boots on the ground and loads  and loads of money would be needed. Blowing up wells would be an expensive headache I think. I agree with not attacking the wells.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:18 | 6853090 I AM SULLY
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1. Attacking oil wells might light them on fire? - perhaps.

2. We would need to put the fires out? - no.

 

You are an idiot.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:30 | 6853529 Deathrips
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Cause that oil would never be burned in a car or anything.... gimme a fucking break.

 

RIPS

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853023 L Bean
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We didn't bomb that convoy because we paid for it.

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:05 | 6853031 Ban KKiller
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Halliburton would have been mad, mad, mad. 

Protect the oligarchy. 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:21 | 6853307 trulz4lulz
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Cheap gas over the holiday was nice though. I gave thanks for the cheap gas this past week and jesus. Thank Jesus for all this cheap, luxurious gasoline. Yummy.....

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:04 | 6853025 Joebloinvestor
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He could have just said the jackass in charge doesn't know WTF he is doing.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:05 | 6853028 SmittyinLA
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Not new, he scrapped a US warship to prevent damage to a reef in the middle of the remotest part of the pacific.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/18/us-pays-out-2m-after-minesw...

We paid for the reef too.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:05 | 6853030 DrData02
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They could have just taken out the power source of the wells.  CRAP! I just realized I should be running the Pentagon!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 17:03 | 6853631 azusgm
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Wells have individual power sources.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:12 | 6853045 Francis Marx
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Third question; Arent these the same people who want to use Nuclear bunker busters?

Environmental damage?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:13 | 6853046 Junerberno
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After the attack by Boko Haram (Al Qaeda) on the shopping mall in Nairobi, the US moved to seize a senior Al Qaeda operative living in a mansion in North Africa. We knew where he was all along, but never went after him, until after the attack. He was "made" by the Saudis and we were appeasing him while he was "doing good" (killing Shia) but when he stepped out of line we punished him. It's certain we asked for permission before arresting him finally, of course.

Pausing, because it must sink in: Al Qaeda. Who attacked us 9-11. Our brownshirts.

So now we suddenly care about ISIL after they "step out of line" in Paris. They were our friends when they were sawing the heads off Shia. But they stepped out of line so we used a stick on their hands.

The US knows where all of ISIL are at all times. ISIL has been permitted to slaughter everyone in its path because they are focused on killing Shia, and Israel supports a holocaust against Shia muslims.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:28 | 6853122 pocomotion
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Why Israel?  I do not see them expanding their boarders, with the exception of occupied Palestine.  What is the issue Israel has if they are not taking on more territory in the ME?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:37 | 6853154 Urban Redneck
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How did you ever manage to fill out the ZH account application?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-israe...

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/92186-151112-us-official-whi...

Israel's current attempts to expand its borders are well established and indisputable facts.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:25 | 6853322 pocomotion
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Thanks Urban,  Good links...  Carry on.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:51 | 6853195 Junerberno
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Israel is at war with Iran. Israel wants to destroy Iran and its allies in Syria, as with the MB and Qaddafi.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:23 | 6853315 pocomotion
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Johnny,

Thanks for the links.  Sometimes you have to throw innocent-dumb questions out to get some good proof and reasoning of the shit that's happening.

Honestly, I ain't as dumb as I look... lol

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:15 | 6853488 Junerberno
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poco, I did not downrate you.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:11 | 6853059 More_sellers_th...
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This is the type of shit that made me lose it at thanksgiving and just drink dinner instead of sitting at the table with the inlaws and their family. Democrats that only read the NY Times and still vote Democrat and will never question the party line because of JFK

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:13 | 6853071 VWAndy
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LBJ was a democrat.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:50 | 6853584 FredFlintstone
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and think the Clinton Foundation is doing remarkable work across the globe

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:11 | 6853061 BarkingCat
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What a liar!! He and everyone else knows very well that if ISIS is force to retreat, they will destroy as much of that infrastructure as they can.

The reason why Obama does not want it bombed is simple - he supports ISIS. He created them. They work for him.

Useless faggot.

 

So far he's been 7 years in office and has not done anything to help the US economy. Everything he does makes things worse. Not only at home but around the world.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:11 | 6853063 VWAndy
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This does show one thing very clearly. They have no logical excuse that will fly. So they simply whip out the green faith card. The must have run out of race cards.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:23 | 6853313 trulz4lulz
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UNO!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:17 | 6853084 paint it red ca...
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The administration must think a common core re-education must have taken place by retro-osmosis on even somewhat critical thinking Americans over the age of 'still stupid'.

That's the most ludicrous, lame ass, fucked up excuse i could possibly never imagine for allowing psychopathic, homicidal, utterly satanic killers to destroy property and lives of citizens of many countries .......

Lying Liars.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:22 | 6853103 pocomotion
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Please expand on how you came to your conclusion.  Common core requires it of you...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:24 | 6853317 bid the soldier...
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Because 11, 12 months ago, before the MSM was instructed not to ask such questions, one paper did ask and the answer it got from the Pentagon was "we didn't want to upset the locals (with collateral damage)."Not a word then about environmental damage'.


It is the coming Paris conference that sprinkled that sugar on the ex-director's oatmeal       

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:20 | 6853094 juicy_bananas
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Marie Harf with a dick.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:37 | 6853110 Analog
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didn’t want to do environmental damage

Monsanto and Hanford immediately came to mind (fracking? hahaha) ... I need to go get a big towel to wipe all the spittle off my computer.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:26 | 6853115 worbsid
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It all makes sense if you believe that a well funded terriost organization in the ME is a junior varsity operation that you could take out in a heartbeat with minimal effort.  I believe Johnson et al thought the same of the Viet Cong.  I believe the results will be the same, even for Russia as long as the pipeline going through Syria is considered important to delute Russian influence over Europe.  We do live in interesting times, don't we.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:30 | 6853127 L Bean
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Did you seriously just compare the Vietcong to ISIS as well as calling them terrorists in the same breath?

You'll probably get upvotes from the "vets", but that is some BS, bro.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:29 | 6853123 Analog
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didn’t want to do environmental damage

You can't make this sh!t up ... I'm laughing so hard I can't read - somebody tell me if it is worth trying to read this story later when I stop crying.  (this might take a while)

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:28 | 6853124 Getting Old Sucks
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OK, now I believe that our leaders are so stupid that they don't really believe that most of the American people don't believe a word of what they say.  Just start asking people as a conversation peice and listen to their answers.  These are the so called clueless Americans.  If questioned further, they say there's nothing we can do about it.  What's it gonna take to rise up and throw these bums out?  One thing I can tell by talking to people is that they are planning to vote next year and Trump will be the next POTUS.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:35 | 6853147 Analog
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most of the American people don't believe a word of what they say.  Just start asking people as a conversation peice and listen to their answers.

Oh Baby, can you pleeeeeze share some of your friends with me??  Everyone in my life (for many years now) thinks I'm nuts for not believing the MSM.  When I meet someone I immediately use international events as a "conversation piece" ... baa baa baa.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:31 | 6853133 hannah
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ok i can see having to write aticles to fill up a website but god damn...why did the 'powers that be' not bomb the refinery.....fucking A because they are selling the oil. all of them are ...everyone has their hand out.

the sick bit is that most of the first world countries citizens could care less that their gov are just a mafia shit stain owned by the central banks.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:34 | 6853144 rita
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Former CIA Deputy Director Gives A Stunning Reason Why Obama Has Not Attacked ISIS' Oil Infrastructure, then the reason is for the concern of the  environmental damage! This is a joke of very poor taste as well as for the respect of all the innocent dead peoples.  Shame on you US/ American people for allowing such putrid people run your country.
Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:35 | 6853146 rapetrain
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Oh how deep the rabbit hole we've fallen.

Hitting oil wells would be illegal. Period.

And this clown sits here and tells us about environmental damage as if the fact that it's illegal is superfluous. Because in a world where Gov breaks every law it wants with impunity, it's really irrelevant whether or not hitting the oil wells would be illegal.

Mon, 11/30/2015 - 15:57 | 6857784 FixItAgainTony
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Someday soon this conscientious man will apologize for killing civilians and doctors, destroying infrastructure, running drugs and weapons, black-mailing world leaders, and treading on the Constitution he swore to uphold.  Right before he and his ilk do it again under even flimsier pretenses.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:36 | 6853150 BingoBoggins
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So responsibility for millions of people dead is ... They're compost?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:28 | 6853326 trulz4lulz
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Only when you use thousands of tons of highly radioactive "depleted" uranium ammunitions is it considered environmentally firendly. Worms love it, its great.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:39 | 6853161 earleflorida
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when 'baby`bush' raided iraq in 2003, he and his filthy scum cronies destroyed [bombed, etc.] every last bit of iraqis antiquities, libraries, religious monuments, museums etel, and... guarded with total authority the Ministry of Energy, oil infrastructure, and Iraq's Central bank with a small army of specialized forces ranging from 12k-18k soldiers.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:40 | 6853165 Reichstag Fire Dept.
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So...no threat of global thremonuclear war because...environment?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:45 | 6853177 grunk
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I didn't realize we cared so much.

Touching.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:24 | 6853314 Wahooo
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And they all lived happily ever after. The End.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:46 | 6853178 Joebloinvestor
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The irony is that if ISIS is put on the run, they will light up the oil wells anyway.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:29 | 6853329 grunk
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ISIS is former Saddam Hussein military. They did it before.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:05 | 6853452 Raymond_K._Hessel
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No, isis is not fairly described as comprised of former Baathists. Thats some neocon propaganda.

Its mostly Libyans and Saudis and Yemenis and some Iraqis and Turks, cats herded by the us and israel and saudi.

Isis is a proxy for these states and turkey.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189385.html
http://ftmdaily.com/what-jerry-thinks/whysyria/

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 19:09 | 6854055 HowdyDoody
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There are some Europeans too, carefully herded in by the UK's MI6 for example.

One British guy, known as Abu Basir al-Brittany, was killed in Russia/Syria's bombardment after the murder of the Su-24 pilot.

https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/www.e-news.su/in-world/86540-uty...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:47 | 6853184 coast
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But they can bomb the fuck out of Iraq, Libya, Syria etc. setting those countries back to the stone age, displacing and killing millions, destroying historical buildings, build nuke plants on fault lines, gmo food, flouride poison in our water, spraying shit in the skies etc....but NOOOO!!, we cant bomboil oil infrastructures that are helping arm the terrorists...what a fucking liar piece of shit..

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:06 | 6853256 bid the soldier...
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If we destroy that infrastructure, what if they don't use Halliburton to replace it?  

That would be unacceptable to everybody that counts.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:48 | 6853185 HowdyDoody
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A couple of interesting stories swept under the rug by the Su-24 shootdown / ISIS oil stuff. From Russian sources FWIW

25 November, Putin signed a law, approved by the Duma, requiring 90% of the profits of the Russian Central Bank be passed into the Russian budget.

https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/www.e-news.su/news/86888-putin-p...

The elite are preparing for something Big: Soros has sold all of the shares of global banks below the price and buys Gold

https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/www.e-news.su/in-world/86884-eli...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:58 | 6853226 bid the soldier...
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here's one from today that probably will be swept under the rug also

An aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces task unit deployed to Syria entered by mistake the Israeli-controlled airspace over Golan Heights and left it, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon reported.

 


 http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151129/1030948457/russian-jet-israeli-airspace.html#ixzz3suNTBllU

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 17:43 | 6853755 lakecity55
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Yes, but the IAF and the RUS-AF have a hotline to prevent accidents.

Plus, they actually use it, a Russkie plane went about a mile into Israel. No problem, it was handled professionally.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 23:41 | 6854993 bid the soldier...
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Also Israel is playing the 'we get along with Russia' card to annoy the US and the 'we don't shoot down Russian jets for a 17 second infraction' card to make Erdogan look like a psychopath.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:03 | 6853247 earleflorida
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good digging...

it seems the ussa's 4th estate is no better than erdogan's

but, we have ZH and its astute, articulated intellectuals that won't be fooled

we imprison whisle`blowers and as for Assange and Snowden are concerned, we label as: 'on-the-presidents nobel peace prize agenda... a solicitation for`top billing on the kill list'

u go murika 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:49 | 6853190 bid the soldier...
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The agencies of all governments that deal with covert operations and 'false flag' assassinations are schooled as much in puting out deceit, perjury and falsification after the fact as they are in the sabotage, provocation and fraud they created in the first place.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:51 | 6853197 CHoward
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That is a pure bullshit explanation for not bombing the oil wells.  Obama is an Islamist sympathizer and coming up with the environmental bullshit is the best they could come up with.  Fucking unbelievable.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:52 | 6853200 adonisdemilo
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You lying toerag.

We're not as stupid as you look.

So, how many "Western Infidels" are you happy to see blown up before you actually do something positive to eliminate ISIS.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:53 | 6853205 mr coffee
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Its a crazy world where Putin looks like the honest up front reasonable option.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:54 | 6853212 Svendblaaskaeg
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"....and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure, right.."

so why did they (some time ago) bomb the electric power infrastructure then, I remember Putin asking that question

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:08 | 6853264 Johnny Horscaulk
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US-NATO Launch New Proxy War Front in Crimea, Neo-Nazis Bomb Electrical Grid Causing National Blackouts
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/26/us-nato-launch-new-proxy-war-front...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:31 | 6853338 trulz4lulz
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The American bomb civilian infrastructure for the Carbon Tax credits. Its very complicated, you wouldnt understand.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 17:41 | 6853228 lakecity55
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Yeah, after thousands of rounds fired of spend Uranium.

The hypocrisy of these utter sociopaths is beyond belief.

I mean, if I saw this guy on fire I would not piss on him. I would not even call the local volunteer fire department. I might offer him a last smoke, haha.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:58 | 6853232 Lostinfortwalton
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What about the environmental toxins released in scraping the body parts off the walls in Paris?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 14:58 | 6853233 Hannibal
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That's one sorry ass bullshit story. CIA spooks don't take orders from fuckface Hussein-Obummer.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:02 | 6853246 marcusfenix
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this is some epic and absurd bullfuckingshit to the highest degree right here.

if they had no plans to hit IS in the one way it would really hurt them, in the only way it would make any difference then it begs the question....

why bother bombing them at all?

these people are not stupid, they know exactly how war works, how to wage it properly and how to defeat an enemy. and yet they try and sell the idiotic idea that they did not go after the most valuable and vulnerable of IS assets out of environmental concerns?

really?

and this is exactly why the "coalition" warned the Syrian air force against carrying out missions in these areas, outright threatened them in fact. to provide air cover and a safe route for IS oil to find it's way into Turkey and Iraq. and it worked, it was smooth sailing and billions all around right up until Moscow stepped in and literally started blowing up the program.

the "save the environment" excuse doesn't play on any level and WFT good does it do the Syria people for this infrastructure to exist so long as IS controls it, they sure as shit are not benefiting from it. in fact it only hurts them more because the longer IS can make billions off the sale of this oil the longer this war will drag on.

the longer the war drags on the more innocent Syrian's die so it would in fact be better for the common people of Syria for this oil pipeline to be destroyed and ISIS starved to death. then afterwords the Syrians can go ahead and start rebuilding the infrastructure. but there won't be an afterwords so long as IS can make that money and fund there whole drug soaked, murderous operation.  

and I wonder what the citizens of Paris think about the environmental concerns vs wiping out the islamic states revenue stream?

all this sudden care and concern flowing from DC about civilians, about oil smugglers, civilian infrastructure and mother earth makes me want to vomit.

because it's all just a never ending stream of bullshit and lies.

sometimes, in the darkest corners of my mind, I do sincerely wonder weather nuclear war might just the only thing that will bring this lunacy to an end. not saying i want it to happen or that i want to live through it but it might just be the only way for somebody, somewhere in the world to get a fresh start free of this insane asylum we all live in.   

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:31 | 6853533 Westcoastliberal
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My thoughts exactly Marcus.  You must be my Brother from another Mother.

I though the "Global Coastal Event" might take out the trash, but it didn't occur (at least not yet).  Sad to be an old fart during these strange and evil times because I may not live long enough to see a resolution. Or is that revolution?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:03 | 6853249 grunk
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Why even bother saying something this stupid?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:08 | 6853265 Urban Redneck
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Operation Mockingbird

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:07 | 6853257 hotrod
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Well at least he did not try the " It was more Convenient" line

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:08 | 6853266 FrankieGoesToHo...
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The truth is they don't know where they are.  It is the gov afterall.  Perhaps if they put a hospital sign on the wells they couldl find them?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:10 | 6853270 Son of Captain Nemo
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When you're a born pathological liar and a psychopath.....

I use to think that Langley trained you to be "both" but when you lie this poorly it has to be hard wired before you step through there door and make a career out of it!!!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:32 | 6853346 Unix
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now that is a sane post nemo, you should do more of THIS.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:55 | 6853422 trulz4lulz
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To be fair, did the guy ever specify as to which environment he was referring to?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:10 | 6853273 zeroboris
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Wait... A week ago it was innocent oil truck drivers that he didn't want to harm.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:15 | 6853288 grunk
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Aren't ISIS fighters former Saddam Hussein soldiers?

Didn't those guys blow up a bunch of oil rigs when they retreated from advancing Coalition forces?

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=saddam+blows+up+oil+fields&source=lnms&t...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:16 | 6853294 Who was that ma...
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HOLY CRAP!  Grab the shovels and the waist high rubber boots, it's getting awfully deep in here.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:45 | 6853393 Dakota Kid
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It looks like we might even need scuba gear soon.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:17 | 6853296 DebtVader
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The fact that anyone would buy the idiotic reasoning used to obfuscate the facts is my biggest concern. Orwell had it right: We're at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:29 | 6853332 headless blogger
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Spook Spin. Spooky!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:31 | 6853337 Unix
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why is it stunning? the islamo-fascist/progressive in the rainbow house says 'man made climate change is our #1 threat to our national security'...funny stuff.

that asshat would rather all of us die than to tell the truth...fucker

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:42 | 6853381 Lostinfortwalton
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We're at war with the climate; we have aways been at war with the climate. But we never let it get in the way of the ultimate F/O trip to Paris. (O stands for "off")

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:28 | 6853527 Unix
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ugh, another piece of wasted flesh

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:28 | 6853524 Unix
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LOL, asshat alert, make up your mind tweener

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:31 | 6853340 headless blogger
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I hope some of these spooks and kooks read these types of blogs and get an idea that they are not welcome in the USA. Sadly, they will be the ones with means to exit the USA after they have finished our country off. Makes me sick.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:37 | 6853357 Bunga Bunga
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Clown Intelligence Agency

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:11 | 6853366 NuYawkFrankie
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The USSA only wages "eco-friendly" warfare.

For instance, the health & evironmental benefits of its depleted-uranium weaponry are long-lasting - AND Kosher Certified.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:25 | 6853516 Unix
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hey yawk yawk, i told you before, your ken and barbie dolls are waiting for you...go play now. Let the adults figure this out, there are none in the rainbow house nor in new yawk!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:55 | 6853371 SharkBit
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Lying piece of shit.  Sad day America.

Or in the words of your next illustrious Lier-in-Chief, "what difference does it make".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0_nz53CcM

 

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:42 | 6853378 king leon
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The US didn't seem too bothered about using D U ammo  in Iraq.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 15:48 | 6853401 Decimus Lunius ...
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Makes sense to me.  I mean, I would rather allow the organization to keep on raping their child sex slaves than have oil spill into the sand.  Also, the next lunatic group to take over will, indeed, need that infrastructure to fund its child raping lifestyle.  

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:00 | 6853433 Raymond_K._Hessel
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mOrWell

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 22:04 | 6854708 inosent
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Upvoted just because it is a Raymond_K._Hessel post

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:05 | 6853453 Pumpkin
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Satan worshiper.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:06 | 6853456 Tachyon5321
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OMG no wonder that Putin think Obama is a fool because clearly Obama is a fool...

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:13 | 6853481 Westcoastliberal
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If you're going to quote Bernie Sanders at least get it right.  Bernie Sanders DID NOT say climate change causes terrorism.  What he DID say is the RESULTS of climate change can LEAD TO terrorism and that's certainly true.  If your country's coastal areas are under water, if the infrastructure doesn't work (electric, water gas, transportation), if there are food shortages, these all can surely lead to crumbling authority of the state with warlords taking gov's place.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:34 | 6853505 Unix
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LOL and the difference is what progressive, do tell, what you spout here is the company line....enjoy your 90% tax rate...too many fucking loopy morons.

Please keep your idiocy in the land of fruits and nuts, we want nothing to do with you. oh, and please tell us what country just went under water??? bwahahhahahahaarg

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 16:25 | 6853514 grunk
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Coastal areas always have issues with water because they are on the coast of a body of water.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 17:07 | 6853645 rejected
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There's a difference between terrorism and assault, theft or murder trying to find food, water or other resources.

Maybe we should just remove all the laws on the books and just make everything terrorism. I'm sure the biggest terrorist around,,, government,,, wouldn't mind.

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 17:38 | 6853737 smacker
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I thought .gov is in fact the first and worst warlord. No?

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 18:12 | 6853827 orangegeek
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FUCK OFF IDIOT!!!

Sun, 11/29/2015 - 21:55 | 6854667 Sir John Bagot Glubb
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That must explain why the Sahara Desert is all underwater now.  

Where do they find you Climate Change Guppies?  Did all your mothers drop you on your heads?

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