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Democrats’ New Intelligence Chairman Needs a Crash Course on al Qaeda
CQ.com ^ | December 9, 2006 | Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor

Posted on 12/09/2006 12:55:56 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/09/2006 12:55:58 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Absolutely frightening.

L

2 posted on 12/09/2006 1:02:34 PM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: Kaslin

Well idiotic democrats are in no danger from Islamo-nazi
terror so why should they give a big fat rats a**?


3 posted on 12/09/2006 1:02:34 PM PST by claptrap (We've found a Witch can we burn her?)
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To: Kaslin
It requires hard work to become educated on this issue. While the battlefield jihadists are hard at work around the world, the Saudi funded political and academic jihadists have created so much smoke in the free world that we are blinded. We need tough, educated patriotic leaders soon or we will perish
4 posted on 12/09/2006 1:02:47 PM PST by outofstyle
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"Reyes can’t answer some fundamental questions about the powerful forces arrayed against us in the Middle East."

Jane Harmon would have been just fine (for a Dem, anyhow)as the Chair, now that the election is over. Problem is Pelosi feels threatened by her patriotism and looks. Pelosi is into so much dirty politics, maybe just maybe she herself could be impeached.


5 posted on 12/09/2006 1:05:59 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Kaslin
Memo to House Intel Committee Chair Reyes:

IN THE PARTY OF GOD: Hezbollah sets up operations in South America and the United States.

Maybe one of his staff members can translate the article into Spanish, if need be ...

6 posted on 12/09/2006 1:06:43 PM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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To: Lurker

He is replacing an peter hoekstra who knew about the middle east.

But the american people got change and after all change is great.

This goes to show you what a liberal media can turn this country into.


If a republican didn't know who hezbollah was or al queda was shiite it would be front page story.


But the dems can do anything.

I think it is fair to say that america is now far left.


The american people put these bafoons in power no matter how bad they were because they wanted change. They made nancy pelosi speaker and she picked reyes to please the hispanic community.

The american electorate follows what the media say. There is no democracy in our country.

And can republicans stop electing blue dogs who put pelosi in power to pick fools like this.


7 posted on 12/09/2006 1:07:59 PM PST by jamesrichards
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Harman would have been soooo much better. Part of the problem is that she is truly moderate... which is "right wing" by Pelousy's standards.


8 posted on 12/09/2006 1:08:32 PM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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This goes to show you what a liberal media can turn this country into. . . The american electorate follows what the media say. There is no democracy in our country.

Amen and Amen.

9 posted on 12/09/2006 1:11:07 PM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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To: jamesrichards
Do you remember how Bush got ripped for not knowing who the leader of Sri Lanka or some such 3rd world dung bucket was?

Do you remember how AlGore mocked him days later?

But I suppose now that the Dems are in charge they'll be given a pass no matter what stupidity they demonstrate in public.

I certainly hope there's a video of this interview. I'd pay till it hurt to see it widely distributed.

L

10 posted on 12/09/2006 1:11:58 PM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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Rare is the military unit with an American soldier who can read a captured document or interrogate a prisoner, my own sources tell me.

It was that way in Vietnam, too, Reyes says, which “haunts us.”




Reyes must have been there in 1965, then.....his statement is false from a 67-68 and later perspective.


11 posted on 12/09/2006 1:13:49 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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"To his credit, Reyes, a kindly, thoughtful man who also sits on the Armed Service Committee, does see the undertows drawing the region into chaos."

We have no need for kindly thoughtful men - we have enough of them already. They are called the PC crowd. Oh God, give us a leader who, when he walks, a loud sound like CLANG!, CLANG!, CLANG! comes out of his pants for the entire world to hear.


12 posted on 12/09/2006 1:16:06 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: Kaslin

Congressman Silvestre Reyes, now in his fifth term, became the first Hispanic to represent the 16th District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996.

Silvestre Reyes, voted against building the 700 mile border fence.


13 posted on 12/09/2006 1:17:04 PM PST by kcvl
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If a republican didn't know who hezbollah was or al queda was shiite it would be front page story.

That's the thing. Al Queda is not Shiia. It is complicated and their has been a deliberate effort by the Saudis to confuse things even further. Their motivation for the confusion is to keep us asleep a little longer. When we wake up to the global nature of Jihad we may begin to effectively fight back.

14 posted on 12/09/2006 1:21:14 PM PST by outofstyle
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9 posted on 12/01/2006 9:02:21 PM PST by Cindy


15 posted on 12/09/2006 1:21:22 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Kaslin
Having someone this ignorant in a position of authority is downright dangerous. There is no longer any excuse for interested parties not to know who the major parties to the conflict are. Can you imagine how much time is going to be wasted briefing Reyes on simple, established, well-known facts like who Hezbollah and Al Qaeda are? Just imagine trying to explain Jemaah Islamiyah or Abu Sayyaf to him -- his head would spin.

But as long as his head is spinning maybe he won't be able to speak or legislate; that's a good thing.

(And speaking Spanish was a neat trick -- in the 2000 election. It's pocito played out, now.)

16 posted on 12/09/2006 1:29:20 PM PST by Caesar Soze
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To: Lurker

This is beyond frightening. Wake up America!


17 posted on 12/09/2006 1:32:46 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Kaslin

This is no surprise. the democrats havent got a clue as to what has been going on, They have been so busy tormenting President Bush they havent tried to learn. Now that they have it in their hands they havent got a clue.


18 posted on 12/09/2006 1:40:06 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: kcvl

The new chair of Intel voted to leave the southern U.S. border (such as it is) open.

NOT a good thing.


19 posted on 12/09/2006 1:42:33 PM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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To: Kaslin

Giving Reyes the chairmanship of the Intelligence committee is the same as throwing bullets into the fire. You know it will eventually hurt you, but you don't know when. Pelosi did a real dumbassed move on this guy, and it will kill a lot of our fellow citizens due to her stupidity. I hope we all remember Nancy's payback to Jane Harmon as Pelosi isn't the brightest crayon in the demorats' box, but playing with our national security is beyond the pale.


20 posted on 12/09/2006 2:10:12 PM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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