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Napolitano regrets 'politicization' of vets report
Washington Times ^ | 4/20/09 | Kara Rowland

Posted on 04/20/2009 9:48:35 AM PDT by Nachum

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano blamed "politicization" for a week of furor over a report that warned "right-wing extremists" were recruiting veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

She also said the Obama administration's veterans programs were necessary to combat such extremism.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodhs; bhoveterans; domesticterrorism; napolitano; politicization; regrets; vets
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To: Nachum
At the risk of being charged with "extremism" or "politicization", I look forward with the greatest anticipation to November 6, 2012, a day I fervently hope will be known forever in the hearts of American patriots as "V-O Day".
21 posted on 04/20/2009 10:08:08 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: Nachum

So let me get this straight.

Nanny Napolitano blamed “politicization” for a week of furor over the report that claims I am a terrorist and in the same breath reassures me Comrade Zero’s veteran policy will prevent extremism? The way I read this sentence is this administration still believes me to be a terrorist but when Zero gets around to offering his “touch” on the VA, I will at least not be an extreme one?

Uh?


22 posted on 04/20/2009 10:08:23 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: b4its2late

Must be some old Cuyahoga River water in that fishbowl!


23 posted on 04/20/2009 10:08:30 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: All
I created this shirt to wear during an upcoming marathon in Cincinnati on May 3rd.


24 posted on 04/20/2009 10:08:33 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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She thinks it was politicized, eh? That’s rich.


25 posted on 04/20/2009 10:12:48 AM PDT by Jenny217
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To: SpaceBar

I’m wondering how “regret” can be used to describe the act of someone other than oneself. Very convenient word nowadays.


26 posted on 04/20/2009 10:15:20 AM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: Nachum
It was her and her DemoFascist conspirators, who politicized,and criminalized the report that caused all the uproar, by Gestapo-izing the Dept of HomeLand Security, into an agency that can arrest, detain and "disappear" anyone of right leaning opolitical beliefs, using the memo and the Patriot act, as a DemoNazi Gestapo.

Now, all someone has to do, os anger a powerful enough Democrat, and whoosh! Off Limbaugh goes, to a DemoFascist FEMA "summer/re-education camp"!

27 posted on 04/20/2009 10:16:44 AM PDT by DGHoodini (God's gonna getcha!)
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To: DGHoodini

still no elected Republicans calling for her head...and the strongest condemnation thusfar is from a southern Democrat


28 posted on 04/20/2009 10:25:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nachum

Personally, I think it shows a lot of diversity awareness that we have a dude in charge of DHS that likes to cross dress.

I also heard she/he just won a powerlifting contest, having beat out Janet Reno.


29 posted on 04/20/2009 10:32:15 AM PDT by Made In The USA (BO stinks.)
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To: Nachum

What did the stupid cow think was going to happen?
She started it, not the vets.


30 posted on 04/20/2009 10:44:56 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (To stand up for Capitalism is to hope Teleprompter Boy fails.)
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To: SpaceBar

Yeah..”leaked”...

As insulting as this document is, I believe the timing was a shot across our bow, just before the tea parties. The writing was amatuer or hurried or both, but I think the intent was scare us from attending the tea parties and engaging in our political discourse. Yes, it may also be quite serious on their part, but I do think the larger meaning was a scare tactic. Just my two cents.


31 posted on 04/20/2009 10:47:26 AM PDT by Wife of D
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To: Neoliberalnot
As I recall, Napolitano thought the Arizona 9/11 Memorial, which blamed the US for the attacks, was also "politicized"...
32 posted on 04/20/2009 10:54:14 AM PDT by gridlock (Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life.)
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To: Wife of D

And yesterday it was reported that a returning marine was caught with a firearm and “explosive components” in his checked luggage. Talk about peculiar timing.


33 posted on 04/20/2009 10:55:48 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Nachum
"I regret that in the politicization of everything that happens in Washington, D.C., some took offense,"

Typical. There's nothing wrong with anything she's done. She's just unhappy that some crazy rightwingers took offense to her eminently reasonable proposals.

34 posted on 04/20/2009 11:01:56 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: Nachum

Napolitano does not regret politicizing yet another federal agency to go after Obama’s political opponents. Napolitano regrets that her intended victims are objecting.

The Napolitano Gestapo resembles the Keystone Cops more than the SS or the KGB. If they can’t stop pregnant women from waddling across the border at will, I can’t imagine they’ll be very effective in stopping a real threat, let alone a bunch of tax-protesting grandmothers in Sacramento.


35 posted on 04/20/2009 11:15:56 AM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Liberalism is a hate crime that can no longer be tolerated.)
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To: SpaceBar

“She regrets it was leaked to the media.”

BINGO!


36 posted on 04/21/2009 4:37:16 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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