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When I Said Al Qaeda Had Been Decimated, I Meant...

When I Said Al Qaeda Had Been Decimated, I Meant...

1 posted on 08/14/2013 7:32:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

It basically means he spoke with a forked tongue.


3 posted on 08/14/2013 7:34:27 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Decimated literally means reduced by a tenth. I doubt we have even done that, at least recently.


4 posted on 08/14/2013 7:34:30 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: SunkenCiv
So basically he means he turned one group into 10,000.

And then gave them missiles.

-PJ

5 posted on 08/14/2013 7:34:56 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I only read what they write for me and I have no idea what I’m saying


6 posted on 08/14/2013 7:35:11 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: SunkenCiv

Decimated means reduced by 10 percent.


7 posted on 08/14/2013 7:35:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SunkenCiv
the empty incompitent look that launched a thousand blogs


8 posted on 08/14/2013 7:37:26 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: SunkenCiv

ONG !! where is my Clarification Team ?


9 posted on 08/14/2013 7:38:19 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: SunkenCiv

The disaster that is Egypt & “Arab Spring”... you built that, Zero.


10 posted on 08/14/2013 7:40:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SunkenCiv

WHENEVER, a U.S. President makes an attempt to clarify
anything, they have failed in their initial lying to the
U.S. population, and comes back for a second try.

With this s()itting President, there has not been an
honest word, in all of his s()itting days!


11 posted on 08/14/2013 7:44:37 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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12 posted on 08/14/2013 7:45:52 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: SunkenCiv
If his lips are moving, he's lying.

Yeah, and if his lips aren't moving, his assistants and sycophants are doing the lying for him.

13 posted on 08/14/2013 7:47:08 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hussein = scumbag


15 posted on 08/14/2013 7:49:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There’s nothing this asshat can’t screw up royally.


17 posted on 08/14/2013 7:51:22 PM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: SunkenCiv

He don’t got to ‘splain nothing, and I dunno why he do, Lucy, we’re not Italy, where the Prime Minister can be thrown out and even jailed at any time, we’re the land of ultimate political perfection, where this criminal can coast for the next three years, commit other crimes and nothing’s going to happen to him, while you fantasize about something called impeachment.


18 posted on 08/14/2013 7:52:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Blah! Blah! Blah!...GO F YOURSELF OBONGO!


19 posted on 08/14/2013 7:55:03 PM PDT by Route395
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To: SunkenCiv

“When I said Al-Qaeda was on its heels, has been decimated.”

He really meant that if you stupid people believed him and he was proved to be wrong later, his MSM whores would cover for him.


20 posted on 08/14/2013 7:55:52 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The only growth industries left under Progressives are government and poverty.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Most people means to reduce to 10% of it’s former value or number—that is, to kill/remove 90% of the population in question.

But, that is not true. “Decimate” means to reduce by only 10%, to 90% of it’s former strength. At one point in the history of Rome (well past it’s peak) it was decided that a good way to motivate the Army would be to kill 10% of a division’s troops, leaving the remaining 90% more motivated for success in future campaigns. This was called “decimation.”

A short term management strategy, at best. But back to my point—Obama was probably technically correct: If we’ve damaged Al Qaeda by 10%, we’ve decimated them, and also, motivated them. History repeats... weird.


22 posted on 08/14/2013 8:01:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SunkenCiv

Go find a community to organize Waldo!


23 posted on 08/14/2013 8:09:41 PM PDT by Route395
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To: SunkenCiv
If his lips are moving, he's lying.

Ya THINK?!!!

I'm surprised that, at this point, his nose isn't about 200,000 miles long - so long, we could WALK to the moon on it and save the cost of using Russian space craft to get to the space shuttle!!

25 posted on 08/14/2013 8:33:29 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for the American politburo!!)
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To: SunkenCiv
FWIW, Decimation was a term used by the Roman Legions for collective punishment where soldiers were lined up and every 10 th soldier was killed with a sword
26 posted on 08/14/2013 8:45:53 PM PDT by rdcbn
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