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Clinton on combating terror: "I know how to do this"
Yahoo News ^ | 19 Sep 2016

Posted on 09/19/2016 10:51:52 AM PDT by mandaladon

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton cast herself Monday as the most qualified to combat terrorism in the U.S. after a weekend of violent attacks in three states. Going after rival Donald Trump, she argued that his anti-Muslim rhetoric is helping Islamic militants, including ISIS, recruit new fighters.

The Democratic presidential candidate touted her national security credentials at a hastily arranged news conference outside her campaign plane, accusing Republican Trump for using the incidents to make "some kind of demagogic point."

"I'm the only candidate in this race who's been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield," Clinton, a former secretary of state, told reporters. "I have sat at that table in the Situation Room."

She added: "I know how to do this."

New York's governor and mayor said Monday that the bombings in a Manhattan neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town are looking increasingly like acts of terrorism with a foreign connection. Authorities are also investigating the stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a possible act of terrorism.

An Afghan immigrant wanted for questioning in the bombings was captured in New Jersey Monday after being wounded in a gun battle with police, authorities said.

The violence cast a long shadow over the presidential race, diverting both candidates' attention from the daily controversies of the presidential race.

Clinton and her team see her foreign policy experience as a key selling point for her candidacy. On the campaign trail, she frequently invokes her role in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, describing to voters the tense atmosphere in the White House alongside President Barack Obama.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; terrorism; trump
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To: mandaladon

Yeah, she and Obozo took them off the battlefields and brought them here.


21 posted on 09/19/2016 10:57:38 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: mandaladon

Hillary, You may think you know how to do it, but frankly, we are kinda tired of getting attacked. What ever you think you are doing to help aint working, it’s only getting worse.


22 posted on 09/19/2016 10:57:50 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: mandaladon
accusing Republican Trump for using the incidents to make "some kind of demagogic point."

"This 'hastily arranged press conference' is totally the opposite of that. I'm not doing that at all."

23 posted on 09/19/2016 10:58:12 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: riverrunner

She IS one of the bad guys.


24 posted on 09/19/2016 10:58:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: mandaladon

Kinda hard to combat terrorism when you are home in bed hooked up to an oxygen machine and IV drip.


25 posted on 09/19/2016 10:59:03 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: mandaladon

It’s a several step process.
1. Declare war against them.
2. Prosecute their supporters for treason and punish them as severely as the Constitution allows.
3. Cut off aid to any country that supports them.
4. Censor any and all news coverage of them. No money and no attention and they starve.

Continue until they stop.


26 posted on 09/19/2016 11:00:07 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (Misinformed or misunderstood, but NEVER wrong.)
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To: mandaladon

She knows how to lie, prevaricate, equivocate, sell favors, line her pockets, throw temper tantrums at the help, destroy the lives of anyone who crosses her and her criminal “husband” and try to hide her many health problems. That is the sum total of her “skills.”


27 posted on 09/19/2016 11:00:23 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: mandaladon

If Hitlery has the answer, why have they not done it yet.


28 posted on 09/19/2016 11:01:22 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
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To: mandaladon
Clinton on combating terror: "I know how to do this"

And as her friend Colin Powell noted: "Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”

29 posted on 09/19/2016 11:02:32 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: mandaladon

NO. YOU. DO. NOT. “know how to do this.”


30 posted on 09/19/2016 11:02:49 AM PDT by madison10 (Proud to be a Deplorable)
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To: mandaladon
We’re going after the bad guys and we’re going to get them .......

Just like you went after those responsible for Benghazi.....

Ohhhhh wait....you went after a youtube video maker for that, who is still in jail
31 posted on 09/19/2016 11:03:09 AM PDT by CMS (I have not heard any politicians say how to take away guns from criminals, just law abiding citizens)
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To: mandaladon

“I’m the only candidate in this race who’s been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield. I have sat at that table in the Situation Room.”

Yes you did. Yes you have.

During your most exemplary incident, which lasted 13 hours, you failed to make the hard (like “yes” was hard) decision to send ready military teams who were begging for permission to go, and you got up from that table at 10:30pm and disappeared completely from the situation & decisions until 7:00am.

You were there.
You did that.
You failed miserably. Enough so that most of America would rather have a tough-talking high-success-rate CEO run the country instead of you.


32 posted on 09/19/2016 11:03:16 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: mandaladon
"I know how to do this"

'Hold muh beer and watch this..'

33 posted on 09/19/2016 11:04:23 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: mandaladon

Reset buttons in Arabic?


34 posted on 09/19/2016 11:06:09 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: mandaladon
Yes Hillary we know. Jihadi lives matter!

Now go back to bed and wait until Trump is in charge.

35 posted on 09/19/2016 11:06:40 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Doogle

Hitlery the Harridan is a LIEberal!

LIEberals LIE!


36 posted on 09/19/2016 11:07:37 AM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: mandaladon

“I have sat at that table in the Situation Room. Because I couldn’t stand for very long. In fact, I have to sit down right now. Whoops, I fell down. What happened?”


37 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:10 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: mandaladon; All

How many Generals and Admirals does she have supporting her? Trump could use this question in the debates.


38 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:13 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: mandaladon

Her comments are patently absurd. She says, “I’m the only candidate in this race who’s been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield”

That she and Obama think that “decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield” are hard is a big part of the problem. Deciding to kill them is easy. Finding and killing enough of them is the tough part.


39 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:31 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“She also was part of the decision to put terrorists back on the battlefield with her Gitmo releases.”

___________

Bingo.

Terrorists should be left on the battlefield. Dead, and without burial.

Maggots gotta eat, too.


40 posted on 09/19/2016 11:08:38 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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