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Lindsey Graham: ‘Obama-Like Move’ for Trump to Withdraw Troops from Syria
Breitbart ^ | 19 Dec 2018 | Pam Key

Posted on 12/19/2018 2:22:25 PM PST by detective

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To: sparklite2

I’m hoping I’m not the only one old enough to know that is from “War Pigs” the opening track of the influential Black Sabbath album, Paranoid.

I always heard it in my head every time McCain spoke.

“No more war pigs have the power Hand of God has struck the hour Day of judgement, God is calling On their knees the war pig’s crawling Begging mercy for their sins Satan laughing spreads his wings”


21 posted on 12/19/2018 2:37:19 PM PST by thorvaldr
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To: thorvaldr

I was jamming some Sabbath today.


22 posted on 12/19/2018 2:37:38 PM PST by EEGator
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To: detective

‘Obama-Like Move’

Then most of the Republicans should secretly love it?


23 posted on 12/19/2018 2:39:43 PM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: detective

Lindsay tried, but could not suppress his inner warmonger. We have no more business in Syria than a squirrel in a surgery ward.

Islam is simply incompatible with Western values; the only value within Islam is the worship of Mohammed and until the day we accept that, we are heretics to Muslims. Which I could care less about, except as to the point where they are obsessed with killing us non-Muslims. They will not adopt our legal system, our political system, nor any of our other values. They will use our cel phones and computers and cars.

It’s a lot like liberals. I don’t really care to debate them. All I care about is defeating them. If possible. At some point it may become impossible to defeat them. That will then be the reality. They won’t be defeated by logic nor reason, as those items are non-emotional.


24 posted on 12/19/2018 2:40:05 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: sparklite2

I was gonna say - that sounds like Ozzy Osborne and Black Sabbath

Maybe from “War Pigs”? I’ve only heard it a couple of times.


25 posted on 12/19/2018 2:40:42 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: detective

Never trust a cross dresser.


26 posted on 12/19/2018 2:41:04 PM PST by TADSLOS (My favorite essential oil is bacon grease.)
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To: conservative98

Oh yeah, make me barf why don’t you...


27 posted on 12/19/2018 2:41:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: detective

Good move...we started in VN with a few ‘advisors’ and look where it got us.

Like stated, to go in there with a couple thousand troops and tie up their hands is almost criminal.

Along the line of ‘US’ putting unarmed NG Troops in airports after 9/11.

I do understand the reasoning being to ‘reassure’ the traveling public that they may not be ‘sitting ducks’ but that ‘poor’ National Guard Troop that encounters a ‘bad guy’ is a target.... DUMP F’N MOVE.

I heard the report earlier today but got the impression it was something that was going to happen and I did get ‘weeweed off’ about giving the enema plenty of time to mount an offensive on people thinking about going home.

Graham better get his head out of his netherworld if he thinks this is an Bo’Bozo type move.


28 posted on 12/19/2018 2:42:20 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: Dawgreg

GOP Establishment won’t defend America’s borders but can’t spend enough on foreign interventions.


29 posted on 12/19/2018 2:47:10 PM PST by rintintin
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To: detective

This is the chutzpah of the swamp in full view. Lindsay ‘the ball gargling’ Graham and his fellow rinos and neverTrumpers supported a 2 year long coup against Trump(they still support it), scuttled every item on the MAGA agenda, and then criticize him for bringing the troops home.

Tar and feathers


30 posted on 12/19/2018 2:48:54 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: detective

you first...


31 posted on 12/19/2018 2:49:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: detective

Giving American military secrets to the Chinese communists is an Obama type move.

Putting traitors in charge of the NSA, FBI and CIA is an Obama like move.

You left out these other "Obama-like" moves...

From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

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"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration.

Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/

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32 posted on 12/19/2018 2:50:34 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: jyo19

If we don’t have the money to protect OUR OWN borders, we damn sure don’t have the money to protect a bunch of Arabs.


33 posted on 12/19/2018 2:51:02 PM PST by GOPJ (TERM LIMIT DC SWAMP BUREAUCRATS - a permanent un-elected ruling class is a threat to freedom.)
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To: detective
GHWB ... John McCain ... The Weekly Standard ... U.S. military presence in Syria ...

With the demise of all these in 2018, I think it's time to take a vacation from all this winning until January.

34 posted on 12/19/2018 2:58:01 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: detective

Then the Constitutional thing for Congress to do is declare war on Syria...

Ha Ha, sure.


35 posted on 12/19/2018 3:00:17 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: detective

A little prance, twirl and rump in the air is an Obama move. Linda would know all about that.


36 posted on 12/19/2018 3:01:16 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: detective

Is this the “new” Flimsey Grahamnesty who has been freed from his McCainiac trance?


37 posted on 12/19/2018 3:04:07 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

Bring them home and put them to building the wall. Protect our borders instead of someone else’s.


38 posted on 12/19/2018 3:10:21 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

There shouldn’t be one soldier in Conus sitting on his ass doing nothing until the wall is built.


39 posted on 12/19/2018 3:15:14 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Let see Afghanistan thirteen years...

The guys that chased Bin Laden out...Said never bring troops into the country...Read Horse Soldiers

Did the Generals listen no...

40 posted on 12/19/2018 3:20:30 PM PST by Hojczyk
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