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Yemen Falls Apart: Marines Forced to Destroy Weapons, U.S. Embassy Evacuated,
Townhall.com ^ | February 12, 2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/12/2015 6:29:43 AM PST by Kaslin

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21 posted on 02/12/2015 7:01:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: CAluvdubya

I am sure TSA wouldn’t let them on the airplane with guns...


22 posted on 02/12/2015 7:09:12 AM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: Kaslin
To be clear: No Marine handed a weapon to a Houthi, or had one taken from him.

To be perfectly clear:

EVERY Marine had his weapon taken from him.

23 posted on 02/12/2015 7:13:55 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: tet68
As a former Marine, this sickens me.

I'm glad my WWII, Korea and Vietnam vet Marine Corps dad didn't see this.

24 posted on 02/12/2015 7:15:50 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: Kaslin
Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama writes another glorious chapter in the annals of American military history!
25 posted on 02/12/2015 7:18:01 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Kaslin

FUBO. FUJK.


26 posted on 02/12/2015 7:18:50 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Kaslin; flaglady47; mickie; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; Bob Ireland; Q-ManRN; seekthetruth; ...
The Marines will survive the destruction of their weapons in Yemen. They will survive the traitor in the White House, a president who hates and disrespects our armed services, who is a despicable protector of our enemies, and who is, as well, a lying coward who will certainly go down in ignominy in the annals of American history.

THE UNITED STATED MARINES BATTLE HYMN (read all stanzas)

From the Halls of Montezuma
To the Shores of Tripoli
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land and sea
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean
We are proud to claim the title
Of United State Marine

Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun
We have fought in ev'ry clime and place
Where we could take a gun
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes
You will find us always on the job
The United States Marines

Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve
In many a strife we fought for life
And never lost our nerve
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines

Leni

27 posted on 02/12/2015 7:24:14 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: When do we get liberated?
I am sure TSA wouldn’t let them on the airplane with guns...

I'm sure but why weren't they on military transport?

This president doesn't do anything the way I think it should be done. I agree with the poster that said, "Come in with our weapons, and leave with our weapons".

28 posted on 02/12/2015 7:24:27 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! "The Miracle of America")
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To: Cincinatus

He makes Carter look like a hawk!


29 posted on 02/12/2015 7:28:27 AM PST by fredhead (Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
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To: thackney

Somehow the opening scenes in THE DOGS OF WAR come to mind.
Commandeer the aircraft, “MAKE THIS THING FLY, NOW!”


30 posted on 02/12/2015 7:29:42 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: FlingWingFlyer; tet68; CAluvdubya; Eric in the Ozarks; SunkenCiv; null and void; Cincinatus; ...
See # 27.

Leni

31 posted on 02/12/2015 7:29:56 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: When do we get liberated?

TSA = Tough **** America


32 posted on 02/12/2015 7:37:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The Embassy is considered US Territory, no?

Our Marines are forced to retreat, and surrender our turf on BO's Watch(!!). How we've fallen.....

33 posted on 02/12/2015 7:45:39 AM PST by wbill
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To: CAluvdubya

Probably ordered by the first muslim. he’s been arming our enemies all over.

Well I guess my son won’t be deployed there.


34 posted on 02/12/2015 7:46:42 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Kaslin
One U.S. official said a contingent of around 100 Marines was helping protect the U.S. embassy in Yemen. Another official said a Navy amphibious assault ship, the USS Iwo Jima, was in the Red Sea off Yemen’s coast and would be available to help with the evacuation of embassy staff, if requested by the State Department.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/us-yemen-security-usa-idUSKBN0LE25720150210

35 posted on 02/12/2015 7:47:14 AM PST by McGruff (Obama said he didn't lie; it's just that he was misunderstood.)
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To: Kaslin
The poster showing the foreign policy accomplishments of this administration.


36 posted on 02/12/2015 7:53:27 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Kaslin

I keep saying ..... we should get all of our people out of some of those areas and then nuke a few of them.


37 posted on 02/12/2015 7:55:09 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: null and void
EVERY Marine had his weapon taken from him.

And "rendered inoperable". They could aim but not shoot.

38 posted on 02/12/2015 7:58:48 AM PST by azishot (God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.)
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To: Kaslin
"-- and components were scattered; no usable weapon was taken from any Marine at Sana'a airport. "

The current govt rewrite still doesn't get it. The Marines surrendered their weapons on order of the State Dept???

39 posted on 02/12/2015 8:03:00 AM PST by pfflier
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To: thackney

They WERE NOT ON A COMMERCIAL FLIGHT, which gives the intended impression of flight attendants handing out pillows, preparing to serve drinks and children safely buckled into their seats. They were on a CONTRACTED plane, specifically for the Embassy evacuation. We can only hope that BEFORE the Marines weapons were destroyed and they were rendered defenseless, someone took the time to make sure the pilot wasn’t named MOHAMMED.


40 posted on 02/12/2015 8:06:15 AM PST by Toespi
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