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Obama Pentagon Official Says Anti-Trump Military Coup Now Possible
The Washington Times ^ | February 02, 2017 | Carlo Muñoz

Posted on 02/04/2017 10:01:37 PM PST by Steelfish

Obama Pentagon Official Says Anti-Trump Military Coup Now Possible Says Trump ‘as crazy as everyone feared’; claims military overthrow and ‘an insane order’ both ‘frightening’

By Carlo Muñoz - February 2, 2017.

A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the specter of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power.

In an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history.

“Donald Trump’s first week as president has made it all too clear: Yes, he is as crazy as everyone feared,” Ms. Brooks wrote. “[One] possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders.”

For the first time in her career in public service, including three years as senior counselor to the Pentagon’s policy chief from 2009 to 2011, “I can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: ‘No, sir. We’re not doing that.’”

Ms. Brooks‘ editorial comes as a recent poll by Public Policy Polling group found that 40 percent of registered voters support Mr. Trump’s impeachment. In addition, 52 percent of voters polled said they would rather have President Obama in the Oval Office, opposed to the 43 percent who support the Trump presidency.

In the editorial, Ms. Brooks noted that Mr. Trump’s “thin-skinned, erratic, and unconstrained” approach to defense matters of defense could put top U.S. military leaders in a position where they would be forced to execute orders that may be “dangerously unhinged” from a basic understanding of national security.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bhodod; coup; first100days; insurrection; militarycoup; rosabrooks; sedition; trump45; trumpdod
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To: Steelfish

Sedition. Arrest her


61 posted on 02/04/2017 11:09:54 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TXBlair

Excellent! Thank you!


62 posted on 02/04/2017 11:11:05 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dp0622

I can’t disagree with any of that.

KISS...Keep It Simple, Stupid lol


63 posted on 02/04/2017 11:12:58 PM PST by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: Pelham

Thank you for posting that info.


64 posted on 02/04/2017 11:14:58 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: supremedoctrine

lol. Did someone say it already? This is my first hearing about it.

But it seems saying Kill Trump out loud, spraying it on a wall, or posting on facebook is no big ####ing deal.

Just ask Sarah Silverman, that ####ing pig.


65 posted on 02/04/2017 11:17:02 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Steelfish

Keep your powder dry and your fields of fire cleared.


66 posted on 02/04/2017 11:19:38 PM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Steelfish

Remember, Brooks’ mother is an old line commie - Barbara Ehrenreich and leading figure in the Marxist Democratic Socialists of America.

Rosa was Obama’s mouthpiece in the anti-defense group he established to take our military down a couple of notches.

Anything she says is not only “suspect” but well-planned Marxist bullshit.


67 posted on 02/04/2017 11:19:59 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Steelfish
From the article) :" .. her career in public service, including three years as senior counselor to the Pentagon’s policy chief from 2009 to 2011,.."

Well now we know why the Obungler foreign policy went wrong in the Pentagon
and why ISIS was considered a "J.V. Team"
Maybe she should be air-dropped so that she can personally meet the J.V. team.

68 posted on 02/04/2017 11:21:44 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: dp0622

My saying “Not this shit again” was referencing the oft-seen photo captioned that way,probably an old ad for some pain medication showing a well-dressed 1950s man holding his head with a pained expression on his face. It woulda been better to post the picture with the caption, but I couldn’t find it.


69 posted on 02/04/2017 11:23:45 PM PST by supremedoctrine ("If you want to be able to predict the future, first you have to create it"---Lincoln)
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To: Steelfish

This is blatant sedition. Also, part of the Soros funded purple revolution. There may be some Military that preferred Obama or Clinton, but the majority are with DJT.

In fact, I’m pretty sure that Obama was told during the last 6 months that the military wasn’t going to go along with arming our enemies. Perhaps Obama was told he would go along or face trial/hanging for treason.

These groups need to be shut down immediately. They are trying to start a civil war and destroy the country.


70 posted on 02/04/2017 11:23:59 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: JoSixChip

If the military took no action when a foreign Muslim communist took power for eight years and deliberately gutted the military, then I doubt they would react to the election of a patriotic American determined to restore it.

When leftists are looking to the military to solve their political woes, they have reached rock bottom; I revel in their misery.


71 posted on 02/04/2017 11:24:04 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Nifster

And arrest her scab POS husband masquerading as a US military colonel...


72 posted on 02/04/2017 11:26:58 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: Pelham
Correct.

Which leads in inexorably to the question: why was the daughter -- or any relative of Barbara Ehrenreich -- ever hired as an advisor to the US military?

73 posted on 02/04/2017 11:29:35 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Steelfish

A military coup after a lawful election is treason against the American people and the Constitution and speaking this way should be punishable.


74 posted on 02/04/2017 11:33:48 PM PST by Crucial
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To: supremedoctrine

I figured that was what it was in reference to. :)

But I wouldn’t have been shocked at all to hear another obama appointee called for a coup.

Pieces of ###


75 posted on 02/04/2017 11:34:37 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Steelfish

And for the record, I think Trump is actually holding back and trying not to upset people.


76 posted on 02/04/2017 11:34:46 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Crucial

I would feel better if he did not pick fights with Arnold.

i would feel better if he would not Tweet in the middle of the night.

Actually there are a lot of them. But there is nothing I can do about it.


77 posted on 02/04/2017 11:41:21 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Steelfish

Makes me wonder if Iran isn’t working with the left to force President Trump into an early military confrontation, thus their unhinged meme.

The leftist globalist crowd isn’t just in America, it’s everywhere.


78 posted on 02/04/2017 11:44:14 PM PST by Kenny
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To: funfan

Good grief. The enemy inside the gates.


79 posted on 02/04/2017 11:54:22 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: Steelfish

any military coup against Trump will almost certainly end like the coup against Erdogan.

And then left wing kooks will accuse Trump of faking the coup in order to seize power.


80 posted on 02/04/2017 11:56:12 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Build the Wall !)
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