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Opening the Gates of Hell
The Conservative Beacon ^ | January 11, 2014 | Ellis Washington

Posted on 01/11/2014 7:52:37 AM PST by Conservative Beacon

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1 posted on 01/11/2014 7:52:37 AM PST by Conservative Beacon
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To: Conservative Beacon

Opening the “Gates” of Hell? I thought it was opened on January 21, 2009.


2 posted on 01/11/2014 8:00:18 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Conservative Beacon

Gates apparently has trouble with Presidents doing what they were elected to do. Useless wars cost too much in blood and treasure and voters turned against them.


3 posted on 01/11/2014 8:03:33 AM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: lbryce
Opening the “Gates” of Hell? I thought it was opened on January 21, 2009.

Yeah, but which way is the traffic flowing ?

4 posted on 01/11/2014 8:20:18 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: Conservative Beacon
as Lord Acton wrote of Machiavelli, “State power is not bound by moral law.”

I'll have to look that up. It sounds as if he said it in order to correct Machiavelli. I wonder if he thought it was a good or bad thing.
5 posted on 01/11/2014 8:22:00 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Conservative Beacon

Gates book is already #1 best seller at Amazon and, except for Kindle, it has not even been released (rel. on 1/14).


6 posted on 01/11/2014 8:30:38 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: Conservative Beacon

Obama is “feckless”? I don’t think so. He’s been fecking-over everyone in The United States for five years now.


7 posted on 01/11/2014 8:49:49 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Conservative Beacon

File this under Impeachable. Now If we only had a Legislative Branch . . .


8 posted on 01/11/2014 9:09:57 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Conservative Beacon

Gotta love the way Ari Fleischer jumped to Obabma’s defense instead of the defense of his country. Maybe W will emerge from his silence and slap Gates down or if Ari was still serving as W’s mouthpiece.


9 posted on 01/11/2014 9:12:16 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: RoosterRedux

So of course Bridgegate emerges the next day to knock this off the front pages.


10 posted on 01/11/2014 9:21:38 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: ex-snook

I thought the Obama folks were voting for gay marriage and Obamacare.


11 posted on 01/11/2014 9:23:10 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Conservative Beacon
Of course Gate's memoir is damning but no one will care.

Its not a scandal until the MSM says its a scandal.

And in Obama's case, no matter how vile & disgusting his behavior, no matter how many lives are lost due to his craven and self serving policies, the MSM will never, ever call him on it.

12 posted on 01/11/2014 9:25:42 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Conservative Beacon

The gates of Hell are opened so the Christians can go in and release those who are imprisoned inside. Setting them free.

That is why the gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church.

Likewise those who are behind the gates cannot get out unless they are transformed.


13 posted on 01/11/2014 9:32:08 AM PST by shineon (.)
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To: Conservative Beacon

Soooo,
Ya gots to know Gates is about to be audited by the irs, and every other gub mint Agency obammys folks can muster


14 posted on 01/11/2014 10:17:57 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: Joe Boucher

Gates never doubted THE FOREIGNERS support for the troops. I sure do. Every action THE FOREIGNER undertakes shows his contempt for the military, our troops, this country and our people


15 posted on 01/11/2014 11:01:01 AM PST by spawn44 ( moo)
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To: UCANSEE2
If I were on the stand as defendant, you as prosecutor asking that question, I'd immediately be looking straight at my attorney, Ben Matlock, who in most every other case would have been smiling by now, another case on the win side for him. But this time he's got a really worried look on his face like I've never seen and know I'm in big, very big trouble.

I can't remember the last time I was in a position like this where I was muted into silence, otherwise always there with the quick, witty response. Your question is damm good, legitimate and frankly being at a total loss for words, must say, You Got Me!!

16 posted on 01/11/2014 11:47:59 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce
You Got Me!!

Well... that makes two of us, at least, who are unsure.

17 posted on 01/11/2014 9:34:51 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: lbryce

On second thought, if the gate is open, maybe traffic is going both ways.


18 posted on 01/11/2014 9:37:57 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Defender2; ...

Gates proposed a 60,000 US troops surge package. Obama halved it with support 5000 or so from allies.

Destined to fail from the start. That is why the numbers of US casualities spiked.

Active Duty/Retiree ping.


19 posted on 01/11/2014 9:46:06 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar
You are correct. The Rules of Engagment (ROE) that Obama ordered for Afghanistan were also a disaster to our fighting men and women. A disaster. From barring air support, to the inability of our troops to even return fire, the military was forced to become sitting ducks.

It eclipses Vietnam as the worst example of how American political cowards betrayed our military.

20 posted on 01/12/2014 3:41:11 AM PST by SkyPilot
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