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Tenpoundbass
2019 Feb 21, 10:48am
Tenpoundbass
2019 Feb 21, 10:48am
Trump's tax returns, were on Debbie Wasserman Shultz DNC server for safe keeping.
100888
anonymous
2019 Feb 21, 2:58pm
North Carolina board votes to hold new House election over absentee ballot fraud
Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District race, fights back tears at the conclusion of his son John Harris's testimony during a public hearing on voting irregularities. (Photo: Travis Long/News & Observer via AP, Pool)
The North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously to hold a new election in the state’s Ninth District after overwhelming evidence of vote tampering.
Prior to the board’s decision, Republican Mark Harris, the declared winner in the race who had been fighting for his election to be certified, changed his position and called for a new election. Harris was initially declared the winner by 905 votes over Democrat Dan McCready, but the race was never certified, as evidence began to surface of ballot fraud by employees of the Harris campaign. On the fourth day of an evidentiary hearing by the board, Harris said there should be another election.
“Through the testimony I’ve listened to over the last three days, I believe a new election should be called,” Harris said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “It has become clear to me that the public’s confidence in the Ninth District seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted.”
After hearing testimony all week, the board — which consists of three Democrats and two Republicans — ruled that absentee ballots were illegally collected by Harris staffers. A spokesperson for state Republican Party told Yahoo News that candidates would file to run in a new primary prior to the special election.
Republicans initially objected that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election with claims of fraud, but over the last several months evidence accumulated that a Harris consultant had sent workers to collect absentee ballots and destroy them or fill them in for the Republican.
“While it is disappointing that folks may have violated the law, at this point we are dealing with a limited number of ballots that are nowhere close to bringing the election result into question,” Dallas Woodhouse, head of the North Carolina Republican Party, told reporters on Monday.
The campaign staffer, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., a local political operative, has been convicted of fraud and perjury unrelated to politics. And this is not the first time that races Dowless has been involved with have had curious results. In 2016, a candidate who hired Dowless won 221 of the 226 absentee ballots cast despite finishing third overall in the primary. In 2014, Dowless worked for a candidate who was narrowly elected sheriff amid allegations of absentee ballot misconduct.
Dowless, who hasn’t been charged with any crime, declined to be interviewed by the board.
The case for Harris took a negative turn on Wednesday when his son John Harris, a 29-year-old assistant U.S. attorney testified that he had warned his father that Dowless was “shady” and “he thought what he was doing was illegal.” Harris also said that he had raised concerns with the campaign’s chief strategist, David Yates.
“Mr. Yates said he was shocked and disturbed by the testimony,” said John Harris. “I was disturbed. Less shocked.”
The younger Harris added that he didn’t think his father, who was brought to tears by his son’s testimony, knew about the tampering.
“I had no reason to believe that my father actually knew, or my mother or any other associate with the campaign had any knowledge,” said John Harris. “I think Dowless told them he wasn’t doing any of this, and they believed him.”
Mark Harris had initially denied reports that he had any warning about Dowless. A former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, Harris has controversial positions on some social issues. In his statement on Thursday, Harris said that he had been hospitalized in January and was still recovering from sepsis.
During this week’s hearing, operatives explained how they were paid by Dowless to collect absentee ballots, sign as a witness when they hadn’t seen ballots filled out and forge signatures.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-board-votes-to-hold-new-house-election-over-absentee-ballot-fraud-213703280.html
Crying those Jimmy Swaggart style tears - I have sinned Jebus
Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District race, fights back tears at the conclusion of his son John Harris's testimony during a public hearing on voting irregularities. (Photo: Travis Long/News & Observer via AP, Pool)
The North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously to hold a new election in the state’s Ninth District after overwhelming evidence of vote tampering.
Prior to the board’s decision, Republican Mark Harris, the declared winner in the race who had been fighting for his election to be certified, changed his position and called for a new election. Harris was initially declared the winner by 905 votes over Democrat Dan McCready, but the race was never certified, as evidence began to surface of ballot fraud by employees of the Harris campaign. On the fourth day of an evidentiary hearing by the board, Harris said there should be another election.
“Through the testimony I’ve listened to over the last three days, I believe a new election should be called,” Harris said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “It has become clear to me that the public’s confidence in the Ninth District seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted.”
After hearing testimony all week, the board — which consists of three Democrats and two Republicans — ruled that absentee ballots were illegally collected by Harris staffers. A spokesperson for state Republican Party told Yahoo News that candidates would file to run in a new primary prior to the special election.
Republicans initially objected that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election with claims of fraud, but over the last several months evidence accumulated that a Harris consultant had sent workers to collect absentee ballots and destroy them or fill them in for the Republican.
“While it is disappointing that folks may have violated the law, at this point we are dealing with a limited number of ballots that are nowhere close to bringing the election result into question,” Dallas Woodhouse, head of the North Carolina Republican Party, told reporters on Monday.
The campaign staffer, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., a local political operative, has been convicted of fraud and perjury unrelated to politics. And this is not the first time that races Dowless has been involved with have had curious results. In 2016, a candidate who hired Dowless won 221 of the 226 absentee ballots cast despite finishing third overall in the primary. In 2014, Dowless worked for a candidate who was narrowly elected sheriff amid allegations of absentee ballot misconduct.
Dowless, who hasn’t been charged with any crime, declined to be interviewed by the board.
The case for Harris took a negative turn on Wednesday when his son John Harris, a 29-year-old assistant U.S. attorney testified that he had warned his father that Dowless was “shady” and “he thought what he was doing was illegal.” Harris also said that he had raised concerns with the campaign’s chief strategist, David Yates.
“Mr. Yates said he was shocked and disturbed by the testimony,” said John Harris. “I was disturbed. Less shocked.”
The younger Harris added that he didn’t think his father, who was brought to tears by his son’s testimony, knew about the tampering.
“I had no reason to believe that my father actually knew, or my mother or any other associate with the campaign had any knowledge,” said John Harris. “I think Dowless told them he wasn’t doing any of this, and they believed him.”
Mark Harris had initially denied reports that he had any warning about Dowless. A former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, Harris has controversial positions on some social issues. In his statement on Thursday, Harris said that he had been hospitalized in January and was still recovering from sepsis.
During this week’s hearing, operatives explained how they were paid by Dowless to collect absentee ballots, sign as a witness when they hadn’t seen ballots filled out and forge signatures.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-board-votes-to-hold-new-house-election-over-absentee-ballot-fraud-213703280.html
Crying those Jimmy Swaggart style tears - I have sinned Jebus
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anonymous
2019 Feb 22, 1:14am
@HEYYOU - Didn't see your post so I took mine back down just now on the same topic - no need for two of the same.
100890
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 22, 3:39pm
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 22, 3:39pm
CA flat out made up votes with vote harvesting, it'll never get recounted though.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 4:36am
3 Tenpoundbass ignore (13) 2019 Jan 18, 10:20am ↑ like (0) ↓ dislike (0) quote flag
Trump is going to pull out and let Obama's traitorous operatives get dispatched by Russia, it's easier this way.
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Instead of the full withdrawal the president promised, the United States will leave several hundred troops in Syria.
John Bolton, the U.S. national security advisor and longtime Iran hawk, has won a crucial victory with the partial reversal of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria.
In an apparent softening of Trump’s abrupt announcement last December that the United States would pull out completely from Syria—a move that blindsided U.S. allies and prompted the resignation of his defense secretary, James Mattis—the administration now concedes that a small force of roughly 400 troops will remain in the country.
That number includes a “peace keeping group” of about 200 troops in northeastern Syria, where the U.S.- and coalition-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are still fighting the remnants of the Islamic State, and another 200 stationed at the al Tanf garrison, a remote base in southeastern Syria near the border with Jordan, according to a senior administration official.
The decision, which was initially announced in a late Feb. 21 statement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, came just hours after a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two leaders agreed to continue coordinating the creation of a potential safe zone on Turkey’s border with Syria, according to the White House. It’s the second time in recent months that a major decision on Syria followed a phone call between Trump and Erdogan.
During a meeting with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar at the Pentagon on Friday afternoon, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said the mission in Syria remains unchanged: the defeat of the Islamic State. The U.S. troops that remain in the country will be focused on “stabilization and enhancing the “security capability of local security forces,” he noted.
“We will do that as strategic partners,” Shanahan said.
Maintaining a presence in Syria, particularly at Tanf, which straddles a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria, has been a goal of Bolton’s for months. During a January trip to the region aimed at reassuring allies that the United States was not backing down from its strategy to counter Iranian aggression, Bolton reportedly discussed with Israeli officials the plan to leave forces at the base as a way to diminish Tehran’s influence in the region.
Tanf was originally a U.S. outpost to train local Syrian fighters. But as the Islamic State has steadily crumbled, Tanf has become a crucial buttress against Iranian influence. Officials in 2017 established an “exclusion zone” about 34 miles around the garrison, which allows U.S. troops to claim self-defense in striking Iranian or other forces moving through that area.
But a continued U.S. presence at Tanf, which is far from the fight against the Islamic State in northeastern Syria, poses major risks. An incident at the garrison in 2017 involving the transport of an Iranian port-a-potty nearly led to a confrontation between U.S. and Iranian forces, illustrating just how quickly even minor events could escalate on the complex battlefield there.
Furthermore, leaving small forces in both Syria and Iraq to “watch Iran” rather than fight the Islamic State raises legal questions. U.S. troops are able to fight nonstate militants, such as the Islamic State or al Qaeda, under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), a response to 9/11. But U.S. military forces are not authorized to target state actors—such as Iranian, Russian, Syrian, or proxy regime forces in Syria—unless they are attacked and are responding in self-defense.
“Congress hasn’t authorized an anti-Iran mission in Syria. The truth is the legal basis for the U.S. military presence in Syria, the 2001 AUMF, is pretty shaky and needs to be revisited,” an aide for Sen. Bernie Sanders told FP in early February. “Any move by the Trump administration to expand that authorization even more to include operations against Iran will definitely draw a response from Congress.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/22/how-john-bolton-won-the-beltway-battle-over-syria/
Trump is going to pull out and let Obama's traitorous operatives get dispatched by Russia, it's easier this way.
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Instead of the full withdrawal the president promised, the United States will leave several hundred troops in Syria.
John Bolton, the U.S. national security advisor and longtime Iran hawk, has won a crucial victory with the partial reversal of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria.
In an apparent softening of Trump’s abrupt announcement last December that the United States would pull out completely from Syria—a move that blindsided U.S. allies and prompted the resignation of his defense secretary, James Mattis—the administration now concedes that a small force of roughly 400 troops will remain in the country.
That number includes a “peace keeping group” of about 200 troops in northeastern Syria, where the U.S.- and coalition-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are still fighting the remnants of the Islamic State, and another 200 stationed at the al Tanf garrison, a remote base in southeastern Syria near the border with Jordan, according to a senior administration official.
The decision, which was initially announced in a late Feb. 21 statement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, came just hours after a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two leaders agreed to continue coordinating the creation of a potential safe zone on Turkey’s border with Syria, according to the White House. It’s the second time in recent months that a major decision on Syria followed a phone call between Trump and Erdogan.
During a meeting with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar at the Pentagon on Friday afternoon, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said the mission in Syria remains unchanged: the defeat of the Islamic State. The U.S. troops that remain in the country will be focused on “stabilization and enhancing the “security capability of local security forces,” he noted.
“We will do that as strategic partners,” Shanahan said.
Maintaining a presence in Syria, particularly at Tanf, which straddles a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria, has been a goal of Bolton’s for months. During a January trip to the region aimed at reassuring allies that the United States was not backing down from its strategy to counter Iranian aggression, Bolton reportedly discussed with Israeli officials the plan to leave forces at the base as a way to diminish Tehran’s influence in the region.
Tanf was originally a U.S. outpost to train local Syrian fighters. But as the Islamic State has steadily crumbled, Tanf has become a crucial buttress against Iranian influence. Officials in 2017 established an “exclusion zone” about 34 miles around the garrison, which allows U.S. troops to claim self-defense in striking Iranian or other forces moving through that area.
But a continued U.S. presence at Tanf, which is far from the fight against the Islamic State in northeastern Syria, poses major risks. An incident at the garrison in 2017 involving the transport of an Iranian port-a-potty nearly led to a confrontation between U.S. and Iranian forces, illustrating just how quickly even minor events could escalate on the complex battlefield there.
Furthermore, leaving small forces in both Syria and Iraq to “watch Iran” rather than fight the Islamic State raises legal questions. U.S. troops are able to fight nonstate militants, such as the Islamic State or al Qaeda, under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), a response to 9/11. But U.S. military forces are not authorized to target state actors—such as Iranian, Russian, Syrian, or proxy regime forces in Syria—unless they are attacked and are responding in self-defense.
“Congress hasn’t authorized an anti-Iran mission in Syria. The truth is the legal basis for the U.S. military presence in Syria, the 2001 AUMF, is pretty shaky and needs to be revisited,” an aide for Sen. Bernie Sanders told FP in early February. “Any move by the Trump administration to expand that authorization even more to include operations against Iran will definitely draw a response from Congress.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/22/how-john-bolton-won-the-beltway-battle-over-syria/
100892
anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 4:38am
One previously unreported incident from 2017 illustrates the risks of Trump’s latest plan. How U.S. Mission Creep in Syria and Iraq Could Trigger War With Iran.
n incident in Syria two years ago involving the transport of an Iranian port-a-potty nearly led to a confrontation between American and Iranian forces, underscoring just how quickly even minor events could escalate there.
The episode, told here for the first time, is particularly instructive as the Trump administration signals it might leave behind a small force in both Syria and Iraq to monitor Iranian activities.
Some analysts and U.S. officials believe that the change of mission for those forces could raise the chances of a war between the United States and Iran—and that it may even be illegal under the U.S. Constitution.
President Donald Trump announced in December 2018 that he’s withdrawing all U.S. troops from Syria, but administration sources told Foreign Policy last month that he’s considering keeping a small force at a remote base in southeastern Syria, far from the last remnants of the Islamic State, to counter Iran. And yesterday, Trump said he wants to maintain some troops in Iraq for the same purpose.
“I want to be able to watch Iran,” he told CBS’s Face the Nation. “We’re going to keep watching and we’re going to keep seeing,” he said.
In both countries, the strategy would constitute a core operational change, raising broad questions about the mission. Then-President Barack Obama completed a drawdown of all U.S. forces in Iraq in 2011, bringing an end to the 2003 Iraq War. But the Islamic State’s sweep of broad territories in Iraq and Syria in 2014 prompted the United States to intervene militarily in both countries, alongside a coalition of other militaries, to fight the militant group.
“What is the strategy? What would be the rules of engagement? How would we avoid being sucked into a regional war not of our making?” said Kelly Magsamen, the vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress. “If I’m a service member in Syria, I would want to know what the heck I was doing there and how my mission fit into a strategy.”
The port-a-potty incident, described here for the first time, took place at a small U.S. outpost called al-Tanf, which sits along a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria in the southeast part of the country, in May 2017—at a time of heightened tensions across the region. Just weeks earlier, the United States had launched cruise missiles at the Syrian regime’s Shayrat air base in response to a chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun. The night after the missile strike, on the evening of April 8, al-Tanf itself came under attack from Islamic State fighters. The ensuing battle left three U.S.-backed Syrian fighters dead.
The situation remained tense throughout the next few weeks. On the night of May 9, Russia conducted airstrikes just 14 miles from al-Tanf—close enough that the soldiers could hear the aircraft, according to a U.S. defense official who requested anonymity in discussing internal deliberations. Alarmed, U.S. officials quickly negotiated an agreement with Moscow for advance notice whenever Russian planes strike within a 55-kilometer (34-mile) radius around the garrison to ensure they did not endanger coalition forces.
“The agreement was about airstrikes. But it quickly became our narrative that this is our territory,” the official said about the 55-kilometer exclusion zone.
Days later, a group of pro-regime forces believed to be affiliated with Iran or Lebanese Hezbollah told U.S. commanders, through Russian intermediaries, that they intended to pass through al-Tanf to meet up with a group of Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, who were moving toward the border. The headquarters for the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve—the name of the joint task force established by the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State to coordinate military efforts against the group—declined to answer the message, a silence Russia apparently took as consent, the official said.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/04/how-u-s-mission-creep-in-syria-and-iraq-could-trigger-war-with-iran/
n incident in Syria two years ago involving the transport of an Iranian port-a-potty nearly led to a confrontation between American and Iranian forces, underscoring just how quickly even minor events could escalate there.
The episode, told here for the first time, is particularly instructive as the Trump administration signals it might leave behind a small force in both Syria and Iraq to monitor Iranian activities.
Some analysts and U.S. officials believe that the change of mission for those forces could raise the chances of a war between the United States and Iran—and that it may even be illegal under the U.S. Constitution.
President Donald Trump announced in December 2018 that he’s withdrawing all U.S. troops from Syria, but administration sources told Foreign Policy last month that he’s considering keeping a small force at a remote base in southeastern Syria, far from the last remnants of the Islamic State, to counter Iran. And yesterday, Trump said he wants to maintain some troops in Iraq for the same purpose.
“I want to be able to watch Iran,” he told CBS’s Face the Nation. “We’re going to keep watching and we’re going to keep seeing,” he said.
In both countries, the strategy would constitute a core operational change, raising broad questions about the mission. Then-President Barack Obama completed a drawdown of all U.S. forces in Iraq in 2011, bringing an end to the 2003 Iraq War. But the Islamic State’s sweep of broad territories in Iraq and Syria in 2014 prompted the United States to intervene militarily in both countries, alongside a coalition of other militaries, to fight the militant group.
“What is the strategy? What would be the rules of engagement? How would we avoid being sucked into a regional war not of our making?” said Kelly Magsamen, the vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress. “If I’m a service member in Syria, I would want to know what the heck I was doing there and how my mission fit into a strategy.”
The port-a-potty incident, described here for the first time, took place at a small U.S. outpost called al-Tanf, which sits along a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria in the southeast part of the country, in May 2017—at a time of heightened tensions across the region. Just weeks earlier, the United States had launched cruise missiles at the Syrian regime’s Shayrat air base in response to a chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun. The night after the missile strike, on the evening of April 8, al-Tanf itself came under attack from Islamic State fighters. The ensuing battle left three U.S.-backed Syrian fighters dead.
The situation remained tense throughout the next few weeks. On the night of May 9, Russia conducted airstrikes just 14 miles from al-Tanf—close enough that the soldiers could hear the aircraft, according to a U.S. defense official who requested anonymity in discussing internal deliberations. Alarmed, U.S. officials quickly negotiated an agreement with Moscow for advance notice whenever Russian planes strike within a 55-kilometer (34-mile) radius around the garrison to ensure they did not endanger coalition forces.
“The agreement was about airstrikes. But it quickly became our narrative that this is our territory,” the official said about the 55-kilometer exclusion zone.
Days later, a group of pro-regime forces believed to be affiliated with Iran or Lebanese Hezbollah told U.S. commanders, through Russian intermediaries, that they intended to pass through al-Tanf to meet up with a group of Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, who were moving toward the border. The headquarters for the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve—the name of the joint task force established by the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State to coordinate military efforts against the group—declined to answer the message, a silence Russia apparently took as consent, the official said.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/04/how-u-s-mission-creep-in-syria-and-iraq-could-trigger-war-with-iran/
100893
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Feb 23, 7:55am
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Feb 23, 7:55am
Ha, Foreign Policy. The magazine that wanted to invade Iran when Bush and Obama were President, talking about how about a thousand troops hanging around the Syria-Iraq border is too much.
And quoting Bernie Sanders Aide in conclusion, what a laugh riot.
The same magazine that is militantly against withdrawal from Afghanistan 17 years on.
And quoting Bernie Sanders Aide in conclusion, what a laugh riot.
The same magazine that is militantly against withdrawal from Afghanistan 17 years on.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 8:00am
Leaving 200 "peacekeepers" there gives us a ready to excuse to dive back in to protect our "assets".
That is all Bolton needs to convince Trump - sacrifice a % of those "peace keepers" and he gets his war so he can die happy.
That is all Bolton needs to convince Trump - sacrifice a % of those "peace keepers" and he gets his war so he can die happy.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 8:05am
HEYYOU says
That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated....they will be back sooner than anyone thinks, the Ideology is quite alive and they live to fight another day - many more days.
Much better to lose a battle than the war - pull back, regroup and wait.
Might have some street cred if Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi and his top aides were taken out but this is not the case.
ISIS has largely been eliminated as a terrain-holding organization
That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated....they will be back sooner than anyone thinks, the Ideology is quite alive and they live to fight another day - many more days.
Much better to lose a battle than the war - pull back, regroup and wait.
Might have some street cred if Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi and his top aides were taken out but this is not the case.
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Y
2019 Feb 23, 8:14am
Y
2019 Feb 23, 8:14am
For any military confrontation between any two countries or entities, "defeated" in the 21st century means "contained, with possible isolated confrotations"
No one ever gets the German japanese Italian version anymore.
Kakistocracy says
No one ever gets the German japanese Italian version anymore.
Kakistocracy says
That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated...
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anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 9:07am
Actually we are and we are not using the correct tactics but that is not sinking in, hasn't since Vietnam
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MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Feb 23, 9:25am
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Feb 23, 9:25am
Kakistocracy says
And monitor Iraq-Syrian traffic.
You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.
Leaving 200 "peacekeepers" there gives us a ready to excuse to dive back in to protect our "assets".
And monitor Iraq-Syrian traffic.
You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 9:26am
MisterLearnToCode says
And that has what to do with the claim that ISIS/ISIL is defeated which they are not.
Can we roll in Benghazi now ?
You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.
And that has what to do with the claim that ISIS/ISIL is defeated which they are not.
Can we roll in Benghazi now ?
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anonymous
2019 Feb 23, 9:31am
MisterLearnToCode says
And when a given % gets offed by whoever, even if the U.S. has to pay someone to do it - Bolton gets his war, cums and dies happy.
Kind of think satellites an drones could get the job done - just sayin. No need for boots on the ground when we can asses everything that is happening in North Korea and Google can provide photos clear enough to read license plates and see facial features clearly.
And monitor Iraq-Syrian traffic.
And when a given % gets offed by whoever, even if the U.S. has to pay someone to do it - Bolton gets his war, cums and dies happy.
Kind of think satellites an drones could get the job done - just sayin. No need for boots on the ground when we can asses everything that is happening in North Korea and Google can provide photos clear enough to read license plates and see facial features clearly.
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Bd6r
2019 Feb 23, 10:09am
Bd6r
2019 Feb 23, 10:09am
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
AF, you are outed as someone who HATES! SUCCESS! AGAIN! and AGAIN!
GOP Ballot Fraud Operations
AF, you are outed as someone who HATES! SUCCESS! AGAIN! and AGAIN!
100903
Shaman
2019 Feb 23, 11:36am
Shaman
2019 Feb 23, 11:36am
Islam isn’t gone yet.
Thus we have terrorists.
What’s your plan for getting rid of Islam?
I hear the Chinese are working hard at ridding their Uighur population of that terrible affliction.
Thus we have terrorists.
What’s your plan for getting rid of Islam?
I hear the Chinese are working hard at ridding their Uighur population of that terrible affliction.
100907
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 23, 3:35pm
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 23, 3:35pm
Hey you makes more than 99% of the human race, yet thinks he’s oppressed
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FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 23, 3:36pm
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 23, 3:36pm
People don’t provide equal value, hence unequal outcomes.
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HeadSet
2019 Feb 23, 4:40pm
HeadSet
2019 Feb 23, 4:40pm
FortWayneIndiana says
Yes, you know how those top 1% people are.
Hey you makes more than 99% of the human race, yet thinks he’s oppressed
Yes, you know how those top 1% people are.
100910
RWSGFY
2019 Feb 23, 10:05pm
RWSGFY
2019 Feb 23, 10:05pm
Sorry, not buying it: the fucker is a fucking Commie through and through.
100911
anonymous
2019 Feb 24, 3:49am
Michael Cohen Informing NY Prosecutors About Donor, Trump Organization
Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen provided information in January to Southern District of New York prosecutors about Trump Organization individuals and the Trump Inaugural Committee, sources told the New York Times in a report Friday.
Cohen, who in December was sentenced to three years in prison for a series of tax fraud and lying charges, reportedly was asked about Imaad Zuberi, a Los Angeles venture capitalist and political fundraiser. He also informed prosecutors about insurance claims filed by the Trump Organization.
Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis would not comment about the report but has stated that "Cohen is interested in cooperating with" prosecutors.
Southern District prosecutors on Feb. 4 subpoenaed documents related to donations and spending by Trump's inaugural committee's donors, finances, attendees and activities, with Zuberi considered a top person of interest. The Times noted that Zuberi, who according to his spokesman Steve Rabinowitz has not been questioned by prosecutors, was the only individual in the prosecutors' subpoena
Zuberi contributed $900,000 to the inauguration committee in late 2016 through his private equity firm. Sources told the Times that at about the same time he attempted to hire Cohen as a consultant and wrote him a check for a $100,000 that was never cashed. Rabinowitz has said that Zuberi denies having any dealings with Cohen beyond three conversations.
The Times noted that there was no indication Cohen had implicated Trump in the possible irregularities in his discussions with prosecutors.
The Trump inauguration has drawn scrutiny after taking in a record $107 million — nearly double former President Barack Obama's then-record $53 million in 2009.
The Times report comes after a report Thursday by the Wall Street Journal that federal prosecutors have investigated interactions between vendors and Trump's inaugural committee officials.
https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-inaugural-committee-investigation-michael-cohen-informing-ny-prosecutors-about-2767478
Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen provided information in January to Southern District of New York prosecutors about Trump Organization individuals and the Trump Inaugural Committee, sources told the New York Times in a report Friday.
Cohen, who in December was sentenced to three years in prison for a series of tax fraud and lying charges, reportedly was asked about Imaad Zuberi, a Los Angeles venture capitalist and political fundraiser. He also informed prosecutors about insurance claims filed by the Trump Organization.
Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis would not comment about the report but has stated that "Cohen is interested in cooperating with" prosecutors.
Southern District prosecutors on Feb. 4 subpoenaed documents related to donations and spending by Trump's inaugural committee's donors, finances, attendees and activities, with Zuberi considered a top person of interest. The Times noted that Zuberi, who according to his spokesman Steve Rabinowitz has not been questioned by prosecutors, was the only individual in the prosecutors' subpoena
Zuberi contributed $900,000 to the inauguration committee in late 2016 through his private equity firm. Sources told the Times that at about the same time he attempted to hire Cohen as a consultant and wrote him a check for a $100,000 that was never cashed. Rabinowitz has said that Zuberi denies having any dealings with Cohen beyond three conversations.
The Times noted that there was no indication Cohen had implicated Trump in the possible irregularities in his discussions with prosecutors.
The Trump inauguration has drawn scrutiny after taking in a record $107 million — nearly double former President Barack Obama's then-record $53 million in 2009.
The Times report comes after a report Thursday by the Wall Street Journal that federal prosecutors have investigated interactions between vendors and Trump's inaugural committee officials.
https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-inaugural-committee-investigation-michael-cohen-informing-ny-prosecutors-about-2767478
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Tenpoundbass
2019 Feb 24, 8:06am
Tenpoundbass
2019 Feb 24, 8:06am
Bernie is all about Youth Programs with Chandeliers.
Here's what gets me he was gushing about the Youth getting Culture in Russia in 1985, but he was being a dishonest Cock Sucker like all Socialist Liberals.
He calls Communist indoctrination Culture. They were NOT watching Shakespeare plays and watching MTV videos and other Reagan era productions.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-praised-soviet-unions-youth-programs-chandeliers-in-1980s/
Here's what gets me he was gushing about the Youth getting Culture in Russia in 1985, but he was being a dishonest Cock Sucker like all Socialist Liberals.
He calls Communist indoctrination Culture. They were NOT watching Shakespeare plays and watching MTV videos and other Reagan era productions.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-praised-soviet-unions-youth-programs-chandeliers-in-1980s/
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Tenpoundbass
2019 Feb 24, 8:07am
Tenpoundbass
2019 Feb 24, 8:07am
Bernie is all about Youth Programs with Chandeliers.
Here's what gets me he was gushing about the Youth getting Culture in Russia in 1985, but he was being a dishonest Cock Sucker like all Socialist Liberals.
He calls Communist indoctrination Culture. They were NOT watching Shakespeare plays and watching MTV videos and other Reagan era productions.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-praised-soviet-unions-youth-programs-chandeliers-in-1980s/
Here's what gets me he was gushing about the Youth getting Culture in Russia in 1985, but he was being a dishonest Cock Sucker like all Socialist Liberals.
He calls Communist indoctrination Culture. They were NOT watching Shakespeare plays and watching MTV videos and other Reagan era productions.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-praised-soviet-unions-youth-programs-chandeliers-in-1980s/
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Booger
2019 Feb 24, 8:08am
Booger
2019 Feb 24, 8:08am
Elgatouno says
Back then state taxes were nothing by today's standards. You can't jack up federal taxes to previous higher levels without it being more than it was before.
Back then state taxes were nothing by today's standards. You can't jack up federal taxes to previous higher levels without it being more than it was before.
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