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| When attacked, US 'will come and get you': Panetta |
| 2011-09-10 |
| [Dawn] America's response to 9/11 shows that "you don't mess" with the United States and that when attacked, "we will come and get you," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said on Friday. Panetta -- who as former CIA director oversaw the raid that killed Al-Qaeda criminal mastermind the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... on May 2 --said the hijackers underestimated the country. "The people who attacked us on 9/11 were trying to weaken America, trying to hurt America. And instead they strengthened us," Panetta told an audience of police and emergency workers. "Because you don't mess with this country," he said. "And what we made clear, is that when that happens, we will come and get you." Panetta thanked the firefighters and other "first responders" who rushed to the Pentagon after it was struck by a hijacked airliner on September 11. "For 36 exhausting hours, firefighters battled what was truly an epic blaze," he said. Panetta, who took over as Pentagon chief in July, recounted where he was on the day of the attacks ten years ago. Out of government at the time, Panetta was on Capitol Hill briefing members of Congress as part of an oceans commission when he was informed of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. "Everybody in the room had kind of made the spontaneous decision, better get the hell out of there," he said. With all commercial flights cancelled, Panetta had to rent a car to drive home to Caliphornia. "I have to tell you what I witnessed that day driving across the country is something that's also seared into my memory," he said. "Because I witnessed this country coming together. As I was driving across the country, there were signs coming up, 'God bless America,' there were flags people were putting up, people going to churches, people holding hands," he said. "People coming together to try to confront what had happened." After Barack B.O.Obama was elected president in 2008, Panetta -- a veteran Democrat and Washington heavyweight -- was named chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, where his top priority was waging a shadow war against Al-Qaeda. Panetta oversaw a dramatic increase in bombing raids by robotic drone aircraft against Al-Qaeda and Talibs in Pakistain's tribal areas, as well as a concerted effort to track down Bin Laden. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 NOT HONEYNUT-CHEERIOS-OR-PRODUCT-19 WHEATIES CEREALS = "CALIFORNIA LEON"?.... versus * DRUDGEREPORT > [Human Events] RUMSFIELD: ATTACK IMMINENT [matter of time = question of "when"?] IFF CONGRESS CUTS DEFENSE. US Congress at risk of potentially making the US as mil = geopol vulnerable as at the end of the Cold War??? * IIRC WND.COM > {Daveed Gartenstein-Ross] US LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR DESPITE THE DEATH OF AL-QAEDA KINGPIN [OBL]. NUTSHELL = US-NATO/EU on road to insolvency as "Rogue" States + MilTerrs nuclearize + expand jihad. versus * SAME > NASA LAUNCHES TWIN SPACECRAFTS TO PROBE INSIDE THE MOON. Good. Not unlike "PEAK EVERYTHING", + GWCC CONTROVERSY = "MAN-MADE-VS-SUN" LACK OF SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, AS PER DESIRED FUTURE OWG-NWO LACK OF INTERNATIONAL + UNIVERSAL/GLOBAL GOVTS, POLITICAL CONSENSUS COULD HINDER EFFECTIVE SPACE DEFENSE AGZ COMET APOPHIS = GUAM, EARTH-OBSERVED MOON EXPLOSIONS. Not only as per OWG "POL WILL TO ACT", but also as per GROSS MISMANAGEMENT OF SPACE DEFENSE in which our future OWG's OVERPOLITICIZED PERTS + GOVT-CRITTERS SEVERELY MISCALCULATE + CAUSE THE FORESAME MOON EXPLOSIONS TO OCCUR. A "HOLLOW MOON" could raise the stakes to dangerous levels iff an Apophis lunar impact does occur. Knowledge is Power = "To be Forewarned is to be Forearmed", correct, i.e. among other to be able to change the future to mankind's benefit while its not too late for events, actions, + decisions, etc. to be changed??? [1980's "THE COLOR OF MONEY" Movie = "ITS THE WAY THAT YOU USE IT" theme. STAR TREK: TNG's "Q" To CAPT. Jean Luc-Picard -"ITS DANGEROUS OUT HERE ... SPACE IS NOT FOR THE TIMID"! By extension, IMO ditto the Future of Man + Earth. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-10 23:23 |
| #7 As Democrats go, Leon is one of the good ones. He is respected by both sides of whatever aisle we have here on the CA central coast (we keep it polite here for the most part -- latecomers from The Fey Area and Lost Angeles excepted). |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-09-10 16:28 |
| #6 Why oh why didn't we Nuke Riadah that afternoon, I think the world would understand. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-09-10 15:54 |
| #5 You mean, no props for driving across flyover land and retaining a taste for poached soybean kelp wraps with avacado slices? Seared into his memory..seared. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-09-10 15:12 |
| #4 Now just a doggone minute here! This Leon Pancetta person talks big, e.g; "we will come and get you" but his own personal reaction on the day of the attack was to rent a car and run home to California. So he talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk or however that expression has become bastardized by the likes of people who have never had to walk anything in their lifetimes. I grant my respect to those who run towards the sound of gunfire rather than those who run away from it. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2011-09-10 14:22 |
| #3 Leon is doing his best Sarkozy imitation. Maybe he's channeling GWB. Anyway it's good to see at least one person at the table is not a namby pamby sissie boy "let's talk and maybe they'll like us" liberals. I am beginning to think Hillarity would have been much tougher on terrorism than the empty suit under the desk in the oval office. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-09-10 12:01 |
| #2 When attacked, US 'will come and get you' and place our troops in jeopardy to protect you and give you lots of money, to the point of bankruptcy. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-10 00:54 |
| #1 Somebody had their Wheaties this morning. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-10 00:45 |