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2015-02-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

WH hesitated on hostage rescue till it was too late

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Posted by frozen al 2015-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Wel-l-l, all I'm going to say at this time is see those VARIOUS MSM-NET ARTICS on the post-Mamasapano criticisms-n-allegations being levied agz PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO.

* [HUGO "THE USA HAS LAND-SINKING TECHNOLOGIES" CHAVEZ here].

D *** NG IT, WHY SHOULD THE US SINK GUAM + OTHER STRATEGIC ISLANDS IN RIGHTEOUS "ANTI-ACCESS/AREA-DENIAL", "GREAT GAME" GEOPOL INDIGNATION IFF OWG GLOBALISTS WERE GOING TO TURN OVER 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC TO CHINA ANYWAY - GOD + INQUIRING 1960'S-1970'S GUAM TAOTAMONAS WANNA KNOW!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-13 00:34|| 2015-02-13 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Siting foreign intelligence [UK] sources as been the reason for inaction is a bit wobbly. In the apparent absence of anything better, perhaps those leads or tippers could have been confirmed and developed.

My mind drifts back to the British Project Manager of the Blue Mountain local-national guard force at the US Embassy annex at Benghazi. Perhaps this chap's departure, a week or two prior to the Benghazi attack, was the result of his own unheeded indications and warnings.

No answer, is actually an answer. No action, an action.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-13 04:32|| 2015-02-13 04:32|| Front Page Top

#3 B.O. was busy taking selfies.

Wanker !

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-13 04:44|| 2015-02-13 04:44|| Front Page Top

#4 “U.S. forces conducted this [rescue] operation as soon as the president and his national-security team were confident the mission could be carried out successfully and consistent with our policies for undertaking such operations.”

Translation: We waited until we were sure there wouldn't be foreign/domestic political blowback.

Insularity, combined with "politics always." The Long March is the only thing that matters.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-13 11:02|| 2015-02-13 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Two words. Susan Rice.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-02-13 21:53|| 2015-02-13 21:53|| Front Page Top

#6 If dithering and waffling were an Olympic sport, Champ would have a wall full of medals to balance his Nobel Peace Prize......

Posted by USN, Ret 2015-02-13 23:39|| 2015-02-13 23:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Ever since Obama made an independent decision and Bin Laden was killed ValJar has kept him on a very short leash. She was probably buried in her native soil at the time....

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-02-13 23:42|| 2015-02-13 23:42|| Front Page Top

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