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  • #16
    Originally posted by Lonestar View Post
    Yes, because this is such world shattering news that CHANGES EVERYTHING
    Nice hyperbole. So you're saying he did not intend that outcome?
    No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
      You must have that position confused with the Director of National Intelligence.
      DNI isn't worth a bucket of warm spit.
      Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
        Nice hyperbole. So you're saying he did not intend that outcome?
        I'm not going to try to prove a negative. I'd you like you support your statement thought.
        Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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        • #19
          You don't have to prove anything. There were many other far more newsworthy stories that day. The reporters there certainly didn't expect what he did talk about. To expect that announcement to "settle things" is worse than naive, it's retarded. To do it in response to Trump, of all people, was like trying to douse a wastebasket fire with gasoline. So either they were being exceptionally incompetant with public relations yet again, or they were using it as a distraction.

          Right now it's a coin flip for me.
          No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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          • #20
            Does anyone think that the Osama business had anything to do with this?
            It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
            RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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            • #21
              Originally posted by rah View Post
              Does anyone think that the Osama business had anything to do with this?
              That thought had occured to me as well. Successful Intel campaign to find Public Enemy #1 right on the heals of promotion to SecDef. Now Obama can point to Panetta as being a "Successful" leader with great "Understanding" of the issues in defense while they gut the military budget to save Obamacare.

              Petraeus is getting CIA because Obama does not know the difference between counter-insurgency and counter-intelligence.
              "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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              • #22
                Originally posted by PLATO View Post
                Petraeus is getting CIA because Obama does not know the difference between counter-insurgency and counter-intelligence.
                We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                • #23
                  Or maybe he didn't support the raid and Obama figured a weenie like that was better off as SECDEF and got someone to run the CIA that would be all over approving missions like this.
                  It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                  RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by rah View Post
                    Or maybe he didn't support the raid and Obama figured a weenie like that was better off as SECDEF and got someone to run the CIA that would be all over approving missions like this.
                    Yeah right! There we were thinking Ming was the sarc-ee bastard.
                    We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                    If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                    Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                    • #25
                      I'm just looking at possible motives. The timing was way to suspicious. And I always liked tin foil.
                      It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                      RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by PLATO View Post
                        Now Obama can point to Panetta as being a "Successful" leader with great "Understanding" of the issues in defense while they gut the military budget to save Obamacare.
                        Our situation is such that gutting defense is required to save Medicare, leaving aside Obamacare.
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #27
                          yes, the only bigger scam than military one is the pharma-scam in the US, you need some good old socialist gutting there to get the costs under control... but as we all know you will have to go bust before that happens
                          Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                          GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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