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Scimitar 03-31-2011 16:35

All I see here is planning, hell I'm pretty sure if I had 12 months to poke around the Pentagon I could find a military plan to invade New Zealand!

So their planning on what it would look like to do something, and fox thinks thats a secret file, probablt leaked, cos ever Tom, Dick, and Harry knows we're thinking about it.

S

kgoerz 03-31-2011 17:23

I just can't believe all the News coverage about CIA Operatives on the ground. Am I the only one who See's how insane this is. At least it took the press a few weeks before they started reporting about boots on the ground in Astan.

Box 03-31-2011 18:25

I wonder what Director Panetta has to say about his "covert" action getting plastered all over the world media...




You could always chalk this up to "transparency"

Dusty 03-31-2011 18:32

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Originally Posted by Scimitar (Post 384425)
All I see here is planning, hell I'm pretty sure if I had 12 months to poke around the Pentagon I could find a military plan to invade New Zealand!

So their planning on what it would look like to do something, and fox thinks thats a secret file, probablt leaked, cos ever Tom, Dick, and Harry knows we're thinking about it.

S

:confused: Please explain.

Dozer523 03-31-2011 20:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scimitar (Post 384425)
All I see here is planning, hell I'm pretty sure if I had 12 months to poke around the Pentagon I could find a military plan to invade New Zealand!
So their planning on what it would look like to do something, and fox thinks thats a secret file . . .

Your right. You just have to know where to look or who to ask (Frank Meeks seems to be the guy).
The Pizza spike Jan 15 1991. http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gov..._and_pizza.htm

Scimitar 04-01-2011 11:37

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Originally Posted by Dusty (Post 384454)
:confused: Please explain.

Sorry Dusty, for the off the cuff comment there.


Quote:

The presidential findings establish a framework of legal authorities for covert action. They can authorize specific actions, such as arming the rebels, or establish authorities under which future actions might be taken after permissions are given to undertake them.
In other words, covert actions won't start until the president signs off again.
The Pentagon has begun drafting plans for arming the rebels if needed, sources told Fox News, but officials caution that no decision has been made because not enough is known yet about the rebels.
My take on the article is that the Big O is paving the way for arming the rebels if we need to. Is that really particularly surprising? The Pentagon is planning an option. That’s what the Pentagon does, my understanding is that we pretty much have a skeleton contingency plan for invading the Oval Office's private crapper as well as anything else under the sun.

I’m not particularly surprised and I don’t think anyone else is either (i.e. other world governments, or the Qaddafi Regime) that we’re thinking about it. Hell it's in line with the UN resolution parameters.

However plastering it all over the MSM so that the average non-moderate middle-eastern Muslim can read it is not particularly smart I think, they certainly won’t see it as just us planning an option that the UN wants. Afterall we are the all conquering great Satan etc.

Also whenever I see a leak of a “Secret document” IMHO it’s more often then not an intentional leak to send a political message somewhere to someone. I just can't imagine that the most powerful military in history can leak like a siv.

So I read this as the O sending that Nut Bag Q a message,

“Hey chief well get our hands dirty if ya really want us to, up to you son”

I don't think any government in the world let alone the Qaddafi regime was under any illusion that we weren't looking at options. But I agree having it in the papers is a poor decision from a mass PR point of view and most defiantly discussing CIA ops on the ground, that’s a different kettle of fish.

And as the article says something like this was always in the confines of the UN resolution, so…the Pentagons looking at it and the Os allowing them to. Big woop Fox news. But that's news for ya.

Hope that clears it up, thank's for the lane correction Dusty.

S

Scimitar 04-01-2011 11:41

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Originally Posted by Dozer523 (Post 384470)
Your right. You just have to know where to look or who to ask (Frank Meeks seems to be the guy).
The Pizza spike Jan 15 1991. http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gov..._and_pizza.htm


LMAO off, now that's funny. Sure it wasn't jutst a stag party? :D

S

Richard 04-05-2011 09:29

Well worth the six minutes of your time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDVt_...layer_embedded

And so it goes...

Richard
:munchin

Wiseman 04-05-2011 09:59

I don't see how he schooled them since they just kind of laughed it off and then gave their last word.

incarcerated 04-05-2011 23:33

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Originally Posted by Richard (Post 385211)
Well worth the six minutes of your time.

That was breathtaking.
Oh yeah, he schooled them both, and is not likely to be invited back. He’s definitely off message.
Why is CNN so blatantly and unashamedly biased and committed to the success of these uprisings? I have been catching a fair amount of their coverage, which has been consistently pro-rebel. The lead anchor-babe attempts to indict Scheuer for not being a fan of this policy, ie. not a fan of American military support for the uprising. Zero impartiality: she really is merely carrying water for the Obama administration.


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