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Offline Quills

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« Reply #630 on: June 30, 2019, 06:12:46 pm »
Because I can!

The list of spelling words the teacher was giving her students on 9/11 were: Kite, hit, steel, plane, must, the teacher goes "Get ready!" after each word!
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« Reply #631 on: June 30, 2019, 08:27:27 pm »
But we repect them, teabaggers do not. They only respect soundbites from those acting tough like the two dumbest Republican presidents in US history. Teabaggers stopped respected them when they did not approve of Dubya's war of choice in Iraq and slandered countries like France because of their objection of Dubs playing cowboy...

The UN is not our government. The people's representatives in the House have the say. It's the people who are going to give up their sons and daughters.
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« Reply #632 on: June 30, 2019, 08:31:07 pm »
Did he?

A. Stevens should never have been in Benghazi that week but having been there many times before he felt comfortable, as though he was among old friends.

B. Benghazi was not an embassy but an embassy outpost aka an annex and what little security did exist there was in no way trustworthy.

C. Two State Department personnel died as a result of the attack on the annex, the ambassador and Sean Smith a data specialist. The two others that were killed were military contractors who died defending a nearby CIA base.

D. Special agent Scott Strickland, who was Ambassador Stevens security guard on that day and the only eyewitness within the annex to the initial attack was never called to testify during the Benghazi public or behind closed door hearings.

E. It was eventually learned that Paula Broadwell of David Petraeus fame shared that the Benghazi CIA base was being used as a jail setting up the likely theory that it was the actual target of the attacks and was a black ops facility.

Weepy says he did.

I don't disagree it was a viable target. Jail setting? Anything is possible I guess. I know the contractors were there to recover Gaddafi's shoulder fired surface to air missiles.

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« Reply #633 on: June 30, 2019, 08:37:30 pm »
France lead the way, we, the Brits and others merely assisted__that makes a huge difference.

You may recall that years earlier, Bush I set out to kill Gaddafi and almost succeeded on no more than a whim.

WiKi   The 1986 United States bombing of Libya, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, comprised air strikes by the United States against Libya on Tuesday, the 15 April 1986. The attack was carried out by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps via air strikes, in retaliation for the 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing. There were 40 reported Libyan casualties, and one U.S. plane was shot down.

The subject was congressional approval. I don't know if there was an approval or notification in the 1986 bombing. It's ironic France denied air space for that raid.

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« Reply #634 on: June 30, 2019, 08:40:03 pm »
Why not? I see that all big businesses do is take advantage of the general public. Why are you against the general public having good healthcare and college tuitions that don’t bleed them and their parents for generations?

A hypothetical, would you be okay waiting longer for an MRI while a campaign donor moves ahead of you? Just sayin'. It is the government after all. You have choices in the private market.

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« Reply #635 on: June 30, 2019, 08:46:28 pm »
Than what are they afraid to show? I don’t buy into this not unless I have verification as well as many more Americans want the same. We need proof and not something from someone who says they have a friend that heard it from a friend who intern heard it from a friend, as that is all hearsay.

My opinion is they didn't want to make a big martyr and rallying cry out of him. He just simply disappeared.

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« Reply #636 on: June 30, 2019, 08:53:38 pm »
I am not in the Navy nor have I served but was there with an ROTC group. They allowed our school group to have a tour on an active ship which is unusual but it was fun or was until a storm came up and we had to wait for it to blow over on the ship. Thanks for the compliment and many women do serve but I wouldn't have been eligible as I am too flat footed.

A heartfelt congrats, Purplelady.


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« Reply #637 on: June 30, 2019, 08:58:12 pm »
Same. Sorry that I don’t buy into all the stories our government says is true, or were you ever aware that this same government is responsible for more than one tragedy to include but not limited to Iraq being blamed by Bush for the 9/11/01 attack when that was actually done by the Shrub administration itself and not by any outsider. That’s a fact.

Ask yourself this: why was Bush 1 so into Obama when the rest of the republican congress wasn’t? Why was Obama’s polices very much the same as Bush’s? Why did the Bush administration allow the Saudi family leave the country without being questioned by the FBI?

Because they are all guilty as hell and most Americans knows it. That’s why.

Lol!! You sound like Trump.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/south-carolina-primary-2016-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/gop-debate-2016-trump-911-219260
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« Reply #638 on: June 30, 2019, 09:03:14 pm »
What did you expect him to do, jump up and scare the kids? Sorry but he probably was shocked at what happened and couldn't just scare a small child. I think he did better than most of us in that situation who would have jumped up and scared kids.

Agree, gathering his thought also.
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« Reply #639 on: June 30, 2019, 09:05:12 pm »
How do when our so-called “leaders” are hand picked by those large corrupt corporations? That will never reflect our republic, as they are very much like a dictatorship.

Who handpicked Obama?
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« Reply #640 on: July 01, 2019, 06:53:45 am »
A hypothetical, would you be okay waiting longer for an MRI while a campaign donor moves ahead of you? Just sayin'. It is the government after all. You have choices in the private market.
Most people can't afford the high prices of health insurance that is out there.

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« Reply #641 on: July 01, 2019, 08:15:10 am »
Weepy says he did.

I don't disagree it was a viable target. Jail setting? Anything is possible I guess. I know the contractors were there to recover Gaddafi's shoulder fired surface to air missiles.
So the story goes. Woods was  SEAL qualified medic working at the CIA base as a contractor, Doherty was a SEAL qualified member of the CIA's global response team stationed in Tripoli who hopped a plane to Benghazi and was killed shortly after arriving at the CIA base. Neither man had anything to do with the State Department or Hillary Clinton.

Scott Strickland was never called to testify in Trey Gowdy's bogus hearings but he did testify at the trial of Abu Khattala the so called mastermind of the Benghazi attacks. Interesting stuff although Rush/FOX skipped it as it didn't fit into their Benghazi playbook.

Khattala was acquitted on the murder charges but convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 22 years.
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« Reply #642 on: July 01, 2019, 09:23:37 am »
In three days Twitler will hold a "parade" to celebrate himself. On the  National Mall. Something tells me it will be full of comedy relief as he is only inviting his supporters, which means there should be a huge picture of empty real estate just like his inauguration showed....
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« Reply #643 on: July 01, 2019, 09:40:07 am »
In three days Twitler will hold a "parade" to celebrate himself. On the  National Mall. Something tells me it will be full of comedy relief as he is only inviting his supporters, which means there should be a huge picture of empty real estate just like his inauguration showed....
He probably will show like there is a ton of people there when we all know that won't be true. Lol

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« Reply #644 on: July 01, 2019, 10:32:59 am »
So the story goes. Woods was  SEAL qualified medic working at the CIA base as a contractor, Doherty was a SEAL qualified member of the CIA's global response team stationed in Tripoli who hopped a plane to Benghazi and was killed shortly after arriving at the CIA base. Neither man had anything to do with the State Department or Hillary Clinton.

Scott Strickland was never called to testify in Trey Gowdy's bogus hearings but he did testify at the trial of Abu Khattala the so called mastermind of the Benghazi attacks. Interesting stuff although Rush/FOX skipped it as it didn't fit into their Benghazi playbook.

Khattala was acquitted on the murder charges but convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 22 years.

Not disputing anything you said. All true. The problem was Stevens requested more security at the consulate and was denied. That is the state department. The contractors got involved rescuing the personnel at the consulate.

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« Reply #645 on: July 01, 2019, 10:36:21 am »
In three days Twitler will hold a "parade" to celebrate himself. On the  National Mall. Something tells me it will be full of comedy relief as he is only inviting his supporters, which means there should be a huge picture of empty real estate just like his inauguration showed....
It's being reported that he's still asking for tanks to roll through DC to highlight the celebration.

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« Reply #646 on: July 01, 2019, 10:41:22 am »
Most people can't afford the high prices of health insurance that is out there.

That is true. It's expensive. It became expensive when the government started to monkey with it starting with Medicare. It was still pretty reasonable when I left the service. I'm not sure, but it became more expensive with the government's involvement with HMOs.

Personally, I don't have a problem with a government option kept at a state level and left to the states to modify plans as needed. Simply expand Medicaid.

Germany has private and public coexisting plans that seem to work. Germany being a state in the Europian Union.

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« Reply #647 on: July 01, 2019, 10:43:36 am »
It's being reported that he's still asking for tanks to roll through DC to highlight the celebration.

You just can't have a quality parade without a tank or two.  ;D