Leon Panetta…
Obama’s former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has blamed the president for the chaos unfolding in Iraq.
Time previewed Panetta’s upcoming memoir, Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace. In the book, Panetta said he and others in the Obama administration pushed for a residual force of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq but their efforts were stymied by White House.
“The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,” Panetta wrote.
I’ve written about Panetta before, and not in laudatory terms. And of course he has major CYA motives here, and that includes protection for the person he probably sees as the next Democratic presidential nominee, Obama’s former SOS Hillary Clinton.
Nevertheless, I believe him. Even Panetta, not known for either integrity or intellect, probably discerned the obvious wrongness of Obama’s position, and wants to make sure that he, Panetta, is not left holding that enormously weighty bag.
[Hat tip: Ace.]
[ADDENDUM: By the way, even though it’s completely off-topic in terms of Panetta/Obama/Iraq, this is a great post by Ace about the mealy-mouthed excuses offered by astrophysicist, author, and “science communicator” Neil DeGrasse Tyson for his huge mistakes in quoting—or even understanding—some statements made by George W. Bush.]
Pan is a collaborator, a Nazi supporter and a Jewish agent sniffer back when the Nazis needed informants to collect Jews and needed Soros to liquidate Jewish assets.
Morally the same, yet not treated the same.
Everything points to Panetta being the official that ‘squeezed the trigger’ on bin Laden.
Hence, the President was pulled off the golf course to witness a fait accompli, for by that time the SEALS were already miles deep into ‘Indian country.’
There’s a pretty good analysis that claims that the famous photo is, itself, a photoshop.
Digital dithering can be seen once the image is blown up enough. The dithering becomes VERY apparent.
The White House did admit that the photo was ‘retouched’ to eliminate sensitive imagery from the exposed laptop screes.
I’d say they didn’t stop with the screens!
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Barry just likes keeping the knifes in the air.
If he’d ever had a Dr. Seuss “Cat in the Hat” book he’d know that by the last pages all of the flatware comes tumbling down.
In 1942, Leon Panetta was 4 years old. I hold him in contempt but can’t go along with the Nazi supporter label. Soros’ collaboration is on the other hand, well documented.
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Panetta was born in 1938, in California.
EVERYONE “discerned the obvious wrongness of Obama’s position” and no one in that chain of command had the guts to resign.
It’s cute how Wiki gives Panetta credit for Newt’s budget efforts!
In reality, Panetta/ Clinton kept getting frustrated. They couldn’t get the bigger spending bills they wanted.
Hence, the back-door device of CRA Policy.
It allowed the Democrats to ‘spend’ bank credit on their faction — especially intended to favor ghetto Blacks.
It is legally impossible to so tightly control such an obviously racist policy objective. So, Clinton set CRA Policy loose on the entire nation.
The resulting macro-embezzlement blew up just in time for Barry Soetoro. Without a doubt, it threw the election to the Democrat candidate.
Vectoring Federal ‘reparations’ to Blacks has ALWAYS been on Panetta’s plate — going back to his Republican days.
Panetta was born in 1938, in California.
Morally the same. I didn’t say he was born in Nazi Germany.
I hold him in contempt but can’t go along with the Nazi supporter label.
Because that would be unfair. As opposed to what they are doing in this country, this Regime, right.
Man, it was crowded years ago under Barry’s bus. With Leon being a lifelong Liberal, will he be ammune from Racism grenade tossing? Hmmmm.
There will be more and more former team obama members desperate to distance themselves from dear leader’s unfolding disasters. Hillary and Panetta will be joined by Hagel and many others.
Leon has nothing to lose with Obama. He has everything to gain with the Clintons.
“Pan is a collaborator, a Nazi supporter and a Jewish agent sniffer back when the Nazis needed informants to collect Jews” Ymarsakar
By any measure that is an accusation of active collaboration. A patently false accusation when applied to a four year old.
“I hold him in contempt but can’t go along with the Nazi supporter label.”
“Because that would be unfair. As opposed to what they are doing in this country, this Regime, right.”
No because that is a patently false accusation. And I hold him in contempt specifically because of his moral cowardice, collaboration in the Benghazi cover-up and what he is actively doing in this country.
You have a problem admitting when you’re wrong don’t you, Ymarsakar? It’s the larger man and a sign of character when we can admit to having been wrong and having made an unjust accusation. So are you a man of character or just petty and small?
By any measure that is an accusation of active collaboration. A patently false accusation when applied to a four year old.
Active collaboration now, not active collaboration with the Nazis. Merely a comparison. Was that not clear to you, when you were digging around for something to disagree with?
You really are desperate for a “patently false accusation” these days.
It’s the larger man and a sign of character when we can admit to having been wrong and having made an unjust accusation.
Oh, is that right?
So when are you going to admit to having been wrong in the past when you decided it was time to pressure me for sayings true things about Democrats, that you wanted to intentionally be offended by because your family is full of Democrats. I had to dig through your blog to discover this little nugget you were hiding around behind your motivation.
You also said before that I’m not as special as I think I am. How do you know what I think, am I living with your family now? You think you know, but won’t admit when you’re wrong. I responded that until you fix your family, which powers most of your emotions here, you aren’t in a position to tell me what’s wrong with me. You know more about your family of Democrats and Hussein O supporters than you know about me.
Do you understand the difference?
And I hold him in contempt
Who are you to hold anyone in contempt. You were full on board with this Democrat slave plantation setup until recently. When was your conversion 2008? 2004?
What’s going to wash the guilt off your hands then. Not your moral high horse on the internet, that’s for sure.
“Active collaboration now, not active collaboration with the Nazis.”
“Pan is a collaborator,(and would have been) a Nazi supporter and a Jewish agent sniffer back when the Nazis needed informants to collect Jews”
There’s no, “would have been” there, nor is there even the implication of such. Instead of clarifying your intent, you insisted and deflected. Which made it a patently false accusation, not an attempt out of ‘desperation’. How lame.
It’s pettiness to attack the motivations of someone who initially stated that they simply couldn’t buy that accusation. To twice double down on it makes you the one acting desperately.
I’ve admitted to being wrong many times as neo herself can attest. I can’t recall you having done so even once.
Nor have I ‘pressured you’, we’ve strongly disagreed exactly once before and, I dropped it when I realized you simply had to be right.
Nor is my family ‘filled with democrats’. My father and daughter are the only ones and I don’t even know if my daughter is a registered democrat. And accusing me of intentionally ‘wanting’ to be offended is nonsense and an indication of a disproportionate emotional response.
I can’t ever recall saying that you’re not as special as you think you are but regardless, this response proves that to be the case. Only the insecure respond disproportionately. And I do understand that none of us can ‘fix’ our families or any other human being, do you? Evidently not or you wouldn’t be advising me that I must do so before I dare to disagree with a false accusation you’ve made.
Actions have consequences and when a public figure in government repeatedly behaves dishonorably and shows no remorse, I as a citizen have a perfect right to hold them in contempt. That you hold democrats in general in contempt and then reprimand me for doing so with a prominent one is hypocrisy writ large.
Just to set the record straight, my conversion started in 1992 and closely paralleled neo’s, which I have mentioned more than once. Nor was I ever fully on board with the “Democrat slave plantation setup” in fact, I’ve never voted for a democrat in a Presidential election, nor even in a Congressional election. Prior to 1992 I considered myself an independent-liberal in the Sen. ‘scoop’ Jackson, Harry Truman mold. And that’s the honest truth.
“When the debate is lost, the loser resorts to slander” Socrates
Here’s another case of a person, DC, thinking they know more than me and who think they’re better than me, while predicting my thoughts before I even have them.
They end up wrong, not because I say so, the world said so. For a Doctor Class, that’s crushing.
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/hfcs-sugar-diabetics-and-human-microbiome/
The whole point of Doctor Class authority level is to be right backed by the might of the world. I wouldn’t want to be in a situation where my credentials and awards came from the world. Given the state of the world.
I lost all of my burgeoning respect for Tyson when he wasted time on Cosmos supporting AGW. That, right there, marked him as a brilliant individual who could not be trusted as far as you can spit upwind in a hurricane to place Truth in front of The Liberal Agenda, just as with Paul Krugman and Noam Chompsky.
Tyson, Krugman, and Chompsky — A troika of liberal front men claiming to be scientists.