I wouldn’t be surprised. It would have taken a lot of resistance for Hussein’s Islamic Jihad buddies to escape US bombs and what not. They probably fired and retired all the patriotic loyalists from intel digest analysis, put Hussein people there to crank out the correct intel digest analysis, that way Hussein could bomb the terrorists that would hurt Islamic Jihad the least.

For all the Left complained about Bush II’s civilian casualties in Iraq, that was just them fooling the Americans once again. Check how many casualties Hussein’s Drone bombs caused. These people stopped even pretending they were paying attention to collateral damage. Then there was Libya, of which Collateral Damage was the intent, not the side quest.

The Leftist alliance is going to gather their powers for another October surprise. Since they haven’t deployed 50% of their strategic assets in this war yet, they still have quite a bit of reserve to work with leading up to CW2.

Then there is the Deep State, which hasn’t deployed even 1% of their total power. They are still preserving it after the Demoncrats kill off the Republicans and the Republicans kill of the Demoncrats, and the Alt Right kills off non nationalists. Then the DS swoops and obtains global UN peace keeping missions in US cities. At least, that is one potential for why Hussein sabotaged and weakened the US military.

Martial law was a good possibility too given the number of arms confiscated from New Orleans during Katrina.

Trum is a sign that there will be a little bit more time, a bit more leeyway from the DS, until show time. What people do with that time… well, they can’t say nobody warned em.

McMaster was BEGGING to be canned.

Hence the leak.

I rather doubt that McMaster will get his fourth star because of the way he’s leaving.

McMaster’s own tome set him out as a guy who is against the system.

So, it’s the ultimate irony that McMaster WAS the system.

He gagged when a REAL outsider started to take ‘the system’ down.

My beef with McMaster is on policy.

I’m in Flynn’s camp, policy wise. I was very disappointed that Flynn’s policy suite has been totally inverted by McMaster.

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As for Trump and how this has evolved…

Trump did not want to alienate many of the Swamp critters — guys like Mattis and Kelly — who he hugely respects.

Kelly’s problem is that he HAS TO understand that he CAN’T gate keep the President. He shouldn’t even try.

Kelly must choke on it, but ONLY way out-of-the-box management is going to turn this ship of state around.

Trump is, at a fundamental level, a Leader — not a Manager.

The difference was spelled out in the Harvard Business Review in 1978. Dang, I’ve lost my copy.

That article is, last I heard, the single MOST requested from their archives.

The difference is significant.

It’s big enough that you’ll run into a throng that always complains when faced with a Leader that he’s not a Manager.

Artfldgr,

In re to: “Allow me to re-emphasize: All opposition to President Trump stems from the underlying financial and economic policy.”

That’s only true of RINOs and liberal corporate types. The most ferocious opposition to Trump is by leftist/liberal ideologues.

skeptic,

I’m thrilled that McMaster is out and that Bolton is now on board. That news made my day.

Fox News: John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster as White House national security adviser, Trump says

(RTWT but this is the final money quote)
“After all, former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power says it isn’t a “good idea to piss off John Brennan.” Why not? Is Brennan the type of guy who would use his power for political purposes? ”

On reflection, is it really so much personal political ambition, or is it “principled” party-domination ambition?
Although I grant that it is hard to separate the two for committed partisans.

>The joke is that TV meteorologists are the only profession that can make bad predictions and still keep their jobs.

This may be the joke, but economists never have to be right either.

Economists, journalists, pundits, pollsters, population scientists, climate scientists, fotunetellers, and Al Gore make bad predictions all the time and keep their jobs.

I guess bloggers, too.

“Secret Empires”, explains how Chinese companies purchased U.S. politicians to gain trade advantages. When you understand this process, you better understand why those same politicians today are against the Trump trade policy that is antithetical to their purchased interests. Reminder: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue is warning President Trump not to take any trade action against China or he will unleash his purchased control agents within congress and financial media to destroy his presidency. Allow me to re-emphasize: All opposition to President Trump stems from the underlying financial and economic policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=MUzrgiUfwas

how scary is living it!!!