CNN Republican Primary Debate Wednesday, LIVE Online Stream

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

CNN Republican Primary Debate * Live Online Stream * http://www.cnn.com/

6pm ET / 3pm PT - First round debate: Candidates 6pm: Santorum, Jindal, Pataki, Graham

8pm ET / 5pm PT - Second round primetime debate - Candidates 8pm: Trump, Bush, Walker, Huckabee, Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Paul, Christie, Kasich, Fiorina

Aired On: CNN and Salem Radio
Location: Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA
Sponsors: Reagan Library Foundation, CNN, Salem Media Group
Moderator(s): Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt
Rules: Split field into Segment B (primetime) and Segment A (remaining candidates getting at least 1% in polls) (Details)

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Bush, Obama, US Military Corruption, Totally Worthless F-35

Never, ever, believe the "experts" in the Pentagon, or Washington, D.C.--

The War Nerd: More proof the US defense industry has nothing to do with defending America | PandoDaily: "...The armed services are trying to boost their worst aircraft, the totally worthless F-35, by trashing their best, the simple, effective, proven A-10 Warthog. The A-10 is popular enough that the USAF had to come up with a reason for wanting to get rid of it, and the one it produced is the sort of thing that would make any psych-therapist chuckle with glee: The USAF said it needed maintenance personnel to handle its precious new high-priced fighter, the F-35…and that the only place it could get them from was the maintenance crews currently keeping the A-10 flying. Nope, there were no other options! The only way to find a good crew is to gut the one effective ground-attack aircraft the USAF has in its inventory, in favor of the worst fighter ever designed. It makes no sense. I’ll just say that right up front. The reason it doesn’t seem to make any sense is that it doesn’t. There are no secret reasons here, no top-security considerations that justify any of this. It’s corruption, pure and simple. The sooner you understand that the US defense industry has nothing at all to do with defending America, and everything to do with making Dick Cheney’s buddies even richer, the more quickly you’ll be able to understand what’s going on. I used to believe the Navy was the most corrupt of all the services, but going by recent form I’d have to say that slimed-up torch has been passed to a new service. The USAF now wins as the most deeply corrupt of all. In fact, it’s no contest...." (read more at first link above)

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CIA: dysfunction, disorganization, incompetence, greed, deception

Nobody prosecuted, nobody lost their job--Bush and Obama--pathetic!

Report Portrays a Broken C.I.A. Devoted to a Failed Approach - NYTimes.com: "...The bitter infighting in the C.I.A. interrogation program was only one symptom of the dysfunction, disorganization, incompetence, greed and deception described in a summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report. In more than 500 pages, the summary, released on Tuesday, paints a devastating picture of an agency that was ill equipped to take on the task of questioning Al Qaeda suspects, bungled the job and then misrepresented the results..." (read more at the link above)

and (via politico.com):

New York Times A1, at fold, "Obama Faulted For Supporting Besieged C.I.A.," by Peter Baker: "Obama's attempt to find a balance on a polarizing issue inherited from his predecessor was seen by ... critics as a failure to hold the agency accountable." http://nyti.ms/1wgfdOs

ANDREW SULLIVAN, "How Obama Backed Impunity For War Crimes": "[T]o refuse to prosecute war crimes is to condone war crimes." http://bit.ly/1wBuUC0

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Yazidis from Iraq Tell of Harrowing Escape From Islamic State Militants (video)

Video - Iraq's Yazidis Tell of Harrowing Escape From Islamic State Militants - WSJ.com: "Salwah Khalaf and her family fled Sinjar in Iraq last week when they heard insurgents from the Islamic State were about to attack. WSJ's Nour Malas reports.

Still think ANYONE in Washington DC knows what they are doing? Republicans, Democrats, Bush, Obama--they are all responsible for what is now happening in Iraq and Syria and the rise of ISIS (members of which the Obama administration trained and armed to oppose Syria's Bashar al-Assad. Regime change, nation-building--what a disaster!


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Obama continued and expanded Bush-Cheney abuses

"The Obama administration offers platitudes about security and vague talk of inconclusive inquiries." -- New York Times editorial (source at link below)

And in many cases, Obama expanded the abuses far beyond what even Bush or Cheney could have imagined -- read the full article at the link below (excerpt follows) --

The White House on Spying - NYTimes.com: " . . . That Chancellor Merkel’s cellphone conversations could fall under that umbrella is an outgrowth of the post-9/11 decision by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney that everyone is the enemy, and that anyone’s rights may be degraded in the name of national security. That led to Abu Ghraib, torture at the secret C.I.A. prisons, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, grave harm to international relations, and the dragnet approach to surveillance revealed by the Snowden leaks."

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How Terrorism Really Works

Wonder why al-Qaeda hasn't attacked the US since 9/11? It doesn't need to: the Bush administration and Obama administration, Congress and the Courts, became "tools" of al-Qaeda and have done more damage to the US than Osama bin Laden could have ever hoped. 100 years from now, this is how historians will say the US government lost the "war on terrorism"--

Dirty Bomb Blows Liberty - WSJ.com: "Here's how terrorism really works: Slaughter people on national TV, and watch a nation that prides itself on freedom as it shackles itself."

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