Red Mosquito

simple schoolboy wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

elliseamos wrote:Seems applicable:

On his recent retirement, for instance, Jim Jeffrey, the State Department’s special representative for Syria engagement, offered a revelation. When the president finally began acting to “end” America’s forever wars in December 2018 by demanding that U.S. troops be withdrawn from Syria -- Secretary of Defense Mattis would resign over that order -- he was convinced to leave behind a relatively small number of them, 200, as the withdrawal proceeded. Or so the president came to believe at least (and so it was reported at the time). But Jeffrey now informs us that “there was never a Syria withdrawal” at all. The full contingent of perhaps 900 American troops evidently remains there to this day. The president’s top officials simply lied to him (and assumedly the media) on the subject. As Jeffrey put it, “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there.”

Should we be excited that the military is disregarding civilian leadership or nah?

No. My point was that what he says is continually worthless.

This should have been under his purview and could have been done, but for military intransigence.

Surely there are better examples of him lying.

96583UP wrote:i wonder how long it will take for the first expose book to come out once he is out of office

insiders stories of the inside scoop

the story about the story

about the story

about the tweeting about the story about the raping

tragabigzanda wrote:Giuliani has the rona

simple schoolboy wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

elliseamos wrote:Seems applicable:

On his recent retirement, for instance, Jim Jeffrey, the State Department’s special representative for Syria engagement, offered a revelation. When the president finally began acting to “end” America’s forever wars in December 2018 by demanding that U.S. troops be withdrawn from Syria -- Secretary of Defense Mattis would resign over that order -- he was convinced to leave behind a relatively small number of them, 200, as the withdrawal proceeded. Or so the president came to believe at least (and so it was reported at the time). But Jeffrey now informs us that “there was never a Syria withdrawal” at all. The full contingent of perhaps 900 American troops evidently remains there to this day. The president’s top officials simply lied to him (and assumedly the media) on the subject. As Jeffrey put it, “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there.”

Should we be excited that the military is disregarding civilian leadership or nah?

No. My point was that what he says is continually worthless.

This should have been under his purview and could have been done, but for military intransigence.

Surely there are better examples of him lying.

Bammer wrote:Same thing happened to me last time I tried to pick up a used treadmill

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