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Canaries in the mine shaft…… still chirping.

The previous link is to a great bit of investigating by those folks at The Last Refuge blog.  In the comments I added some links from old LB posts. Elizabeth O’Bagy and friends come back to haunt John McCain again. And they’ve got a video of the smartest woman in the world,  lying of course. As she rambles on in her infamous Congressional testimony, she tries to perch upon the merits of the members of her oh-so-serious,  oft-quoted, “independent” ARB report. Chirp, chirp, chirp, but I wrote about that ARB report too: “Benghazi ARB report: Bird Cage Liner or Probing Investigation?”.   Safe to say, that I would opt for bird cage liner as my answer.  There’s a link to the entire report in this old blog post, so you can read it yourself. And, these Benghazi canaries still chirp, no matter how many ways Hilliary & friends try to snuff them out.  Keep some fresh bird cage liner ready, because these little birdies surely have many more droppings to unload…

Bryan Preston at PJ Media did a lot of reporting on Elizabeth O’Bagy too.

Here’s my very first Elizabeth O’Bagy post: “Stumbling upon some facts in less than 5 minutes”. 

So, as this ISIS/ISIL threat increases, keep in mind that the idiots at the State Department, this White House and foreign policy/military experts like John McCain were selling us a false narrative, spoon-fed to them by this Free Syrian Emergency Task Force, insisting  these Syrian rebels were “moderates” based on expert analysts like Elizabeth O’Bagy.  Now, to quote JK, from his comment on my blog post, “American Dirge”:

“But if LB you require an example of what Kinnison and I – and I fully expect Gladius to concur … given it’s Jonathan Swift or Henry Kissinger well … we’ve recently seen AQI > John McCain & Eliza O’Bagy’s Syrian Moderate Freedom Fighters morph into first ISIL and then … when ISIL crossed out of Dayr-al-Zawr into Iraq’s Qaim at which point ISIL became ISIS … and not, John McCain’s “Freedom Fighters” when … well, it’s hard to tell exactly but I’m figuring AQI & ISIL were

The Good Guys

Until they took all those American built Humvees and .50 Cals at which point AQI > ISIL > ISIS > IS became

The NOT Good Guys.
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And LibertyBelle it’s the example of Iraq that informs me – we MEANING WE AMERICANS would be better off (and cheaper put) to getting a bunch of baseball umpires

or whoever lays them chalk-limes down to mark off however big a spot it takes to put each and every bullet to howitzer to Apache Gunship we ain’t planning of bring back within however big that chalk-marked area is then

have the Buffs in to carpet bomb.

Anything remaining – B-2s and laser-guided.
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Bad enough to have IS attacking the heart of Iraq with American-built Humvees.

But ISIS/ISI using our stuff against us?”

This Stratfor piece, Monitoring the Islamic State’s ‘Flood’, by Scott Stewart details the Islamic State’s emergence and how the deck of wanna-be jihadist heroes currently stacks up. (h/t JK).

So many unanswered questions and connections, but what difference at this point does it make?  And the State Department now has it’s own female military expert to keep us abreast of jihadist troops, #WarriorPrincess, Marie Harf: “State Department’s Harf: The Iraqis Need to ‘Pull Themselves Together’”, another Bryan Preston report.

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Our Syria/ISIS Research Reflects Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Lie To Congress – Also, Did John McCain Meet With ISIS Press Officer Abu Mosa in 2013 ?

Our Syria/ISIS Research Reflects Secretary Hillary Clinton's Lie To Congress – Also, Did John McCain Meet With ISIS Press Officer Abu Mosa in 2013 ?.

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New email address

Just in case anyone would like to send me fascinating links or offer blog ideas and suggestions, I’ve posted an email address in the sidebar: libertybellediaires@yahoo.com

Feedback, both good and bad, will help me write a better blog…… hopefully:-)

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Cowards!

The President’s schedule for yesterday.

Note that at 4:45 pm, the president found time to meet with the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense, but none of them faced the American people and more importantly the troops, to speak about a 2-star general being killed in Afghanistan.  Cowards!

 

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Pentagon selling — and scrapping — equipment in Afghanistan – Stripes

Pentagon selling — and scrapping — equipment in Afghanistan – Stripes.

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Afghanistan to cost more than Marshall Plan, watchdog says – News – Stripes

Afghanistan to cost more than Marshall Plan, watchdog says – News – Stripes.

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American Dirge

The prelude to what is to come for the few soldiers President Obama will abandon in Afghanistan struck yesterday – an American 2-star general killed while visiting an Afghan officers’ academy.  Our clueless leader from behind won’t do more than mutter a few words about this being a sad loss for America, then shuffle off to the next round of golf. The press will focus on the “security lapses” that left more than a dozen others wounded, but few will place the blame where it belongs – at the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Nightwatch commentary includes this grim analysis:

“The tribal victory narrative features the theme of driving the foreigners out and debasing them as they left. That is what the mujahedin claim they did to the Soviet forces and what they say their ancestors did to the British before them. The Soviets had to fight their way out, on the road from Kabul to Termez on the Amu Darya. The departing coalition forces should expect a similar set of challenges, especially as the withdrawal quickens later this year.”

Here’s my take on the situation from June 8, 2014, “Abandoned In Afghanistan” (in the comments I worried about force protection – no worries is the pat answer from this hapless President).

So, our fearless leaders in Washington from the President, to the Secretary of Defense, to the Chairman of the JCS, and even the Secretary of the Army ducked for cover, releasing a written statement,  to avoid even hinting that we might have an iota of spine left in America to stand up against the world’s miscreants.  They’re all hiding behind spokesmen.  Maybe they’ll send out one of the girls from the State Department to brief us and they can even borrow my hashtag sign: #AmericanPaperTiger.

 

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The Biggest American Deficit : Trust

An link to G. Murphy Donovan’s essay at the American Thinker:

Trust stands alone in the glass menagerie of fragile personal and national virtues. Without trust, individual, commercial, and civic relationships are impossible.  Children must trust parents, couples must trust each other, and families must be ….

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George Will and Hugh Hewitt, despite the mounting evidence that almost no Democrat will enforce existing immigration laws, are still plugging amnesty for the latest wave of illegal aliens. Glenn Beck, for his part, handed a talking point to Dick Durb…

George Will and Hugh Hewitt, despite the mounting evidence that almost no Democrat will enforce existing immigration laws, are still plugging amnesty for the latest wave of illegal aliens. Glenn Beck, for his part, handed a talking point to Dick Durb….

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Malaysia Airlines considering name change | TheHill

Malaysia Airlines considering name change | TheHill.

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