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Title: Draining the Neocon National Security Swamp? Don’t Count on It
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Liberty Blitzkrieg
URL Source: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/ ... curity-swamp-dont-count-on-it/
Published: Nov 18, 2016
Author: Michael Krieger
Post Date: 2016-11-18 21:01:44 by Deckard
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Views: 2652
Comments: 7
Now that things have gotten serious, it’s time for Donald Trump to kiss the ring. Since clinching the Republican nomination, Trump’s true colors have started to emerge. He named a former Goldman Sachs partner to run his fundraising efforts, he named petty authoritarian, gangster wannabe Chris Christie to run his transition team, and he chose “everyone’s a terrorist” Rudy Giuliani as his planned head of the domestic gestapo, the Department of Homeland Security. He’s also been endorsed by Orc King Sheldon Adelson, who said he was prepared to spend $100 million to get him elected. Now he’s off to kiss the blood-soaked hands of Henry Kissinger. – From the May 17, 2016 post: Donald Trump Will Meet War Criminal Henry Kissinger Tomorrow Two names continue to be bandied about regarding Trump’s anticipated Secretary of State choice, neither of which are good. Those names are Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton. Rather than “draining the swamp,” this is more akin to me reliving either my 1990’s NYC childhood, or the post-9/11 neocon bonfire known as the George W. Bush administration. For starters, John Bolton is about as reprehensible as you get, as Rand Paul so perfectly outlined in an Op-ed published earlier today over at Rare. Here’s some of what he wrote: Bolton is a longtime member of the failed Washington elite that Trump vowed to oppose, hell-bent on repeating virtually every foreign policy mistake the U.S. has made in the last 15 years — particularly those Trump promised to avoid as president. John Bolton more often stood with Hillary Clinton and against what Donald Trump has advised. None of this is secret. It’s all out there. Perhaps the incoming administration should take a closer look. Bolton was one of the loudest advocates of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and still stupefyingly insists it was the right call 13 years later. “I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct,” Bolton said just last year. Trump, rightly, believes that decision was a colossal mistake that destabilized the region. “Iraq used to be no terrorists,” Trump said in 2015. “(N)ow it’s the Harvard of terrorism.” “If you look at Iraq from years ago, I’m not saying he was a nice guy, he was a horrible guy,” Trump said of Saddam Hussein, “but it was a lot better than it is right now.” Trump has said U.S. intervention in Iraq in 2003 “helped to throw the region into chaos and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper.” In contrast, Bolton has said explicitly that he wants to repeat Iraq-style regime change in Syrian and Iran. You can’t learn from mistakes if you don’t see mistakes. Trump has blamed George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for helping to create ISIS — but should add John Bolton to that list, who essentially agreed with all three on our regime change debacles. In 2011, Bolton bashed Obama “for his refusal to directly target Gaddafi” and declared, “there is a strategic interest in toppling Gaddafi… But Obama missed it.” In fact, Obama actually took Bolton’s advice and bombed the Libyan dictator into the next world. Secretary of State Clinton bragged, “We came, we saw, he died.” When Trump was asked last year if Libya and the region would be more stable today with Gaddafi in power, he replied“100 percent.” Mr. Trump is 100 percent right. No man is more out of touch with the situation in the Middle East or more dangerous to our national security than Bolton. All nuance is lost on the man. The fact that Russia has had a base in Syria for 50 years doesn’t deter Bolton from calling for all out, no holds barred war in Syria. Bolton criticized the current administration for offering only a tepid war. For Bolton, only a hot-blooded war to create democracy across the globe is demanded. Woodrow Wilson would be proud, but the parents of our soldiers should be mortified. War should be the last resort, never the first. War should be understood to be a hell no one wishes for. Dwight Eisenhower understood this when he wrote, “I hate war like only a soldier can, the stupidity, the banality, the futility.” Bolton would not understand this because, like many of his generation, he used every privilege to avoid serving himself. Bolton said, with the threat of the Vietnam draft over his head, that “he had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy.” But he’s seems to be okay with your son or daughter dying wherever his neoconservative impulse leads us: “Even before the Iraq War, John Bolton was a leading brain behind the neoconservatives’ war-and-conquest agenda,” notes The American Conservative’s Jon Utley. At a time when Americans thirst for change and new thinking, Bolton is an old hand at failed foreign policy. The man is a menace. A menace indeed. So why is Bolton even being considered for a senior post in the Trump White House? The Hill has some thoughts on the matter: Adelson is also advocating for former United Nations ambassador John Bolton to have a big foreign policy or national security role in the Trump administration. Bolton is under consideration for Secretary of State, according to a source with direct knowledge. Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon is personally close to Bolton and admires his uncompromising stance against radical Islam. Yet Bolton’s history seems at least partly at odds with Trump’s worldview. He was a Bush-era neoconservative who advocated for a more aggressive response to Russia. Sheldon Adelson, why am I not surprised. For some prior articles on the man, see: Top Editor Quits the Las Vegas Review-Journal Two Weeks After Oligarch Sheldon Adelson Buys It Sheldon Adelson – The Dangerous American Oligarch Behind Benjamin Netanyahu Inside the Mind of an Oligarch – Sheldon Adelson Proclaims “I Don’t Like Journalism” Neo-Con Republicans Make Pilgrimage to Vegas to Kiss the Ring of Oligarch Sheldon Adelson Moving along, given Bolton is so incredibly toxic, it seems probable that the Secretary of State position will be given to Rudy Giuliani. Which again, is more akin to filling the swamp as opposed to draining it. As reported earlier today by International Business Times: President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t yet formally announced who will be in his cabinet, but several major outlets are reporting that Rudy Giuliani is a favorite for secretary of state. That would put Giuliani in a position to approve arms transfers to countries that helped make him rich after he termed-out as mayor of New York and began working in the private sector nearly 15 years ago. Before joining Trump’s crusade to “drain the swamp,” Giuliani had a lucrative career as a lobbyist, lawyer and consultant in the private sector. He represented Purdue Pharma LP — which makes the painkiller OxyContin —and has worked for law firms that represent the Venezuelan state oil company, the chewing tobacco lobby, and the casino industry. He’s also forged ties with some U.S. allies in the Middle East. His own security consulting business, Giuliani Partners, won a contract to help train the security forces of Qatar in 2005, and that same year Giuliani joined the Bracewell law firm in Houston — a longtime lobbyist for government of Saudi Arabia. Giuliani has never revealed the value of those business relationships with the oil-rich Gulf States. But when he ran for president in 2008, financial disclosure forms showed that he earned over $4 million from Giuliani Partners that year, and pulled in another $1.2 million from his work at Bracewell. In January 2016, Giuliani left what had become Bracewell & Giuliani to join the law firm Greenberg Traurig, a major lobbyist for the private prison industry. He’s still at the helm of Giuiani Partners and its subsidiary Giuliani Security and Safety; the full client list for both companies has never been made public. As secretary of state, Giuliani would likely be tasked with overseeing multi-billion dollar weapons transfers to former clients Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The secretary of state, through the assistant secretary for political-military affairs, must approve all foreign military sales — even those undertaken by a private defense contractor. In September, for example, the Obama administration signed off on a $4 billion sale of 72 Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles to Qatar, and a $1.2 billion deal to sell Abrams M1A1 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Giuliani would not be the first secretary of state to face potential conflicts of interests in foreign military transfers. As the top U.S. diplomat between 2008 and 2013, Hillary Clinton approved $165 billion in sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an International Business Times analysis. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Oh, and Adelson is also pushing Giuliani.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I noticed TRUMP didn't appoint Ron PAULTARD... do you need a tissue? I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Published on Nov 15, 2016 Dr. Ron Paul appeared in an RT interview speaking about Donald Trump's election. He made some curious statements about "neocons" and an infiltration by a "shadow government," and her warned Trump about placing neoconservatives in his cabinet. Trump is currently considering neocons for at least 5 of his cabinet positions. Many of them have links to Wall Street, specifically Goldman Sachs, and almost all of them are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose honorary chairman is David Rockefeller. There is a great danger that a Trump cabinet could look very similar to the one selected by George W. Bush, and the one selected by Barack Obama. Both presidents selected several neoconservatives with clear agendas, the bridging together of world economies, political systems, of people groups, and the collapse of border walls, leaving in its place a world without borders, a world without nationalities. Global governance, global rule under a single ruler at the top, is the ambition. Nothing will keep them from achieving. The Council on Foreign Relations is a massive organization with thousands of members. There are visible rank-and-file, but there are many thousands more who support the agenda of the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and other elite families. Many, many American politicians have been invited as guests to the Council on Foreign Relations. For example, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton (4 times), Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and others have been guest speakers. The CFR is known for its hawkish positions on foreign policies in the United States and abroad, which might explain why pro-war presidential candidates like Christie, Rubio, Clinton, Bush, and Giuliani are regular speakers at CFR gatherings. Some of the cabinet members that are known neocons/Council on Foreign Relations Members/Goldman Sachs Executives are the following: Ron Paul's states that neoconservatives were getting closer to Donald Trump and that we would have to wait to see who Trump selected for his cabinet. Ron Paul also states that he shared agreements with Donald Trump on the issue of diplomacy with Russia, but that he was concerned about his foreign policy with ISIS. Oftentimes, the American people select their candidate (Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama), but are later disappointed by the cabinet selection, which has been filled with neocons. Ron Paul speaks about a shadow government that is more powerful then the one that is elected, and that most people don't know much about the shadow government. They operate in secret, in stealth, to accomplish their agenda: a New World Order. We must pray against their agenda and work in the world. The Lord is Jesus. You must be believe in Him to have everlasting life. He is the only Way; He is the only Truth; He is the only Life... Nothing incorrect in that!
All of his statements are “curious.” In fact, they are downright “weird.”
Nothing incorrect in that! Yep, nothing wrong there!
That's nice. Pay the Clinton foundation a few million in bribes and get a few million in goodies from the feds. It cost the Clintons nothing.
And in other news.... http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2016/11/wikileaks-is-gone- 3440588.htm
Since clinching the Republican nomination, Trump’s true colors have started to emerge. He named a former Goldman Sachs partner to run his fundraising efforts, he named petty authoritarian, gangster wannabe Chris Christie to run his transition team, and he chose “everyone’s a terrorist” Rudy Giuliani as his planned head of the domestic gestapo, the Department of Homeland Security. He’s also been endorsed by Orc King Sheldon Adelson, who said he was prepared to spend $100 million to get him elected. Now he’s off to kiss the blood-soaked hands of Henry Kissinger.
#2. To: GrandIsland, Deckard, BushBots, NeoTards (#1)
Ron PAUL
1) John Bolton considered for Secretary of State (CFR Member, Bush Cabinet Member)
2) Stephen J. Hadley considered for Defense Secretary (CFR Member)
3) Steven Mnuchin considered for Treasury Secretary (Goldman Sachs Executive)
4) Robert E. Grady considered for Interior Secretary and Energy Secretary (CFR Member)
5) Lewis M. Eisenberg considered for Commerce Secretary (Goldman Sachs Executive)
6) James L. Connaughton considered for Energy Secretary (CFR Member) 
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
Trump has blamed George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for helping to create ISIS...
#4. To: hondo68 (#2)
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He [Ron Paul] made some curious statements ...
#5. To: rlk, Deckard (#3)
Trump has blamed George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for helping to create ISIS...
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
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As the top U.S. diplomat between 2008 and 2013, Hillary Clinton approved $165 billion in sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation.
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
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