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Originally posted by mikellmikell
The US military has been in Hati a long time. 2 of my nephews spent a year there in the 80's. You couln.t pay them to go back.
Q: Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B'nai Brith.
A: Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
reply to post by aspx
Take this any way you wish, but that was just plain ignorant... The US has absolutely no need for a base in Haiti. It has one just a few hundred miles away. Perhaps you've heard of it... It's called Guantanamo Bay, and the lease is indefinite...
This is just a poor, lame assed excuse to go America Bashing, and using a truly tragic event to do so. Instead of pouring all of this energy into trashing the country that is doing the most to assist this impoverished nation to recover and rebuild, why don't you put some of that energy into actually helping the Haitian people, like gathering canned goods, or raising money, or something positive!!!
Or you can just keep siding up with a malicious dictator like Chavez...
So what's it going to be? Positive role model, or waste of skin???
Originally posted by oozyism
It is called imperialism,
www.miprox.de...
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by oozyism
It is called imperialism,
www.miprox.de...
You can't be serious?
That map shows the US as having troops both in Russia and China not to mention practically every other country on the planet. Realize what you are looking at! [Propaganda]
We may have some "Marine Guards" at US Embassies there. I highly doubt you can count our "Embassy Security Personal" as " Imperial Troops"
Thanks Ooz.
I needed the laugh.
[edit on 24-1-2010 by SLAYER69]
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
So what's it going to be? Positive role model, or waste of skin???
Originally posted by oozyism
Here is a map:
www.miprox.de...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Gun Totin Gerbil
He is talking about the use of false claims (disinfo if you like) about such capabilities as an easy means of disrupting intelligence and security efforts and creating terror. They don't have to actually be able to do it, they just have to talk about it.
Sounds familiar? It's called fear mongering. We see some of it here on occasion. Out of context quotes can be a very useful tool.
[edit on 1/24/2010 by Phage]
May 30, 2008
China Orders Strike Against US For Catastrophic Earthquake
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Russian Foreign Ministry reports are stating today the Prime Minister Putin’s ‘sudden’ diplomatic trip to France was made at the behest of China’s President Hu in order to ‘warn’ the European Union not to become involved with the US following what is widely expected to be a ‘retaliatory strike’ against the United States, and who the Chinese military has blamed for the catastrophic May 12th earthquake that has killed nearly 90,000 human beings.