ONE WORD...YOUR A LIAR RECALL Holbrooke.. The ADVISOR you IGNORED and PERSECUTED .. I SUGGEST YA REFRESH YOUR MEMORIES...... YOU LEFT.. YOUR DECISION,, . AS A MATTER OF FACT. and YOU CUT OFF STATE DEPT and ADVISERS in the beginning. THIS IS ALL YOUR TREASONOUS ACTIONS .. in 2007 On February 24, 2007, Holbrooke delivered the Democratic Partys weekly radio address and called for a new strategy in Iraq, involving a careful, phased redeployment of U.S. troops and a new diplomatic offensive in the Gulf region to help stabilize Iraq. The White House had taken over most policy areas: Iran and the Arab-Israeli The truth is that his administration made it extremely difficult for its own foreign-policy experts to be heard ALL YOU SEE. IS DIRECTLY BECAUSE of the Obama Administration.. REMEMBER the Line “ I JUST READ IT IN PAPER and ACTING ALL DUMB on FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES as an EXCUSE to be EXCUSED The White House had taken over most policy areas: Iran and the Arab-Israeli The truth is that his administration made it extremely difficult for its own foreign-policy experts to be heard FEATURE The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience. The White House had taken over most policy areas: Iran and the Arab-Israeli The truth is that his administration made it extremely difficult for its own foreign-policy experts to be heard foreignpolicy/articles/2013/03/04/the_inside_story_of_how_the_white_house_let_diplomacy_fail_in_afghanistan?page=full On Afghanistan and Pakistan the State Department had to fight tooth and nail just to have a hearing at the White House. Had it not been for the State Department would have had no influence on policymaking whatsoever. The White House had taken over most policy areas: Iran and the Arab-Israeli The truth is that his administration made it extremely difficult for its own foreign-policy experts to be heard. Holbrooke never succeeded. Clinton usually only when it finally became clear to a White House that jealously guarded all foreign policymaking foreign policymaking issue were for all practical purposes managed from the White House. AfPak was a rare exception, and that was owed to Holbrookes quick thinking in getting SRAP going in February 2009 The White House resented losing AfPak to the State Department. It fought hard to close down SRAP and take it back. That was one big reason the White House was on a warpath after Holbrooke. But Holbrooke would not back down especially not when he thought those who wanted to wrest control of Afghanistan were out of their depth and not up to the job. When Holbrooke died in December 2010, Clinton kept his office alive, but the White House managed to take over AfPak policy, in part by letting the Pentagon run Afghanistan and the CIA, Pakistan. Both Clinton and Holbrooke, two incredibly dedicated and talented people, had to fight to have their voices count on major foreign-policy initiatives. Holbrooke never succeeded. Clinton usually only when it finally became clear to a White House that jealously guarded all foreign policymaking foreign policymaking issue were for all practical purposes managed from the White House. AfPak was a rare exception, and that was owed to Holbrookes quick thinking in getting SRAP going in February 2009 The White House resented losing AfPak to the State Department. It fought hard to close down SRAP and take it back. That was one big reason the White House was on a warpath after Holbrooke. But Holbrooke would not back down especially not when he thought those who wanted to wrest control of Afghanistan were out of their depth and not up to the job. When Holbrooke died in December 2010, Clinton kept his office alive, but the White House managed to take over AfPak policy, in part by letting the Pentagon run Afghanistan and the CIA, Pakistan. The Tragedy of Richard Holbrooke slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/06/james_mann_s_the_obamians_excerpt_richard_holbrooke_barack_obama_and_hillary_clinton.3.html After a few more months, Holbrooke’s friends and family became more public in criticizing the Obama White House. He “was effectively gagged, unable to comment on what he saw as missteps of the Obama administration that he served,”wrote Nicholas Kristof. Holbrooke had indeed been gagged, prevented from appearing on news shows or talking on the record to the news media—although had he been allowed to appear, he would almost certainly have publicly praised and defended the administration in which he served. From the perspective of the Obama White House, Holbrooke had been reined in because, merely by appearing regularly on the talk shows, he would have called attention to himself and assumed more power than the president and his aides were willing to hand over. They did not want Holbrooke to shape the stories that were written or told about the administration, the narratives that they wanted to control on their own. It turned out that the only drama in which Holbrooke had the lead role during the Obama administration was his own tragedy. Holbrooke’s widow Kati Marton told the Kristof that Holbrooke had compared Afghanistan to Vietnam. “He thought that this could become Obama’s Vietnam When he raised that, Obama didn’t want to hear it.” On February 24, 2007, Holbrooke delivered the Democratic Partys weekly radio address and called for a new strategy in Iraq, involving a careful, phased redeployment of U.S. troops and a new diplomatic offensive in the Gulf region to help stabilize Iraq.[48] The Tragedy of Richard Holbrooke The mismatch between an old foreign-policy hand and a new president: Holbrooke’s death represented, in many ways, a passing of the old guard in American foreign policy. Holbrooke would almost certainly have been secretary of state if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency After Obama appointed Clinton as secretary, she hoped Holbrooke her deputy, but Obama gave that job to Jim Steinberg, who had been a leading candidate for national security adviser. Instead, in 2009, eager to return to government, Holbrooke took the lesser job he was offered, as the president’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, or “Af-Pak,” as he soon called it. Holbrooke quickly ran into even more serious problems In the fall of 2009 the president was unhappy about the magazine article, which had drawn attention to Holbrooke, not the administration, and portrayed Afghanistan in a way that centered on Holbrooke’s own story. On Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010, Richard Holbrooke played tennis on Long Island with Bill Drozdiak, Holbrooke said he was in despair over his role in the administration could not establish a relationship with Obama, said. The president seemed remote and cold-blooded, at least in Holbrooke’s presence. Holbrooke thought many in the White House were against him. The following Friday, Holbrooke was at a meeting in Hillary Clinton’s State Department office when he suddenly became flushed and stricken with pain. He was taken to the State Department medical office, but collapsed and went by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital. He died there three days later of a ruptured aorta. Holbrooke’s death represented, in many ways, a passing of the old guard in American foreign policy. . Maybe things will improve, Holbrooke told Drozdiak. The following Friday, Holbrooke was at a meeting in Hillary Clinton’s State Department office when he suddenly became flushed and stricken with pain. He was taken to the State Department medical office, but collapsed and went by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital. He died there three days later of a ruptured aorta. slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/06/james_mann_s_the_obamians_excerpt_richard_holbrooke_barack_obama_and_hillary_clinton.html On February 24, 2007, Holbrooke delivered the Democratic Partys weekly radio address and called for a new strategy in Iraq, involving a careful, phased redeployment of U.S. troops and a new diplomatic offensive in the Gulf region to help stabilize Iraq.[48] state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2010/12/152934.htm a leaked 2008 State Department cable and a separate report by the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point noted that an inordinate number of anti-U.S. insurgents in Iraq came from Libya and the LIFG. The CIA first publicly voiced its concerns about the connection between the LIFG and al Qaeda in 2004 when then-director George Tenet testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and listed the LIFG among groups that represented an immediate threat... [that] has benefited from al Qaeda links. Leaked Docs Reveal Obama Admin Hired Al-Qaeda Linked Radical to Run Security at Tripoli Embassy Gateway Pundit ^ | 10-31-2012 | Jim Hoft Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:55:29 PM by servo1969 Leaked security documents reveal the Obama Administration hired a top al-Qaeda brother to run security at the US embassy in Tripoli. Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack reported, via Jihad Watch: A treasure trove of secret documents has been obtained by a Libyan source who says that secularists in his country are increasingly wanting to see Mitt Romney defeat Barack Obama on November 6th. This charge is being made despite Muslim Brotherhood losses in Libyan elections last July which resulted in victory for the secularists. One of those documents may help explain this sentiment. It shows that in supporting the removal of Gadhafi, the Obama administration seemed to sign on to an arrangement that left forces loyal to Al-Qaeda in charge of security at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli from 2011 through at least the spring of 2012. The National Transitional Council, which represented the political apparatus that opposed Gadhafi in 2011 and served as the interim government after his removal, made an extremely curious appointment in August of 2011. That appointment was none other than Abdel Hakim Belhaj, an Al-Qaeda ally and ‘brother’. Here is a translation of the letter: National Transitional Council – Libya 8/30/11 Code: YGM-270-2011 Mr. Abdel Hakim Al-Khowailidi Belhaj Greetings, We would like to inform you that you have been commissioned to the duties and responsibilities of the military committee of the city of Tripoli. These include taking all necessary procedures to secure the safety of the Capital and its citizens, its public and private property, and institutions, to include all international embassies. To coordinate with the local community of the city of Tripoli and the security assembly and defense on a national level. Mustafa Muhammad Abdul Jalil President, National Transitional Council – Libya Official Seal of National Transitional Council Copy for file. As for Belhaj’s bonafides as an Al-Qaeda ally, consider the words of the notorious Ayman al-Zawahiri. In a report published one day prior to the date on the memo above, ABC News quoted the Al-Qaeda leader as saying the following – in 2007 – about the man the NTC put in control of Tripoli in 2011: Pasted from Pasted from The same man who triumphantly led Libyan rebels into Gadhafis compound last week first came to the attention of the U.S. intelligence community years ago -- as a founder of a terror group. Abdelhakim Belhaj, who was recently appointed to Tripolis rebel military council, was one of the original founders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an anti-Gadhafi group which was later designated by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization with links to al Qaeda, according to U.S. government reports. We proudly announce the liberation of Libya and that Libya has become free and that the rule of the tyrant and the era of oppression is behind us, a victorious Belhaj told reporters after the storming of Gadhafis Bab al-Aziziya compound last week. Ousting Gadhafi had been the main objective of the LIFG since its inception in the early 1990s, even if some of the fighters believed that meant putting Americans in the crossfire. The group carried out operations against the Libyan government including at least four suspected assassination attempts against Gadhafi in the 1990s and was also believed to be connected to a series of suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, in 2003, the U.S. State Department reported. As relations between the U.S. and Gadhafi improved in the mid-2000s, some LIFG leaders cultivated relationships with top al Qaeda leaders including Osama bin Laden and were suspected of funneling fighters to Iraq to carry out operations against U.S. soldiers. When the LIFG was designated a terror organization in 2004, it was meant as a gesture of solidarity with the Libyan government, according to a March 2011 congressional report. DOWNLOAD: Libya, Unrest and U.S. Policy Contrary to several U.S. government reports, Libyan rebel ambassador to the U.S., Ali Aujali, told ABC News that the LIFG was never connected to al Qaeda and did not carry out terrorist operations. They were only opposed to Gadhafi during his rule and paid the price for that by being oppressed by the regime, Aujali said. The CIA first publicly voiced its concerns about the connection between the LIFG and al Qaeda in 2004 when then-director George Tenet testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and listed the LIFG among groups that represented an immediate threat... [that] has benefited from al Qaeda links. By that time Belhaj had been arrested and jailed in Libya where he would stay for years, but outside the prison walls, some other LIFG leaders reportedly tightened their relationship with al Qaeda. In 2007 al Qaedas then-deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri announced a formal alliance between the groups, mentioning Belhaj personally. Dear brothers... the amir of the mujahideen, the patient and steadfast Abu-Abdallah al-Sadiq; and the rest of the captives of the fighting Islamic group in Libya, here is good news for you, Zawahiri said in a video, using Belhajs nom de guerre. Your brothers are continuing your march after you... escalating their confrontation with the enemies of Islam: Gadhafi and his masters, the crusaders of Washington. Though a recent congressional report said the alliance was viewed by terror analysts at the time as having political rather than operational relevance, a leaked 2008 State Department cable and a separate report by the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point noted that an inordinate number of anti-U.S. insurgents in Iraq came from Libya and the LIFG. Pasted from OBAMA PROPOSES $800 MILLION IN AID FOR ARAB SPRING AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD NTEB News Desk | February 13, 2012The Middle East and North Africa Incentive fund “will provide incentives for long-term economic, political, and trade reforms to countries in . LOL AT THIS WASTE OF FUNDS! nowtheendbegins/blog/?p=8633 SHOCK! OBAMA TO GIVE EGYPT’S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD $450 MILLION September 29, 2012 Family time with Obama and his brothers RELATED STORY: New Ad EXPOSES Obama’s Full Support For The Muslim Brotherhood The Obama administration notified Congress on Friday that it would provide Egypt’s new government an emergency cash infusion of $450 million, but the aid immediately encountered resistance from a prominent lawmaker wary of foreign aid and Egypt’s new course under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood OBAMA GIVES $250 MILLION TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD NTEB News Desk | March 3, 2013 $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.” nowtheendbegins/blog/?p=13274 DCI Testimony: The Worldwide Threat 2004 The Worldwide Threat 2004: Challenges in a Changing Global Context Testimony of Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (as prepared for delivery) February 24, 2004 https://cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2004/dci_speech_02142004.html ________________________________________ slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/06/james_mann_s_the_obamians_excerpt_richard_holbrooke_barack_obama_and_hillary_clinton.html
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