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Huffington: Assange is No Terrorist — U.S. Policy Just as Bad

Maybe something’s been lost in translation, but the following exchange between Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin seems rather unbelievable.

In response to Matalin’s question about whether or not Huffington is willing to call Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a terrorist (she’s not), Huffington goes after U.S. policy in Afghanistan instead. Transcript via Hot Air Pundit:

Matalin: “You don’t think that putting innocent lives of our soldiers in jeopardy is an act of terrorism?”

Huffington: “I don’t know why you say that, I think that our government is putting the lives of our soldiers in jeopardy in Afghanistan for no clear national security reason.”

How’s that for “my truth?”

Comments (118)

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  • ChipK
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:06pm

    brohter al sharpton should be going after this idiot woman

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:04pm

    While Julian is in jail, maybe they can get him to talk a few octaves higher.

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  • oldfart
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:04pm

    Add your comments

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:01pm

    You just have to like those people that wear sunglasses inside a building to disguise them selves. But then you never know it might just work. NOT

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  • Gunonesis
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:00pm

    SPECIAL INVITATION TO ALL LIBERAL MEDIA. Once again it is time for our yearly Gala Christmas Party to be held at our expansive pig farm down by the gator swamp. Plenty of fun, games, and refreshment await all honorable attendees. The hogs are drooling because they can’t wait for leftovers. I’m sad to say however that the party date will be pushed back one day as I am trying to repair my broken woodchipper. That said, I look forward to seeing all of you great people. Come as you are, no RSVP necessary. I forgot to mention, I was unable to contact George Soros but if anyone sees him tell him he’s also invited. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

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  • oldfart
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:57am

    What we have here is a failure to communicate! HEY Arianna! All of your Huffing and Puffing is just so much CRAP! Wise up! You‘re either one of them or you’re one of those infidels the intend to KILL! GET IT!

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  • Gas137
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:45am

    Huffington has a point related to the apparent resolve of our military and civilian leaders in pursuing the Afghanistan war. It seems that doubt of achieving the mission is increasing, ever so slightly but consistently.

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:15pm

      It is hard to have resolve when you know the totalitarian agenda of your Commander in Chief AND the agenda of the enemy, which is not recognized by the elitist dhimmis in congress and in the main stream media.

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  • SnapTie
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:45am

    Za Za Huffington needs to go back to her homeland. She’s not looking out for this country.

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  • Sandy
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:39am

    This is the same Huffington that ‘threw around that the Tea Party are racist or terrorist’. Her response proves this guy is a set up by Soros!!

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  • Have-Gun-Will-Travel
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:36am

    They have no problem throwing around the racist word

    Arianna the truth is your a progressive liberal scum

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  • Rob_M
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:34am

    Ends justify means huh?

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  • citygirl56
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:34am

    I will be praying for them. They are in need of a lot of prayers.

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  • airbrnmtr
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:31am

    At least the other speaker was able to overspeak this dimwit. Personnelly I dont think this Wikileaks guy is a terrorist, but he is an enemy to the United States. He isnt commiting treason, because he isnt a citizen. So he is a high tech enemy, and part of the entire war against the US. This War on Terror is making a drastic turn. Some of our enemies are using this War as an oppertunity to bring bring us to our knees. When we took our eyes off what needs to happen to win the war, the 2008 election, these guys moved in for the death blow. Acorn, Soros, the Obama adminastration, and a list of thousands, are all in this together. Not working as one entity, but all working for one goal. Destroy the United States of America and all we have stood for. They hate us, for no real reason except there passion and beliefs that if we all were the same, and sat at the same level of poverity, then the world would be better off. Have these people no idea what will happen if the world was full of starving pissed off people. We would be killing each other in the streets for a can of beans. Craziness, all of this and it has to be stopped!

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:46pm

      My Airborne brother, make no mistake, they are fully aware. When breadriots start again, they expect the people to turn to them for help. People won’t fight martial law and the dole, they’ll beg for it. It’s all part of the master plan.
      Drive on.
      -line

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  • nmb7401
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:31am

    Ya know Ms Huffington is FREE to find another country to live in that is more conducive to her standards any time she pleases!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:50am

      Maybe she should go back to the country of her birth, Greece. It seems to be doing pretty well these days.

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    • oldfart
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:19pm

      I’ll be more than happy to spring for her airfare (ONEWAY> OF COURSE!) But she has to promise never to come back!

      John Rich said it best: “if you don’t love America, then get the hell out!”

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  • WhiteGryphon
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:29am

    ter·ror·ist /ˈtɛrərɪst/ Show Spelled[ter-er-ist] Show IPA
    –noun
    1.a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
    2.a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
    3.(formerly) a member of a political group in russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
    4.an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
    –adjective
    5.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists: terrorist tactics.

    looks to me he fall in with the definition. maybe they are not using the same: http://dictionary.reference.com/

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  • Constitutional
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:27am

    Huffington, Sorros, Assange are all co-terrorists it seems. They all want to destroy the our freedoms and rights.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:26am

    Time Magazine plans to name Assange “Person of the Year.”

    The MSM is the enemy of America. It’s official.

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  • Lantern
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:22am

    For someone who is extorting our country, he is an enemy. And no doubt, the PuffinHo’s always play with the enemy.

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  • drbage
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:17am

    Couldn’t this be labelled “aiding and abetting the enemy?” Wonder what one would find looking into the background and funding of both Huffpo and Ariana? We already know that Huffpo is partially funded by Spooky Dude.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:16am

    Terrorist or not, he is an enemy of the state.

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:13am

    Arianna also thinks that Muslims are our friends…….and are peaceful and spreading goodwill.

    WOnder how many burka’s she has in her closet……..

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  • ohmyhec
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:13am

    Isn’t this Wikileak dude basically a TMZ for heads of governements?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:24pm

      Jillian Ass-ange leaked our documents
      and then got arrested for leaking himself

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    • oldfart
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:35pm

      Beautiful! GOD! I Love it when you “talk dirty” cheezwhiz!!!!!

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  • COMMIESSUCK
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:13am

    I am currently in contact with Al Sharpton and the FCC to discuss the censorship of the Huppington post. Stay tuned.

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:31am

      The Federal Commie Comission won’t stop her. She‘ll a commie who’ll scream “SEXISTS.”

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:25pm

      @J.C. McGlynn

      They will not stop her just because she is a declared communist and for no other reasons, until she becomes a liability to their cause.

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  • CatB
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:13am

    Huffington is part of the plan also .. she is a tool for Soros.

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    • LadyLiberty
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:16pm

      I came here to pretty much say that.

      Glenn – pls do a deep background show on BOTH assange and huffington

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    • BreatheFree
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:23pm

      I can’t believe people fall for that Soros nonsense coming from Fox/Murdoch. Too funny…

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  • guyperram
    Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:09am

    She is correct. He is a big part of their plan.

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:16am

      Yes she is correct. What is more dangerous for the lives of our troops? An organization putting out the truth about State Department secrets, Afghan and Iraqi field reports, or the fact that day in and day out, sometimes twice a day, for year long deployments, our troops are driving down IED infested roads.

      You feel like you’re more secure. We aren’t. In fact, we’re just creating more problems. We’re creating more terrorist. People who would never have thought twice about America now hate us because, opps, we killed their kids. Sorry. Our bad.

      If any of you cared about the lives of us soldiers, you’d demand that they come home immediately. Since when did conservatives take a liberal stance on nation building?

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:29am

      Do you think she’d be talking like this if her son was over there or the “Huph and Puph Post” was going to burn?

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    • Joseph
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:30am

      i dont think assange is a terrorist but he is putting our troops lives in danger by doing what he does.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:47am

      It’s difficult to figure out where to place your bet in a race where both the horses stink. I tend to believe Wikileaks and the government are both dirty…..Top down….bottom up….inside out….that‘s what it’s all about.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:04pm

      “for no clear national security reason?”

      Did she miss that whole flying planes into buildings thing? Or did she forget that’s where the guys who were behind the attack were?

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:08pm

      @ AmericanSoldier

      This is what we asked for. If you don‘t want to do the job I suggest you don’t sign the next contract when you EAS.

      …that is, IF you’re an American Soldier and not a paid troll from CAP, or some other Soros group.

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    • abc
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:17pm

      Matalin ought to explain how the leaks put our troops at risk more than their very presence in Afghanistan do. That is a tough one to argue. An insurance adjuster would score the risks a little different than Mary I-see-what-my-party-wants-me-to-see Matalin says.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:18pm

      Let the courts of the land decide if Assange is a terrorist or just a common criminal. There are most likely criminal charges to come against him here in America, and if he is bound over, let the folks of the land judge him by the evidence and if guilty then sentence him appropriately.

      The information concerning our troops overseas and our allies should not have been released on a straight forward moral grounds; to endanger others for the sake of a story or to ’cause chaos’ in his words is just wrong.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • nuttyvet
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:31pm

      I can’t take these people anymore. It is like they live in a world strictly defined by their anti-American principles. Remember where your president gets his news!

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    • booger71
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 12:58pm

      The only problem I see in war in Afghanistan(or any war since WW 2), is we don’t have the will to win it. You can’t win a war if it is fought in a politically correct manner. War is vulgar but sometimes necessary. We have got to fight in a way to break our enemies will to fight or don’t fight at all.

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    • GeauxAlready
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:00pm

      THIS IS A DISTRACTION!!!!!!!!!!! This is not the story, if it was something would have been made of it the first time. The Obama admin is in this sure as I’m sitting here. We have to look past this to the real story. Think! How did a punk PFC get all this stuff, he had to have help. All this crap swirling around is just smoke. A Obama, Soros stench is all around this…………

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    • 1st a Father
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:06pm

      I must agree with Arianna on this one. Terrorist is the wrong term to use in this instance. Let’s try progressive pawn, inciter of public chaos, or, my favorite, traitor to the American people. In earlier times. what he is doing would be considered an act of treason, punishable by death.

      Just something to think about.

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    • easyed598
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:08pm

      Arrianna has lost it .She should take her funny accent and go back to the Marxists country she came from.

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:20pm

      Assange should continue to release information.

      I love to see these elite bastards squirm.

      Do it Assange.

      Do it for freedom.

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:21pm

      @AmericanSoldier

      You are right, people just don’t like to hear the truth. Nation building is a progressive idea from the Wilsonian era. But many conservatives(as was I for some time) confused on what conservative means. I always thought that supporting troops meant you have to support whatever engagement they are in. I have since learned that supporting the troops means SUPPORT the TROOPS. Not to be confused with Supporting the WAR. There is a huge difference. We have to start taking accountability of what our govt does, even with wars.

      The truly conservative approach to wars would be to get in and out as fast as possible based on pre-conditions before going into that conflict, with a declaration of war. Instead, what we have now is an ongoing conflict where once the first condition is met, we just find a new one. Guess what… there are always going to be problems in this world. It is not our duty to bankrupt our country to fix all those problems. Wanting small govt domestically is just as important as having a small govt internationally.

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    • Dirty Harry
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:34pm

      When are we going to escort these moronic anti-Americans to the border? Those fruitloops are ruining our country under the guise of the First Amendment.

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    • Dearoldad
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:49pm

      First, “AmericanSoldier” should not have signed up if he didn’t want to take the risks or do the duty. Probably signed up to be a “weekend warrior” then discovered there is no such thing as a weekend warrior, but only real soldiers. Doubly distressing is that he would agree with a foreign born bimbo who is just desperately trying to remain relevant much like Jessie “Jackass” Jackson, AL “Knife You” Sharpton, Bill “Milktoast” Maher and the rest. Huffy needs to go back to Greece where things are really looking up these days. One final point, I don’t know that Assange is terrorist, but he is another liberal nut case, actually he is just a closet **** crying out for attention and doesn‘t give a rat’s rear who or what he hurts so long as he can try to claim relevence (which he isn’t).

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    • SemperCivis4Ever
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:58pm

      Ariana is a terrorist and objectionable. The Loony Left. Stupid and Evil.

      THE 100 YEAR CONSPIRACY – These Communists-Socialists-Anarchists got their strategy and talking points from a movement called DADA which merged with the Progressive thugs in 1918. The Dada’s were the movement elites and they have infiltrated government and academia;

      FROM THE DADA MANIFESTO: “We are streams of curses…..Morals have an atrophying effect, like every other pestilential product of the intelligence…AFTER THE CARNAGE, WE ARE LEFT WITH THE HOPE OF A PURIFIED HUMANITY….This task is not ordained by a supernatural force, but by a trust of ideas-merchants and academic monopolists”

      The Progressive-Dada (their true name) politic and is fully explained here: http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu. This online video and short essay, created by Marc Rubin, will open your eyes and connect the dots for you. The Artist has been fighting them for 35 years and learned about them from Salvador Dali, the front-line warrior since 1920.

      THE META-CONSPIRACY OF THE “BAD GUYS” OF HISTORY SINCE 3000 BCE is the Progressive “framework”. See how it emerged as a consequence of the first wars of civilization.Listen: Israel National Radio interview of artist Marc Rubin at http://www.marcrubin.com/judean-eve.ivnu

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    • Mister President
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 2:24pm

      Assange is not a terrorist. She is correct that the use of the word ‘terrorist’ to describe him is inaccurate, at best.

      However, Assange is, indeed, a clear and present danger to the United States of America, so the argument that he’s exercising Free Speech is bogus. His intention is clearly to harm and undermine America.

      “Clear and present danger is a term used by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the unanimous opinion for the case Schenck v. United States,[1] concerning the ability of the government to regulate speech against the draft during World War I:

      The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that the United States Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.” – Wikipedia

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    • broncocasey
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 4:11pm

      I agree with txpilot

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 4:46pm

      Are all of you devoid of ANY common sense just because it’s someone who is traditionally opposite of your personal beliefs stating her opinion?

      How do you not see the difference in putting people in harms way. If you truly believe we are still at war in Afghanistan for national security, you are absolutely blind. Afghanistan is NATION BUILDING. Nothing more. Nothing less. Conservatives USE to be against this, it use to be the Liberals with their bleeding hearts who called for interventions in other countries and for nation building.

      Soros plant, now I’ve heard it all. Thanks for all the credit. If only I was being paid for this!

      Yes, I am a soldier, active duty and in the INFANTRY. I’ve been to Afghanistan twice. I know first hand how things are over there. So why don’t you monday morning quarterbacks go sign up and see how much you enjoy patrolling IED infested streets every day. I joined as a wide eyes Republican cheering for Bush Jr. I opened my eyes as some of you here think you have. You haven’t. You are just as much asleep at the wheel as the liberals you so much despise.

      You know who else were considered terrorist? Our founding fathers. One man‘s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Assange might be a liberal but I agree with him that an overbearing Government with no limits on power and absolute secrecy is dangerous and has no place in a free society.

      You might think I’m a liberal. I’m far from it. I’m independent. I won’t let anyone or any party tell me what I believe. Too bad most of you are indoctrinated into the two party system. Both sides are hypocrites, plain and simple.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 6:07pm

      “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” Jefferson

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    • Dearoldad
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 7:50pm

      Sorry American Soldier, but I stand by my first reply. I have served my country and in a far more unpopular war than now. I did 4 years and 2 months during the Vietnam War (January 1966 to March 1970) so don’t begin to lecture me about signing up dude. Often we didn‘t agree and didn’t like what we were given to do, but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, we did not get our high horse and agree with foreign born bimbo’s even if they are partly right. The only right part I see is that Assange is not a terrorist, just a attention craving narcissist. Our government is not perfect especially with so many liberals and dumocrats in power, but that is now beginning to change and it will survive. What would you like, some South American style like Chavez, how about Iran style, run by religious idiots, how about Greece or Ireland where they are broke by over taxation and too many handouts? If you are a true soldier, not just a uniform wearer, you will quit criticizing your government until you are a civilian and then run for public office and do something. In the meantime, do your duty and don’t agree with the likes of Huffy Huffington.

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 8:27pm

      I mean exactly what I said. He is part of their plan to cause disruption among Americans. This guy is a Socialist and has been a featured speaker at their events. Does anyone really think that a single PFC could get all the stuff this guy has been coughing up?
      AmericanSoldier, I. for one, really do thank you for your service. In the Civil War they called it “seeing the elephant” and it really does change your point of view, forever. Given the sheer amount of Muslims that would prefer to see us dead, I really do not see the value of keep the war going, unless we actually go to win it. Release the military to do what needs to be done. They still won’t love us, but they definately will know better than to kick King Kong in the balls.

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    • Dale
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 9:47pm

      Joseph

      Don’t forget our elites and banks.

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    • areluu83
      Posted on December 7, 2010 at 11:15pm

      AMERICANSOLDIER
      So using your logic after WWII we should have just left Germany and Japan in ruins and came home and left them to rot.
      And your argument that the govt should have no secrets from us is just plain stupid. Should we have given out your coordinates every time you move in Afghanistan? Should we announce to the entire population on CNN any time we are going to make a raid? Should we let CBS, FOX, ABC, etc know the location of all our submarines? Maybe put the plans for the B2 and F117 on the internet?
      And yes our founding fathers were considered terrorist…by a tyrant!!

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:42am

      I am not a soldier, but saying you should wait till your out of the military to speak out makes no sense. What if your govt asked you to round up your fellow Americans for detention camps? What if you were asked as a soldier to fight your fellow Americans, even though you knew it was WRONG and that your govt was corrupt. Then what? The odds of this ever happening are slim, but we are not immune to having our own tyrants.

      Then you have to ask yourself while your over there, what makes those people so different. Granted when your in a foreign land, things have to be handled differently. But Americansoldier is making valid points and probably should check out Adam Kokesh. He is also a former Marine who fought in Fallujah and has since then started to run in the political world to make a difference.

      As for the Japs and Germans rotting… you are delusional. We are still there over 60 years later… I think they are doing just fine now.

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