Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell said in an interview Monday that U.S. policy in Syria should be to make Iran and Russia “pay a price” by arming local groups and instructing them to kill Iranian and Russian personnel in the country.
Morell was appearing on the Charlie Rose show on PBS in the wake of his publicly endorsing Hillary Clinton on the New York Times opinion pages.
Clinton has expressed support for increased military intervention in Syria against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government. Iran and Russia are backing Assad.
“What they need is to have the Russians and Iranians pay a little price,” Morell said. “When we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia, who were killing American soldiers, right? The Iranians were making us pay a price. We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria. We need to make the Russians pay a price.”
Morell said the killing of Russians and Iranians should be undertaken “covertly, so you don’t tell the world about it, you don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say ‘we did this.’ But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.”
Morell also proposed that U.S. forces begin bombing Syrian government installations, including government offices, aircraft and presidential guard positions. The former acting CIA director said that he wanted to “scare Assad.” Morell clarified that he wasn’t actually calling for Assad’s assassination.
He compared his proposal to American support for groups that targeted Russian forces in Afghanistan during the 1980’s — efforts that later helped incubate al Qaeda. He seemed unconcerned about how other parties might respond to such actions, beyond speculating that they might provide leverage for future negotiations.
If put into effect, Morell’s plans would entail a massive escalation of American covert military involvement in Syria that would bring the United States much closer to direct confrontation with Russia and Iran.
Morell’s endorsement of Clinton was quickly seen as a sign that he was interested in a role in a possible Clinton administration. He wrote that Clinton would be a “highly qualified commander in chief” and a “strong proponent of a more aggressive approach” to the conflict in Syria.
Morell told Rose that he had not discussed his proposal to kill Russian and Iranian personnel in Syria with Clinton, though he believed she was supportive of efforts to gain “diplomatic leverage.”
After leaving the CIA in 2013, Morell authored a memoir entitled “The Great War of Our Time.” The book was widely criticized for defending detainee torture in the post-9/11 era. Morell was also a co-author of a “rebuttal” to the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report.
Last week, CBS announced that Morell had left his role as a network news analyst so that he could begin publicly supporting Clinton’s run. During his interview with Rose, Morell continued to heap praise on Clinton’s perspective on U.S. relations with Syria, Russia and Iran.
This weekend, Hillary Clinton touted Morell’s endorsement on her Twitter page:
"She will deliver on the most important duty of a president—keeping our nation safe." —Michael Morell on Hillary https://t.co/zmI3BOCH9Y
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 7, 2016
In other circles, Morell’s op-ed generated criticism of his role in defending torture, and the Times‘s failure to identify his employment at a consulting firm with strong ties to Clinton:
I ran the CIA, defended torture, now work for a former Clinton aide, and will accordingly endorse Hillary Clinton https://t.co/NzUvUedz7G
— Domenic Powell (@_vectorist) August 5, 2016
The Charlie Rose interview led one blogger to further update the title of Morell’s op-ed:
"I ran the CIA now I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton and I want Hillary to kill lots of Russians and Iranians in Syria":https://t.co/Ka7oSby9kk
— Christoph Germann (@newgreatgame) August 9, 2016
Top photo: Morell testifies on Capitol Hill in 2014.
If Morell is the best the Agency has to offer, CIA’s intelligence and operations directorates should be replaced by a New York Times subscription.
What on earth is a transitional government representing all Syrians supposed to look like? Why does Morell think such a government will end the civil war when transitional governments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Libya have failed to end civil wars? How can a such a diverse government agree on anything?
Even if other nations agree to such a plan, the underlying issues of the war will remain. Nevertheless, Morell asserts that the US employ military force in support of this fantastical scheme. Isn’t one American death in Iraq more than enough?
Morell insists that the United States must remain militarily engaged in Syria because its civil war is feeding extremism in Iraq and Syria. He forgets that extremism in the region was fueled by Syria’s oppressive regime and hostility towards its neighbors long before the civil war erupted.
If national security requires the United States to extinguish the forces of extremism wherever they exist by military means, as Morell suggests, we will be at war throughout the Middle East and North Africa till the end of time.
Moral high ground? We don’t need any stinking moral high ground!
Consider the following passages from the above article:
“Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell said in an interview Monday that U.S. policy in Syria should be to make Iran and Russia “pay a price” by arming local groups and instructing them to kill Iranian and Russian personnel in the country. … He compared his proposal to American support for groups that targeted Russian forces in Afghanistan during the 1980’s — efforts that later helped incubate al Qaeda. He seemed unconcerned about how other parties might respond to such actions, beyond speculating that they might provide leverage for future negotiations… Morell … was widely criticized for defending detainee torture in the post-9/11 era”.
Is this an indication of the CIA attracting sick sexual intercoursers–viz., sick f___’s? Second, if Clinton puts this sick sexual intercourser on her staff, what would this tell us about Hillary? Finally if,
“U.S. policy in Syria should be to make Iran and Russia ‘pay a price’ by arming local groups and instructing them to kill Iranian and Russian personnel in the country”,
then would this not legitimate making American and Westerners “‘pay a price’ by arming local groups and instructing them to kill [American] and [Western] personnel in the country”? Maybe not. Like any school yard bully, Mr. Morell might be of the mind, “When I do it, it’s fair. When you do it, it’s not fair. WAAHHH …”.
My goodness, please, please tell me Mr. Morell is NOT typical of CIA personnel, because if he is, our foreign policy is in deep trouble.
This man belongs in a prison or a mental institution, but he will probably be appointed to a high-level cabinet position instead.
video link not working. seems to have changed to https://charlierose.com/videos/28568
wow…what a bunch of crooks, is there anyone in US govt with a clean slate?
Listen well this interview, which is to say the former director of the terrorist network C.I.A. I always believe that and I always say that the united states of america is found on terrorism.
Sounds like Hitlery’s perfect choice for secretary of state.
And we find out that Hillary’s good friend Kissinger delayed action to help end mass killings in Argentina. Hillary would be worse at foreign affairs than trump
It is kind of like who do you want to be the boss of Gotham?
The Joker, a psycho who loves chaos for its own sake or The Batman, a billionaire whose stunted imagination sees the only solution to crime is to personally hit the criminals over and over again.
Neither one is going to make a city I want to live in.
Anyone that endorses torture might as well be regarded as Satan in the flesh. The fact that he so vociferously endorses Hillary leaves me with not much hope, considering that she is the more than likely future president.
Not if you vote for Trump. He may be a bit crazy, but hes not mad with power, like Hillary Hawk, yuking it up about Gadafhi death.
If one tells a lie enough times, then it becomes commonly accepted as truth…
http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/shiite-syrian-overthrow.html
Hillary and her backers — Rothschilds and other American Big Money clans and banks — are so morally decrepit, that the only way they can curry popularity is by playing on the “I’m the lesser of two evils!” gambit, with Trump being the Greater Evil, apparently.
More and more I’m starting to believe that Trump, long-time Democrat and friend of the Clinton family until his campaign, is really a false flag for Clinton: a foil to make her look like less of a Hitler-esque candidate by comparison. The corrupt mainstream media and its investors were too quick on the draw to denounce Trump as Hitler — almost as if they were paid to do so by whoever sends them that infamous “This Is What You Will Write Today”-newsletter that all mainstream media outlets obey, but with Trump’s consent. Now, I’m only half-kidding — I do think that Trump wants to be more than a foil, and wouldn’t make a fool of himself for friendship reasons. He appears to be backed up by Deutsche Bank and other foreign investors and oligarchs, since he keeps most of his money outside of the States, and a few years ago had started to expand /outside/ of America, as if planning to move his entire operations out of the country. The Clintons are traditional representatives of the Rothschilds, Morgans and other American Big Money families and investors, the same people who own all American media. The only way one can make head or tail of this election is by understanding it as a dynamic dispute between German banks and American banks, who are now vying for total control of NATO, EU and superpower of the West. This much is reflected in Brexit and in today’s situation in Turkey. Guellen was backed by the USA as an attempt to oust Erdogan, who has strong German ties (Turkish-Germans often joke that Erdogan has Merkel on speed-dial), and replace him with a US-loyal puppet. The division of the EU is a sign of Germany weakening its stronghold on Europe, because the EU had always been dominated by Germany — with one important factor: the concept of the EU itself had been conceived by the UK (Winston Churchill first proposed it). Yes Minister (or was it Yes Prime Minister?) has a scene that’s gone viral on Youtube, where the ambassador (I think) was talking about UK’s role as silent observer and monitor of peace and economic balance (or imbalance) in Europe through the EU. UK was the most sovreign country out of all EU members, since it retained its currency and its legal system. The country that benefited the most /economically/ was Germany, however. Brexit was a sign that the UK would leave the EU over to total German control. If Brexit had led to the EU cracking up, which it almost did, then that would have been a sign that American banks were trumping European ones. But that did not happen after all. In all likelihood, before the next US president even has the chance to mention Russia or Iran in a speech, Germany will have already announced direct confrontation with Russian and Iranian troops, possibly via Turkey — Germany will get NATO under its thumb and nudge Turkey into undertaking the first phase of all-out war. Then Germany will probably take the helm, like it has done in the previous two world wars.
But back to Trump and the suspicious media: After all, they were never bothered by neofascist demagoguery before. Ironically, when Bush, Cruz, Ryan, Walker or Romney were making orations with a distinctly Goebbelian flair, the media was stubbornly quiet. The only Hitler-comparisons I had come across were on the Daily Show and Newgrounds, but even those outlets were cautious about the likes of Scott Walker.
Last month, I spotted a Bohemian upper-class cafe in Milan in a very swanky neighborhood, with Trump dressed up as Hitler painted on one window, and Trump dressed up as a bloody-mouthed boar on another. That’s just the tip of the “Trump Boogeyman” bandwagon.
Nary an article appears on Politico, Mother Jones or Democracy Now that doesn’t talk about Trump in some way or that actually concerns itself with real-world, pressing issues, like Erdogan’s new pro-fascist movement in Turkey, Putin’s betrayal of Russia (heck, we all knew he was on the West’s side decades ago, when he and his buddy Yeltsin were quite open about being as thick as thieves with US and German conservatives — the Russia-America political feud is a farce created by Russia Today and American papers. In reality, both governments have corruption issues, and both peoples are exploited), and riots in Brazil. The Intercept has touched on a few of these points, but the only other news outlet that actually gave these events worthy mention was Worker’s World, a pro-communist site. In spite of accustions that communists and social-democrats are incredibly biased against moderate liberals and conservatives, only their sites actually discuss workers’ movements, farmers’ movements, riots, new bills being passed, etc, without mudslinging.
“You never look good making somebody else look bad.”
This is a tenet that more news sites ought to embrace, since many have basically turned into “TMZ: Political Edition”.
Even the Intercept has been guilty of this a few times. One article slandering the Bundy family comes to mind. In fact, many of this site’s headlines could be interpreted as political clickbait. I respect a lot of the journalists here because the writing quality and research efforts are genuinely high — higher than average, for sure — but political mudslinging and clickbaiting is not cool. And when you have a good writing time, they’re also unnecessary.
As for Clinton: well, just another puppet. No surprise there. The woman had never formed a single autonomous opinion in her entire life, except perhaps early on in college, when she decided being an amoral political shill was a worthy calling.
The only way to ensure that these puppets don’t get into power is by connecting with an ideology akin to social-democracy, or even socialism or communism outright. Capitalism means profit-driven — there is no way it can be regulated or cleaned up, unless the whole system was exchanged. A proper democracy ought to be enforced; outsourcing, financial speculation, private banking, prison slavery and shady investments ought to be abolished; and every company that underpays its employees, mass-fires them or is embroiled in massive injury/pollution charges, should be given over to government directors and unions formed by workers from that company. In other words, a pro-social democratic system. Not advocating such a system, but just sitting on one’s butt all day, complaining about how all today’s politicians suck, is a waste of everybody’s time. As the world closes in on another world war, picking a side — pro-capitalist or anti-capitalist — becomes increasingly urgent.
And you wonder what we in Russia is more like Trump, who Kissinger adviser rather than Clinton with this idiot?
Although in the end the result will be the same.
This is insane. How many of these bozos do we have working today?!
This guy wants us to lose WWIII. We cannot do what he says and come out even let alone on top. We will not survive. It must be a trick to confuse people. Either its a trick or insanity that will kill us.
Another deranged neoCON advocating war with Russia to try and hide the abject failure of the corrupt Establishment’s “globalist” agenda.
This guy is gonna get us all killed.
Maybe it’s time to start a 3rd political party. The Sociopath Party. They seem to be growing by the day.
This is certifiable and a complete mad crazed psychopath. This was always my biggest fear with Clinton, she too is a war mongering psychopath who is totally beholden to the Zionist neocons and the military oligarchy.
How did Morell the psychopath reach such a high level in the CIA without a psych examination?
Who let all the psychopaths out of the insane asylums? This country — my country — has gone beserk! How could a fool such as Morell ever become interim head of the CIA? You need to add the name of the person who appointed him. Does that position require the approval of congress? Then say so, one way or the other. You — the author — are doing only a tiny part of your job. Somebody put that idiot there, and some one is actually giving his advice credence. What executives put Morell on the Charllie Rose show. Dang you, they orta take a rope and hang you. Name names. Call the traitors and idiots out.
“Morell also proposed that U.S. forces begin bombing Syrian government installations…”
Didn’t Morell get the memo? Congress already voted against U.S. forces bombing Syria. Yet democracy hold little value for authoritarians like Morell, in fact it is viewed as a form of weakness. For these Neocons, great leaders create plans and never deviate from them, regardless of how the people or their elected representatives vote.
U.S. policy in Syria should be to make Iran and Russia “pay a price” by arming local groups and instructing them to kill Iranian and Russian personnel in the country.
What the dumbsh*t Morell doesn’t already know is Iran and Russia have already been paying a price for their involvement to clean up the mess Morell and his boss Obama/Hillary created. Many Iranian fighters have been killed fighting the scum of the earth whom Morell supports. Morell and the establishment are exactly the reason people should not serve in the military where you will have to carry out fantasies of creeps like him.
A former CIA director is penly calling for covert political assassinations in countries who won’t do the US’ bidding. Presumably these murders will blamed on Putin or the Iranian Supreme Council as they are the only evil leaders who will do such a thing. Have no fear, the corporate media will frame any other hypothesis as “crazy conspiracy theory”…..in unison.
They have definitely been planting the seeds for this, given the political climate they seem hell-bent on creating.
Get rid of the CIA … save lives and money!
That was the advise of the father US foreign policy in Cold War, George F. Kennan
That this epitome of the Washington suit-and-tie killer crowd can state these “ideas” without being met with near-universal derision goes a long way to explain why US policy in the region has been inane, not to mention immoral, for decades.
Until these folks are brought to justice for their crimes against humanity, nothing will change.
Seeing as Obama has formally endorsed HRC, and HRC has with a proud tweet in effect endorsed Morell’s stance and even mind-set, then it seems to me that, simply out of respect for diplomacy, it now behooves Obama to urgently, formally, and publicly apologize to Putin, and to all the Russian people, for this US maniac’s statements and to give his earnest assurance that, at the CIA and the Pentagon, no such other maniacs exist (– this at risk of their forfeiting future pensions as the stipulated price for such manifestly un-American bellicosity, as now flagrantly displayed by, perish the fucking thought, a former CIA acting chief).
On balance then, are all the folks here voting Libertarian, Cthulu, Constitution, or Green, or “None of the above – Brewster’s Mill” Party. Or is constitutional resistance — armed revolution what we are all waiting for, but hoping never really happens, and we just slide in to a lesser form of being nationally speaking?
It would be great if TI summed up all this political corruption to say here’s evidence for No Confidence.
If we’re still using the ballot box, and not pulling triggers, who do we trust? Did Van Halen write a song called ballot or the bullet? Yuck. what a mistake to have Gary Cherone front that band huh?
Many people here (including me) support the Green Party. A few are Libertarians, some are going to vote Trump, and a guy named Jimmy is going to vote for Clinton after making a mural of her out of flowers on his front lawn.
And all – even hideously misinformed weirdos – get to vote how they choose. If the establishment counts the votes honestly, it’s all fair.
I had to laugh at the lawn comment. Sorry Jimmy.
I think part of the problem is inherent in the fact that most people think there are only two choices, and they have already been chosen. Not ‘two likely to win’ but two, period. I had to correct my local convenience store manager on this and he argued I was wrong. And he took the citizenship test, too, not even American schooling. People need better awareness not just more and better choices.
“Birds with the same feathers flock together”.
“Morell said the killing of Russians and Iranians should be undertaken “covertly, so you don’t tell the world about it, you don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say ‘we did this.’ But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.”
He sounds like the perfect choice for Killary’s Secretary of State.
Morrell also said during this Rose interview that “Russia must be integrated into the West.” If that is not a call for ‘regime change’ and military/economic invasion, I don’t know what is.
Hillary’s hitman?
TheScaleman
July 26 2016, 1:54 p.m.
The body count is adding up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/07/12/hillary-clinton-invokes-name-of-slain-dnc-aide-seth-rich-in-calling-for-gun-control/
“Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks,” Assange said. “As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington.”
Appeal for sanity @ loony USA:-
http://www.rt.com/politics/355405-duma-lawmakers-blast-ex-cia/
Very poor argument against Clinton, and your reasoning is rather lazy. Apart from the fact that you are essentially using guilt by association, implying his endorsement of Hillary means that Hillary endorses him and all his policies, you also completely fail to mention Assad’s crimes against innocent civilians, which includes the use of Sarin gas.
We took an aggressive approach against Libya and killed Gaddafi, and a passive approach with Syria. It is not yet clear which policy prevailed. Both countries are in disarray.
Perhaps the worst part of this article is the mention of Morell’s support of torture. Again the implication you are trying to make is that Clinton somehow supports this view by association, and that cannot be further from the truth.
The fact is that essentially the entire foreign policy establishment supports Hillary, pacifists and hawks together. Hell, even Noam Chomsky says to vote Clinton, and he is basically The Intercept’s godhead.
Who are the “pacifists” in the the US foreign policy establishment?
That’s silly. You’re acting as if the US left Syria alone, and then you go “see — we do nothing, and things still get fucked up.” Everyone knows that (1) the mess in Syria is to a large extent a result of the Iraq war, and (2) the US supports rebels that fight on the same side as ISIS against the government of Syria.
The reality is that Clinton did not learn anything from her Iraq “mistake”, and never will learn from similar mistakes.
If you believe in “lesser of 2 evils” logic, maybe you should think about which is the lesser of 2 evils in Syria.
Not true; Libya belongs to Clinton. Yes, France started it but Hillary convinced Obama to go in full bore. Hillary also authorized sending Libyan weapons to the “rebels” (remember what the north did when the south rebelled in your own land) enlarging a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and made millions refugees. Actually, Libya was a functioning country with the highest standard of living in the Arab world but Gaddafi had to threaten the US/European Banks stranglehold on the continent so he had to go. Like Saddam threatened to destroy the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency by pricing his oil in Euros. Couldn’t have that, he had to go; another good place for an Arab to live. It’s never good to mess in other peoples business and no one is more complicit here than the USA. Hillary equals more death and destruction abroad and more screwing over of the working class at home. Trump; who knows but at least these National Security murderers are not endorsing him. Come to think of it; neither are the large corporations who pay no tax now but may be forced to pay 15% with Trump. Is this really the best the USA can do, a couple of badly flawed geriatrics?
It must be said that Noam Chomsky is in this regard gravely mistaken and (in my view) a hypocrite.
Regardless, people’s right to vote how they choose is to be respected – even if they support corruption with it.
“Regardless, people’s right to vote how they choose is to be respected – even if they support corruption with it.” just like Winston Churchill said “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter” your country is filled with stupid fucks who don’t know shit why they are even voting.
Oh, Hillary does endorse this lunatics suggestions. Heck they worked together when he was director of CIA and she Sec of State. They helped funnel weapons, money, and arms via rat lines from Turkey into Syria to the radical Sunni Islamic terrorists whom committed worse crimes than Assad. And by the way, double check your Sarin gas usage. Carla Del Ponte of the UN investigated this attack and several others prior and it turned out that the rebels (controlled by Saudi Arabia) used it hoping to get Obama to launch an attack on Assad. Assad didn’t have to use Sarin gas since his forces were crushing the head choppers of Saudi Arabia and friends of the American establishment. The American Establishment are the greatest murderers on the planet making Assad look like a prince in comparison.
I do seem to recall that the sarin gas attacks originally attributed to Assad were later more reliably attributed to US backed rebels, if memory serves.
Idiots like you seem to never learn history. Taking down Assad means more power to Isis and abosolute control for them. I don’t know how Hitlery made you all believe she is the best person ever.
Yay! Another neo-con for hillary! Might as well add the warmongers who signed the national security letter denouncing trump’s foreign policy too. Not a trump supporter but agree with his phrase regarding the 2nd amendment that the msm is frothing at the mouth over. In other news, Assange more than suggests Seth Rich, the murdered dnc staffer, was one of their sources of the dnc leak. Crickets from the globalist presstitutes.
And so here it is, no longer ISIS or Daesh or even Al Qaeda or whatever bullshit presented before – it is now Shiite Iranians and the Old Foe, Russia. Quelle Suprise! There was a time when the US would formulate clever little schemes that hid their hand and created large dollops of plausible deniability, but this is just brazenly pathetic. Call us all terrorists and start the killing, I am getting bored of it all and curious to see how little of the murdering the modern news outlets can bring themselves not to report. I fail to see how any of this can end well…
This reveals the faux concern over Trump’s ambiguous comment which really was a statement based on “constitutional resistance” as favoured by the National Rifle Assocation propaganda template. Let’s not forget that in June, 2008, the Harpy unambiguously stated that she was continuing in the race against Obama because a “Robert Kennedy” episode might occur and give her the nomination. This gangster organization (the Clinton campaign) is the real threat to civilization, as this Morell statement indicates.
Wahlverwandschaften! — So these are the kind of psychos who inexorably gravitate to the psychopath Clinton, and whom she then proudly parades as proselytes. Only real difference between Clinton / Morell and the sociopath Trump is — that he would seem to advocate only the killing of Hillary, whereas this Morell maniac under HRC’s thumb would limit the killing to Syrians, Iranians, and Russians (= Trump exceptionalism vs American exceptionalism, I guess).
Hillary is personally killing Russians and Iranians in Syria? She probably doesnt even know herself the death count, so I find it a bit hard to believe she is up there done doin killin dem dere people herself. Id rather a president that doesnt sicc a peoples on one another at all. I hope by some miracle a third party candidate wins.
Americans! Now much fell into place. Absolutely schizophrenic former head of the CIA offers a patient with rabies uterus and schizophrenia candidate in American presidential kill Iranians and Russian. Let’s rather likely vote for this Pussy Riot! And this asshole and his schizophrenic chief – the President will ride through the streets of Moscow in an iron cage for the amusement of the people.
Why have we allowed the Jewish element in the USA to take the top positions in the military and security operations? Morrel, along with a large number of Jews in the state department, formulate their opinions by “What is good for Israel is good for the USA”. Its a bunch of bull. The result is an almost 20 trillion dollar debt (fighting Israel’s war with borrowed money), a growing hate in the Arab countries against the USA and little or no gain for America. Is America for or against military coups? In Syria yes, in Egypt no.
The US does not fight Israel’s wars.
Israel fights its own wars.
This place is infested with Kremlin Kockroaches pushing the midget dictator’s BS here elsewhere. Pay no heed and move on.
Better a Kremlin Kockroach than Klinton’s Demokrat KKK, the only mass-murdering political party to have commited the war crime of dropping nuclear devices on a civilian population. I see no Democracy. I see no social justice and equality. I just see murderous megalomania.
Another sociopath in the governmental echelon. The government is the enemy, full of sick psychotic threats to evolution and humanity
“WE think the price is worth it” (emphasis added).
Madeleine Albright said this about the killing of over
500,000 children. So, when Morrel says “a little price”
it is because their economics
(which is central to Wall Street’s Washington)
categorizes life as small change in regard to the
acquisition of their idea of REAL money.
U.S.A. Terrorist #1, The Great Satan yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Please feel the difference between hard working everyday American people and bloody government. Two different Americas…
Yes
Oh, come on, people! Why does this particular statement surprise you at all?
For the last 2 years Russia was a All-Evil-Central according to the US and NATO. It started slowly and quietly, slowly escalatingin to yealling for any twitch that russians make. First it was Ukraine and sanctions, then Crimea, then Siria, then Olympicks and now it goes to open calls for killing them.
Better get ready, people, because pretty soon either Russia will finally decide to NOT take this s**t quietly, or the US patience will run out and the entire “civilised world” will set out to bring democracy and end the oppression of poor russians.
When CIA tools say “Gee, I sure wish we could do XYZ”, it is a sure sign they are already doing XYZ and are just offering lame cover.
Could be.
Plausible Deniability is dead. Stories originating from the United States government are no longer plausible.
Here is a story that provides a little background context about Syria. It was linked at Antiwar.com. Antiwar.com has been providing superior coverage of World Affairs for many years. Lots of good stuff there.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/09/spies-for-hire-now-at-war-in-syria.html
Yeah !…this man is ready for any “asylum”…right now !!..with people like this one roaming free in the streets, the world is in Real Peril !!…
Remember, it’s got to be covert. You don’t want to announce it on national television, say like the on the stupid Charlie Rose show.
” I wanna do this. I wanna do that.”
Go right ahead, you psychopath. Take all of the other crooks and think tank warriors, armchair generals, and keyboard warriors in government with you……the ones who are always calling for death and destruction, as long as it’s other people doing the dirty work and dying. WTF have we allowed these crazies to turn our country into ?! It’s just a game to these people, like a giant game of Risk.
Eisenhower warned us.
Exactly. People need to take a very close look at this piece of filth. These are the ones that are getting your sons and daughters killed. They never risk anything of their own, rather it is always others that have to do the dying for them.
One thing this Trump campaign has done if nothing else, is expose the neo-con vermin that are firmly in Clinton’s camp.
The judgement of God is coming upon America. Every deed, every act, every scheme, they will be held accountable for.
Great post and spot on. Eisenhower’s warning was ignored, the military-industrial complex has since grown to the point that the corporations that are part of it (Cheney/Halliburton, Bush family/Carlyle Group/, etc) occupy the key government positions like president, secretary of defense, etc. Until they are removed, nothing will change. Note how seamless the transition from Clinton to Bush to Obama to Clinton (?) is: there is actually no significant change in foreign policy between each of these admins.
Super Provacative! Guess it won’t be any surprise now if Russian & Iranian troops start dying ‘mysteriously’.
Hey I have an idea: if Michael Morell is so eager to kill lots more Syrians, Russians and Iranians why doesn’t he dress his chickenshit ass up in a white T-shirt with a big U.S. flag on the front and backside, along with some stars and stripes shorts–then have the airforce airdrop his ass into ISIS controlled territory with a gun? Its time for Mikey boy to to stop bloviating and start workin’ you CIA bitch!
yes sir. Real Americans everywhere feel the same way. We dont have leaders, we have a shitload of profiteering pirates wanting to sacifice Americans for the greed of their paymasters.
THAT MUST END.
Hillary or Trump if WE the people do not step up and “check their fire” something Very bad may happen. Trump will inspire such resistance, Hillary will slide it past us and WE may end up in a bigger war than We bargained for.
This guy is fucking insane. This crazy prick should be dragged into the street and publicly executed.
If evolution made people look the way they behave, the creatures in Washington would have by now shark teeth coming out of their mount, eyes, ears and nose.
This is an indicator of what’s wrong with the CIA. Morell should be in jail rather than gov’t office holder as he is nothing more than a common thug. And he’s a Hillary supporter – great omen.
Ex-CIA spook who whitewashed Benghazi endorses Hillary https://counterjihadreport.com/2016/08/08/ex-cia-spook-who-whitewashed-benghazi-endorses-hillary/
The very same Michael Morell
Here are other achievements of Michael Morell
https://counterjihadreport.com/tag/michael-morell/
Something seems fishy about this “counter jihad report” website.
It would be good to find out what were Michael Morell’s CIA assignments around 9/11.
According to wikipedia:
Morell “also managed the staff that produced the Presidential Daily Briefings for President George W. Bush. Morell was Bush’s briefer during the September 11, 2001, attacks, and has been quoted as saying, “I would bet every dollar I have that it’s al Qaeda.” Later, Morell was a trusted asset to President Barack Obama in the Osama bin Laden raid on May 2, 2011.[1][2]””
“Morell said the killing of Russians and Iranians should be undertaken “covertly, so you don’t tell the world about it, you don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say ‘we did this.’”
Ummm… is this guy a moron?
Wow, another dumb fuck about to be placed in a position where he will likely do real harm.
This is like an ex-KGB head saying that Russia should arm Al Qaeda in Yemen to kill Saudis and Americans and Brits over the Yemen War.
And, in any case, the covert arming and financing of radical Islamic groups in Syria by the CIA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel and Turkey from late 2011 through 2015 is a well-established fact, even if the media refuses to report on it.
Morrell’s op-ed is probably just a PR effort aimed at covering up this fact; a detailed investigation of CIA training camps in Turkey and Jordan would likely reveal that most of their trained fighters defected to ISIS or Al Qaeda once they entered Iraq. Morell, after all, was working under Leon Panetta when the whole Libyan-Syrian debacle was initiated; he has a lot to cover up, as does Clinton.
Yeah, looks like Mossad and the CIA are both very worried that their men who created ISIS and are part of ISIS might now get destroyed in Syria by the Russians.
One can hope the turnaround in the war will continue, so that IS, Al-Nusra, Al-Sham and their allies are defeated before Clinton gets voted in and decides to change sides in the War on Terror, like she did in Libya. The Russophobes are already pushing for a ceasefire (or intervention, like they did in Libya) so the bad guys in Aleppo won’t get wiped out by the Syrians, Iranians and Russians.
No one has mentioned it?
Michael Morell is the CIA agent that personally sat with Colin Powell for several days to go over “The Evidence”. This was the preparation for the worst day of Powell’s life when he gave his infamous speech, “Saddam Has WMD”, before the UN and the world.
Well short of employing nuclear weapons, in which case we’re all dead, future Pres. Hillary Clinton sparking it off with eitherIran or Russia, much less both of them, would be the end of America’s little experiment in empire.
America couldn’t defeat a pallet of cheese whiz much less the Iranians or Russians. America couldn’t defeat the people of Viet Nam, couldn’t defeat the decades long sanctioned people of Iraq, and sure as shit got its ass handed to it by the various warring folks in Afghanistan.
So, I’m really trying to figure out which geniuses at the Pentagon or various other alphabet agencies think provoking the Iranians and Russians (who have just as many nukes as we do) is a smart move.
I’m all for America’s little experiment in empire ending. But I’d really prefer not to see it end at the receiving end of a bunch of mushroom clouds or the utter defeat of our military on Syrian soil with either the Iranians or Russians sending our kids home in a whole lot of body bags.
Really and truly the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard in my lifetime. I looked seriously into moving to Canada or South America when Shrub was elected. But if this is the sort of “advice” Hillary Clinton will consider seriously as POTUS then that makes her marginally worse then Shrub coming right out of the gate, and I better get back on the phone to those immigration attorneys in both places and start liquidating what little in retirement and other assets I have and get to steppin’. Because sparking it off with Russia and/or Iran would be borderline suicidal for the US with or with the help of the British, French, Turks and whatever other barely armed allies are part of NATO.
:)
And by the same token, I pity the nation(s) that are ever dumb enough to try and cross either/both of two big oceans and try and conquer America(ns) on our own soil. It is generally speaking a very bad idea to spark it up with others on their own lands unless the whole world (or the armed part of it anyway) is aligned with you and prepared to battle to the death with you.
Americans are a vicious lot, and armed to the teeth, and know our lands like the back of our hands. You’d have to be suicidal to try unless you softened us up with nuclear weapons in a bunch of key areas without us destroying you in retaliation or destroying the entire planet in the process.
Not fucking with Russia and/or Iran on their own turf (or doing stupid shit that might lead to doing that) is the only sane foreign policy anybody with two functioning brain cells should ever consider because it is the same for them. They may not presently have as many guns in circulation as America but it wouldn’t be hard to manufacture them quickly or get them from various other nations.
Anybody who doesn’t understand how many human beings Russia sacrificed to defeat Germany by comparison to the US in WWII, or that Iran has 80 million people situated on a land mass roughly the size of Mexico (about 3X as large as Afghanistan) and that attacking Iran or Russia would unify almost all of their people in defense, is both ignorant of the facts and stupid to boot.
It would be an epic disaster that would make invading Iraq and/or Afghanistan look good, and would only be suggested by someone very very high on some very reality distorting drugs, suicidal or a full blown psychopath (or gaming things out in the hypothetical). Short of that I want no part of it for any reason because it’s not just earth-ending dumb, it’s immoral as hell.
Yes sir. on our own soil, the only legitimate defence.
America was robbed by wallstreet thieves.
I wonder whose soil they believe they are upon.
It would be wise for all America to view Hillary’s medical records just to make sure she isnt popping prozac, valium, etc.
I thank you and salute you for your forthrightness.
“Liberal” Justin Trudeau is down with regime change in Russia and didn’t hesitate to get involved in the troop deployment to Russia’s border.
Even CBC casually tosses out the phrase “Russian aggression” routinely.
First-
Why do we allow PBS to keep airing Charlie Rose?
He is the softball interviewer of choice for all the neocons who want to justify their war crimes without being challenged.
It is sociopathic propaganda.
Second-
Does anybody recall the news reports from way back… last week… when al Qaida “rebels” shot down a Russian helicopter killing five using US supplied weapons to do it?
They didn’t use rocks in a slingshot or whittle the missile out of Lebanese cedar.
Turkey using US supplied weapons to shoot down a Russian jet isn’t much different either.
The policy this war criminal announced on TV is our current practice.
It’s not theoretical or something that may be implemented.
It’s here.
It’s been here for a while.
Third-
Why are Americans tolerating a multi-billion boondoggle of a policy by Obama and all the warmongers in DC in both parties where we support the “good rebels” who promptly hand over our weapons to al Qaida in an illegal war crime that strengthens the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 while killing hundreds of thousands, destroying a country that posed zero threat to America, and is creating millions of refugees who are a financial and security burden for all?
Fourth-
What are we getting out of this policy?
Does outrage over a few thousand human rights violations justify killing hundreds of thousands?
Fifth-
Why would a presidential candidate welcome the endorsement from a nutjob who admits our war crime policy on TV?
Sixth-
What’s next?
If we intervene directly and bomb Assad out of power, are we then going to bomb the radical Sunni Islamists out of power too?
Right now, either IS or al Qaida would be running Syria.
The “good rebels” who collaborate with and behave just like al Qaida and spend half their time fighting amongst themselves can’t win a fight and can’t even defend their meager bases without US or British special forces bailing them out (see the article on todays BBC news home page).
They’re not the ones who will be able to exert control even if we support them for decades.
And, they have no legal, ethical or moral right to leadership of any kind.
knock knock.
who’s there?
isreal.
is real who?
is real istic to use purchase of US weapons by the the money the US gives us to then sell those weapons to whomever to destabilise the region so that we may continue on our Yinon Plan.
from the “good” horses mouth
‘Israel Would Be Embarrassed if It Were Known It’s Selling Arms to …
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.669852 – Cached – Similar
Aug 7, 2015 … The problem is that Israel is involved in places that the United States and Europe … We know Israel is selling arms to Azerbaijan, South Sudan and Rwanda. … Besides which, you can make money from arms exports without a permit, … Are countries that need such an intermediary unable to buy directly, ..
For those worrying that Morell is failing to follow his own advice, it’s all part of the ploy. The goal is to fool other countries into believing your foreign policy makers are brain dead, so they become cocky and overconfident.
Morell is right that sending troops to foreign countries sets them up as targets, for anyone who wishes to take a shot at them. The US is too smart to fall into this trap, but Iran and Russia may very well succumb to it, providing no one warns them about it in advance. That is, unless the warning is purposely designed to confuse them. Or something.
Declaring enemies and making enemies, or vice versa, is evey american politicians favorite pastime. This practice helps keep fear in the population stoked up and get the fear stokers elected to save the population from the possibility of the scenario coming to fruition. It’s like pre-crime, we need to stop the wars before they start. And the best thing about this method of getting elected is that the electeds get to get morons like Morell to do the things that the electeds are supposed to save us from so that the elected masters can come out and proclaim “Wha’d i tellya! Good thing you elected me because now we are going to go to war against the war i warned you about”. Good thing for the US is that Americans are getting better at killing people with all the training they get at home and practice wars like Iraq!
Saved by a war as they will say. Always works in a corrupt competitive environment.
I am confused. HRC supports Russia by providing Uranium; Morell supports HRC but apparently (is it a rouse) does not support Russia, wishing them covertly dead in Syria.
But maybe the uranium provided by HRC will somehow covertly act as a poison killing Russians; and maybe the 400 million in (what) dollars is laced w/ some kind of poison to somehow covertly kill Iranians.
But will the uranium and Russians be in Syria; and will the 400 mil and the Iranians be in Syria?
Is Morell telling us that the US sent Uranium to Syria and 400 mil in cash?
OMG! I just did something there!? Is that called schizophrenia: connecting dots w/ lines that aren’t there… or is it?
ruse not rouse
We are going to send this brave and gallant Michael Morell bloke to Syria armed with two AR-15 rifles and tons of ammunition, so that he could go in Rambo-style one-man mission and eliminate all the Russians and Iranians in Syria. But that depends on whether or not you vote properly. Crooked will never send him.
Whatsay?
Hellery herself would never send them herself. She will have Lieutenant DWS do this as her secretary of state. The combination of Lying Hellery and Sneaky Schultz make for a great team to spark up another war.
No sending “them”. Just “him” and him alone. We will paradrop him.
ISIS will barbecue him before nightfall.
understood. love the idea. perhaps bush and cheney can “go fix iraq”. Hellery and Obama can go fix Libya. Then on to the Honduras. You know, the kind of thing real leaders should do.
A Clinton presidency will probably result in an attack, possibly nuclear, by the US/Israel on both Russia and Iran.
“by arming local groups and instructing them to kill Iranian and Russian personnel in the country.”
This is pretty much the definition of terrorism. It violates the UN charter and is a crime against the peace and a War Crime.
And it’s stupid.
Bombing Serbia was a crime and nobody cared. Invading Iraque, Livia, Siria was against the law and nobody cared. ISIS sprang up from the “opposition groups” who were armed and supplied by NATO and STILL nobody cares.
What makes you think that killing a few unwashed muslims and ruskis in the ***-end of thee world will make it any different?
So many Democrats are in denial about this.
After 7+ years they still blame Obama’s lies, failures, and betrayals on Republicans, pretending he hasn’t willingly adopted and expanded Bush policy.
The party loyalists will make the same excuses for Clinton if she’s elected. Nothing will be her fault.
I agree, I voted for him because the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. But the new boss was worse than the old boss. And they deny all day Hillary Clinton’s wall street special interests. I mean my god, she’s got a non profit and was named in the panama papers. Not to mention she drawing seperate pensions for senator, assistant district attorney, state dept crony and who knows what else.
If…One can hope that someone besides her and Trump gets elected- and thanks to Wikileaks, they just may!
yep. and it’s pretty scary. Hellery Clinton does not on her will.
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I assume “acting director” means he was a political appointee and never had to pass Senate screening.
Israel doesn’t like Assad (or Khaddafi, or Sadam) so the USA , like a bull with a nose ring is pulled around by Israel.
The Syrian “Poison gas attack” was by the rebels with CIA delivered munitions.
Not that the Senate would have objected to this psychopath..
Maybe a few, lone, sane Senators(such as Ron Wyden and his like)would have raised an objection, or sounded the alarm, but in the end, he would have been “welcomed” with open arms…
. Netanyahu follows the political precept of his predecessor Ariel Sharon, who faced with Israeli worrywarts criticizing his obstreperous intervention in US politics, once stated “Don’t worry. We lead the US by the nose”.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-he-came-he-saw-he-conquered-the-power-of-israel-over-the-united-states/5435571
The only new thing that CIA Director Michael Morell is proposing in making Russian and Iranian personnel military targets of “armed local groups” (to be named later as they have been long engaged in a US backed clandestine war against all pro-Assad forces) is its open acknowledgement as official US policy.
Exactly.
I wonder if this guy could be “citizen arrested”, for, say, inciting violence…or talking about murdering people..or being a “terrorist” , or something along those lines…he’s obviously a danger to a great many people.
Hillary Clinton seems to be attracting a great deal of neoconservative bastards who find her to be right-wing enough for them to support and even vote for. They certainly wouldn’t be abandoning Trump and declaring endorsement of Sanders if Bernie had won the nomination, so obviously Clinton is signalling a bellicosity sufficiently imperialist for the worst dregs of the neocon establishment.
It would seem Trump really should appeal to the same officious retards, as he wants an even bigger military and is a belligerent moron about Islam and Iran and so forth – however, because he is inconsistent, not inflammatory about Russia and occasionally says non-interventionist things, the neocons need another easily angered puppet – and Hillary, being an interventionist hysterically obsessed with Russia, is the perfect host for their insect-like ideological disease.
The Democrats are counting Clinton’s neocon support as a success – when it is rank failure and degradation for the supposedly progressive Party, and would never occur with an actual liberal at the helm.
Some insights are also found here: Why Neocons Are Now Supporting Hillary Clinton
Why? because she is a neocon. Scott Ritter during NY soceity for ethics and culture interview told Seymore Hersh that had Al Gore been elected the U.S. would still have invaded Iraq. The crowed, upon hearing these words, stoned Ritter to death! Just kidding of course; they booed and hissed. They just could not believe it.
I do.
Morell mentions Iran in supplying arms to Shiites in Iraq. What about Saudi Arabia who paid and supplied the Sunni fighters that also killed American soldiers. If Morell was so upset with Iran’s gains in Iraq, perhaps the CIA should have been smarter in realizing that removing Saddam Hussein was going to result in this happening. The CIA has a bad track record of providing information that takes into account not just what can do, but what we should not do.
Here is an article that looks at the Clinton family’s long involvement with Iraq:
http://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2016/02/the-clintons-long-relationship-with-iraq.html
This is a part of the Clinton family history that voters need to remember.
Indeed. It’s worth noting that Bill Clinton cited Hussein Kamil as being a source on Iraq’s WMD. Kamil also told UNSCOM in private that the WMD were destroyed (and given that the US had spies in UNSCOM, Clinton must have known)
http://www.casi.org.uk/info/unscom950822.pdf
And he also told CNN in public that the WMD were destroyed (Clinton must have known that too).
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9509/iraq_defector/kamel_transcript/
Anyone who claimed that Bush lied us into Iraq is only half right. Bush did, but he wasn’t alone. (Let’s not forget Clinton’s remarks that “I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq.”)
The liberal mainstream media’s COMPLETE blackout on anything that could harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations is completely and utterly pathetic.
I understand Donald Trump is awful, but Hillary Clinton is not acceptable, either. If ever there were a legitimate reason to give 3rd party candidates sincere and extensive coverage, THIS IS THE YEAR.
Yet…nothing.
Shoot, MSNBC and CNN have been so much coverage on Evan McMullin (who will only take votes away from Trump) that I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s now gotten more publicity in a couple days than Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have gotten in the last year.
Our two main parties are bought and paid for, and our mainstream media is bought and paid for, which leaves the average citizen with, literally, no voice in the governance of our country.
That is a very bad recipe for continued peace and prosperity.
I really like your posts on Gawker, if you’re the same person.
McMullin wants a war in Syria. Johnson and Stein do not. That’s a likely reason why he’s got the coverage.
We can see how good his spycraft is by his proposal that we covertly arm groups to specifically target Russians and Iranians. Should Hillary get elected, I am sure they will look into it, and the Russians and Iranians will be completely clueless to what is happening. Or, if they figure it out the US government and Congress will blame Edward Snowden.
People like Morell should be encouraged to spill their guts, whether on Charlie Rose or Meet the Press, or whatever, so that the adults in the audience can be forewarned about what is about to happen.
Morell betrays the will to live and enjoy life interated by the Declaration of Independence. Apparently Hellery Clinton hasn’t even read that. If she did, then she has betrayed it. Such treason that gets Americans killed that she has already supported in Iraq, qualifies her to be charged and arrested and tried. Guantanamo would make a great prison for public officials who betray America.
yeah right, i mean there were no problems after arming all those mujihadin in Afghanistan in the 80s were there? no, because after they kicked Russia out they went back to their farms and forgot all the training they received from military “advisers” and the CIA…. never picked up a gun again, never flew any planes or anything. Al Qeida? never heard of it. train extremist groups to kill foreigners at a whim? what could possibly go wrong…..
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis.html
Those documents show that they (the CIA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel, Jordan) knew exactly who they were supporting from 2012 onwards – radical Islamic terror groups that identified with extremist salafist ideologies, that are regularly promoted by government-financed preachers inside of Saudi Arabia.
The wallstreet whore media keep saying that Trump is dangerous because they wouldn’t want his finger on “the button”… What a conjob!
1. the president cannot simply order a nuclear attack, by pushing a button.
2. HILLARY ALREADY HAS ALL HER FINGERS ON THE BUTTONS and cannot wait to push them as if she can pull back out just in time.
Hellery Clinton is nuts.
I have seen nothing to support that theory, though maybe the NSA or whatever knows something I don’t (or something you do? :P).
theory? :P)
Fuck if I know. I’m a psychic clown writer/teacher/geek, not a spy or a politician (or a licensed psychiatrist). Lol
and i have all-seeing eyes…. ;-)
But clearly not a brain, scarecrow. Or a heart, lion.
Ah, yes, the dirty little secrets of modern life: War is Peace. Apples are Oranges. Don’t Worry. Just Go Shopping. They are The Enemy. We Will Keep You Safe. God Is On Our Side.
Don’t pay attention, he is a psycho, it’s obvious. Close him into a psychiatric clinic.
From here on out it’s simple, whenever you read Russia, Iran, Assad, bad… And Hillary, Neocons, Petraeus, good… You’ll know where the new democratic party stands.
Morell sounds simply crazy. I think he would have been better off keeping his day job.
Let’s just jumpstart WW3 because that is what the world needs. How is it possible to have neocons in a form of power? I wish there were real consequences for people who want to start wars – real jail time, stripped of their positions and livelihoods etc. We are in the 21st century now and with a world population, along with integration, that is growing then we should leave all of the stupid hate in the 20th century. Ultimately I believe that it is really greed that is driving this hatred and somehow, for the sake of the world, we need to find a way for “diplomacy” meanwhile learning to respect our differences – it shouldn’t be a zero sum game.
I never realized Morell was a Zionist.Wow.
Well,as the CIA has always been dominated by American haters,that figures.
One of the problems with secret agencies is you don’t know what kind of horrible stuff is being done by our government. This jackass wants to start world war III. Hillary is being portrayed as a war hawk, but even she would not be crazy enough to start killing Russians and start WW3. We went through the entire cold war with both sides avoiding doing this.
Being totally serious here when I ask this; it isnt bait or a riddle; your comment just made me want to ask (and you specifically)…
Let’s say, hypothetically, that totally vile stuff is being done by our (and lets assume other, for sake of argument but also because exceptionalism is rarely a good idea) government. As a citizen do you propose exposure even if it means total upheaval? As a foreign citizen in an allied country, would you? As a foreign citizen in a country dubbed ‘enemy’, would you? I dont wabt WW3 either. I generally assume HC is a better candidate than Trump when it comes to that, and not only because I believe he would be far more susceptible to manipulation (to think anybody is immune has got to be a mistake imho).
I still believe, as a country, we would have been better off with her over Obama in ’08… But I also think (me, as a person) we would have been better off with her in ’08 over her now. A lot has changed, both here in the US and in the geopolitical landscape on the whole. To judge her record as SoS is slightly misleading, I think; she had to answer to other people in that position, just as Kerry does.
That said I dont think this country is about to go killing Russians or North Koreans or Chinese or whatever if they can find a way to strangle it economically, cause it to implode or oust itself, or find someone else to do it for them (mostly because this seems to be their playbook in the past).
There is a reason it was a cold war, though it got close to being a hot war a few times back in the 20th century. What prevented it was communication. What worries me is that the sorts of communications that used to be possible between these countries has become virtually impossible. Cooler heads need to prevail. I dont see Trump (or for that matter the Republican party — or to be fair either party) as cool-headed. And no, I am not a commie. :P
Oh, I shouldve mentioned in there, I have no plans in voting for Clinton nor was than any form of endorsement. I had planned on Sanders and now probably Stein. I am just far more terrified of neocons and a republican base even more heavily beholden to the military-intelligence-cyber-corporate complex (yeah, that term needs some work).
Unfortunately Morell is one of many high achieving chicken-hawk psychopaths that pervade and control our national security/military establishment. To think that our tax dollars goes to support this bullshit should give everyone pause. JFK was right…we need to rid the establishment of these people.
This is such a good plan! You can really see the solid-gold genius of American foreign policy at work in this guy. I look forward to his Clinton administration policy stratagems around “just beat everybody everywhere to death with shovels, all the time, what could go wrong”.
I have ALWAYS mentioned my preference for Donald Trump over Hellery Clinton. And this report – thank you very much Murtaza – details precisely why.
IF THIS DOESNT GRAB YOU, THEN YOU HAVE ALREADY DIED.
This article doesn’t mention Trump at all.
If anything, Morell’s desensitized comments sound like something Trump would say.
alas, Trump did not say it, Hellery repeated it as her own. It’s that difference that matters.
Well, Hillary is going to have to answer some questions about these comments from…
Hold the presses!!
Trump just said another incredibly stupid thing to draw attention away from Hillary and onto himself!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/09/trump-gun-owners-clinton-judges-second-amendment
Trump is truly unbelievable.
Hellery Clinton has no plan. No details. Just typical rhetoric of her perpetual fantasies and daydreams that she will abandon…. JUST LIKE SHE ABANDONED HER HUSAND, JUST LIKE SHE ABANDONED AMERICANS FOR WALLSTREET AND GOLDMAN SACHS, JUST LIKE SHE ABANDONED THE TRUST OF AMERICANS HIDING THOUSANDS OF (what, harmless?) EMAILS.
she’s has a criminal mind and criminal friends on wallstreet whom she ill pardon. and she loves the genocide of Palestinians because she is a polygamist…. Nutinyahoo and Kissinger.
Your use of caps has convinced me
i dont use caps as an element of truth, i use caps to pass sound thru brick walls.
but dont get the idea that the failure of wallstreet to spark a christian-muslim war to run their currency scheme which 911 failed to do was not then followed up by the criminals robbing America with home loan fraud.
and i do know somethings you dont. Example – there is a trading program design mid 2000’s used on wallstreet to falsely value stocks and that is the reason the banks object to paying the .0025.
here are the results of that program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7y3xQnWI_k
and hellery “head up her ass” clinton is all for it.
as in http://xkcd.com/1717/
:-)
@Nate –
Generally I see things so differently from you I usually don’t bother to reply now. But here I have to. You mentioned that “remark” from the nutjob (hate using his name). Scary. Then we have this Morell nut. Equally scary. So I’m going to posit this: we humans have GOT to stop embracing violence. We just have to stop. We need to get ourselves away from all kinds of it. Domestic violence, street violence, terror violence, war, and whatever. The stakes are too high. One misstep – by ANYONE who could have responsibility on ANY side in this nuclear age could lead to the unthinkable. We need to remember Vasily Archipov, Stanislov Petrov, and an American guy, too; all “men who saved the world.” Haven’t we seen enough of the destruction by drones and bombs? Haven’t we seen enough of lives caught in the crossfire of violent criminals (of whatever stripe)? Haven’t we seen enough of lives destroyed by violent partners of innocent folks? ENOUGH ALREADY! We need to turn away from all forms of violence and practice better ways of handling differences whether they be between individuals or between nations!!!