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  Mattis Says 'We're Better Than 
Our Current Politics'
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Michael Swartz  
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Mattis blasts ‘indifferent’ loose lips liar-Biden
for bungling Iraq: ‘The enemy gets a vote’
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by Caitlin Yilek
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Jim Mattis, the former Marine Corps general and Pentagon chief, has lashed 2020 Democratic front-runner loose lips liar-Joe Biden for fueling the rise of ISIS... by insisting on the total withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq. "You may want a war over. You may declare it over. You may even try to walk away from it. But the bottom line is the enemy gets a vote, as we say in the military, and we simply have got to understand that terrorism is going to be an ambient threat," he said in an NPR interview. As vice president, loose lips liar-Biden was tasked by President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama with overseeing Iraq policy. In his new book, Mattis, 68, argues that loose lips liar-Biden, 76, was "indifferent" to the consequences of complete withdrawal - consequences that included "tens of thousands of casualties, plus untold misery for millions of innocents," as well as the kidnapping and beheading of westerners, and horrific terrorist attacks across the world. "He wanted our forces out of Iraq," Mattis writes in Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.” Whatever path led there fastest, he favored. He exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly. "loose lips liar-Biden had voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, after opposing the Gulf war in 1990. scumbag/liar -nObama, who has denounced the Iraq invasion, had campaigned in 2008 on pulling out. The U.S. pulled out its forces from Iraq in 2011, despite warnings from Mattis that this would be folly. At the time, Mattis was head of Central Command, overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. scumbag/liar-nObama sent forces back to Iraq in 2014 after the Islamic State seized parts of the country...
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Trump Administration Makes Historical Announcement — Democrats Are Infuriated
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by Lawrence Richard
wethepeopledaily.com } ~ For the first time in its history, the United States now recognizes that human life begins at conception... The Trump administration made the historic announcement via a shift in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official policy. The ACLJ reports the scientific determination will help allow the Trump administration to protect those in the womb from pro-choice liberals and from a growing abortion industry. The abortion industry is in trouble. For years, HHS has consistently expanded abortion and funneled taxpayer money to abortion. That changes now. HHS has just released its strategic plan for the next four years, stating that it will pursue policies that “protect Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.” As these policies are put in place, they could save countless lives. ACLJ Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice Jay Sekulow responded to the determination, tweeting: “For the first time ever, #HHS has made the official policy of #America that life begins at conception.”...
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China lodges tariff case at WTO against the U.S.
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by reuters.com ~ China has lodged a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over U.S. import duties, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Monday... The United States began imposing 15% tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods on Sunday and China began imposing new duties on U.S. crude oil, the latest escalation in their trade war. China did not release details of its legal case but said the U.S. tariffs affected $300 billion of Chinese exports. The latest tariff actions violated the consensus reached by leaders of China and the United States in a meeting in Osaka, the Commerce Ministry said in the statement. China will defend its legal rights in accordance with WTO rules, it said. The lawsuit is the third Beijing has brought to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s China-specific tariffs at the WTO, the international organization that limits the tariffs each country is allowed to charge.U.S. officials say that they are penalizing China for theft of intellectual property that is not covered by WTO rules, although many trade experts say that any tariff hike above the allowed maximum must be justified at the WTO. Many experts also decry China’s decision to fight fire with fire, by imposing tariffs on U.S. goods imported into China, also without the WTO’s approval. On Friday the United States published a written defense in the first of the three legal cases, asserting that China and the United States agreed the issue should not be judged at the WTO...
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Maine Senate passes ranked-choice 
voting legislation
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by Jerry McCormick
patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ Maine lawmakers are doing their best to bring the state into the modern age of voting, but they may have moved a little too fast... While they already approved a primary election process to replace the usual caucuses, Maine lawmakers are now pushing the governor to sign ranked-choice voting legislation for the upcoming presidential primary race, according to the Portland Press Herald. The caucus system is a somewhat outdated system of voting, but it is still in place in roughly a dozen states throughout the country. Rather than being a straightforward election, discussions are held to evaluate the candidates, then the citizen votes for his or her candidate. Different states have different rules, as do the party delegations. For instance, in Iowa, Democrats require a precinct with two delegates to have a caucus group of 25 to be viable. Obviously, if you are not in a caucus state, the whole process can get rather confusing — which is no doubt why Maine lawmakers are looking to move away from the process.The ranked-choice voting method is very controversial but becoming more popular. Basically, rather than casting a single vote, you would rank the candidates in order of preference. In the first round of voting, all primary votes are counted and if any one candidate has the outright majority, he or she is awarded victory. If, however, there is no majority, the candidate that had the lowest number of votes is eliminated from the race. Anyone who chose that candidate as their top choice will then have their second choice counted as their vote. This process is repeated until a candidate wins the majority of the vote...  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/maine-senate-voting-legislation/  
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Top defense official: In 24 hours, 
Israel attacked various 'fronts'
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by ANNA AHRONHEIM 
jpost.com } ~ Hezbollah’s precision missile program is the State of Israel’s top priority, right after working to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear capability a top defense official said on Monday... admitting, for the first time, that Israel has carried out attacks against different fronts beyond Syria. The official spoke a day after Hezbollah and Israel exchanged blows along the Lebanese border in an attempt by the Iranian-backed guerilla organization to exact a price from Israel for the bombing of a terror cell in Syria in late August. While no IDF troops were injured, Israel fired over 100 artillery shells towards targets in south Lebanon in response to the attack and airlifted two uninjured soldiers to Rambam hospital in Haifa.  “We can’t hide injured troops in Israel for half an hour,” he said, disputing claim in Lebanon that troops had been injured in the attack. A video posted on Hezbollah-affiliated television station reported to show the Hezbollah missile hitting an Israeli military vehicle.   According to the Israeli official, Israel has been operating against Iran in several arenas. “Had we had not acted correctly we would be in a different reality today,” he said. The top official said that while preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb remains Israel’s top priority, thwarting Hezbollah’s precision missile project has become the second top objective. After those two is preventing Iranian entrenchment in various Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Yemen. "Due to developments and situational assessments, it was decided three months ago that the precision missile project would be given high priority because of the immediate danger it poses. The military echelons were informed of this decision,” the senior official said, adding that "we cannot afford to be surrounded by thousands of precision missiles that could land and harm the State of Israel."  "Our three targets have one address - Iran," the source continued, adding that Iran’s Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani is the address for two of the three threats. He refused to answer how Israel could deal with him...
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Mattis Says 'We're Better Than Our 
Current Politics'
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Michael Swartz:  It’s a phenomenon that seems to come with every Republican president: A former administration official writes a critical book that gets lapped up by an adoring press. (Try naming a similar book from the Barack Obama era.) Former Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis is the latest such author, having penned a lengthy Wall Street Journal op-ed adapted from Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, which hits the shelves on Sept. 3.
 

“Mad Dog,” as you may recall, served less than two years in the Trump administration, and while the official word was that his departure was pre-planned, it came when President Donald Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from Syria, a move Mattis opposed.

In the op-ed, which Mattis framed as “Duty, Democracy, and the Threat of Tribalism,” he outlined a leadership trait he apparently felt was lacking in the current administration. “In any organization, it’s all about selecting the right team,” he argued. “The two qualities I was taught to value most were initiative and aggressiveness. Institutions get the behaviors they reward.” He went on to relate the story of a former colleague whose leadership style he considered “harsh and inconsiderate,” leaving little doubt as to why he brought up that particular anecdote.

Predictably, the various shades of NeverTrump harrumphed in unison.

Hot Air’s Allahpundit, who reluctantly but eventually  climbed onto the Trump bandwagon, speculated that the Mattis tome was an initial step in creating a “coalition of former Trump advisors speaking out about the risks of a second term for POTUS,” while the more strident Quin Hillyer, writing at the Washington Examiner, called the Mattis piece an effective shot across Trump’s bow. “Jim Mattis was one of the most effective generals and defense secretaries in U.S. history,” argued Hillyer. “For him to be writing instead of leading is a sign of an inept, unstable presidency.”

Yet the case can also be made that the op-ed was simply about selling books. After all, taking a swipe at a sitting Republican president is a tried-and-true tactic.

And there’s also the idea about conventional wisdom being turned on its head — a Donald Trump specialty. In his op-ed, Mattis notes that he’d served as an executive secretary to two former defense secretaries appointed by President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton: William Perry and William Cohen. While political party didn’t play an important role in this apprenticeship — Perry was a Democrat and Cohen was a moderate Republican during his lengthy service in Congress — Mattis’s own long military career may have entrenched him as part of the status quo that’s been the largest pocket of resistance for President Trump. Case in point: When Mattis resigned, longtime Republican consultant and rabid NeverTrumper Rick Wilson noted:

Jim Mattis was a talisman for the Washington and international foreign-policy communities, a point of smarts and stability, a ground-wire to short out Trump’s capricious impulses before they could damage America’s interests and values. While never straying from the chain of command, Mattis knew how to work the process, fight back behind closed doors, and maintain relationships with allies and friends around the world.

In other words, this was a clear clash of philosophies. This was The Swamp (albeit one of its best parts) versus the man who pledged to drain it.

In his op-ed, Mattis makes a good point about our heated political climate, but he doesn’t seem to understand his small part in creating it from his perch in the Pentagon. Indeed, here we have a case where the truth of the matter likely lies someplace between Trump’s brashness and the bluntness of the man whose call sign indeed was “Chaos.” Trump may have made a mistake by pulling out of Syria too soon, but it was a campaign promise kept and it hasn’t been quite the disaster that prematurely pulling out of Iraq was. On the other hand, has Mattis cooled things down with this op-ed (which may or may not reflect the theme of his book), or has he merely fanned the flames?

It’s intriguing that the man who now warns us of a “threat of tribalism” once exhorted his men to “fight with a happy heart and a strong spirit.” Think about it. A man who embodies these very attributes now resides in the Oval Office.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65160?mailing_id=4501&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4501&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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