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October 23, 2017

heard in church today how Christians are being persecuted all over the ME and Africa.

Gaddafi neve persecuted Christians. Saddam never persecuted Christians, in fact his ambassador to the UN was a Christian who was executed after our invasion and by the folks we supported. Police were not amused in Egypt under the rule of the elected government by the people in an election that every monitor said was legitimate (probably more legitimate than our own.). I think the biggest mistake of Obama's tenure was Libya. I never heard of Christians being persecuted in Nigeria until recently.

https://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/25-years-world-watch/

Depressing times.

October 21, 2017

Just watching CNN's program on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley."

This is just simply another example of environmental and economic discrimination. These toxic companies are always located in minority and poor areas.

October 21, 2017

Chad: Why Us??? Consequences of 45's travel ban.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/travel-ban-reaction.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FYemen&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection

"Matthew Page, who was the State Department’s expert in the region until last year, said that the travel ban for Chad seemed to be “a knee-jerk move, rather than a carefully considered decision.”

"Experts said there were many steps Chad could take in response that would have a negative impact on the United States, including reducing security protection for employees of the large American embassy. Also at stake are oil exploration plans from companies like Exxon Mobil...."
October 21, 2017

Let this sink in: the consequences of the Iraqi war.

And to those who say we should not have left, remember they didn't want us there and no SOF would have been deadly for US military. The Iraqi government has now turned on the Kurdish fighters who played the most significant role in chasing ISIS out of Iraq.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/iraq-forces-full-control-kirkuk-province-171021044707969.html

You will probably not hear much about this until ISIS returns.

October 21, 2017

They (Trumpians including those in Congress) are going to keep voting for him because

to do otherwise would mean they would have to confess to making a huge mistake and hateful people never confess to making mistakes, never.

October 20, 2017

45 in response to question if he authorized Niger action: "No, I turned that authority over to my

generals. You know, the ones i know more than. Now I am not going to blame myself, that for sure!"

October 20, 2017

Why should we believe ANYTHING this WH says about Niger and what happened when their COS and

former 4-star General lie boldly to us, not once but three times and the WH Press Secretary doubles down on the lies and dares anyone to question a General.

We are in some dangerous times. STAY WOKE!!

October 20, 2017

So, we are now officially a military junta government where the Generals have the say about who

they should be able to name as enemies and who they can kill? Lindsay Graham's statement was chilling.

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