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TwilightGardener

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4. Carter held a "private" meeting with neocons hosted at the Pentagon

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 12:27 PM

Mar 2015

on his second day. See the Wall Street Journal article about it. Of course he's a neocon--and nobody has examined his ethics/finances, either (which would be interesting, considering he was in a constant revolving door, in and out of the Pentagon and private sector, like Goldman Sachs, for DECADES). He was quietly installed, Repubs cheered, and here we are. Hagel wasn't ushered out because he fucked anything up, let's make that clear. It was the strangest episode, IMO, of Obama's tenure, how he treated Hagel and replaced him.

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