Trump putting 'extremist' in White House Barbara Lee

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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) slammed President Trump's decision to appoint Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as his new chief of staff on Friday, saying the appointment "militarizes the White House."

"By putting Gen John Kelly in charge, Pres Trump is militarizing the White House & putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist," Lee tweeted.

Lee did not offer any additional context as to her opinion on Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who previously headed up U.S. Southern Command.

Kelly, who served as Trump's Homeland Security chief in the early months of his administration, will start at the White House on Monday, replacing Reince Priebus as chief of staff.

Trump made the announcement via Twitter on Friday:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...e-house/ar-AAoZYiV?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
 
Lee and Waters should get together and have a militarist extremist Impeachment party.

WTF is it with Ca legislators?
 
You never even heard of John Kelly until 36 hours ago, so don't be quick to judge other people's opinions of him. At least Barbara Lee has been serving in congress for decades and most likely has known about this Kelly guy for a while.

I personally will withhold my own judgement until facts, and his performance comes to light.

On general principle, I don't think it is a bad idea to limit the number of military people being put into civilian leadership positions.

Barbara Lee's judgment on military matters has a certain credibility to it. She was wise enough to vote against both the Iraq War Disaster, and the Afghanistan Cluserfuck - two of George Dumbya Bush's failed wars, and in hindsight some of the most catastrophically terrible military decisions ever made.
 
Cypress said:
You never even heard of John Kelly until 36 hours ago, so don't be quick to judge other people's opinions of him. At least Barbara Lee has been serving in congress for decades and most likely has known about this Kelly guy for a while.
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her calling him an extremist tells me she doesn't know a damn thing.
It's the same words when we call al-Qaeda "militants and extremists" -is Kelly AQ?

I personally will withhold my own judgement until facts, and his performance comes to light.
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lee should do the same
On general principle, I don't think it is a bad idea to limit the number of military people being put into civilian leadership positions.
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why? and who are you to tell any POTUS that, and how would you enforce it?

Barbara Lee's judgment on military matters has a certain credibility to it. She was wise enough to vote against both the Iraq War Disaster, and the Afghanistan Cluserfuck - two of George Dumbya Bush's failed wars, and in hindsight some of the most catastrophically terrible military decisions ever made.
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good for her, she has more brains then Hillary but that is superfluous to the issue at hand
 
Five Facts About New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly
Breitbart 28 Jul 2017


President Donald Trump announced on Friday he was naming his Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly to be the next White House Chief of Staff, replacing Reince Priebus.
Here are five facts you should know about Kelly:

#1: John Kelly is a retired four-star Marine general who last served as the commander of U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. operations in Central and South America and the Caribbean. He became President Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security on January 20.

#2: Kelly served three tours in Iraq, commanding as a two-star general from 2008 to 2009. He commanded a Marine task force as a one-star general during the initial assault into Iraq. Asked then by a Los Angeles Times reporter if he was concerned about Saddam Hussein’s forces, he reportedly said, “Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Baghdad ain’t sh-t.”

#3: Kelly’s eldest son, Marine First Lieutenant Robert Kelly, was killed in action in Sangin, Afghanistan, while leading a platoon of Marines on a patrol. Kelly is the highest ranking military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan. He has another son serving in the Marine Corps.

#4: As a Marine general during the Obama administration, he opposed opening combat jobs to women in the Marine Corps, and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. He rejected the argument that the prison served as terrorist recruitment propaganda as nonsense. He told Defense One: “Bombing the living sh-t out of ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, that would maybe irritate them more than the fact we have Guantanamo open.”

#5: He is 67-years-old, and was born in Boston. Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970, and became an officer in 1975. He retired in 2016, after serving 40 years in the Marine Corps. He’s a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and received a Master’s degree from Georgetown.
 
He rejected the argument that the prison served as terrorist recruitment propaganda as nonsense. He told Defense One:
“Bombing the living sh-t out of ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, that would maybe irritate them more than the fact we have Guantanamo open.”
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:)
 
noise said:
her calling him an extremist tells me she doesn't know a damn thing.
It's the same words when we call al-Qaeda "militants and extremists" -is Kelly AQ?

lee should do the same
why? and who are you to tell any POTUS that, and how would you enforce it?

good for her, she has more brains then Hillary but that is superfluous to the issue at hand
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The founding fathers were strong on civilian control of the military, not so much on military control of civilians.

You asking why belies an unfillable void of knowledge AND who the fuck are you to tell Cypress ANYTHING, ignorant nube? Fuck off and die.
 
Rune said:
The founding fathers were strong on civilian control of the military, not so much on military control of civilians.

You asking why belies an unfillable void of knowledge AND who the fuck are you to tell Cypress ANYTHING, ignorant nube? Fuck off and die.
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Thank you Captain Obvious for that off tangent and worthless post to subject
 
Stretch said:
The left are veteranphobes.
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You wanted to send thousands of American soliders to their death in Iraq, in a war that did not need to be fought, a war for which there was no tangible benefit to America, a war that cost us oceans of blood and trillions in taxpayer dollars. You stood on the sidelines cheering for the war the whole time, and undoubtedly you have never expressed the slightest contrition or regret for your part in cheerleading war and death.

Nope, you are not allowed blather about how liberals hate veterans.
 
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