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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Ironically, even in her fucked up logic, she still sounded more cogent and could string words together. Critical thinking is lacking. I could also MAYBE understand if she was new to the area. We don't get any deer crossings here. But she sounded like she had been there awhile or even a native.

    Hell, maybe it was APRIL 1.
    There is actually a later audio of her admitting how ridiculous she felt when it was finally pointed out to her that her understanding of it was crazy stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Yeah, sure.
    Yeah

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    “They have to move,” Trump said, according to Bergen, who adds that his officials were initially unsure if the president was joking. But Trump then repeated the line. “They have to move!”

    No action was taken in response to Trump’s bizarre remark,
    the books claim is bizarre and unsupported. fake news
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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    So the generals give Trump a briefing TRYING to get him to realize the gravity of N. Korea's aggression and BUILD UP of "rocketry" and the SHORT DISTANCE to Seoul SK where so many US personnel work and reside. You know like the US ARMY.

    He wanted to know WHY Seoul was so close to NK, Trump told them to MOVE SEOUL. Not the troops. Seoul.


    Friction between Washington and Pyongyang is once more on the rise, after more than 18 months of detente and summitry.

    Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says

    President’s diktat was ignored by his top officials, Peter Bergen writes in Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos

    Julian Borger in Washington The Guardian
    Mon 9 Dec 2019 21.25 EST

    Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.

    The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen also gives new details of Trump’s demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war. In both cases, Trump’s impetuous diktats were ignored by his top officials.

    Bergen’s book, the latest in a string of accounts of the president’s erratic leadership on national security issues, is being published on Tuesday at a time when friction between Washington and Pyongyang is once more on the rise, after more than 18 months of detente and summitry. The North Korean leadership is threatening a resumption of missile tests, and a war of words between Trump and Kim Jong-un is simmering once more.

    North Korea insults Trump as 'heedless and erratic old man' as tension rises
    Trump has resurrected his nickname for Kim, “Rocket Man”. North Korea conducted a missile engine test at a site that it had previously mothballed, and on Monday a senior regime official called the US president a “heedless and erratic old man”.

    The level of mutual hostility is still some way off from the worst period in 2017 when a conflict looked a real possibility.

    In his book, Bergen – a vice-president of the New America thinktank – describes an Oval Office meeting on North Korea in mid-April 2017, after a string of North Korean missile tests. Trump’s top national security officials were present and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency had made a model of a secret North Korean facility the size of coffee table, to illustrate the regime’s covert programmes.

    According to Bergen, Trump was also shown a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night, showing the lights of China and South Korea and the blackness of North Korea in between. Trump initially mistook the void for an ocean. When he was shown the bright lights of Seoul just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, the president asked: “Why is Seoul so close to the North Korean border?”

    Trump reportedly asked why Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was so close to the North Korean border. Photograph: Alamy
    Trump had been repeatedly told that US freedom of action against North Korea was constrained by the fact that the regime’s artillery could demolish the South Korean capital in retaliation for any attack, inflicting mass casualties on its population of 25 million.

    They have to move,” Trump said, according to Bergen, who adds that his officials were initially unsure if the president was joking. But Trump then repeated the line. “They have to move!

    No action was taken in response to Trump’s bizarre remark, but the situation grew steadily worse, with a series of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile tests and a hydrogen bomb test in September 2017.

    After watching a retired four-star general, Jack Keane, interviewed on Fox News in late January 2018, saying that US troops deployed to South Korea should not take their families with them, Bergen reports that Trump told his national security team: “I want an evacuation of American civilians from South Korea.”

    A senior official warned that such an evacuation would be interpreted as a signal that the US was ready to go to war, and would crash the South Korean stock market, but Trump is reported to have ignored the warning, telling his team: “Go do it!”

    Alarmed Pentagon officials ignored the order, and – according to Bergen – Trump eventually dropped the idea. It was one of a number of occasions that the defense secretary at the time, James Mattis, ignored direction from the White House. He also refused to send defense department officials to a planned Korea war game at Camp David in the autumn of 2017, or to provide military options for intercepting North Korean ships suspected of sanctions busting.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rth-korea-book
    "....according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.

    The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen …"



    " Peter Bergen is an American journalist, author, and producer who serves as CNN's national security analyst..."


    Yeah...now there's a "CREDIBLE SOURCE"....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    [SIZE=3]" Peter Bergen is an American journalist, author, and producer [SIZE=5]who serves as CNN's national security analyst..."
    Yeah...now there's a "CREDIBLE SOURCE"....
    the guy has a hard on for the Iran deal -he critized Trump for pulling out.
    The rest of this he's going on about Trump's Syria policy as "inconsistent" ( like Obama's was?? - not)
    https://peterbergen.com/this-command...eless-cnn-com/

    hey.. Trump didn't bomb Libya yet, so he's already better then Obama/Hillary

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Incidentally, Seoul is what 3 TIMES the population of NYC?
    If only your brain were three times the size of a pea.
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    Literally the most dim-witted, uninformed, and stupidest president in the history of our great nation

    I am convinced that is one reason republicans worship him > they see him as a soul mate, a kindred spirit of sorts

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Literally the most dim-witted, uninformed, and stupidest president in the history of our great nation

    I am convinced that is one reason republicans worship him > they see him as a soul mate, a kindred spirit of sorts
    Stop sulking, Crooked Hillary lost.

    Get over it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    So the generals give Trump a briefing TRYING to get him to realize the gravity of N. Korea's aggression and BUILD UP of "rocketry" and the SHORT DISTANCE to Seoul SK where so many US personnel work and reside. You know like the US ARMY.

    He wanted to know WHY Seoul was so close to NK, Trump told them to MOVE SEOUL. Not the troops. Seoul.


    Friction between Washington and Pyongyang is once more on the rise, after more than 18 months of detente and summitry.

    Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says

    President’s diktat was ignored by his top officials, Peter Bergen writes in Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos

    Julian Borger in Washington The Guardian
    Mon 9 Dec 2019 21.25 EST

    Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.

    The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen also gives new details of Trump’s demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war. In both cases, Trump’s impetuous diktats were ignored by his top officials.

    Bergen’s book, the latest in a string of accounts of the president’s erratic leadership on national security issues, is being published on Tuesday at a time when friction between Washington and Pyongyang is once more on the rise, after more than 18 months of detente and summitry. The North Korean leadership is threatening a resumption of missile tests, and a war of words between Trump and Kim Jong-un is simmering once more.

    North Korea insults Trump as 'heedless and erratic old man' as tension rises
    Trump has resurrected his nickname for Kim, “Rocket Man”. North Korea conducted a missile engine test at a site that it had previously mothballed, and on Monday a senior regime official called the US president a “heedless and erratic old man”.

    The level of mutual hostility is still some way off from the worst period in 2017 when a conflict looked a real possibility.

    In his book, Bergen – a vice-president of the New America thinktank – describes an Oval Office meeting on North Korea in mid-April 2017, after a string of North Korean missile tests. Trump’s top national security officials were present and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency had made a model of a secret North Korean facility the size of coffee table, to illustrate the regime’s covert programmes.

    According to Bergen, Trump was also shown a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night, showing the lights of China and South Korea and the blackness of North Korea in between. Trump initially mistook the void for an ocean. When he was shown the bright lights of Seoul just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, the president asked: “Why is Seoul so close to the North Korean border?”

    Trump reportedly asked why Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was so close to the North Korean border. Photograph: Alamy
    Trump had been repeatedly told that US freedom of action against North Korea was constrained by the fact that the regime’s artillery could demolish the South Korean capital in retaliation for any attack, inflicting mass casualties on its population of 25 million.

    They have to move,” Trump said, according to Bergen, who adds that his officials were initially unsure if the president was joking. But Trump then repeated the line. “They have to move!

    No action was taken in response to Trump’s bizarre remark, but the situation grew steadily worse, with a series of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile tests and a hydrogen bomb test in September 2017.

    After watching a retired four-star general, Jack Keane, interviewed on Fox News in late January 2018, saying that US troops deployed to South Korea should not take their families with them, Bergen reports that Trump told his national security team: “I want an evacuation of American civilians from South Korea.”

    A senior official warned that such an evacuation would be interpreted as a signal that the US was ready to go to war, and would crash the South Korean stock market, but Trump is reported to have ignored the warning, telling his team: “Go do it!”

    Alarmed Pentagon officials ignored the order, and – according to Bergen – Trump eventually dropped the idea. It was one of a number of occasions that the defense secretary at the time, James Mattis, ignored direction from the White House. He also refused to send defense department officials to a planned Korea war game at Camp David in the autumn of 2017, or to provide military options for intercepting North Korean ships suspected of sanctions busting.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rth-korea-book
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    If only your brain were three times the size of a pea.
    He said "three times the population of NYC."

    Seoul-9.776 million
    NYC-8 million

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    Tillerson was fired, as he should have been.

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    Hello Centerleftfl,



    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    She's STUUUUUPID. TRUMP is DANGEROUS.

    The interviewer was SPEECHLESS. Now that's priceless.
    SHE has GOT to be a Trump fan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    He said "three times the population of NYC."

    Seoul-9.776 million
    NYC-8 million
    I rest my case.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Literally the most dim-witted, uninformed, and stupidest president in the history of our great nation

    I am convinced that is one reason republicans worship him > they see him as a soul mate, a kindred spirit of sorts
    EXACTLY!

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    He's weird

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