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Panetta Orders Marines to Disarm before Afghanistan Speech

Skip to 2:40 for disarming. The current top comment pretty much sums it up...Scared of the killers you helped create, huh? Ironic.

Update: Telegraph UK: Soldiers asked to disarm during Leon Panetta speech in Afghanistan

...the incident is believed to be the first time they were stripped of guns during an address by their own secretary of defence.

NY Times: Somebody got itchy.
Related: NY Daily News: The Panjwai 16: The murders in Afghanistan were all too predictable

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How about a Ron Paul Tour of Afghanistan

It seems like maybe it wouldn't that bad of an idea for Ron to do a u.s.o tour.

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Thank you, Mr. Panetta

The number of voters, the number of honorable defenders of the republic who will now become new recruits for ending the illicit, unsustainable wars, the slow boil of retribution for disrespecting the brotherhood of Marines...you have done more for liberty in one pusillanimous act than most people will in their lifetimes.


Stay tuned here

Obama: "Nobody wants war."

Well, ladies and gents, we know this is, unfortunately, not true. If all of human history has shown us, somebody does want war. If nobody wanted war, we wouldn't get ourselves into crazy ones. In this case, it is whoever has been pulling the puppet strings over at the Defense Department and CIA. that still wants war. I suspect it is a small group of powerful elites tied to the banking industries, arms dealers, and military contractors that surround the office of the President with an iron fist. Obama is right that soldier and citizen alike are getting tired of the Afghanistan shell game (no pun intended), because after 10 years, what the hell are we doing there? In older terms, our casus belli (or just cause for war) has expired. Afghanistan is a nation under occupation by US armed forces and has been since 9/11. With the top Al Qaeda leaders having been captured or killed, the war and occupation rages on, primarily because none of the masterminds were ever brought to justice in any legal, meaningful way. If Panetta fears a standing army, then he should advise the President to withdraw them from the region as soon as possible. The guy set himself on fire because that was his last chance to send a message to somebody; anybody. Entire families have been wiped out. Famine sweeps their nation. The infrastructure has been reduced to rubble. Make peace and leave. Unfortuntaely the US goal is to destabilize the Middle East at any cost - to prevent a currency war and the loss of petrol dollars. This has been going on for decades, Biwm suddeb

Panetta was probably worried...

...that one of those troops would follow their sworn oath to defend the constituion against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.

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+1. BAM ! I refrained from posting on this story again, but...

You got it so TOTALLY RIGHT, my friend.

Have a look at this (yeah, I know, a CNN link ... but they're quoting the army) ... the truth can always eventually slip out from the MSM themselves, sometimes :


Quoting the article :






How could we read between the lines? So, it seems that it's not just me ... thus, I would say :

Mr. Panetta KNOWS exactly WHAT he is, himself.

Hint : that starts with the letter "T"... but it's not "T-Rex", for instance.

Nah, it's much uglier and that stinks a hell of a lot more to a patriot's nose, especially when the patriot is serving in the army. TO DEFEND his country, not to serve as gun meat in foreign countries for the same stinky's PRIVATE interests.


Mr. Panetta KNOWS that some MARINES KNOW, TOO (what he is).

And finally, he ALSO KNOWS that the same MARINES KNOW that he KNOWS about that...

Now, anyone : judge for yourself.

(Oh yes, SOMEBODY got itchy on that day.
Did he say "new sheriff in town" ? AFAIC, I'd bet he was NOT talking about himself.)




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I doubt if our troops like being told they're under the U.N.



Like the Soviet empire at the

Like the Soviet empire at the end our leaders are afraid of their own troops now.

good sign !

yes, this is a good sign.
Marines are supposed to defend the country based on constitutional principles, not be used as mercenaries to benefit corporations get natural resources of another country !

Dr.Ron Paul's 2002 Predictions


The CIA is rogue band of assassins whose agents should be tried for war-crimes and treason (ex. Mossadegh in Iran, JFK in Dallas, Latin American drug-running, cover-ups in OKCity and 9/11, Arab Springs etc) and then abolished

Someday there will be a

Someday there will be a crimes against humanity trial somewhere and the CIA and everyone who participated in the drone assassinations will be held accountable.


Ron Paul would never--I mean never--disarm the troops in any fashion, shape, or form.

How True! But then Ron Paul is Popular with the troops...

unlike Panetta and the Three Stooges (meaning Mitt, Newt, and Slick Rick). Obama too. And RP would not need to.

This "rogue" US soldier (what a laughable word) who shot 16 innocent civilians proves everything RP has been saying about this war. He should speak to this night and day - what a perfect talking point to "End this War"!

Was he afraid they would

do him harm?

After reading the posts by Marines who are traineed to always have their weapons with them...what gives with Panetta?

Bunch of chickens I'd say.

Ron Paul - The Revolution


I think

that he is paranoid because he knows his traitorous activities might deserve being fired upon.

Suffice it to say that he's a pathetic pussy who isn't fit to lick the sh!t off a worm's ass.

Some perspective from a Marine

Marines are punished when they don't keep their rifles on them at all times, and I mean on them at all times - you cannot even get up to get something 10 feet away unless you take your rifle with you. Marines must sleep with their rifles too. I've spent cold nights in the middle of the desert and the mountains, and while we never have pillows in our bags, we always have our rifles in our sleeping bags.

o well

quite amazing story , it must be a mixture of functional requirement, readiness and tactics but also: pride, tradition and honor... come to figure... methinks honorable mr. paneta has just taken out his little willy and pissed on your mixture


I 2nd this motion as a Marine

He must of heard from someone

He must of heard from someone that the troops support Ron Paul.. Its a great day when politicians fear the people

Panetta sure thinks more highly of marines than I

i'll just leave it at that

There are a lot of Marines on your side of the fight

That you shouldn't be alienating and generalizing/stereotyping. I am one of them. You might want us around one day for the right reasons.

You can't reason with this prick

Many have tried. He's a hate filled little man with a .50 cal keyboard, a real PC Rambo.


i have no respect organized criminals

let alone their lackeys and hit men


You're an idiot

This is unprecedented. For

This is unprecedented. For the first time in American military history, soldiers in a war zone are asked to disarm themselves.

I couldn't think of anything you could possibly do to insult a soldier more than for their own SecDef to not trust them with their weapons around.


A lot of officers thought twice about orders at the end of that war. I think we are now at that stage and who can blame anyone these days. It is all insanely and completely out of control. The sad thing is I can see myself twenty years fro now giving a vet with a card board sign a 100 dollars for a McPill breakfast.

-Pat Buchanan

People are waking up...

and the corrupt powers-that-be know it.

Clearly our politicians don't

Clearly our politicians don't trust our troops...

I wonder if that's because our troops don't trust our politicians? I think so...

Mr. Paneta..

Be afraid.. ..... be VERY afraid!!! ... :)))

Loved it

I especially loved his description of the Marines. Absolute gold.
