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  • On Dutch TV Taking Iraq, Syria and ISIS

    September 17, 2014

    Tags: dutch, interview, ISIS
    Posted in: Iran, Iraq, Syria

    Here I am on the Dutch television program “Nieuwsuur,” with former Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra, discussing the futility of air strikes to resolve the Iraq/Syria/ISIS mess.

    After a setup in Dutch by the anchor, and an Obama speech clip, the interview (about three minutes in) is in English.




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  • Recent Comments

    • Zareen said...

      1

      Thank you for being the voice of reason and sanity. Hope you’ll appear on an American news program sometime soon, since our country really needs to hear from people like you.

      09/17/14 2:08 PM | Comment Link

    • pitchfork said...

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      Zareen said…

      “Thank you for being the voice of reason and sanity.”

      Indeed. Hence my opinion:

      Peter Van Buren 2016
      Yes We Van!!!

      🙂

      Speaking of Presidential candidates..

      Notwithstanding I think State is on the verge of imploding..

      I believe Hillary’s shot at the Whitehouse just evaporated… not to mention her entire life. I can see the exploding headlines as I type.

      http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/15/benghazi-bombshell-clinton-state-department-official-reveals-alleged-details-document-review/

      C’maan Peter, your chances just went exponential.

      09/17/14 4:07 PM | Comment Link

    • Rich Bauer said...

      3

      History repeating itself? The last time a president defied the military-industrial complex on committing more ground troops to a lost war was JFK.

      http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/obama-stands-firm-u-s-will-not-fight-another-ground-n205321

      Since the Anthrax false flag has already been waved, what can those traitors –er patriots- think up next?

      09/17/14 4:46 PM | Comment Link

    • Rich Bauer said...

      4

      Holy Bay of Pigs, Obama don’t get on the wrong side of the CIA:

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/cia-syria_n_5834850.html

      09/17/14 4:53 PM | Comment Link

    • Rich Bauer said...

      5

      Cancel that trip to Texas:

      http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/14/texas-gun-shop-defends-sign-about-beheading-obama-/

      09/17/14 4:57 PM | Comment Link

    • jo6pac said...

      6

      Ask them about the black boxes

      09/17/14 6:06 PM | Comment Link

    • Kyzl Orda said...

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      Peter, thank you — warnings by you and ex Rep. Hoekstra are spot on, including we need a strategic vision — it’s been absent too long. It includes stock-taking our miscalculations — and do the dang opposite. Stock-taking and “lessons learned” is not our officials’ forte though, is it??

      What black boxes, joe6pac??

      Rich, that’s interesting the divergent views of the CIA vis-a-vis DoD.

      Pitch, that’s interesting the apparent back-channeling that was going on between the ‘independent’ heads of the Benghazi commission and the political team at State. Cheryl Mills, i think is a Bill Clinton politico?? But she served in State straight through the Bush-Cheney era and her name was often mentioned, especially in hiding-the-bodies kind of events. She’s part of that group the powers-that-be can trust no matter the political affiliation to make dicey and not-quite-legit stuff go under the radar.

      I’m not sure who Robert Maxwell was – ie a political guy or professional foreign service? The article says he was a vet who transitioned to State. Did the other whistleblowers in the Benghazi debacle get their jobs back? It’s not surprising given Maxwell is a vet. The system does NOT work the same way for people who do not fall in any of the protected category statuses. He’s a lucky guy to get his job back

      09/17/14 11:47 PM | Comment Link

    • wemeantwell said...

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      I think it is Ray Maxwell. I should have something to say about his disclosures soon. You can never be sure, but I think he is saying truth.

      09/18/14 12:07 AM | Comment Link

    • Kyzl Orda said...

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      Stock-taking and “lessons learned” **are** not our officials’ forte though, is it?? (and neither is editing by me lol before posting)

      09/17/14 11:47 PM | Comment Link

    • Kyzl Orda said...

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      Pitchforl: “I believe Hillary’s shot at the Whitehouse just evaporated..”

      Did you see the warm editorial Mrs Clinton wrote in the Washington Post ”

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html

      Well, maybe Kissinger will be one of those who vote for Mrs Clinton, wooed by her enthusiastic embrace of the neo-cons and old guard. Who needs ‘change’ when you can get ‘more of the same’

      09/18/14 12:02 AM | Comment Link

    • jo6pac said...

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      Kyzl Orda

      These, I do believe every one has had enough time to examine them and share the results. Thanks for your time.

      http://www.globalresearch.ca/facts-withheld-regarding-the-mh17-malaysian-airlines-crash-dutch-government-refuses-to-release-black-box-recordings/5398571

      09/18/14 12:08 AM | Comment Link

    • Kyzl Orda said...

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      Thanks, Jo6pac – i wasnt aware the Dutch gov was refusing to divulge their investigations

      09/18/14 2:15 AM | Comment Link

    • pitchfork said...

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      Kyzl Orda said…

      “Did you see the warm editorial Mrs Clinton wrote in the Washington Post? ”

      Good god. If I hadn’t known that was her speaking, I would have known it was her within two sentences. Her dialog sounds like it always does..like she’s speaking from a podium to a world full of buffoons.

      Meanwhile.. NSA’s new Czar, while speaking to his own set of Corporate cyber buffoons, leaks the truth that NSA will expand it’s reach regardless of the so called “debate”, while leaking the fact that while other Nations such as Germany and New Zealand are “shocked..just shocked!”, that NSA spies on them, in reality..they’re still our best spying pals… in secret…

      http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2014/09/nsa-chief-yes-we-still-have-friends/94265/

      Speaking of Germany, meanwhile, unbeknownst to these morons who can’t see beyond their own Totalitarian “order” noses, history is being taught to those who see a different universe of reality…

      http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2014/09/where-to-draw-line.html

      Senator Frank Church warned us.
      Just ask the Germans of the Weimar Republic what happens when you don’t listen.

      09/18/14 11:58 AM | Comment Link

    • pitchfork said...

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      jo6pac said…
      “Ask them about the black boxes”

      I suspect this will aggravate them further..

      https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByibNV3SiUoobnpCVDduaHVORHM/view?pli=1&sle=true

      Rich Bauer said…

      “Holy Bay of Pigs, Obama don’t get on the wrong side of the CIA:”

      Indeed. Col Fletcher Prouty gave Jim Garrison a heads up on just that…

      file:///C:/Users/Walter/Documents/PO/003CIA%20stuff/Garrison%20Letter%20from%20Col.%20Prouty.htm

      09/18/14 12:26 PM | Comment Link

    • pitchfork said...

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      oops..wrong URL.. here’s the correct one..

      http://www.prouty.org/letter.html

      09/18/14 12:29 PM | Comment Link

    • jo6pac said...

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      Kyzl Orda said…

      Thanks for getting back to me

      http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/malaysian-flight-mh17-crash-analysis-by.html

      Very interesting piece

      09/18/14 2:51 PM | Comment Link

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