Sunday, May 24, 2015

BloggeRhythms

Air Force General, Richard Meyers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared  this morning on Fox News, Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
 
A subject covered was the pending deal with Iran, which had significant importance because from 2001 through 2005,  the general was the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council during the earliest stages of the War on Terror, including planning and execution of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
 
When asked his thoughts about the deal, the general‘s answer was quite carefully worded, never once sounding negative toward the president, yet clearly an agreement he found fault with.
 
The general then provided an example of similar deals gone bad in the past, causing his concern. Such as the one in 1994, where the United States and North Korea signed an agreement freezing North Korea's operation and construction of nuclear reactors suspected of being part of a covert nuclear weapons program in exchange for two proliferation-resistant nuclear power reactors. The agreement also called for the United States to supply North Korea with fuel oil pending construction of the reactors.
 
As it turned out, the US lived up to it’s part, delivering as promised. However, North Korea did not, becoming a significant nuclear threat and constant concern not only to South Korea but the rest of the free world, as well.
 
In that regard, the general expressed his thought that the North Koreans would have promised to do anything to get the needed oil, yet had no intention of shutting down their nuclear weaponizing at all. And in the case of Iran, he believes the same is true, and they’ll say anything to get the crippling economic sanctions lifted as soon as possible.
 
However, there may be indications that the president is having second, or third, or fourth thoughts about the Iranian nuclear deal, because he’s slowly but surely seeming to back off his unilateral stance to let that nation weaponize. It also appears that Congress will now likely have a say in the matter.
 
On the same show this morning, Wyoming Republican Senator John Barrasso, said Congress will be permitted a final review of the Iranian deal. Which also implies that the POTUS realizes the magnitude of the mistake he’s making by believing Iranian promises they really don’t intend to fulfill. And, therefore, he probably wants Republicans to kill the deal for him now, saving political face by ducking his mistakes once again.
 
Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.
 
Lisa Lerer, Matthew Lee and Jack Gillum report on myway.com via Drudge, that “Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received information on her private email account about the deadly attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi that was later classified "secret" at the request of the FBI, underscoring lingering questions about how responsibly she handled sensitive information on a home server.
 
“The nearly 900 pages of her correspondence released Friday are only a sliver of the more than 55,000 pages of emails Clinton has turned over to the State Department, which had its plan to release them next January rejected this week by a federal judge.”
 
Whereas the judge has now ordered the agency to conduct a "rolling production" of the records, the Republican-led House committee investigating Benghazi will likely keep the issue of how Bill’s wife used a personal email account while serving as the nation's top diplomat alive indefinitely.
 
“Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said that the released emails were incomplete, adding that it "strains credibility" to view them as a thorough record of Clinton's tenure.”
 
So, if nothing else, today’s items reconfirm the amazing consistency of Democrat president's and presidential candidates. Because for both, continually being wrong and/or dishonest and working diligently to avoid being blamed for it seems to be an ingrown common characteristic.
 
That's it for today folks.
 
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