United States vs. ?

Liar Loan said:
fortune11 said:
How did the anti Obama crowd react to his opening up of relations with Cuba ... trying to jog my memory here
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I think in general they were fine with it, excluding the Cuba hawks like Rubio.

P.S.  Talk about major whataboutism on your part.  What about? What about?  LOL..
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Huh -  I thought "LOL" usage was reserved only for by liberals ?
 
North Korea releases U.S. detainees, bows to another Trump demand
North Korea has freed three U.S. citizens detained for years in the communist country, bowing to another demand of President Trump ahead of his planned meeting with Kim Jong-un.

The three Americans ? Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim ? were released from a North Korean labor camp and sent to Pyongyang for medical treatment, the Financial Times reported.

Though out of the brutal labor camp, the men remain in the grasp of Mr. Kim?s regime.

They currently are believed to be convalescing in a hotel outside Pyongyang.

?We believe that Mr. Trump can take them back on the day of the U.S.-North Korea summit, or he can send an envoy to take them back to the U.S. before the summit,? said Choi Sung-ryong, an activist pursuing release of North Korea?s political prisoners.

National Security Adviser John R. Bolton had called for the release of the detainees, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly raised the issue during secret face-to-face talks with Mr. Kim last month in Pyongyang.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/2/north-korea-releases-us-detainees-bows-another-tru/
 
North Korea starts pulling cables from tunnels at nuclear test site

U.S. intelligence says the North Koreans have started pulling cables from the tunnels at their nuclear test site -- a first step toward closing them down, CBS News' national security correspondent David Martin reports. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down the country's nuclear test site in May, Seoul's presidential office said on Sunday.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-starts-pulling-cables-from-tunnels-at-nuclear-test-site/
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morekaos said:
Could any one make the case that Secretary of State Huma Abedin would be right now on her way home with American hostages on her plane if Billery were in charge?  With a straight face?
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Well, let's think back... Did Obama secure the release of hostages when negotiating with Iran? 

Technically, the answer is 'yes', but it involved a "not-a-ransom" payment of $1.7 billion in unmarked bills.
 
breaking news: john kerry is negotiating with kim jong un to return the freed hostages because we didn't pay them $400M and to reinstate NK's nuclear program
 
United States vs.?...WINNIING!!!

Five Top ISIS Officials Captured in U.S.-Iraqi Sting

BAGHDAD ? Five senior Islamic State officials have been captured, including a top aide to the group?s leader, in a complex cross-border sting carried out by Iraqi and American intelligence, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday.

The three-month operation, which tracked a group of senior Islamic State leaders who had been hiding in Syria and Turkey, represents a significant intelligence victory for the American-led coalition fighting the extremist group and underscores the strengthening relationship between Washington and Baghdad.

Two Iraqi intelligence officials said those captured included four Iraqis and one Syrian whose responsibilities included governing the Islamic State?s territory around Deir al-Zour, Syria, directing internal security and running the administrative body that oversees religious rulings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-islamic-state-arrest.html
 
morekaos said:
United States vs.?...WINNIING!!!

Five Top ISIS Officials Captured in U.S.-Iraqi Sting

BAGHDAD ? Five senior Islamic State officials have been captured, including a top aide to the group?s leader, in a complex cross-border sting carried out by Iraqi and American intelligence, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday.

The three-month operation, which tracked a group of senior Islamic State leaders who had been hiding in Syria and Turkey, represents a significant intelligence victory for the American-led coalition fighting the extremist group and underscores the strengthening relationship between Washington and Baghdad.

Two Iraqi intelligence officials said those captured included four Iraqis and one Syrian whose responsibilities included governing the Islamic State?s territory around Deir al-Zour, Syria, directing internal security and running the administrative body that oversees religious rulings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-islamic-state-arrest.html
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CNN: here's why capturing isis officials is bad for the US
 
morekaos said:
Liar Loan said:
eyephone said:
You forget to add linked to torture site. (According to the article below)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...a-haspel-trump-cia-director-torture-site-link

Kings said:
Sexist- and misogynist-in-chief appoints first-ever female CIA director...wait, what?

Trump's pick for new CIA director is female career spymaster

WASHINGTON ?  President Donald Trump's choice to be the first female director of the CIA is a career spymaster who once ran an agency prison in Thailand where terror suspects were subjected to a harsh interrogation technique that the president has supported.

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and that he has selected Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. Haspel, the current deputy CIA director, also helped carry out an order that the agency destroy its waterboarding videos. That order prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/13/trumps-pick-for-new-cia-director-is-female-career-spymaster.html
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Yeah, I'm not a big fan of this pick for that reason.  If she's willing to bend the law on human rights, what else is she capable of?
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I like her. (surprise).  A little torture is OK with me.  Long ago I used to hang with a few operators in Seal team 6 out of Norfolk.  Long story but when they were doing Sears and Buds I got waterboarded with them.  Not the best experience but certainly not life threatening.  Dems are gonna have to take up a position against the first woman to be nominated to head the agency.  Should be an interesting fight.
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More Winning!!!..

US Senate confirms Gina Haspel to be first woman CIA director

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gina-haspel-cia-director-first-woman-senate-confirmation-vote-a8356911.html
 
I saw this a mile away regarding North Korea.

(Come on - an experienced negotiator/expert should of seen this coming)


The general saying: Don?t count your chickens before they hatch.

In the south they say: Don?t count the crawfish before you catch them.
 
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