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To: SilentZ who wrote (574520)	7/1/2010 3:39:14 AM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573026

O has apparently lost his mind....really. +++ Obama: ‘Civilian expeditionary force’ can aid wearied troops rawstory.com By Sahil Kapur Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 -- 5:12 pm US soldiers in combat could use an assist from a civilian workforce while trying to rebuild war-torn nations, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. Speaking at a town hall in Racine, Wisconsin, Obama called for sending a "civilian expeditionary force" to Afghanistan and Iraq to help overburdened military troops build infrastructure. His remarks were first reported by The Associated Press. "So what I’m trying to say is, don’t put all the burden on the military. Make sure that we’ve got a civilian expeditionary force," said the president, adding that the civilian force would build schools, bridges and roads in regions cleared by the military as safe. Obama last December renounced the possibility committing the US to a lengthy "nation-building" project. "I reject this course because it sets goals that are beyond what can be achieved at a reasonable cost, and what we need to achieve to secure our interests," he said in a speech at New York's West Point Academy. Department of Defense Directive 1404.10, dated January 23, 2009, set up a "Civilian Expeditionary Workforce" that would "be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations; humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability operations." Its intent would be "to maximize the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel to be fully utilized for operational requirements," according to a Defense Department statement reported by the American Forces Press Service. Obama openly embraced this idea on the campaign trail during his presidential run. He alluded to it during a speech about national service in Colorado on July 2, 2008. "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said. On his campaign Web site, he called for, among other things, "a Veterans Corps to assist veterans at hospitals, nursing homes and homeless shelters; and a Homeland Security Corps to help communities plan, prepare for and respond to emergencies." While Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised this as positive utilization of "soft power," others viewed a powerful civilian national security apparatus as a potential cause for concern. Kurt Nimmo of Infowars worried that "in the not too distant future they will likely send 'civilians' with firearms and the power to arrest 'rightwing extremists' who represent, according to the Department of Homeland Security and numerous federalized police agencies, 'offense against the United States.'"

To: SilentZ who wrote (574520)	7/1/2010 11:45:30 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573026

In this regard, no one comes close to the Grand Old Man of befouling Jerusalem and U.S.-Israeli relations by remote control, the retired physician-turned-bingo parlor mogul Irving Moskowitz of Miami Beach. Dude's nuts. But just for the hell of it once, I stopped in his bingo parlor. It's in Hawaiian Gardens, the last town in LA county before Orange. It's funny that all the Hispanic people there are working to make money that's paud for one side in a conflict 5000 miles away. You're kidding. He owns a bingo parlor in Hawaiian Gardens of all places [for the uninitiated, HG is not anything like its name implies.....in fact, its a pithole off the Long Beach freeway which, in turn, is a pithole of a freeway]. I am speechless.......