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Soetoro's Klingon Deputy Director: Trump Shouldn't Have Been Disrespectful About Killing Of Baghdadi
2019-10-28
[Red State] President Donald Trump was triumphant in announcing the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Among other remarks, Trump described the event, "He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way."

Apparently descriptions like that were too much for former Obama CIA deputy director Mike Morell.

While he praised the action on "Face the Nation," he and criticized Trump’s response, according to the Washington Examiner.

"You don’t want a locker room kind of feel to this," said Morell. "That was the one thing we worked really hard on after the bin Laden raid, is don’t make those kinds of statements, because it does inspire other people."

Morell, who was widely expected to become Hillary Clinton’s CIA director if she had won the 2016 election, said it was troubling that Trump said he wanted to show footage of Baghdadi’s death to deter his followers.

"I think it’s all right to say we used DNA matching to figure out that it was him," said Morell. "But to actually talk about body parts and actually bringing them back with us, right, so that we have them here with us I think is going too far."
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Said when they can't celebrate a victory for the country because it might shine a positive light on the president for a day or two. And folks question their patriotism.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-10-28 14:29  

#10  And don't expect us to give him a burial within the three day period either. Our doctors get to pick through his remains before tossing them into the garbage.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-10-28 13:32  

#9  Apparently descriptions like that were too much for former Obama CIA deputy director Mike Morell.

Disrespectful? B.S. Bagdhdadi was a worthless POS and a coward. Morrell has always struck me as a narcissistic moron who talks too much and likes to see his picture on TV.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-28 12:33  

#8  I suppose it was troubling for some when Churchill called Hitler "Corporal Schicklgruber". Maybe Trump should send Baraq on another Middle East tour so he can apologize for the killing of a murdering terrorist.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-10-28 11:45  

#7  Ditto for P2k.

With any luck the K9 was a Bitch so that Boston can $#it their knickers even more.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-10-28 10:21  

#6  noxious, serial raping shite stain thrown to American dogs

Shi'a. Shi'ite. And now, a third category, Shite Muslims.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-28 10:21  

#5  I think what he said and the way he said it was pitch perfect. Keep the whole audience in mind. Moslems absolutely detest dogs and any people who keep, like or tolerate them. The intense visual imagery that President Trump used in the announcement is going to hit them where it hurts.

They will carry the image of their boy being run down by a weaponized American military dog while using his own children as human shields, crying and wailing for mercy all the while.

If the words of the enemy are so very important to these DC sages, perhaps they should reconsider bin Laden's comments about 'strong horses'. Islam is so very anxious to take the world back to the 6th century? Well, the Donald was only too happy to oblige, with the noxious, serial raping shite stain thrown to American dogs. I like it.
Posted by: Cesare   2019-10-28 10:11  

#4  #2 what Procopius said. Exactly right.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-28 08:36  

#3  Having a exit strategy that doesn’t include total victory is not a way to win wars.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442   2019-10-28 07:56  

#2  I think the trend to mealymouth approach to serious human conflict began when they renamed the old War Department to the Department of Defense. War is destructive and evil but far less than slavery and servitude. Don't do it if you can avoid, but if you must, don't hold back. Fuzzy thinking and language is what has gotten us into endless war.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-10-28 06:58  

#1  Morell, who was widely expected to become Hillary Clinton’s CIA director if she had won the 2016 election, said it was troubling

Yes Mr. Morrell, virtually anything the Orange Man would say would fall under your rubic of... "troubling."

Do I also sense some misgivings about a DoD 'Tier One' success story? Did they perhaps, use organic intelligence assets and capabilities ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-28 06:36  

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