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Fmr Gen Barry McCaffrey - Trump hit it out of the ballpark (Original Post)
GreatCaesarsGhost
Apr 2016
OP
That's hilarious! Trump made Mittens look like Mr.Rodgers and the Dali Lama with a touch of
Maru Kitteh
Apr 2016
#5
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)1. Hit what?
The teleprompter?
immoderate
(20,885 posts)6. It was so strange...
I mean anytime Trump ventures outside his normal 80 word vocabulary is, uhm, 'terrific.'
--imm
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)2. I thought Barry wasnt one of the idiots. too bad
MANative
(4,112 posts)3. Sure, for people who stand to make billions in the MIC
think
(11,641 posts)4. Is he still selling Abrams tanks?
General Barry McCaffrey Exposed For The Ultimate Spineless Shill That He Is
By DAVID BARSTOW - THE NEW YORK TIMES
November 30, 2008
One Mans Military-Industrial-Media Complex
~Snip~
General McCaffrey did not mention his new contract with Defense Solutions in his letter to General Petraeus. Nor did he disclose it when he went on CNBC that same week and praised the commander Defense Solutions was now counting on for help Hes got the heart of a lion or when he told Congress the next month that it should immediately supply Iraq with large numbers of armored vehicles and other equipment...
Read more:
https://tullycast.com/2008/12/02/general-barry-caffrey-exposed-as-the-ultimate-spineless-shill/
By DAVID BARSTOW - THE NEW YORK TIMES
November 30, 2008
One Mans Military-Industrial-Media Complex
In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity.
The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it win a huge prize: the right to supply Iraq with thousands of armored vehicles.
Access like this does not come cheap, but it was an opportunity potentially worth billions in sales, and Defense Solutions soon found its man. The company signed Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general and military analyst for NBC News, to a consulting contract starting June 15, 2007.
~Snip~
General McCaffrey did not mention his new contract with Defense Solutions in his letter to General Petraeus. Nor did he disclose it when he went on CNBC that same week and praised the commander Defense Solutions was now counting on for help Hes got the heart of a lion or when he told Congress the next month that it should immediately supply Iraq with large numbers of armored vehicles and other equipment...
Read more:
https://tullycast.com/2008/12/02/general-barry-caffrey-exposed-as-the-ultimate-spineless-shill/
http://www.thenation.com/article/tvs-conflicted-experts/
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)5. That's hilarious! Trump made Mittens look like Mr.Rodgers and the Dali Lama with a touch of
Robin Williams and Santa Claus just for good measure!
That was the most wooden, robotic pile of turdhattery I have ever witnessed.
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)7. it's the same Trump
but delivered without the usual asides, in monotones.
Oh yeah, everything is still totally fucked up, but his calm demeanor while proclaiming everything is fucked up is going to really wow a lot of mental midgets.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)8. . . . Says the "War On Drugs" hack.
Who gives a flying fuck what this shill says?
spanone
(135,844 posts)9. of course it was on m$nbc....the trump channel.