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Best Reason Osama Bin Laden Was Assassinated (2013)

Child Labor in Local Restaurants

At a posh benefit in Spanish Bay, recently retired Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta essentially credited his professional and patriotic accomplishments to training he completed in his parents’ Monterey restaurant. ( “I washed dishes,” he says. “My parents believed child labor is required.”
) He also pointed out that the successful operation won him a $10,000 bottle of wine from the Sardine Factory’s Ted Balestreri.

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"Professional and patriotic accomplishments.." Give us a break! Leon Panetta is an absolute joke. Sellout is an understatement. Here's a spot-on piece that should make his biggest flag waving fans question his support of "democracy" -

Top Pentagon thinker bemoans “civilian subjugation to the military." By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON _ Blistering charges of misplaced power and a morally bankrupt culture in the nation’s “military-industrial complex” are rarely leveled by one of the defense establishment’s own.

But that is exactly what an instructor of the military’s rising stars lobbed on Tuesday when he very purposely engaged in friendly fire at a defense budget conference co-hosted by the Cambridge-based Project on Defense Alternatives.

Gregory D. Foster, a former Army officer and West Point graduate who now teaches national security studies at the National Defense University in Washington, seemed unconcerned about collateral damage when he went after the top brass, political leaders, and defense company executives.

He accused them of allowing the nearly sacrosanct principle of civilian control of the military—an early building block of American democracy—to be turned on its head. How? By virtually never questioning the key assumptions of military planning and allowing a largely unchecked, destructive and highly militarized foreign policy to pose as a “properly subordinated military industrial complex.”

“If you want to be a recognized, credible, card-carrying member of the national security community what you have to do is buy into the received truths of the establishment and continue to perpetuate that stuff,” said Foster. “This is what I call civilian subjugation to the military. We face it in this administration, we faced it in the Clinton administration...we faced it in the Bush administration.”

Foster’s 30-minute briefing spared few quarters. It was laced with accusations of “militaristic civilian officials” who serve not as civilian overseers as intended but “military advocates” who are “politically afraid of the military.” (See Panetta for the perfect example)... continued at..http://www.boston.com/news/local/blogs/war-and-peace/2013/03/26/top-pentagon-thinker-bemoans-civilian-subjugation-the-military/rBJfLdIzNrzqlAJ0EsQyUL/blog.html

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