{"id":28921,"date":"2016-08-03T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28921"},"modified":"2016-08-03T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:48:06","slug":"before-you-buy-into-the-accusation-take-a-look-at-the-accuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28921","title":{"rendered":"Before You Buy Into The Accusation, Take A Look At The Accuser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that if you are reading this, you are as tired of this presidential election as I am. However, the media (and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Clinton campaign<\/a>) have said so many outlandish things about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trumponline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Donald Trump<\/a>, I feel obligated to respond to at least some of them. I would like to point out that Donald Trump has been in the public eye for at least thirty years, and although he has never been a poster child for modesty, humility, and Puritanism, he has had a rather reasonable reputation until he decided to run against Hillary Clinton. That alone is cause for reflection.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Democratic talking point is that America will end if Donald Trump is elected&#8211;the seas will begin the rise again, we will bomb everyone, and the world will hate us. Pick any major media and you will find a story about one of the above. Well, it&#8217;s time to point out the background of one of the accusers.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/general-attacks-trump-identity\/?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=PostBottomSharingButtons&amp;utm_content=2016-08-03&amp;utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons\" target=\"_blank\">The Conservative Tribune<\/a> posted an article about one of Donald Trump&#8217;s attackers&#8211;retired General John Allen. General Allen spoke in Philadelphia and has appeared on a few news shows since then.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports General Allen&#8217;s statements about Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Allen apparently wasn\u2019t just referring to Trump\u2019s statement that he would <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/trump-liberals-waterboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">reintroduce waterboarding<\/a> and other <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Enhanced interrogation techniques\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">enhanced interrogation techniques<\/a>, but that he would bomb the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Islam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Islamic<\/a> State group. Apparently, that\u2019s an illegal order now, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cHe\u2019s talked about needing to torture. He\u2019s talked about needing to murder the families of alleged terrorists,\u201d Allen said. \u201cHe\u2019s talked about carpet-bombing ISIL. Who do you think is going to be carpet-bombed when all that occurs? It\u2019s going to be innocent families.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWhat we need to do is ensure that we don\u2019t create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually, that sounds better than the current rules of engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at General Allen&#8217;s record. The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Allen was, at one point, the White House coordinator for <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/report-military-obamas-jv-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Islamic State group efforts<\/a>. Along with Hillary Clinton, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Susan Rice\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ambassadorrice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"twitter\">Susan Rice<\/a>, and the whole sick crew, he was responsible for the policy of treating the Islamic State\u00a0as the \u201cJV team\u201d \u2014 a bunch of angry, stupid teens who had somehow\u00a0found <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"AK-47\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AK-47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Kalashnikovs<\/a> and were taking their angst out on the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He\u2019s the one who helped construct a policy where a group with ultramodern weaponry and a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bronze Age\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bronze_Age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bronze Age<\/a> ideology were considered to be\u00a0no threat whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>That\u2019s not all. He was also responsible for the funding and arming of so-called \u201cmoderate\u201d Islamic rebels\u00a0in Syria. Lo and behold, these were the rebel groups\u00a0who often decided that their allegiance \u2014 as well as their funds and weaponry \u2014 belonged to the Islamic State group. Others merely surrendered their weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It gets worse:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He\u2019s one of the people behind the drone killing of terrorist <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Anwar al-Aulaqi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anwar_al-Aulaqi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">imam Anwar al-Awlaki<\/a>, a U.S. citizen, in Yemen. Now, granted, al-Awlaki was a detestable individual, but the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American-born<\/a> cleric had never been charged in court nor had his citizenship stripped. He was the first American citizen specifically targeted and killed without\u00a0<em>any<\/em> due process. And this is a man who thinks enhanced interrogation techniques are going to cause a military revolt?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>General Allen retired as the result of a sex scandal (he fits right in with the Clintons). This is the portrait of the latest accuser of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that if you are reading this, you are as tired of this presidential election as I am. However, the media (and the Clinton campaign) have said so many outlandish things about Donald Trump, I feel obligated to respond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,712,3357,1457,7789,154,153,3415],"class_list":["post-28921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-isis","tag-islam","tag-libya","tag-republican-party-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28923,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28921\/revisions\/28923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}