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highplainsdem

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Wed Aug 9, 2017, 03:03 PM Aug 2017

Panetta: Does Trump think 'North Korean leader is attacking his manhood?'

Source: Politico

SEASIDE, Calif. — Leon Panetta, the former secretary of defense, CIA director and ex-Clinton White House chief of staff, says President Donald Trump’s incendiary vow to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday to deliver “fire and fury like the world has never seen” is disturbing evidence of a White House that is increasingly raising the stakes of a cataclysmic nuclear war.

“You’ve got two bullies chiding each other with outrageous comments — and it doesn’t help the situation in terms of trying to resolve something that has to be resolved peacefully ... because the consequences of nuclear war would be devastating," Panetta told POLITICO Tuesday at the Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay.

"The question is: Does (Trump) get so frustrated with the North Korean leader — who’s yelling every other day — that he feels that somehow the North Korean leader is attacking his manhood?”

“And (Trump) this is a guy who, if he feels that, does he decide, 'OK, enough is enough?' So we’re living on that brink right now,'' Panetta said. "We’re not sure what direction this is going to take ... it’s a very dangerous world that’s out there and it’s going to require a lot of decisions on some tough issues.”

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/09/panetta-trump-north-korea-241424



Long article, with lots more there on Panetta's concerns about Trump and about how this WH approaches policy.
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Panetta: Does Trump think 'North Korean leader is attacking his manhood?' (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2017 OP
That would be a pretty small attack. Aristus Aug 2017 #1
LOL! You're right - they'd have to get a lot better at miniaturization. highplainsdem Aug 2017 #2
LOL KRISITNA Aug 2017 #6
Trump picks on Kim Jong Un for the obvious reason FakeNoose Aug 2017 #8
Both leaders appear to be immature, adult men with penis envy. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #3
One would actually Liberalagogo Aug 2017 #4
what manhood? KRISITNA Aug 2017 #5
and they worried about women & PMS. seems penises have been more an issue thru time. pansypoo53219 Aug 2017 #7
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