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CIA director Brennan:ISIS was decimated under Bush, grew 4,400% under Obama
Israel Matzav ^ | 3/26/16 | Carl in Jerusalem

Posted on 03/27/2016 7:57:57 AM PDT by Nachum

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

CIA Director John Brennan has admitted that ISIS was decimated under George W. Bush, but has grown by 4,400% under Obama.
In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies yesterday, CIA director John Brennan made a startling admission: The Islamic State was “decimated” under George W. Bush and had just “700-or-so adherents left” following the surge in Iraq. Said Brennan:
[ISIS] was, you know, pretty much decimated when US forces were there in Iraq. It had maybe 700-or-so adherents left. And then it grew quite a bit in the last several years, when it split then from al-Qaida in Syria, and set up its own organization.
But in September 2014, a CIA analysis found that:
[ISIS] can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria … This new total reflects an increase in members because of stronger recruitment since June following battlefield successes and the declaration of a caliphate, greater battlefield activity, and additional intelligence.
This means that, by the CIA’s own estimate, ISIS has grown on President Obama’s watch from just 700 fighters to between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters.

That is an increase of between 2,700 and 4,400 %.

Moreover, Brennan tacitly acknowledged that the Obama administration had underestimated the ISIS threat. At CSIS, Brennan declared that:

Not content to limiting its killing fields to Iraqi and Syrian lands, and to setting up local franchises in other countries of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, ISIL has developed an external operations agenda that is now implementing … with lethal effect.
That now obvious assessment directly contradicts the assessment of ISIS’ intent and capabilities delivered by Obama administration officials just one year ago.
In August 11 2014, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes wrote in a White House blog post:
While both [al-Qaeda and the Islamic State] are terrorist forces, they have different ambitions. Al-Qaeda’s principal ambition is to launch attacks against the west and US homeland…Right now, ISIL’s primary focus is consolidating territory in the Middle East region to establish their own Islamic State. So they’re different organizations with different objectives.
But President Hussein Obama said in Turkey on Friday that the US is pursuing the 'right strategy' against ISIS. Maybe if he's trying to help ISIS get stronger....

Read the whole thing.

Of course, given that Brennan has been in charge of the 'battle' against ISIS, this 'success' is not surprising. John Brennan is the guy who looks for moderates in Hezbullah (also here between 6:14 and 9:15), speaks lovingly of 'al-Quds,' and refers to jihad as a 'legitimate tenet of Islam.' Brennan was also the architect of the Obama administration's policy of removing 'jihad' and 'Islam' and 'terrorism' from the discourse of law enforcement agencies (a policy on which he was opposed by outgoing CIA director David Petraeus), and has charged that Americans don't have sufficient sensitivity to the Muslim world


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: brennan; bush; cia; eurabia; iran; iraq; isis; johnbrennan; obama; obamaisis; obamalegacy; rop; syria; turkey; waronterror
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To: rockinqsranch

Add the Uniparty republicans and I would agree with you.


21 posted on 03/27/2016 8:55:16 AM PDT by zek157
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To: Nachum

Just like Obama planned. His success rate is 100%. He has succeeded as president and he is ecstatic. The only failure seen is by those who assumed zer0 wished For a different outcome and are disappointed.


22 posted on 03/27/2016 10:39:03 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I am standing up and cheering at your comment.

I don’t even recall ever hearing of ISIS during the Bush administration.

CIA director Brennan is on record as saying “The CIA has nothing to fear from Obama”. They are working hand in glove to destroy the country.


23 posted on 03/27/2016 10:46:17 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
The Islamic State was "decimated" under George W. Bush and had just "700-or-so adherents left" following the surge in Iraq.

24 posted on 03/27/2016 11:30:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Nachum

Under the Bush administration it WAWAS under Omama it ISIS.


25 posted on 03/27/2016 4:03:17 PM PDT by seawolf101
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To: Nachum

Brennan needs to get out of office, tacitly hes part of Obama’s team...


26 posted on 03/28/2016 8:55:16 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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27 posted on 03/28/2016 10:17:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Nachum; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority

Where is McConnell ?

Where is Paul Ryan ?

Oh, they funded the 170,000 Islamic “ refugees” coming to the USA.

Treason.


28 posted on 03/28/2016 11:10:36 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Nachum

OK, just being a realist here. When did ISIS start? It was after Obama, right? So, I think it sounds more reasonable to say that AQ was defeated under Bush. Then, ISIS kind of gained momentum and even kind of competed with AQ for a while - mostly because Obama and his administration’s irresponsible/biased policies on the WOT. If I’m wrong, please correct me. I just don’t think that ISIS was defeated under Bush because they were not the focus, AQ was.


29 posted on 03/28/2016 3:00:32 PM PDT by HollyB
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“I don’t even recall ever hearing of ISIS during the Bush administration.”

Exactly what I was thinking. Yes, the Bush Admin was doing a great job defeating AQ.


30 posted on 03/28/2016 3:02:53 PM PDT by HollyB
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