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Kerry: U.S. not at war with ISIS
cnn ^ | 9-11-2014 | Elise Labott, Laura Smith-Spark and Ray Sanchez

Posted on 09/11/2014 1:14:51 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday would not say the United States is at war with ISIS, telling CNN in an interview that the administration's strategy includes "many different things that one doesn't think of normally in context of war."

"What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counter-terrorism operation," Kerry told CNN's Elise Labott in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "It's going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL, they can do so, but the fact is it's a major counterterrorism operation that will have many different moving parts."

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KEYWORDS: joebiden; johnkerry; kerry; lurch; obamaisisspeech; obamanewisisstrategy; plugs; secstate; secstatekerry; traitor
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Think of it as an overseas contingency cancer retardation operation.
1 posted on 09/11/2014 1:14:51 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

“Retardation” is clearly the operative word.


2 posted on 09/11/2014 1:16:55 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Citizen Zed
...many different things that one doesn't think of normally in context of war....

Have they figured out the Kum-Bah-Yah strategy does not work?

3 posted on 09/11/2014 1:17:45 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Citizen Zed

Yeah, okay, John, we were never at war with North Vietnam either...


4 posted on 09/11/2014 1:17:48 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Sure we are, John-John. It’s seared - SEARED - into my memory.


5 posted on 09/11/2014 1:17:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Citizen Zed
Think of it as an overseas contingency cancer retardation operation.

Or... A flexible, intermittent policing action based on emerging and/or lessening conditions of asymmetrical conflict/non-conflict.

6 posted on 09/11/2014 1:19:43 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: Citizen Zed

We’re not at war with them and they’re not Islamic. Clear?


7 posted on 09/11/2014 1:19:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Wants them first to create an atrocity here first .....


8 posted on 09/11/2014 1:19:55 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Citizen Zed

Why do we even bother with a jackasses like people in this administration?

If we want to continue to survive, the O admin needs to be removed and replaced with pro America people.


9 posted on 09/11/2014 1:20:03 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Citizen Zed

Why does the administration INSIST on using “ISIL” when everyone else world-wide says “ISIS”??


10 posted on 09/11/2014 1:23:21 PM PDT by Wasichu
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To: Citizen Zed
Frenchie is all nuanced, all the time.
11 posted on 09/11/2014 1:24:57 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counter-terrorism operation

Let's see, ISIS or ISIL, if you prefer, is really friends with Obama, but his position as president of the United States requires him to pretend like our sworn enemies are our sworn enemies.

Donchafeelsorryforbarry?

Poor guy. He can't really express his true feelings. He has to do a bunch of sidestepping.

The truth is that the crap is on his shoes and he can't wipe it off without making his friends mad.

12 posted on 09/11/2014 1:26:07 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

ISIS is nothing to lose your head over.
Islam isn’t Islam.

Pray America wakes up


13 posted on 09/11/2014 1:26:26 PM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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To: Citizen Zed

Heaven help us.


14 posted on 09/11/2014 1:28:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Kerry was for the war against ISIS... before he was against it.


15 posted on 09/11/2014 1:28:59 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: Citizen Zed

We’re not at war. Being “at war” means you’re willing to do whatever it takes to win. We haven’t done that since I’ve been alive.


16 posted on 09/11/2014 1:30:25 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Citizen Zed

We’re “In Love” with ISIS?

We’re “Mildly Piqued” at ISIS?

We’re “Inappropriately Interested” in ISIS?

W..... T.... F.....?


17 posted on 09/11/2014 1:30:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Clinton / Bush 2016?)
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To: Wasichu
Why does the administration INSIST on using “ISIL” when everyone else world-wide says “ISIS”??

Ask the Gators.

UF Preparing To Launch Islamic Studies Center

ISIS is UF's secure Integrated Student Information System

18 posted on 09/11/2014 1:32:22 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Citizen Zed

"And my Ghenghis Khan 'Nam comrades are still worse than the IS headchoppers."

19 posted on 09/11/2014 1:32:52 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: SkyDancer

If there is an ISIS terror attempt on the US before the November election, Obama will blame the “do nothing” congress for not passing his entire 2015 budget.


20 posted on 09/11/2014 1:39:30 PM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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