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ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success..
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Posted on 08/31/2009 5:07:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did

August 31, 2009 6:00 PM

Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission.

“This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,” Jones said. “The world is coming together on this matter now that President Obama has taken the leadership on it and is approaching it in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way – to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies – both national and international."

Jones said that “we are seeing results that indicate more captures, more deaths of radical leaders and a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large and the world is moving toward doing something about it.”

The former Marine General didn't provide any specific numbers to back up his claim, but he said “there is an increasing trend and I think we seen that in different parts of the world over the last few months for sure.” He added that he was not “making a tally sheet saying we are killing more people, capturing more people than they did -- that is not the issue.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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But I thought it was Bush's fault..........
1 posted on 08/31/2009 5:07:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Is that “out of commission” or out of prison?


2 posted on 08/31/2009 5:09:10 PM PDT by Poincare
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To: Sub-Driver

Right. Using “law enforcement” sure kept the U.S. safe, didn’t it?


3 posted on 08/31/2009 5:09:46 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. -- James Madison)
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To: All
Let's End This FReepathon Tonight!
4 posted on 08/31/2009 5:09:51 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are they referring to Napolitano’s definition of terrorists?


5 posted on 08/31/2009 5:11:41 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Sub-Driver
ABC News Exclusive:

With those kind of standards they should have a real doozey every week.

ABC News Exclusive: Extra-terrestrial leads House of Lords

ABC News Exclusive: Dog vomit cures baldness

ABC News Exclusive: Hitler is alive!!! 123-year-old Nazi secret leader of Myanmar!!!

I might even start watching.

6 posted on 08/31/2009 5:12:32 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL! Zogby has him at 42% so OBOZO must be sweating bigtime to throw out such an obvious lie.


7 posted on 08/31/2009 5:13:26 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Sub-Driver
Well, color me shocked, shocked I tell ya - the President's appointee says the President is doing mo betta than his predecessor. Wow, next thing ya know, Gibbs will report that Michelle says that the O is the biggest and best lay she has ever had.

I am reminded of the bumper sticker with a drawing of an Indian Chief with the quote, "You can trust the Government. RIGHT."

8 posted on 08/31/2009 5:13:37 PM PDT by MarkT
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To: Sub-Driver

The libmedia had to scurry and find some left wing general to back up the sad sack zero. No one’s buying it.


9 posted on 08/31/2009 5:15:11 PM PDT by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: Sub-Driver
most likely scenario:

"Great news. Tonight we are taking out thirty murdering terrorists on Air Force 1 over Manhattan."

10 posted on 08/31/2009 5:15:27 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Sub-Driver

I wonder if Jones has been given a “whiz quiz” lately.


11 posted on 08/31/2009 5:16:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my country?)
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To: Sub-Driver
***He added that he was not “making a tally sheet saying we are killing more people, capturing more people than they did — that is not the issue.”***

That is the whole issue. The fact is, other than Bin Laden or Zawahiri there is no one that Obama could get in connection with 9/11 that Bush didn't already get.

12 posted on 08/31/2009 5:17:04 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma)
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To: Sub-Driver

I wonder why this article didn’t start with “Once upon a time....”


13 posted on 08/31/2009 5:20:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (.)
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To: Sub-Driver

*sniff, sniff*....................

Is that DESPERATION I smell? Awwwwww. Poor Zero...tanking in the polls. They’ll say ANYTHING, won’t they?


14 posted on 08/31/2009 5:22:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell)
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To: Sub-Driver

In a few days, we’ll be seeing web ads telling us Gen. Jones’ IQ is 157.


15 posted on 08/31/2009 5:24:04 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes ths article is true and I am better looking then Brad Pitt and have more money then Bill Gates


16 posted on 08/31/2009 5:24:56 PM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: Sub-Driver

WE ARE TALKING THEM TO DEATH!


17 posted on 08/31/2009 5:26:49 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Sub-Driver
The former Marine General didn't provide any specific numbers to back up his claim, but he said “there is an increasing trend and I think we seen that in different parts of the world over the last few months for sure.” He added that he was not “making a tally sheet saying we are killing more people, capturing more people than they did — that is not the issue.””

That is precisely the issue.
Chortle!
You gotta give some credit to this guy for being pretty creative, resourceful liar. He manages to say a lot without actually saying anything.

18 posted on 08/31/2009 5:28:16 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Sub-Driver
National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did

Then again, the Obama administration considers Christians and gun owners as potential terrorist threats.

19 posted on 08/31/2009 5:31:40 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Sub-Driver
"Jones said that “we are seeing results that indicate ... a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large and the world is moving toward doing something about it.”

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He say "i know you, you know me"
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He say "one and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me


20 posted on 08/31/2009 5:33:11 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Sub-Driver

21 posted on 08/31/2009 5:33:19 PM PDT by John Titor
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh sure..... sarc/


22 posted on 08/31/2009 5:34:18 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver

Reading the words of this retired Marine General goes a long way to explain how the USMC has changed so radically in recent years, why they prosecuted the Haditha Marines and have come to (at the leadership level) bear little resemblance to the USMC of yore.


23 posted on 08/31/2009 5:36:50 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: SmokingJoe
Yes, Obama has had more "coffee klatches" so clearly we're safer. Excellent strategy, why didn't we think of that earlier?

Gen Jones is effectively saying "I can make up anything, and back it up with nothing -- and the stupid media will print it."

24 posted on 08/31/2009 5:39:28 PM PDT by USNA74
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To: Sub-Driver

Did he serve with murtha?


25 posted on 08/31/2009 5:42:19 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Sub-Driver
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FOUND A USEFUL IDIOT, ALL BARACK CHANNEL?
26 posted on 08/31/2009 5:42:40 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Sub-Driver

This must be a statistic like “jobs saved”. He must be counting terrorists who decide not to become terrorists because of his new enlightened policies.


27 posted on 08/31/2009 5:43:27 PM PDT by Dan Cooper
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To: Sub-Driver
The former Marine General didn't provide any specific numbers to back up his claim>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I'd say that just about says it all.

More dick head propaganda from a dick head administration.

28 posted on 08/31/2009 5:45:27 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,trutth. (member NRA)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama has put more terrorists out of commission by redefining what they do “other than terrorism”.


29 posted on 08/31/2009 5:45:39 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Sub-Driver

USEFUL IDIOT JONES WITH HIS HERO HUSSEIN!
30 posted on 08/31/2009 5:46:25 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

who farted?


31 posted on 08/31/2009 5:48:52 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: Sub-Driver

About our precious heroes who lost their lives in Afghanistan this month?


32 posted on 08/31/2009 5:51:32 PM PDT by Carley (WHEN YOU HONOR THE DISHONORABLE YOU SHOW YOUR OWN TRUE COLORS)
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To: EDINVA

****Reading the words of this retired Marine General goes a long way to explain how the USMC has changed so radically in recent years, why they prosecuted the Haditha Marines and have come to (at the leadership level) bear little resemblance to the USMC of yore.****

This is just another illustration of the infiltration by communists, gays and other leftists into the primary institutions of civil America. Education, the courts, the churches, the military, the government. It will not stop until we abandon PC laws designed to prevent us from taking back our civil structures.


33 posted on 08/31/2009 5:53:14 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Bureaucratic healthcare is bad medicine.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ans we thought only Saddam has a Baghdad Bob.


34 posted on 08/31/2009 5:55:45 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Sub-Driver

I heard today that there were more American Troops killed in Afghanistan this month than in any month ever since September of 2001.

Guess that means we’re winning, huh?


35 posted on 08/31/2009 6:05:07 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Sub-Driver; Revolting cat!

Well they DID uncover who created the Obama Joker poster...


36 posted on 08/31/2009 6:06:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: Sub-Driver; Revolting cat!

Well they DID uncover who created the Obama Joker poster...


37 posted on 08/31/2009 6:06:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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Obama has put more terrorists out of commission by redefining what they do “other than terrorism”.

Now they are community organizing and extracting social justice by any means necessary is all. Good enough excuse for Billy Ayers terrorists acts, good enough for pitiful Al Qaida.

38 posted on 08/31/2009 6:08:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

The Bee Gees’ Jive Talkin’ is a more appropriate tune for this administration.


39 posted on 08/31/2009 6:09:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: Sub-Driver

terrorist nations don’t need the terrorists to do their dirty work anymore- they realize emperor obama is such a coward they do it themselves......

anyone hear anything on the Americans taken prisoner in Iran months ago???? what’s zero gonna do??? send bill clinton over to free them as he did the Americans held prisoner in NKorea???


40 posted on 08/31/2009 6:18:49 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: SmokingJoe

I think what he meant to say was “we feel like we’re doing better, everyone tells us we’re doing better”

Meanwhile, in the Bin Laden Cave....


41 posted on 08/31/2009 6:20:57 PM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: Sub-Driver

I don’t know what his metrics are, and they will ultimately prove or disprove his statements, but I do hope that American and coalition efforts to rid the world of terrorist threats are wildly successful.


42 posted on 08/31/2009 6:22:13 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Sub-Driver

Careful, don’t put too much faith in anything said by a man named Jim Jones. The Kool Aid he’ll have you drink will be special!!


43 posted on 08/31/2009 6:28:24 PM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion)
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To: Sub-Driver

They really should back up this statement with facts.


44 posted on 08/31/2009 6:35:53 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Sub-Driver
discuss things with other rulers Obama is our ruler?
45 posted on 08/31/2009 6:39:58 PM PDT by PghBaldy (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
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To: PghBaldy

Jim Jones said Obama is our King, in so many words.


46 posted on 08/31/2009 6:41:18 PM PDT by PghBaldy (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL, the All Barack Channel never fails to meet our expectations of their Pravda “journalism”.

Time for a Yakov Smirnov-type joke:

In Soviet Russia, Pravda lies to Russian people for Marxist.

In America, ABC (NBC, CBS) lies to American people for Marxist.


47 posted on 08/31/2009 6:44:25 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Sub-Driver


48 posted on 08/31/2009 6:46:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Candor7
Reading the article it becomes clear that this general nuisance is completely speculating. He has no information to back up what the media is reporting as fact. (what a surprise)
49 posted on 08/31/2009 6:46:46 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: antidemoncrat

I wonder why this article didn’t start with “Once upon a time....”

Because this isn’t a Fairy Tale .... this should be a GI Tale, which begins ... “This ain’t no bull$%#t, man ....”

:D


50 posted on 08/31/2009 7:19:46 PM PDT by JoeVet (First rule of holes ... when you find yourself standing in one - stop digging ... unless ur a Dim)
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