Posted on 08/08/2014 9:54:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Democratic leaders rallied behind President Obama’s decision to authorize airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Iraq, applauding him for imposing limits on military action and vowing not to send U.S. troops back into Iraq.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said early Friday that it was “appropriate that the President authorized airstrikes against [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] should they threaten U.S. personnel and other interests in Erbil or elsewhere in Iraq.”
“As the President reiterated, there is no American military solution to the situation in Iraq,” she said. “Defeating ISIS will require Iraq’s leaders to see beyond their divisions and come together to fight this common threat. These actions are the only way to achieve durable security and stability for all Iraqis.”
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You are overthinking the action.
The effort is not to eliminate ISIS but to contain them and save the Kurds. The message is “back off”
Oh yeah..2 FA-18 2 500 lb bombs on one missle launcher...
That should stop them /s
You have to remember this is Obama. He’s not looking for a solution. He knows the public now see him as an enemy and the majority are Christians. This is about saving face and giving the appearance he’s trying to save Christians on the run from militants he trained and armed. I think he figuratively flicked a cigarette out of his car window and started a California wildfire he didn’t antiipate.
I love your analogy!
To include MOABs if the opportunity arises. Then get out. Like the Israeli's do.
Rush said that Obama only want to help his friends the Yazidis and not any other Christians.
“Yazidi, also commonly spelled Yezidi, is an ancient Kurdish-based religion with historic links to Zoroastrianism, which was founded in what is now Iran. The sect has developed into a separate religion over the centuries: Modern Yazidi recognize a supreme being responsible for creating the Earth, which is overseen by seven angels, according to Christine Allison, a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University in England and author of “The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan.”
boy! talk about chicken hawks!
Barack Obama - We’re Leaving Behind a Sovereign, Stable and Self-Reliant Iraq!’
Yeah, not so much....
But anyone that tried to say otherwise was a warmongering racist, right?
The US did not arm or train ISIS.
Repelling an offensive is not an inflammatory action.
Well I thought Obama sought funds to supply them with arms:
except Rep Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii
“They’re our military now!”
Why applaud? What is there to be happy and celebrate about the use of military force and putting American lives into the danger zone?
Are they children?
It is a job that has to be done and it is not a happy occasion, it is one that needs a grim determination to do the job and do it right.
Where the hell is Code Pink and Cindy Sheenan ?
Does Obama still have that Peace Prize?
That's sure not going to happen.
“Yazidi, also commonly spelled Yezidi, is an ancient Kurdish-based religion with historic links to Zoroastrianism, which was founded in what is now Iran”
So now we know. This came from Valerie Jarrett, who coincidentally was born in Iran.
0Zero finally did something useful. They must have polled this airstrike action to dearth and run it past focus groups. But finally Obama and his stooges decided to kick ISIS butt and try to save some Yazdi lives.
I would have bombed ISIS weeks ago. They have been slaughtering Iraqi Christians for weeks
Stop paying attention.
You are supposed to be watching reality TV, not asking questions.
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