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Obama Adviser Says Military Action Possible Against ISIS
New York Times ^ | August 22, 2014 | By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Posted on 08/22/2014 2:49:56 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

EDGARTOWN, Mass. — A top national security adviser to President Obama vowed Friday that the United States would “do what is necessary” in Syria to protect American interests and said that direct military action was possible against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS.

Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, said ISIS had become an increased threat to the United States, a threat the American government was taking seriously.

“If you come against Americans, we are going to come after you,” Mr. Rhodes said.

He declined to say whether the president was considering expanding airstrikes to include ISIS targets in Syria as well as in Iraq, where raids began this month. “We’re actively considering what’s going to be necessary in dealing with that threat,” Mr. Rhodes said. “We’re not going to be restricted by borders.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; kurdistan; syria; waronterror
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I've seen this movie.

Rhodes has to make a speech to the public , and in the mean time, The head of the largest military weapons manufacturer figures out his company is selling weapons to the enemy.


21 posted on 08/22/2014 4:50:49 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Since ISIS/ISIL claims to be a state would not a declaration of war by Congress be appropriate and let Barky deal with that reality? I would consider the blatant murder of an American citizen, coupled with ISIS rhetoric to be a legitimate causus belli. This would no longer be the war on nouns with which opponents derided the war on terror, but a legitimate war against a state with reasonably defined territory and an announced capital city.


22 posted on 08/22/2014 4:58:52 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Brad from Tennessee
“If you come against Americans, we are going to come after you,” Mr. Rhodes said.

Well then, what about the marine being held in a Mexican prison?

23 posted on 08/22/2014 5:02:48 PM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: Christie at the beach

Reagan did nothing after Beirut. Hezbollah is alive.


24 posted on 08/22/2014 5:15:02 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: BilLies

“..how apt in EDGARTOWN”


I couldn’t agree, more. These morons have no clue as to history. The world was invented, on the day they were born :(


25 posted on 08/22/2014 5:47:11 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: Brad from Tennessee; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

Active Duty ping.


26 posted on 08/22/2014 5:49:10 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yep, a formal ‘Declaration of War’ and a decisive win. Or keep talking.


27 posted on 08/22/2014 6:04:54 PM PDT by Son House (Who's going to clean up Bush's mess now? </sarc>)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Please, give brother Obama some breathing room. The poor Muzzie is conflicted.


28 posted on 08/22/2014 6:24:04 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Jet Jaguar
What the media and the White House won't tell you is that the US military is already decimated from years of cuts, social engineering, and abuse at the hands of Obama and Washington (Republicans are to blame as well.....they worship Sequestration cuts that punish the military).

Meanwhile the handouts to the gibmedats have exploded.

We cannot reverse the damage done to the military overnight. In fact, we may never be able to do so because of our debt and horrible fiscal situation, compounded by the fact that many good Americans have been driven out of the military by militant atheists, liberals, and homosexual activists who are filled with hate.

Good luck America. We reap what we sow.


29 posted on 08/22/2014 6:26:14 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Now on DRUDGE....”ISIS PALNS TO BLOW-UP AMERICAN CITY”
“Law Enforcement Intensifying Efforts To Identify Sympathizers.!

Do you think maybe they should check at the White Hut... Maybe look under the obummers desk... :(


30 posted on 08/22/2014 7:03:49 PM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

http://www.inquisitr.com/1326127/john-mccain-isis-photo/

most of these people do not have a clue to the strange bedfellows that jockey our foreign policy and take our money and lives of USA servicemen.


31 posted on 08/22/2014 7:23:43 PM PDT by apoliticalone (The MSM has a role to keep Americans divided rather than having a United States)
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To: xkaydet65

Unless the objective is going to be exterminate all ISIS members. Then I won’t support it.


32 posted on 08/22/2014 8:51:52 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: woweeitsme
I thought they were the “JV” and we didn’t need to worry about them?

A new school year has started and those in the JV have moved up to the V....

33 posted on 08/23/2014 1:58:06 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It started in 2007. America still has its head in the sand.

Obama has crapped the pooch. $hite the bed. Like most late second term Dem prexidents with failed policies, he has created a war. This one will be a World War.

Thank you to all those who voted for Obama the Usurper. The Nobel Peace Prize winner without a dinner.He is a snake that is fulfilling our Free Republic prophecy that he would bring death and genocide to millons of human beings. This was predicted after we observed his conduct in Kenya in 2006/2007, when he counselled Odinga of the radical Islamist Orange party to creat mayhem and genocide through protesting the 2007 Kenyan election results. The result was that thousands died, including 70 old men, women and children in an incinerated church, after the Orange party terrorists locked every door and window, and applied the torch.Obama is nothing but a curse on the world, a horrible blight on the plant of American liberty.

Then there was Libya, and economically successful country, American ally in the war on terror, now in rubble? The Libyan arsenal unleashed to Hamas and ISIS? HORRIBLE !

We saw the future writing of history on the fascist wall in 2007, but no statement we could make would make any difference to a nation traduced by emotional inducement , and a disguised radical evangelistic Obama.

NOW we are saddled with an isolated, disconnected, treasonous so called president, who will destroy our nation rather than compromise his leftist principles to comply with the Constitution he swore to defend.He rejects his own Secretary of Defence and those who would defend our nation.

The entire free world and its innocent inhabitants will suffer horribly through starvation and disease. Sons and daughters will go to war and die for several generations, and nuclear warfare is a distinct probability rather than a remote possibility, as it was at the outset of the term of President Obama, the Reamer/Dreamer.

May Obama and every one of his running dogs rot in hell.Cursing the day he was born and his first breath will become common fodder to a nation that would at one time have deserved much better, but fell asleep at the switch and bought the created pap and emotional imagery fabricated by the left in America ( Zowie!...swoon....Americas FIRST BLACK president, as if his race would wash away any imperfections that dare manifest as they already had done in his true historical record, skillfully obscured.). America , you have been had.

All America can do now is bend over and take it right up the collective arse.And vote for another leftist in 2016 too, and watch the complete fall of a once great nation as it decends into Ferguson, Missouri style discivilization, brought about by hooting street apes with their pants down below their butts, championed by a nutter, cross eyed, caucasian phobic, radical Attorney General, Eric Holder.We have seen the mirror of America’s future, and it is disaster writ large.

Everyone who has the means should get out of a sinking nation while they can and if not, then move out of the cities and urban areas into the wide open rural areas of America.Buy a rifle and as much ammo as you can, in order to protect property and loved ones. Much worse is yet to come as Obama unleashes the dogs of demographic ( Illegal aliens/Ferguson) and conventional warfare ( ISIS) on a still unsuspecting nation that voted to suffer its own treason. SHAME ON YOU!

What we have seen in Ferguson will be spread to every corner of America as planned by the well organized and well funded left. A lynch mob. Nothing more.And America continues to suck its collective thumb?

The Republican party is out to lunch. They do not even know what is happening.So we are done. Defeated. A lost nation down on its knees with international carrion collectors about to feed on the twitching corpse of a once great nation.

ISIS is nothing more than another welcomed crisis for Obama to exploit. Obama the psychopomp golfs, pracing about the links like a character out of a Freddy Kruger nightmare, as Rome burns.


34 posted on 08/23/2014 3:09:30 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
Oh Goodie, Mission Creep.

Somebody needs to tell the rats there is no mission.

35 posted on 08/23/2014 7:14:41 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: UCANSEE2

You have the wrong show.

An archaeologist gains an amulet that lets her turn into the super heroine goddess Isis and fight evil.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072516/

If you want to know more about super heroine, check out Afghanistan, I tihnk they grow that there, or is it heroin?

I need your help posting an image of Joanna Cameron, ISIS. SHe doesn’t look that bad to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Isis

Shazam ISIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6ZDQZV9nA


36 posted on 08/23/2014 9:00:33 AM PDT by rey
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37 posted on 08/23/2014 9:36:02 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

? Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser

...and pudknocker.


38 posted on 08/23/2014 9:47:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: rey
Hope I got back to you in time.

There is an HTML guide here on FR. But that takes a while to digest.

First, remember that if you use HTML in your post, then you must be consistent. I.E. If you post a picture, then you must also include commands for paragraph breaks (if you put any other text with the picture)

All HTML commands are surrounded (identified) by the LEFT CARET or LEFT ARROW key (above the comma on keypad) AND the RIGHT CARET or RIGHT ARROW key (above the period).

To include a picture requires the IMG command.

IMG SRC='...url...' SRC stands for SOURCE.

...url.. is the location of the picture.

Find the picture you want. Then copy and paste that URL (what you listed in your post as the Wikipedia image, for instance) into your IMG command where the ...url... is in my example.

The single tick marks must be there. OR, you can use double tick marks (commonly called the quote mark). Doesn't matter which, just be consistent.

SO...

LEFT-CARET followed by

IMG SRC='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Isis'

Followed by RIGHT-CARET

Don't forget, paragraph breaks are LEFT-CARET then P then RIGHT-CARET.

That outta do it.

39 posted on 08/23/2014 7:18:51 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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