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Obama Tells Top Lawmakers He Has Authority to Fight Islamic State
Wall St. J ^ | September 9, 2014 | MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN and SAM DAGHER

Posted on 09/09/2014 10:56:29 PM PDT by Steelfish

Obama Tells Top Lawmakers He Has Authority to Fight Islamic State In Meeting With Congressional Leaders, President Previews Strategy He Will Lay Out to Nation on Wednesday

By MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN Sept. 9, 2014 WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama told top congressional leaders at a meeting Tuesday that he has the authority he needs to conduct operations against Islamic State militants as he gave them a preview of the strategy he will lay out in a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening.

Mr. Obama and top House and Senate leaders huddled for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon at the White House, officials said after the meeting. The White House called the discussion productive and said Mr. Obama told congressional...

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1 posted on 09/09/2014 10:56:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

making his speech one day prior to 9/11. practically daring them to commit more atrocities.


2 posted on 09/09/2014 11:00:38 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Steelfish

He has the authority, but he doesn’t have the will.


3 posted on 09/09/2014 11:03:23 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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I actually hope Obama goes in and cleans up his mess. But if he goes in half assed I can’t support it. I also think he has another agenda, which is helping them get rid of Assad.


4 posted on 09/09/2014 11:08:57 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: Steelfish

...so much for the peace prize....


5 posted on 09/09/2014 11:10:13 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Steelfish

Obama Tells Top Lawmakers He Has Authority to Golf whenever he wants to...then consult with his brothers in the Muslim Brotherhood and then and only then, drop a few bombs here and there to make it look like he’s fighting terror, oops, I forgot, there is no war on terror.


6 posted on 09/09/2014 11:17:47 PM PDT by Netz
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To: FreedomStar3028
By definition, Obama cannot finish the job.

He has no credibility in the world and especially with the Arabs and Israelis.
He's forming a “coalition of the willing” and all these countries are scared shi*less to come on board with an unreliable and shaky USA.
They just do ot trust Obama at all and that is the truth!

7 posted on 09/09/2014 11:21:25 PM PDT by Netz
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To: FreedomStar3028
I actually hope Obama goes in and cleans up his mess. But if he goes in half assed I can’t support it. I also think he has another agenda, which is helping them get rid of Assad.


All of these Middle East Jihadi groups change their names whenever necessary to hide their true goals and affiliations.

Obama will be bombing an ever shrinking number of Muslim Brotherhood affiliated, Qatar funded ISIL insurgents while at the same time he his supporting, arming and training a group of “moderate” , Muslim Brotherhood affiliated, Qatar funded ISIM Mk II fighters in their efforts to overthrow Assad

8 posted on 09/09/2014 11:24:29 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Steelfish
To Hell with Caliph Obama.

It's time for Jake and Ellwood to put the band back together.


9 posted on 09/09/2014 11:27:24 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Steelfish
"huddled for more than an hour"

He really goes all out, doesn't he?

11 posted on 09/09/2014 11:34:25 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Steelfish

Bammy is the Caliph.


12 posted on 09/09/2014 11:46:32 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: FreedomStar3028

I appreciate your concerns - half-@ssed is the way Zero usually does things, on those rare occasions when he can be bothered to act.


13 posted on 09/09/2014 11:58:41 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Wow. I was going to post the same thing literally word for word.


14 posted on 09/10/2014 12:06:31 AM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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GMTA. ;^)


15 posted on 09/10/2014 12:12:39 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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He has the authority, but he doesn’t have the will.

That is the 64 dollar question, isn't it?

16 posted on 09/10/2014 1:03:57 AM PDT by Mark17 (If I have a son, I am going to name him Bill, George, Sue, anything but Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Steelfish

needs to be clearly pointed u that this whole ISIS mess is laying squarely at his feet for his interference in the ME and his wilfull dereliction of duty on Iraq.


17 posted on 09/10/2014 1:15:13 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: Rashputin

The Blues Brothers would want a different kind of Mustang...


18 posted on 09/10/2014 1:26:18 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Steelfish

The King said so so it must be so.


19 posted on 09/10/2014 1:38:04 AM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Tzimisce
"...so much for the peace prize...."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

20 posted on 09/10/2014 3:10:33 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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