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 WASHINGTONPresident 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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making his speech one day prior to 9/11. practically daring them to commit more atrocities.
He has the authority, but he doesn’t have the will.
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.
...so much for the peace prize....
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.
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!
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
It's time for Jake and Ellwood to put the band back together.
He really goes all out, doesn't he?
Bammy is the Caliph.
I appreciate your concerns - half-@ssed is the way Zero usually does things, on those rare occasions when he can be bothered to act.
Wow. I was going to post the same thing literally word for word.
GMTA. ;^)
That is the 64 dollar question, isn't it?
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.
The Blues Brothers would want a different kind of Mustang...
The King said so so it must be so.
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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