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Obama's failure on Iran & ISIS
FSM ^ | 9/16/14 | Slater Bakhtavar

Posted on 09/16/2014 10:04:50 AM PDT by freedom44

In the aftermath of the United States' ill-advised troop withdrawal from Iraq, the group prospered, eventually divorcing itself from al Qaeda and declaring itself an Islamic caliphate, so that it is now most commonly known as ISIS. The growth of ISIS has been as impressive as it has been alarming, with well-armed militants spreading across Iraq (where even that nation's second largest city, Mosul, has fallen to the power of ISIS and is now administered by them) and into Syria, sustaining themselves with funding from captured financial institutions, oil fields, and sympathetic radical Muslims in other Arab countries. They are brutally totalitarian in their adherence to their flavor of Islamic doctrine, having instituted flogging as punishment for the sale of alcohol or tobacco, hand amputation for stealing, and death for failure to convert to the "true" Muslim faith. What is perhaps most terrifying of all is the fact that blame for the rise of ISIS can be laid squarely at the feet of United States President Barack Obama.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; isis; waronterror

1 posted on 09/16/2014 10:04:50 AM PDT by freedom44
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To: freedom44
He can't even get people to say that they're Not-Islamic.
Which would make them the NISIS terrorists.
2 posted on 09/16/2014 11:16:14 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: freedom44

NO NO NO!!!

His plan is working perfectly. America is imploding as we speak and ISIS gains power by the minute...exactly as planned.


3 posted on 09/16/2014 11:29:09 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: freedom44

No failure.
Obola is the father of IS.
McCain is the mother.
And Hillary is the weaponizing midwife.


4 posted on 09/16/2014 2:52:22 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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