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Obama’s Letter to Congress on the Syria Airstrikes Has a Glaring Omission
PJ Media ^ | September 23, 2014 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 09/23/2014 1:49:47 PM PDT by jazusamo

See if you can spot it.

obama-letter-syria

He never mentions the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL…at all.

Is this letter an admission that he has yet to find legal justification to back up the airstrikes on ISIS targets? Or is this letter depending on the Authorization for Use of Military Force — which he wanted to repeal — to strike Khorasan, which is a more direct offshoot of al Qaeda than ISIS is?

h/t Weasel Zippers


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; alqaeda; congress; isis; obamaletter; obamanewisisstrategy

1 posted on 09/23/2014 1:49:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Deer Mistr Kongres...I am goeng to doo stuff wether yu like it oor not. Now i haf too go and pla sum galf.


2 posted on 09/23/2014 1:53:59 PM PDT by albie
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To: jazusamo

My guess is that since he doesn’t mention who he intends to bomb, he is asking permission to bomb whoever he wants—and at any time and any place. “In a variety of locations” is not exactly specific, either.


3 posted on 09/23/2014 1:58:00 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: albie

[ Deer Mistr Kongres...I am goeng to doo stuff wether yu like it oor not. Now i haf too go and pla sum galf. ]

WRONG

Deer Mistr Kongres...Mah Freend Valerie is goeng to doo stuff wether yu like it oor not. Now i haf too go and pla sum galf.


4 posted on 09/23/2014 2:02:52 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Cicero
He'll just keep telling Congress what he did after the fact and probably keep referring to al Qaeda group even though he already defeated them after he killed bin Laden. /s
5 posted on 09/23/2014 2:04:55 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: GraceG

rite after dis choom break


6 posted on 09/23/2014 2:06:22 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: Cicero

[ My guess is that since he doesn’t mention who he intends to bomb, he is asking permission to bomb whoever he wants—and at any time and any place. “In a variety of locations” is not exactly specific, either. ]

ISIS/ISIL seems to have provided cover to Obama to take out Assad or at least hurt hime enough so that the rebels who sold out the rporter to ISIS can take out Assad.....


7 posted on 09/23/2014 2:11:45 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: jazusamo

Khorasan and AQIM and AQAP, morph themselves contantly in new locations, whackamole, etc.

AQ derivatives have no respect for any boundary.

Khorasan came from the AfPak theater, went to Iran, went to Yemen, went to Syria, etc. to avoid attack.

It would make no sense to name a location or even a region where we would seek them out. OK, Planet Earth.

I said this many years ago, fighting jihadists is like fighting earthquakes.

The Saudi’s are telling each other that our State Department has asked them for a ten year commitment.


8 posted on 09/23/2014 2:13:07 PM PDT by gandalftb (Go Seahawks!)
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To: jazusamo

Glaring Omission = The Report


9 posted on 09/23/2014 3:00:36 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it

Did he write the letter to Oslo yet in order to return his so-called “Peace Prize”?


10 posted on 09/23/2014 3:54:38 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

He’s forgotten about that one. He’s now bucking for Globull Warming Queen.


11 posted on 09/23/2014 5:05:24 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: jazusamo

It could be because ISIS seems to change their name every other week.


12 posted on 09/24/2014 4:20:43 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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