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Obama: We're definitely not 'losing' in Iraq - ISIS storming into Ramadi was just a 'setback'
Daily Mail ^ | 5/21/15 | Francesca Chambers

Posted on 05/22/2015 2:55:29 AM PDT by Libloather

Obama: We're definitely not 'losing' in Iraq - ISIS storming into Ramadi was just a 'setback' and it would be a mistake to send in U.S. ground troops

President Barack Obama echoed the many claims of his administration officials in an interview released today and said that the fall of Ramadi is a mere 'setback.'

'No, I don’t think we’re losing,' the president told The Atlantic in the Tuesday interview. 'There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback,' he said, but 'Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time.'

The president dug in his heels and said he would not send in U.S. ground troops to defend the war-torn country. Last time the U.S. came to the rescue, the Iraqi government 'squandered' the country's new found freedom, he said, by refusing to reach out to to different sects of the population.

'If the Iraqis themselves are not willing or capable to arrive at the political accommodations necessary to govern, if they are not willing to fight for the security of their country, we cannot do that for them,' Obama told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; obama; ramadi; setback
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Drawing a red line, doing a white line, or something...
1 posted on 05/22/2015 2:55:30 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

1000 Jihadis freed from prison in Palmyra, Syria.


2 posted on 05/22/2015 2:58:06 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Libloather

yep,
Sounds like the quota boy is on drugs.


3 posted on 05/22/2015 3:00:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Libloather

When Obama says “We are not losing”, he’s referring to his side, not the American side. Iraq was already won until he intervened and turned it into a win for his terrorist buddies.


4 posted on 05/22/2015 3:01:06 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Libloather

The Brown Clown is DELUSIONAL


5 posted on 05/22/2015 3:03:32 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Pollster1
When Obama says “We are not losing”, he’s referring to his side, not the American side. Iraq was already won until he intervened and turned it into a win for his terrorist buddies.

100% spot on.

6 posted on 05/22/2015 3:04:14 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Libloather

Just heard ISIS has taken control of most of the Syrian border. The locals fled because they ran out of ammo.
This is exactly what Obama wants. Damn to the killing of civilians, the bloody be headings, the raping of women and children, the forced slavery, stabbings, shooting of fellow Muslims and Christians.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed. But to Obama, out of sight, out of mind.


7 posted on 05/22/2015 3:09:26 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Libloather

Right. And Bengazi was caused by a YouTube video.


8 posted on 05/22/2015 3:31:17 AM PDT by AdaGray
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Why haven’t they moved into Mosul yet? Its been months


9 posted on 05/22/2015 3:39:23 AM PDT by 4rcane
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Anyone with half a brain knows Zero is actively covering and making excuses to advance the Islamic caliphate.


10 posted on 05/22/2015 3:40:45 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Joe Boucher

So this is what he says to all the families of fallen heros and wounded disabled vets. He is truly despicable


11 posted on 05/22/2015 3:47:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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“........Zero is actively covering and making excuses to advance the Islamic caliphate”...........

Yepper! Nothing new to see here, move along.

If ANYONE believes odumbo is not a Muslim, they too are lost. He made it very clear who he would support when he first came into power and has kept that promise since the day he made that statement.


12 posted on 05/22/2015 3:50:31 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: iontheball

“........Zero is actively covering and making excuses to advance the Islamic caliphate”...........

Yepper! Nothing new to see here, move along.

If ANYONE believes odumbo is not a Muslim, they too are lost. He made it very clear who he would support when he first came into power and has kept that promise since the day he made that statement.


13 posted on 05/22/2015 3:50:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Libloather

And this is why the U.S. Is a laughing stock around the world.


14 posted on 05/22/2015 3:52:19 AM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Libloather

Not losing - depending on which side you’re on


15 posted on 05/22/2015 3:56:09 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.")
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To: Libloather

By “we” he means he and ISIS.


16 posted on 05/22/2015 4:10:59 AM PDT by exnavy (the feral gubmint should be prosecuted.)
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JV squad again?


17 posted on 05/22/2015 4:14:05 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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Drawing a red line, doing a white line, or something...

The only thing Obama's drawing is attention to his yellow streak.

18 posted on 05/22/2015 4:15:32 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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When ISIS takes Baghdad, will Obama say we are not losing? Probably not since he is on the side of ISIS.


19 posted on 05/22/2015 4:18:29 AM PDT by ImNotLying
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To: Libloather

No, we havent lost France. And no, we wont be sending in the troops to save it. The french will have to do that themselves.

20 posted on 05/22/2015 4:22:10 AM PDT by lowbridge
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