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Susan Rice: This Is 'Very Different' from a War. (Incompetent or just plain stupid?"
breitbart ^ | 9/11/14

Posted on 09/11/2014 5:11:52 PM PDT by bestintxas

Thursday on CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer," Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the president's actions against ISIS are "very different" from America being at war.

Rice said, "I don't know whether you want to call it a war or sustained counterterrorism campaign. I think, frankly, this is a counterterrorism operation that will take time. It will be sustained. We will not have American combat forces on the ground fighting as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan which is what I think the American people think of when they think of a war. So I think this is very different from that. But nonetheless, we'll be dealing with the significant threat to this region, to American personnel in the region and potentially also to Europe and the United States. And we'll be doing it with partners. We'll not be fighting ourselves on the ground but using American air power as we have been over the last several weeks as necessary."

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once the Dems become the minority, they will sing exactly the 180 degree opposite
1 posted on 09/11/2014 5:11:52 PM PDT by bestintxas
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To: bestintxas
Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice

Brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it.

2 posted on 09/11/2014 5:15:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: bestintxas

It won’t be a war till the next Republican President,
then it will be HIS war...


3 posted on 09/11/2014 5:15:25 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Imcompetent AND stupid—fixed it.


4 posted on 09/11/2014 5:16:14 PM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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Arrogant liars.


5 posted on 09/11/2014 5:16:28 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bestintxas; Liz
Kerry was asked today whether the U.S. was at war with ISIS. "No. Look, we’re engaged in a counterterrorism operation of a significant order," the secretary responded. "And counterterrorism operations can take a long time, they go on. I think 'war' is the wrong reference term with respect to that, but obviously it involves kinetic military action."

Fresh talking points have been released.

6 posted on 09/11/2014 5:17:11 PM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: bestintxas

It’s not “war-war”?


7 posted on 09/11/2014 5:18:08 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Democrats: Enemies that stab you in the back. Republicans: "Friends" that poison your tea.)
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To: bestintxas

I’m leaning towards “just plain stupid” unless there are higher more developed levels of “stupid”.


8 posted on 09/11/2014 5:20:26 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Consistency: Every (all) top level manager in the Administration is a pathological liar.)
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To: Libloather
Fresh talking points have been released

Thats exactly what's going on.

9 posted on 09/11/2014 5:20:56 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: bestintxas

What exactly is this morons qualifcations to be NSA?

She had a good jump shot in college?

She and Samantha Power are the geniuses who convinced Vacation Guy to take out Khaddafi.

Now we can’t even have an Embassy there

She is a liar and arch criminal on the scale of Joe Goebbels.

A Washingtonian nightmare born raised and dedicated to perpetuating the rule of the Apparatchik political class.

She has no soul.


10 posted on 09/11/2014 5:21:31 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: bestintxas

It’s very different from a lie, too.


11 posted on 09/11/2014 5:23:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: bestintxas

When Obama said he didn’t have a strategy, he meant a strategy to explain whether this was a war or not.


12 posted on 09/11/2014 5:23:05 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: bestintxas

George W. Bush unleased a “Shock and Awe” approach against our enemies, while Obama prefers an “Aw Shucks” approach.


13 posted on 09/11/2014 5:28:32 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: bestintxas

Yes, this is different! In a war people try to kill each other. In this counter terrorist campaign our side waves Global Warming banners and tries to pass out carbon credits - just ask Lurch.


14 posted on 09/11/2014 5:35:12 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: bestintxas

They gave a War and the White House never came.


15 posted on 09/11/2014 5:37:51 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: bestintxas; All

to a large extent she’s correct; you try and win a war...in this instance they’re not trying to win anything- obama only hopes he can get Iraq back to where it was when he took over and neglected the situation...


16 posted on 09/11/2014 5:42:27 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: the anti-mahdi

I’ll take stupid for $500 Alex.


17 posted on 09/11/2014 5:42:37 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Politicalkiddo

ISIS is not Islamic, we are not at war by dropping bombs and killing each other.

Only in a delusional liberal mind would they make sense of that


18 posted on 09/11/2014 5:45:13 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: bestintxas

Maybe if she plays a Mr. Rogers Neighborhood video tape on Twitter, it will calm ISIS down.


19 posted on 09/11/2014 5:45:52 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: bestintxas

First John Kerry. Now Susan Rice.
A war that is not a war.


20 posted on 09/11/2014 5:47:51 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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