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SHOCK: White House: Taliban An "Armed Insurgency," Not A "Terrorist Group" Like ISIL
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 28, 2015 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 01/28/2015 12:42:58 PM PST by i88schwartz

At Wednesday's White House press briefing, deputy press secretary Eric Schultz wouldn't call the Taliban a terrorist group, instead referring to it as "an armed insurgency."

Video and transcript at link ...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; libmyths; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; proislamist; taliban; terrorists; thebiglie; whitehouse; wordgames
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1 posted on 01/28/2015 12:42:58 PM PST by i88schwartz
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To: i88schwartz
Is this a terrorist action?
or a workplace accident?



2 posted on 01/28/2015 12:45:47 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: i88schwartz

Surely somebody is going to to the right thing about this Arab Musloid operative.


3 posted on 01/28/2015 12:46:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: i88schwartz

The powers that be clearly want to bus us with terrorists and Jews with Nazis together.

I think we have a pre Hitler problem in America, starting with socialists like Obama, but the Bush Nad Christies for amnesty support the same language.


4 posted on 01/28/2015 12:46:27 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: i88schwartz
armed insurgency

Kinda like the Tea Party is treated within the GOP ....

5 posted on 01/28/2015 12:48:10 PM PST by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty)
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To: i88schwartz

Like I’ve said many times, they’re simply not sane. And the American people aren’t sane, or they’d have never elected such insane people. Twice.


6 posted on 01/28/2015 12:49:25 PM PST by afsnco
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To: i88schwartz

I’m surprised they aren’t calling the Taliban “freedom fighters” and “negotiating partners.”


7 posted on 01/28/2015 12:50:13 PM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The last thing we need is a muslim, bolshevic, homo martyr.


8 posted on 01/28/2015 12:50:39 PM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: i88schwartz

He steadfastly refuses to connect anything Islam or Muslim with the concrete word “terrorism”. Anybody that says this man isn’t a Muslim is skiing down a very different slope than the rest of us.


9 posted on 01/28/2015 12:50:50 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: i88schwartz
White House: Taliban An "Armed Insurgency," Not A "Terrorist Group" Like ISIL the TEA PARTY is!
10 posted on 01/28/2015 12:51:55 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: i88schwartz

Some individuals never get over being stupid and ignorant and un-American.


11 posted on 01/28/2015 12:53:17 PM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: i88schwartz
You can't get more Islamist than the Taliban.
The word means student.
But students of what?
Read Below. -Tom

About News
Thousands of Afghan orphans grew up never knowing Afghanistan or their parents, especially their mothers. They were schooled in Pakistan’s madrassas, religious schools which, in this case, were encouraged and financed by Pakistani and Saudi authorities to develop militantly inclined Islamists.

Pakistan nurtured that corps of militants as proxy fighters in Pakistan’s ongoing conflict with over Muslim-dominated (and disputed) Kashmir. But Pakistan consciously intended to use the madrassas’ militants as leverage in its attempt to control Afghanistan as well.

12 posted on 01/28/2015 12:54:44 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: freedomson

I was thinking more along the line of AIDS, like Arafat.


13 posted on 01/28/2015 12:58:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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SCHULTZ: Well, I'd also point out that the Taliban is an armed insurgency, ISIL is a terrorist group. So, we don't make concessions to terrorist groups. We feel --

KARL: You don't think the Taliban is a terrorist group?

SCHULTZ: I don't think that the Taliban, um, uh -- the Taliban is an armed insurgency. This was the winding down of the war in Afghanistan and that's why this arrangement was dealt. Our view is, as the president said at the time, is as commander in chief when he sends men and women into armed combat he doesn't want to leave anyone behind.

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

Marty DiBergi: I don't know.

Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

14 posted on 01/28/2015 1:03:15 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: i88schwartz

The “Terrorist” label is reserved for the Tea Party, Gun Owners, and Veterans.


15 posted on 01/28/2015 1:06:17 PM PST by JohnKinAK
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To: ScottinVA

How about “Founding Fathers”? After all, they are trying to overthrow and eject foreign invaders. Has a nice ring to it.


16 posted on 01/28/2015 1:07:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: i88schwartz

A distinction without a difference, as the saying goes.


17 posted on 01/28/2015 1:10:26 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: WayneS

Shocker.

18 posted on 01/28/2015 1:10:39 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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Did Shultz actually refer to ISIL rather than ISIS? He is probably in a torture room re-education seminar as we speak.
19 posted on 01/28/2015 1:12:32 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: i88schwartz
We mustn't use harsh terms for the Tollybon.
20 posted on 01/28/2015 1:13:35 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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