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Obama: 'I Don't Think We're Losing' War Against ISIS
Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/5/15

Posted on 05/21/2015 5:29:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

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US President Barack Obama has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Islamic State as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost.

"I don't think we're losing," Obama said in an interview with news magazine The Atlantic published Thursday, days after the Iraqi city of Ramadi was overrun.

Shia militias converged on Ramadi Monday in a bid recapture it from jihadists who dealt the Iraqi government a stinging blow by overrunning the city in a deadly three-day blitz.

The loss of the capital of Iraq's largest province was Baghdad's worst military setback since it started clawing back territory from the jihadists late last year.

Days after a rare message from ISIS supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urging mass mobilization, the group also came close to also seizing one of Syria's most famed heritage sites, ancient Palmyra, but the army pinned it back.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had been reluctant to deploy Shia militias to Anbar province for fear of alienating its overwhelmingly Sunni Arab population.

He favored developing locally recruited forces, a policy that had strong US support.

But militia commanders said on Monday that Ramadi's fall had shown that the government could not do without the so-called Popular Mobilization units (Hashed al-Shaabi) - am alliance of Iranian-backed Shia Islamist militias regularly criticized for carrying out war crimes comparable to...ISIS.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: albagdaddi; albaghdaddi; albaghdadi; daesh; iran; iraq; isis; losing; nationalsecurityfail; obama; palmyra; ramadi
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To: Eleutheria5

Get them some shovel-ready jobs. Mo Hammedo-phones. Subsidized housing. Give them space to vent their frustrations. Show them how to hang curtains and ride a girl’s bike.


41 posted on 05/21/2015 6:15:01 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Eleutheria5

What an inspiring answer the president gave. Put that one right up there with ‘with the unbounding determination of our people- we will gain the inevitable triumph- so help us God’.


42 posted on 05/21/2015 6:15:02 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Eleutheria5

Obama “isn’t” against ISIS. Keep that in mind.

ISIS is the equivalent of the mongol hoards, or the barbarians.

They need to be put down like the mongrel dogs that they are, no mercy, no quarter.

Tit for tat.

They kill us, we kill them in a greater number. That’s how warfare works.


43 posted on 05/21/2015 6:16:16 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: gorush

The American people have been abandoned. We are on our own with a community organizer as our “leader.” May God help us all.


44 posted on 05/21/2015 6:22:43 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: beethovenfan

What he “claims” is irrelevant, imho. I saw the smug look on his face when traitor pig filth bergdahls raghead father spouted that towelhead tripe on camera. He’s with them. Everything he says, does, and believes is contrary to the good of this country. As far as I care he is ISIS. The same as them. What of the American kids who join IS? I somehow doubt they “know” isslam either. Doesn’t stop them from being IS.


45 posted on 05/21/2015 6:23:34 PM PDT by IluvmyKalashnikov
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To: 9thLife
Lie?
The real word is humiliate.

N'est pas?

46 posted on 05/21/2015 6:42:44 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Eleutheria5

He’s got the blondie, Harf, in lieu of Baghdad Bob.

Now, read his quote carefully:

“I don’t think we’re losing,”

His side isn’t losing. The man is being truthful.


47 posted on 05/21/2015 6:48:07 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: beethovenfan
"This idiot will still be saying that when Isis is on the White House lawn."


48 posted on 05/21/2015 6:52:21 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: EDINVA

49 posted on 05/21/2015 6:52:43 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Eleutheria5

Well in part he’s telling the truth this time actually.

If you’re not in a fight to begin with, then you’re definitely not losing the fight.

Obama’s word play in full force!


50 posted on 05/21/2015 6:52:49 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood
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To: Eleutheria5

Hey Barry, there’s a lot of bodies in mass graves that prove you wrong, ya’ idiot.


51 posted on 05/21/2015 6:52:52 PM PDT by Bullish (Not even a smidgeon of integrity or sanity in this whitehouse.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Key Quote,”I don’t Think.”


52 posted on 05/21/2015 7:00:46 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Like Hitler when the Russians were at Berlin’s outskirts. “Ve vill vin dis yet, yah?”


53 posted on 05/21/2015 7:07:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Eleutheria5
Obama: ‘I Don't Think.

There I fixed it!!!

54 posted on 05/21/2015 7:15:16 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: xzins

IF ONLY that happened in every class AND with every martyr !!!


55 posted on 05/21/2015 7:20:19 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Eleutheria5
King Obama is insane.
56 posted on 05/21/2015 7:26:51 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: clearcarbon

“This idiot will still be saying that when Isis is on the White House lawn.”

Well, he does have the two girls he can offer them as “brides.” Maybe a little long in the tooth for their taste but probably they would take them.


57 posted on 05/21/2015 7:28:47 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Eleutheria5


58 posted on 05/21/2015 7:31:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Diogenesis
Obama: 'I Don't Think We're Losing' War Against ISIS..."
59 posted on 05/21/2015 7:35:06 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Eleutheria5

In Obama’s world every day is “opposites day”.


60 posted on 05/21/2015 7:41:49 PM PDT by The Duke (Azealia Banks)
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