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 ...
When your leader says you are not losing a war that you are losing, you (I) have serious problems.
He and Michelle are doing fine,
Iraq being overrun by ISIS has not affected any of HIS gold games.
correction :’golf games’
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Yeah and if you believe that I have a Health Care policy that will save you 2500 dollars a year!
If you like your plan, you can ____ ___ ____!
Depends what the meaning of “we” is, eh, Baraq Hussein?
And for the same reasons I can say quite honestly that at
the moment I’m not losing a fight with Evander Holyfield.
One of the early episodes was about a used car that makes it into the lot of a dishonest used car dealer and forces him to tell the truth about every car on the lot. After it ruins his business, he finally unloads it on the Soviet Premier, who is in the states on a diplomatic mission.
Correction:
Yeah and if you believe that I have a Health Care policy that I will sell you that will save you 2500 dollars a year!
Not the US. He won’t put a boot on the ground. Does air support make US a ‘we’?
FBI Speaks To Bergen County High School Students About ISIS Recruitment Threat
if we were winning, i'm pretty sure they wouldn't be recruiting within 250 miles of the white house.
then again, if the white house was on board with isis... then recruiting within 250 miles of the white house WOULD BE a sign of victory.
That’s because he isn’t on our side.
He’s on their side.
Obama: “I Don’t Think! We’re Losing War Against ISIS”
Just another enemy islamist excuse to sell us all out.
he could have stopped at “I don’t think”.
I agree with his first three words, they are true. The rest? Pure Bovine Excrement.
Quoting Mr. O’Venal: “I don’t think”
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