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State Dep’t: We Never Called ISIS ‘Ragtag’
cnsnews.com ^ | 5/22/2015 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 05/22/2015 9:44:56 AM PDT by rktman

The Obama administration has never described the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) as a “ragtag” group, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said on Thursday, after describing the fall of Ramadi to the jihadist group as a “serious setback” but also saying that any conflict will have “ebbs and flows.”

During a press briefing days after ISIS seized Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, Harf sparred with an Arab reporter over ISIS’ advances, differing with him over how much territory it now controls, how the administration views the group, and the relative strategies of ISIS and the U.S.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: asshats; secstate
"....Harf sparred with an Arab reporter....". LOL! WTH? The lyin' king sends an unarmed woman in to a sparring match? Is he mysoginistic (sp) or something? And you can bet they never called them "ragtag" because they didn't want to offend them. Why that would almost be racis'.
1 posted on 05/22/2015 9:44:56 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

What ‘ the relative strategies of ISIS and the U.S. ‘?

Everybody knows this admin making stupid sh*^ up as they go.


2 posted on 05/22/2015 9:48:29 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: rktman

Is this a statement from the jayvee State Department?


3 posted on 05/22/2015 9:50:27 AM PDT by boycott
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To: rktman

Junior Varsity is what the big eared Marxist called them.


4 posted on 05/22/2015 9:55:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: rktman
Wonder if he meant "raghead?"

The video is embedded in the CNS News webpage: State Dep’t: We Never Called ISIS ‘Ragtag’

5 posted on 05/22/2015 9:56:18 AM PDT by OK Sun (Freedom is not just another word.)
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To: rktman

Harf is the US strategerist on the ME?


6 posted on 05/22/2015 9:57:00 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rktman

7 posted on 05/22/2015 9:57:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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You people don’t understand the nuance of her statement. She said ‘we’ meaning the State Dept. not The White Hut. /harfspeak


8 posted on 05/22/2015 9:57:36 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: OK Sun

I know somebody has that picture of him wearing a kimono or something with a rag on his head.


9 posted on 05/22/2015 9:58:14 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: rktman

Good grief.


10 posted on 05/22/2015 10:00:11 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: OK Sun
"ragtag?"

Wonder if he meant "raghead?"

No! No! No!

Harf actually said that the Obamessiah meant to say that the State Department will defeat the JV militants with a campaign of "hash tags."

C'mon folks. Get this stuff right.

11 posted on 05/22/2015 10:13:21 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: rktman

Well, true.
They didn’t say “ragtag”, they said “Junior Varsity”.
But what difference does it make?

/ sarc.


12 posted on 05/22/2015 10:14:42 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: rktman

Old Clinton tactic.

They proclaim they never called ISIS “ragtag” with rightous indignation.

And can do so truthfully, because the actual word they used at the time was “JV” not “ragtag”

You have to watch these lying SOB’s like a hawk


13 posted on 05/22/2015 10:44:35 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

CBS called them “ragtag” in Sept. 2014. Isn’t that essentially the same thing?....:^)

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/rag-tag-fighters-desperately-trying-to-combat-isis-advance/


14 posted on 05/22/2015 11:02:13 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: az_gila

Again, you have to carefully watch every word they say.

Because in your example it was CBS that called them “ragtag” to Obama or the administration.

It’s a common tactic used by skilled liars.

The most famous example being Clintons “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”


15 posted on 05/22/2015 11:08:23 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Everybody knows this admin making stupid sh*^ up as they go.

Add to your statement that nearly ALL of it is INTENTIONAL because Obozo is a MUSLIM president who is running interference for his RADICAL MUSLIM bothers while he himself continues to DELIBERATELY dismantle America.

This is being done to America out of CONTEMPT by a MUSLIM PRESIDENT who AMERICA elected TWICE. Think about that.

16 posted on 05/22/2015 11:44:12 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Again, you have to carefully watch every word they say.

Because in your example it was CBS that called them “ragtag” to Obama or the administration.

It’s a common tactic used by skilled liars.

The most famous example being Clintons “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”


True - I was actually trying to say that CBS = Obama State Dept. :^)

17 posted on 05/22/2015 3:03:45 PM PDT by az_gila
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