Posted on 10/24/2016 3:07:42 PM PDT by Innovative
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed her rival Donald Trump on Monday for saying that the week-old effort to re-take the Iraqi city of Mosul from the control of Islamic State was going badly. Hes basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started, Clinton said at a campaign event in New Hampshire. Hes proving to the world what it means to have an unqualified commander in chief.
In a tweet on Sunday, Trump, the Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 election, said the attack on Mosul is turning out to be a total disaster. We gave them months of notice. U.S. is looking so dumb.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by the United States, have mounted a huge assault on the area surrounding the city, the last stronghold of Islamic State forces in Iraq. They have retaken about 80 Islamic State-held villages and towns since the offensive was launched on Oct. 16, but have yet to move on the city itself.
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This article reads like the “semi-satire” posts
Obozo and the hag have both long since demonstrated that point.
No, that would be announcing a unilateral pullout a year in advance, like Obama/Clinton.
Better keep a close eye on Kirkuk, as this game of whack-a-mole proceeds.
Obama..Muslim...Huma...Muslim...ValJar...Muslim and 80 percent of the WH staff...Muslim. Is anyone surprised?? I’m not and neither is The Donald.
Hey Hillary!
“This war is lost.” - Senator “Dirty” Harry Reid(D)NV
Blow it out your fat ass you lying, thieving crook.
No way in hell the lying press makes any deal out of the Mosul offensive lest it upset a Muslim nutter who feels sympathetic enough to ISIS to go Full Jihadi just before the election.
What happened? I thought she was ignoring Trump.
....any more classified info you wanna release Hilda?
Most don’t know we just lost another service member in Iraq.
Up to 4 now.
No way this is possible.
I have seen news reports that she isn’t even paying attention to Trump because she is so far ahead.
Thith woman ith utterly dithpicable!
and looking at the world today, especially the middle east, we see what happens when you have an incompetent Secretary of State (2 in a row)
No Hillary, Benghazi shows what happens when you have an incompetent Secretary of State AND an incompetent CinC
Hillary’s performance as SecState was so poor in Libya that she had to invent a Benghazi cover story and lie to the mothers of the dead in front of their sons’ caskets
and looking at the world today, especially the middle east, we see what happens when you have an incompetent Secretary of State (2 in a row)
No Hillary, Benghazi shows what happens when you have an incompetent Secretary of State AND an incompetent CinC
Hillary’s performance as SecState was so poor in Libya that she had to invent a Benghazi cover story and lie to the mothers of the dead in front of their sons’ caskets
I wish Hillary would go celebrate on the front...personally liberate it.
Hillary is to blame for the whole mess in the first place.
I saw Trump's tweet and facepalmed it a bit as calling it a disaster is a pretty heavy statement.
That being said, I've been watching Kurdistan 24 and Rudaw and keeping an eye on Russia Today (rt.com) who had a video back in August claiming that the generals involved expected to be finished with Mosul in 30 days.
Well, it's October now and they haven't reached the city yet.
They've found extensive tunneling complexes and minefields everywhere. There is also a million plus people Mosul in harms way. They have no idea of the strength of the enemy and their capabilities.
Some are reporting that the coalition recently bombed a funeral possession killing 30 or so. Bet you don't hear about that on the news.
Clinton has the gravitas of a wet sponge that fell in that toxic human waste her bus dumped on a city street.
Exactly
It is going badly. Why pretend otherwise?
Hes basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started,
But it is OK to declare that Clinton is so far ahead in the polls that the election is already won.
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