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Obama Now Admits He Was Surprised By ISIS, Despite Being Warned By President Bush
Townhall ^ | 12/08/2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 12/08/2016 3:48:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind

In January 2014 President Obama referred to ISIS, one of the most vicious terror armies to ever exist, of being a "JV team."

“The analogy we use around here sometimes,and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told the New Yorker at the time.

After that comment the group marched from Syria to Iraq, taking large swaths of territory, pillaging and raping along the way and slaughtering thousands. 

Now with just a month left in his presidency, President Obama is saying he was surprised by the capability of ISIS to control major parts of the region, becoming a world wide threat. 

"The ability of ISIL to not just mass inside of Syria, but then to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul, for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen," Obama told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview airing Wednesday night. 

There was no reason for Obama or those in his administration to be surprised, after all, they were warned about the consequences of rapidly leaving Iraq and did it anyway.

Obama knew a group like ISIS had potential, but ignored warnings for political and ideological reasons. The consequences for that decision have been deadly. 

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO OF GEORGE W. BUSH WARNING ABOUT WITHDRAWAL TURNING IRAQ INTO A TERRORIST HAVEN



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barackhussein; bush; iraq; isis; muslim; obama; terrorism
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To: SeekAndFind
That's BS - Team OBumble CREATED/Armed ISIL


http://truepundit.com/wikileaks-bombshell-leaked-to-true-pundit-hillary-clinton-supplied-weapons-from-benghazi-to-al-qaeda-in-syria/

41 posted on 12/08/2016 7:16:35 PM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: SeekAndFind

Comrade obama’s election was the big opportunity for demRATs the prove the superiority of their diplomatic skills, their comprehension of economics and their excellence in managing the well being of American citizens. Clearly a Hollywood inspired education has its limitations.


42 posted on 12/08/2016 8:46:37 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: HLPhat

BTTT


43 posted on 12/08/2016 9:47:37 PM PST by Bayou City
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To: SeekAndFind

Took him 8 years to admit what every one knew and top military advisers tried to get his attention about while he went on about overseas contingency operations.


44 posted on 12/08/2016 11:19:55 PM PST by HollyB
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To: SeekAndFind

I think this guy was in over his head from day one. He did what he was told to do and said what others plugged into his teleprompter. I expect him to make a ‘rap’ video within a year.


45 posted on 12/08/2016 11:35:56 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He knew exactly what he was doing when he armed them.
He knew exactly who they were too .
Al Baghdadi is part of the muslim brotherhood and so is he and so are the bunch of advisors he has let in the white house. It’s not a surprise , it’s part of his plan.


46 posted on 12/09/2016 12:21:43 AM PST by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: butlerweave
Obama Now Admits He Was Surprised that ISIS didn’t do better with the Billions of dollars in cash and weapons he gave them

There are even a large number on FREEREPUBLIC that believe Hussein is an incompetent fool who made a lot of mistakes. To label them stupid is an insult to Forest Gump.

The other side believe that Hussein Obama, as a minimum, is a pro-Muslim closest terrorist who is attacking America in every way he can from global warming to arming Muslim terrorists.

What is the right answer? I think it is obvious who Hussein is and that he sides with Muslim terrorists because he is one.


47 posted on 12/09/2016 4:00:43 AM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: Stayfree
and it had nothing to do with his skin color

It had everything to do with his Muslim roots.

Americans are the easiest people in history to fool. Tell the presstitutes a lie and they will repeat it 24/7 until the masses repeat it in their sleep. Hussein is NOT a Muslim, Hussein is NOT a Muslim......

48 posted on 12/09/2016 4:07:13 AM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: HLPhat
This bears repeating until Hussein is in GITMO for treason. And Hillary, and Huma and....


49 posted on 12/09/2016 4:10:41 AM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: oldbrowser

He’s not even the smartest man in the room when he is alone.


50 posted on 12/09/2016 5:28:52 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama Now Admits He Was Surprised By ISIS, Despite Being Warned By President Bush

Riiight!

(pleasantly surprised maybe)

51 posted on 12/09/2016 5:32:46 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: lee martell

Or maybe he can go in exile to Epstein’s island to satisfy every perv’s dream of screwing a President...


52 posted on 12/09/2016 6:28:13 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: politicianslie

Yep. And Yep, and Yep, and...


53 posted on 12/09/2016 7:43:16 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: SeekAndFind

He rather claims he was surprised, rather than admit and have to explain why he deliberately decided to not fight ISIS terrorists.


54 posted on 12/09/2016 1:27:33 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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