Posted on 06/15/2014 4:38:58 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the House homeland security committee, told ABC's This Week: “Well, this is a crisis. It does call for a response, not going to Palm Springs for a fundraiser.”
Later on Sunday, Psaki released a statement on security at US embassies. The Obama administration faces ongoing congressional scrutiny of its response to an attack on a US facility in Benghazi in September 2012, in which four Americans, including the ambassador to Libya, were killed.
In Baghdad later on Sunday, a series of explosions killed at least 15 people and injured more than 30, police and hospital officials said.
Insurgents also seized Tal Afar, a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in the north west of the country, after heavy fighting. Residents reached by telephone said it had fallen.
"The city was overrun by militants. Severe fighting took place, and many people were killed. Shi'ite families have fled to the west and Sunni families have fled to the east," a city official who asked not to be identified told Reuters.
Graham said “this stubborn-headed president we have who thinks he knows better than anybody else, who withdrew troops and exposed this country to the inevitable, needs to change his policies quickly”.
He added that Obama was “delusional” and “detached”. “The number of people who could die in this country from getting this wrong is going to be far greater than 4,000 [a reference to the number of US troops killed so far in Iraq, actually 4,424] because they are getting hold of weapons they did not have before,” he said.
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Breaking news update! Iraqis shut down internet at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3168092/posts
Watching the twitter feed for #Baghdad #isis
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23Baghdad%20%23isis&src=tyah
It appears that things are getting hot and heavy with ISIS less than 10 miles from the green zone.
US evacuates Baghdad embassy as brutal ISIS forces advance ... [Breaking!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3168087/posts
Obama can’t be reached ,he’s on the 9th tee
Instead of complaining, why dont they impeach him and replace him with someone to do the job while he is gone...
Stand down America... what difference does it make?
They’re going to seize the airport and then you’ll have jetliners raining from the sky over the capital city.
Well, I wouldn’t want to be in ISIS’ shoes. When Obama’s mad....whoa boy, look out! Nobody’s madder than Obama.
Herr Obama sounds like Herr Hitler during D-Day Normandy invasion.
Will those MANPADS come into play?
They must be racist.
Looks like they’ve already destroyed much of the international airport and all flights have been diverted.
This is why the CPUSA let the Russians know in the late 1980s that this guy was working for them.
He doesn’t care about people, either Sunni or Shiite.
He is not a black man, as he was born in 1957 in Indonesia, and has no relationship to the Dunhams.
They’ve already found their goat to hang this on, ready to do the mea culpa bit and fall on his sword for Das Fuehrer:
Hagel, since he’s half way under the bus anyway.
After countless scandals, `protect the Queen’ is their MO.
Ping.
Obama knows that. He's counting on it. He's the leader of the terror left.
If he has time, he might even make a speech about it . . . in prime time even.
He’s got his red crayon and a phone, doncha know
I have no doubt they will. Not sure, but I don’t recall Al Qaeda having helicopters and tanks before. Now they do.
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