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Democrats applaud Obama’s airstrikes in Iraq
The Washington Times ^ | August 8, 2014 | By S.A. Miller

Posted on 08/08/2014 9:54:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Democratic leaders rallied behind President Obama’s decision to authorize airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Iraq, applauding him for imposing limits on military action and vowing not to send U.S. troops back into Iraq.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said early Friday that it was “appropriate that the President authorized airstrikes against [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] should they threaten U.S. personnel and other interests in Erbil or elsewhere in Iraq.”

“As the President reiterated, there is no American military solution to the situation in Iraq,” she said. “Defeating ISIS will require Iraq’s leaders to see beyond their divisions and come together to fight this common threat. These actions are the only way to achieve durable security and stability for all Iraqis.”

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airstrikeonisis; airstrikes; cindysheehan; codepink; iraq; isisiraq; quagmire
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To: R_Kangel

I wonder how many aspirin factories they hit?


41 posted on 08/08/2014 11:15:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Democrats applaud Obama’s airstrikes in Iraq

I throw this on the same pile as Bubba Klinton lobbing cruise missiles at an aspirin factory. Just show to claim that he actively fought against them.

If it were a serious effort, waves of B-52s carpet bombing the muzzie b*st*rds (I've been duly warned about my language, so I can no longer call a spade, a spade.) would be just a start.

42 posted on 08/08/2014 11:25:38 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: dfwgator

.... Typical Democrat SOP....


43 posted on 08/08/2014 12:10:08 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: GeronL

I got a feeling we are going to pay twice for the same restate.


44 posted on 08/08/2014 12:13:57 PM PDT by mware
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To: jsanders2001

We’ve never supported ISIS. They’re frickin Islamic thugs. Rather than looking at blog slobber by MSM-demoralized surrender monkeys try doing at least a little peer reviewed reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#United_States


45 posted on 08/08/2014 12:40:45 PM PDT by Justa
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To: Justa

Maybe not directly. But anyone with have a brain should have known that aiding the anti-Assad rebels in Syria would ultimately benefit them.


46 posted on 08/08/2014 12:43:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Justa

There sure are a lot of people blogging about or saying this then:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39005.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euL8QQeAlPI


47 posted on 08/08/2014 1:25:05 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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“As the President reiterated, there is no American military solution to the situation in Iraq,” she said. “Defeating ISIS will require Iraq’s leaders to see beyond their divisions and come together to fight this common threat. These actions are the only way to achieve durable security and stability for all Iraqis.”

BARF


48 posted on 08/08/2014 1:29:01 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
“Yazidi, also commonly spelled Yezidi, is an ancient Kurdish-based religion with historic links to Zoroastrianism, which was founded in what is now Iran”

So now we know. This came from Valerie Jarrett, who coincidentally was born in Iran.

Do you know why obama did not call them ISIS but called them ISIL (sp)?

49 posted on 08/08/2014 1:47:35 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Sir Napsalot
RE “Does Obama still have that Peace Prize?
....
Remember the criteria HOW Obama got that peas prize? Just the “idea that Obama represented” (clueless slogans) counts. Now that he’s actually doing air/missile strike, those committee members are going to wet their pants.”

Seems so, I recall his accomplishments were :
1) Promising to abandon Iraq and calling it ‘peace’
2) His world apology (for America, not himself) tour.

50 posted on 08/08/2014 2:01:35 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: jsanders2001

“Nabil Naim, an insider into the political and revolutionary events in the Middle East, says that Muslims are being conned by a sophisticated scheme drawn up by Zionists.”

“The wounded from ISIS during (terrorist) operations, are they being treated here in Lebanon? No, neither in Syria, nor in Saudi nor in Egypt, where do they go? They go to Israel. Now as we speak there are 1,500 of ISIS & Nusra (Front) are in Tel Aviv hospitals.”

“This is a conspiracy against the region, and I told you Netenyahu & Dick Chenney put the Clean Break plan in the year 1998, and it’s destroying 4 countries, they start with Iraq, then Syria then Egypt then Saudi Arabia. It’s called Clean Break plan (PNAC), well known.. Using radical groups in the region.”

“Their goal is to divide the region in order to achieve Israel’s security.”

“What I want to tell you, the efforts of all Islamic countries, Sunnah and Shiites, must combine, to eradicate these groups, because these groups are the claws of colonialism in the region, it’s not on religious bases, there are members of ISIS who do not pray, so in Al-Qaeda, there are members who didn’t pray a single kneeling, there must be a combination of the countries efforts to organically eliminate these groups by security and by intellect, disprove their ideology..

“There must be a response to these groups and explaining its ideology is a stray ideology, contrary to the Islamic Sharia, and this is the ideology that the prophet warned from when he said about Khawarij (Outlaws in Islam):

So it’s all just an Israeli, Western Colonial and CIA plot thought up by “Netenyahu & Dick Chenney? And ISIS is just one of their tools?

Seriously?

Hey, whatever unites them against Islamic extremists.


51 posted on 08/08/2014 2:33:09 PM PDT by Justa
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To: McGruff

” The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996”


52 posted on 08/09/2014 5:33:48 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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