Remain clam, all is well. Hey, I didn't get a `harrumph' from that full bird ....
Posted on 08/22/2014 10:02:35 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Defense Department on Friday pushed back against Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) claim that fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) might have entered the United States across its southern border.
Perry, who is weighing another run for the president in 2016, made the assertion Thursday during a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
"There's the obvious great concern that, because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secure, and us not knowing who is penetrating across, that individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states could be [crossing]," he said. "There's a very real possibility that they may have already used that [strategy]."
But the Pentagon’s top spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, shot down that allegation.
“I've seen no indication that they are coming across the border with Mexico. We have no information that leads us to believe that,” he said on CNN’s "New Day."
Kirby said Pentagon leaders know the terrorist group does have “aspirations to hit western targets” and that the threat is something “we’ve got to take seriously, and we have to be ready for it.”
He added that the Pentagon doesn’t have a “hard and fast number” of how many foreign fighters are among the group’s ranks.
He pointed out that officials in the United Kingdom are trying to uncover the identity of a man with a British accent who appeared in the video showing the execution of American journalist James Foley.
Australian leaders also raised the issue of their citizens becoming radicalized and joining ISIS with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, when he visited the country earlier this month, Kirby added.
“It's a problem in many countries, and we face that problem here in America. It's just hard to get our hands around it,” Kirby said.
But that's our point. You don't have evidence. I have no evidence that mountain lions live in my neighborhood. I've never seen one. I've never heard one. I've never seen the tracks of one. However, they are here. I can name a dozen people or read the local newspaper archives to see that mountain lions have indeed been encountered here in the Huachuca Mts., on Ft. Huachuca, in Sierra Vista, and along the San Pedro river. But because I've never actually seen the evidence, I can categorically state (if I were that much a fool) that there are no mountain lions here.
And remember, the point of infiltrating an enemy is to leave no evidence of your passing until you can execute your battle plan.
Remember that a Moslem in Arabic means : one who is evil and unjust .
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What we didn’t know at the time is that is actually Obama’s cell phone.
Will this fellow at the Pentagon blow his brains out at his desk if he is proven wrong?
Admiral Kimmel didn’t see anything either.
Never mind the sleep mask (without eye holes), we see nothing untoward...
The Congress would just call for the banning of assault weapons.
I'm sure he'll say he was taken out of context and blame Bush.
Yeh like any of these guys keep an eye on the border. What a hoot. You its so secure and all.
Remain clam, all is well. Hey, I didn't get a `harrumph' from that full bird ....
Ouch !
“What we didn’t know at the time is that is actually Obama’s cell phone.”
BOL! Or any of his inside outhouse thugs’s phone!
“The Congress would just call for the banning of assault weapons.”
And have NSA closely monitor all US Vets who are Christians or practicing Jews, who own guns.
We have to open the border to see what’s crossing it
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LOL....shades of SanFranNan.
Right! And there were no Communists Chinese troops in North Korea.
>>>Rear Adm. John Kirby, shot down that allegation. “I’ve seen no indication that they are coming across the border with Mexico. We have no information that leads us to believe that,” he said on CNN’s “New Day.”
Would Rear Adm. John Kirby have said they are here & caused mass hysteria?
I see no evidence there is a border.
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