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Our "Being There" Prez Ignored Islamic State Intelligence For A Year
Investor's Business Daily ^ | September 4, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:42:24 PM PDT by raptor22

War On Terror: Reports that Barack Obama received detailed information on the virulent Islamic State terror group in his daily briefings for over a year and did nothing makes him officially our "being there" president.

Leading from behind once again, as he flew to Estonia to draw a red line that Russia shouldn't cross after it finishes gobbling up Ukraine, President Obama told reporters, "We will not be intimidated" by the second beheading of an American journalist and warned that we would "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State.

Degrade? Degrading has been the foreign policy of a president who recently said that he didn't have a strategy yet for dealing with the Islamic State's butchery after watching it train and prepare for a year in its Syrian base before its "sudden" expansion into Iraq.

A former Pentagon official told Fox News that Obama received specific intelligence in daily briefings about the Islamic State's rise. The information was said to be "granular" in detail, laying out IS' intentions and capabilities for at least a year before it seized big chunks of Iraqi territory and started beheading Americans.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beingthere; chauncy; ibd; ibdisil; ibdisis; isil; isis; islamicstate; jamesfoley; obama; obamanostrategy; pib; stevensotlof; terroristthreat

1 posted on 09/03/2014 6:42:24 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22
I hereby CHALLENGE anyone in the BIG MEDIA to bring this to the attention of all low information "voters"...

they cant deny what obies being so dishonestly "timid".....


2 posted on 09/03/2014 6:46:48 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: raptor22

He’d probably come up with a strategy to help them out, if it looked like they needed help — but ISIS seems to be doing fine on their own, so Obama just golfs.


3 posted on 09/03/2014 6:47:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: raptor22
 photo beingthereGUMPFONDA.jpg

4 posted on 09/03/2014 6:50:13 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: raptor22

what cold be more important than a round or two on the golf course


5 posted on 09/03/2014 6:54:35 PM PDT by 1st Division guy
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


6 posted on 09/03/2014 7:01:49 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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I used to only think Obama was only marginally sympathetic to Islamic radicals....

Now this clinches the fact he a stealth Jihadi...

Pray for amercia...


7 posted on 09/03/2014 7:30:57 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

IKBD EDITORIAL PING


8 posted on 09/03/2014 7:46:44 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: Dick Bachert

One of my all-time favorite movies.


9 posted on 09/03/2014 7:49:13 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: raptor22

” in his daily briefings “

Of which he routinely skipped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4antn3JatAg


10 posted on 09/03/2014 8:03:44 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


11 posted on 09/03/2014 8:09:03 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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Here’s your president “gutsy call”. spit


12 posted on 09/03/2014 10:18:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Jim Robinson

IBD EDITORIAL PING


13 posted on 09/04/2014 5:31:29 AM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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