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Obama to visit Centcom in Tampa on Wednesday
tbo.com ^ | 9/12/14 | Howard Altman

Posted on 09/15/2014 5:37:27 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

...Obama will visit U.S. Central Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, on Wednesday for a briefing from his commanders on battle plans against the Sunni insurgent group Islamic State.

....White House officials made it clear that there would also be no U.S. military forces on the ground in Syria to coordinate airstrikes, nor have any done so in Iraq.

But as the President continues to coalesce U.S. and international efforts to “degrade and ultimately defeat” IS, and Pentagon officials say they are making headway against IS in Iraq, two former Centcom commanders offer mixed reviews of his plans.

“I am confused,” said Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general who led Centcom from 1997 to 2000, in an interview Friday.

Zinni is not confident that indigenous combat forces will be sufficient.

“Who are we leading?” he asked. “Will it be the Kurds and Iraqis and Syrian opposition and American lead and American command and control?

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: centcom; centralcommand; crist; election2014; fail; fl; florida; optics; photoop; uscentralcommand
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Photo op BS.

I wonder if Obama's official Florida Hugger, Suntan Charlie, will be there....

1 posted on 09/15/2014 5:37:27 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper; Joe Brower; seekthetruth

Tampa FREEPers heads up!


2 posted on 09/15/2014 5:38:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

HOTUS consistently has overridden military commanders and his own national security team to pursue losing strategies. This will be no different. Sticking to his twisted Marxist-Muzzie ideology is more important.


3 posted on 09/15/2014 5:44:45 AM PDT by twister881
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Terrorists degraded or defeated” “Jobs saved or created” Yadda yadda yadda


4 posted on 09/15/2014 5:46:05 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: SoFloFreeper

I wonder if there is a golf course or a fundraiser nearby?


5 posted on 09/15/2014 5:47:40 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Another tfr for general aircraft in the area. Crap. He’s such a disruption.


6 posted on 09/15/2014 5:48:32 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: SoFloFreeper

charlie the chameleon will probably show up. I see some sick call numbers going up on Wed.


7 posted on 09/15/2014 5:48:55 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh, FFS. More snarled traffic for us this week. Freaking lovely.


8 posted on 09/15/2014 5:52:15 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Some nice golf courses in the Tampa area.


9 posted on 09/15/2014 5:52:44 AM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: SoFloFreeper

“I am confused,” said Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general

If Zinni is confused, this is a cluster fluck of
outrageous proportions.


10 posted on 09/15/2014 5:53:04 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PghBaldy
I wonder if there is a golf course or a fundraiser nearby?

There are no fewer than 10 golf courses within 20 miles of the Tampa metro. This part of Florida is renowned for its links.

11 posted on 09/15/2014 5:53:06 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Is he bringing Moochzilla with him?


12 posted on 09/15/2014 5:56:31 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Get ready for more Michael Dukakis in the Tank moments.


13 posted on 09/15/2014 6:01:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoFloFreeper

He’s more of a Sea World type.


14 posted on 09/15/2014 6:01:42 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This is all for show, and even the _”making” it perfectly clear really isn’t. He could cross the Potomac and visit the Pentagon but that disgusting word, optics, wouldn’t be the same.


15 posted on 09/15/2014 6:06:25 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: Iron Munro

School lunch ad?


16 posted on 09/15/2014 6:07:24 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: billhilly

“Zinni is not confident that indigenous combat forces will be sufficient. “Who are we leading?” he asked. “Will it be the Kurds and Iraqis and Syrian opposition and American lead and American command and control?”....

Note to General Zinni: You will be leading from behind, thereby following odumbo’s directions.


17 posted on 09/15/2014 6:09:30 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: billhilly
School lunch ad?

It's the key element of a new Nanny State campaign to eliminate over eating in the government schools.

One look at that photo of The Beast and the poor kids won't be able to stomach any solid food for a week.


18 posted on 09/15/2014 6:13:12 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Iron Munro

The Nutrition in Chief needs to drop a few 10’s of pounds. Maybe should should eat at a school following her guidelines.


19 posted on 09/15/2014 6:14:06 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
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To: Iron Munro; GladesGuru
The reason The Marxist MF from Mombasa is visiting is three-fold:

(1) Charlie Crist is announcing his switch from "White Man" to "African-American Woman."

(2) He is bringing my Obamaphone, with the built-in Global Warming Alert

(3) My grandson was seen eating a PB&J on white bread. BATF agents, accompanied by Michelle, are to make the arrest after shooting the kid's dog.

20 posted on 09/15/2014 6:21:49 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (2014-2016. Whether The Republic lives or dies depends on the now-missing integrity of the the GOP.)
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