Posted on 04/22/2015 6:46:24 AM PDT by C19fan
The Defense Department released a map last week showing territory where it is has pushed ISIS back, claiming that the terrorist group is no longer able to operate freely in roughly 25 to 30 percent of populated areas of Iraqi territory where it once could. This was touted as evidence of success by numerous news outlets.
Pushing ISIS back is clearly a good step. But the information from the Pentagon is, at best, misleading and incomplete, experts in the region and people on the ground tell The Daily Beast. They said the map misinforms the public about how effective the U.S.-led effort to beat back ISIS has actually been. The map released by the Pentagon excludes inconvenient facts in some parts, and obscures them in others.
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The politicization of the military. It reports what its told to report.
Obozo’s perfumed princeits say or do any thing their Muslim
Brotherhood leaders tell them!
I thank the good Lord that we have no one in the military, and pray for the safety of those in harms way!
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