Posted on 06/21/2015 4:35:29 AM PDT by lowbridge
Recently, the Kurdish Peshmerga won a major victory against the Islamic State group in northern Syria, taking back a town known as Tal Abyad.
Amazingly, the Obama administration took credit for this hard-fought victory, even though it had next to nothing to do with it.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the Kurdish victory was “actually a direct consequence of an earlier military operation that President Obama ordered” to break the siege of the Syrian city of Kobani last fall.
This laughable claim was quickly shot down by the Kurds themselves, who stated that they could have taken the town back much more quickly and more efficiently if they had been properly equipped with modern weapons and supplies, instead of the Islamic State group.
“What America has given to Iraq in the past, what Iraq borrowed from Russia and U.S., ISIS has,” said Peshmerga commander Kemal Kerkuki. “They are using many, many mines, C4, TNT, snipers, mortars. They have Humvees, they have tanks, they have different kinds of weapons.”
President Barack Obama has sent all aid to Iraq directly to Baghdad, where the Iraqi Army and government procure the best of the lot for themselves, only to abandon it on the battlefields when they flee in the face of approaching Islamic State militants.
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BObama: “You didn’t do that.”
Besides, Obama is of the mind that there is no “victory” in war. Moral equivalence , imperialism, and all that rot.
Wasn't that one of the operations where Obama "accidently" dropped supplies to ISIS?
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Obie from Nairobi still wants us to take one [ NUKE] for the Obster!
“..quickly shot down by the Kurds themselves, who stated that they could have taken the town back much more quickly and more efficiently if they had been properly equipped with modern weapons and supplies, ..”
We need to call our congresspeople and tell them to give the Kurds in Syria and Iraq all, and the BEST, weaponry they need!
The Kurds are our boots on the ground for the most part, and they are willing to FIGHT for their countries.
They're willing to fight foe Kurdistan, not for failed states of Syria and Iraq.
True, but it still helps us. Plus, the Kurds, especially in Iraq, protected many families from ISIS.
Answered in my last post.
Don’t you think it would also help the U.S. if the Kurds have victory over ISIS. We do have ISIS, or ISIS influenced terrorists in this country.
Got it.
Great! You’re welcome. ;-)
... but he takes none of the credit for being the person most responsible for enabling their rise in the first place.
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