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Obama rules out putting U.S. troops on the ground to fight Islamic State
Reuters ^ | November 16, 2015

Posted on 11/16/2015 7:29:47 AM PST by maggief

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"There will be an intensification of the strategy that we put forward but the strategy they we put forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work," Obama told reporters at a news conference at the close of a Group of 20 summit.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; bombtheshitoutofthem; bootsontheground; daesh; deport; dhimmitude; iran; isil; isis; islam; islamicstate; islamisextreme; jihadists; murderingterrorists; muslims; obama; putin; redlines; resetbutton; rop; syria; terrorists; truemuslims; trump; trumpwasright; worldwar3
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1 posted on 11/16/2015 7:29:47 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

He doesn’t want to upset his mussie friends.


2 posted on 11/16/2015 7:30:56 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: maggief

Fine. I don’t want our guys going into harms way under this marxist hack.

He’s killed enough of them in Afghanistan.


3 posted on 11/16/2015 7:31:05 AM PST by skeeter
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To: maggief

We will keep doing what has failed....Jan 2017 cannot come soon enough.


4 posted on 11/16/2015 7:31:14 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: maggief

He is such a fool nothing should be held back! Fool fool fool!


5 posted on 11/16/2015 7:31:25 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: maggief

I guess we are waiting for the inevitable attacks here before we do something.

Obama is just hoping he can wait out his 14 months before we get the Paris treatment.

He’ll forever be defined by ISIS once it does.


6 posted on 11/16/2015 7:31:31 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: maggief

I just wish he would get out of the way.


7 posted on 11/16/2015 7:31:53 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Je suis Charles Martel.)
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To: skeeter
My feelings exactly. I don't want American lives wasted promoting his agenda which is not protecting American interests.

At this point, I trust the French . . . or even Putin more.

8 posted on 11/16/2015 7:33:33 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: maggief
Listening to Barry stumble, mumble and whistle through his press conference is painful.

Clueless.

All he's thinking about is his next tee time.

9 posted on 11/16/2015 7:33:36 AM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: maggief

He needs them here to put down the coming rebellion over all the Muslim Terrorists he’s importing.


10 posted on 11/16/2015 7:33:37 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: skeeter

Let Putin do it, Russians won’t have any ridiculous Rules of Engagement to hold them back.


11 posted on 11/16/2015 7:33:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: maggief

They already have troops on the ground here. They have been pouring in through the non-existent borders. They are at war with us. $h!tface is leaving a horrible legacy for this country that the next Republican president will have to clean up. If the next president is hillary or bernie, we may as well start learning arabic.


12 posted on 11/16/2015 7:34:08 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/obama-discuss-paris-attacks-isis-fight-conclusion-g20-summit-n464061

“ISIS is the face of evil,” Obama said at the conclusion of the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey. “Our goal is to destroy this barbaric organization.”

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We play into the ISIL narrative when we act as if they are a state and we use routine tactics used to fight a state that is not a state,” Obama said using the alternative name for the terrorist group. “That’s not what is going on here. These are killers with fantasies of glory.”

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“Slamming the doors in their faces would be a betrayal of our values,” Obama said. Syrian “refugees are the victims of terrorism.”


13 posted on 11/16/2015 7:34:14 AM PST by maggief
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That is a lie. We currently have “boots on the ground” in both Syria and Iraq (again)


14 posted on 11/16/2015 7:34:54 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

Not a fool. He is a collaborator.


15 posted on 11/16/2015 7:35:02 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: maggief

Actually, handled right — recognizing that overthrowing Assad was a stupid idea from start to finish and coordinating with both the Russians and indigenous forces opposed to the Daesh, the Kurds and the Syrian and Iraqi governments — there really should be no need for American ground troops. I was pleased to see reports of both A-10s and AC-130s in action. Air support of that sort for the fighters already there, along with a serious supply effort (including heavy weapons for the Kurds) really should suffice.


16 posted on 11/16/2015 7:35:23 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: dfwgator

Agreed. Let Putin handle it. Ofail has no clue and he will just end up getting more American boys killed.


17 posted on 11/16/2015 7:35:47 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TigerClaws
I think Obama is hoping for a terror attack or some calamity so he can just stay in office, maybe declare himself president-for-life. He's been trampling on the Constitution for the last 7 plus years. It's not a stretch that he and his handlers would be actively looking for an excuse to destroy the Constitution entirely and set up a dictatorship.

Who is going to stop him? Certainly not congress or the courts.

18 posted on 11/16/2015 7:36:44 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: maggief

He doesn’t get it at all. Syrian refugees are both victims and perpetrators of terror, and he has no plan for how to sort them out.


19 posted on 11/16/2015 7:36:45 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: maggief

NBC Nightly NewsVerified account @NBCNightlyNews

Pres. Obama: “If folks want to pop off” about ISIS strategy, they should present plan: “Not interested in posing.”


20 posted on 11/16/2015 7:36:56 AM PST by maggief
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