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Obama to make forceful pledge of U.S. power against Islamic State in address
Reuters on Yahoo News ^ | 12/6/15 | Jeff Mason

Posted on 12/06/2015 10:31:40 AM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pledge to use "every single aspect of American power" to destroy Islamic State during a rare Oval Office address on Sunday in an effort to reassure Americans his administration is handling the threat of terrorism forcefully.

The president will speak to Americans shortly after 8:00 p.m. EST to discuss how the government has worked to keep the country safe since the Paris attacks and, going back further, since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

Obama has come under consistent pressure from Republicans to step up his response to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, and the shooting in San Bernardino, California last week that killed 14 people has raised fears among Americans about the threat of more attacks at home.

Obama will give an update on the status of the investigation into that shooting during his remarks. He will also express confidence that the United States will prevail over terrorist threats, the administration official said.

"The president will ... discuss the broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement announcing the address.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: forceful; isil; isis; islamicstate; obama; pledge; sanbernardino; shooters; terrorism; wot
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To: NormsRevenge

Why are we supposed to believe this Lier when he’s done everything in his power over the last 7 years of his administration to weaken our capabilities against these satanic animals.

He’s provided them with weapons and he’s released well known dangerous American hating Islamist from what should have been a Lifetime of Imprisonment.He has also not stopped Americans from going to the Arab world to visit or to fight there.

He has also not stopped them from returning to this country.All things he should have done a long time ago.

But his big Idea to stop Muslim terror attacks on helpless Americans is to deny their Right to Defend themselves.

Lord Help this Country.


21 posted on 12/06/2015 10:43:28 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Except that the USAF is out of bombs.


22 posted on 12/06/2015 10:43:34 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama’s threats are like having a York Terrier growl at you....


23 posted on 12/06/2015 10:44:06 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: NormsRevenge

Line in the sand number ?????


24 posted on 12/06/2015 10:44:52 AM PST by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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To: NormsRevenge

25 posted on 12/06/2015 10:48:34 AM PST by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: NormsRevenge

What’s the over/under on his blaming our ‘unhealthy fascination’ with guns? 10 minutes in? 15?


26 posted on 12/06/2015 10:49:16 AM PST by kozanne
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To: NormsRevenge

You can bet your boots that we won’t hear the words “Islamic” and “terrorism” within shouting distance.

HEY BARRY! IT’S ISLAMIC TERRORISM!

“Hear”. I mean read. Here. If he breaks into football, I’m giving my bulldog his weekly Brazilian bikini wax job.


27 posted on 12/06/2015 10:51:20 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: NormsRevenge
... every single aspect of American power ...

So he'll commit to deploying 250 special forces now?

28 posted on 12/06/2015 10:54:09 AM PST by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: NormsRevenge

Why would he want to destroy his own creation? Frankenstein had a conscience, but I don’t think that’s an accusation you could level against Obama.


29 posted on 12/06/2015 10:54:59 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: NormsRevenge

IT’S NOT WHAT HE SAYS .. IT’S WHAT HE DOES THAT MATTERS.

AND .. SO FAR .. HE’S DONE NOTHING TO KEEP US FROM BEING TORN TO PIECES AS A NATION.


30 posted on 12/06/2015 10:57:28 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: NormsRevenge

A pledge from the won is no more valid than an IOU from the tooth fairy.

GO TRUMP! GO CRUZ! YOU WIN OR WE LOSE

WTP WANT JUSTICE, SOON!!


31 posted on 12/06/2015 10:58:48 AM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: NormsRevenge

He’s going to look and sound horrible tonight and normal people are going to see (again) that Obama HATES saying anything non-complimentary about ISIS, Muslims or Islam.

The only way he can say anything bad about ISIS is to first insist they aren’t Muslim. Even though their Supreme Leader is a highly-placed and educated Islamic leader.

He will also talk down Americans more than Muslims, again.


32 posted on 12/06/2015 10:59:46 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: NormsRevenge

A new day will dawn in 2016. America’s eight year nightmare will come to an end. Trump/Cruz 2016!


33 posted on 12/06/2015 11:01:31 AM PST by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: NormsRevenge

He will make it clear they have crossed his RED LINE, and then book time at some golf course. Just bluster to make everyone feel he is actually doing something, but really he only does what Jarret tells him; she only tells him what the mad mullahs of Iran tell her to have him say.


34 posted on 12/06/2015 11:03:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Timber Rattler

Out of Bombs? Dam!

Repurpose beer kegs and whiskey barrels time??

Some strategic planning, huh?


35 posted on 12/06/2015 11:06:01 AM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
His push to eliminate ISIS is just a ruse to attempt to eliminate Assad!

Obama's meddling and incompetence in Syria has produced the most dangerous situation since the Cuban missile crisis IMO.

With the deployment of the S-400 batteries by Putin, Syria's skies are under Russian control, all other states fly there at Russia's sufferance.

Experts are uncertain whether even the B2 stealth bomber or the Raptor can get past the S-400.

The US may have a system that can destroy the S-400 batteries but striking them would in itself start a major conflagration.

Watch Obama try something extremely stupid like declaring a no-fly zone in northern Syria to protect ISIS and Erdogan's lucrative stolen oil business.

The Winds of War....

36 posted on 12/06/2015 11:28:22 AM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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To: donhunt

So more Bomb the World, Invite the World, then Blame Whitey...


37 posted on 12/06/2015 11:36:18 AM PST by Helvan
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To: NormsRevenge

Since Omuslim is a PROVEN LIAR about 99.9% of everything he has said to the American people (with the exception of “tranforming America”), why in H.E.double hockey sticks should we believe anything he says now? He’ll be lying his @ss off again ... and working hard to take the heat off his Muslim buddies/brothers & render most American citizens defenseless and put them at risk. The only reason he’s making this ‘speech’ is political .... it’s always his political agenda that comes first. even above the lives of the people he’s sworn to protect, so Valjar must be telling him his poll numbers are cr@p or some such thing. I won’t be able to watch - it’s gotten to the point he makes me physically ill to listen to his arrogant lying lecturing.


38 posted on 12/06/2015 11:38:10 AM PST by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not loss)
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To: donhunt
No, he will blame America, President Bush, and our lax gun laws that allow people on the no fly list to buy guns....
39 posted on 12/06/2015 11:45:04 AM PST by martinidon
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To: NormsRevenge

More Obama lies and BS. Watch football.


40 posted on 12/06/2015 11:46:29 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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