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It is just about impossible to believe that a CENTCOM General decided on this approach all on his own. The political superiors were getting what they wanted from him.

The article does not specify the time frame, presumably the House panel report will do so. Was this in 2012, when the Obamanation was desperately trying to pretend that all was well, terrorism was receding, Obama was a great success???

This is a valid campaign issue right now, Trump should wrap this around Hillary and Obama for botching the rise of ISIS so badly.

3 posted on 08/11/2016 6:40:42 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")

“This is a valid campaign issue right now, Trump should wrap this around Hillary and Obama for botching the rise of ISIS so badly.”

Or perhaps for founding ISIS...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/11/trump-charges-obama-with-being-founder-isis.html

8 posted on 08/11/2016 6:45:39 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)

Word was that intelligence reports not going along with or backing up the WH (political) meme on ISIS were not welcome (those submitting reports were told that) and the CENTCOM General made sure that nothing was going up the line to displease the WH.

I don’t have a link, but read it some time ago in another article.

14 posted on 08/11/2016 6:57:08 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])