Posted on 07/03/2014 5:02:56 PM PDT by Trapper6012
With the crisis in Iraq worsening by the day, a ranking Pentagon official with knowledge of the situation has shed some light on the Obama administration’s inaction in an exclusive statement to The Daily Caller.
“The Pentagon is split and the administration is paralyzed,” he said, calling the gridlock “horrendous.”
“Joint Chiefs Chairman [Martin] Dempsey is an asshat yes man,” he continued. “We have congressional authority to use force for the Iraq War, as it never expired, but people are putting targeting packets through unnecessary bureaucracy to slow events to the point that — they hope — the situation is overcome by events. Bad call. So fucked. Reads like another chapter in [Robert] Gates’s book.”
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Accurate call on Martin Dempsey. When I see him, I am just left wondering how this guy ever became a general. A perfumed prince!
“Al Qaeda is decimated and on the run.” Barack Hussein Obama
They also seem to forget that Hussein was routinely firing missiles at our pilots in the no-fly zone. After 9/11, ignoring those repeated acts of war would have been grounds for impeachment.
Everything Obama does in the middle east seems to make it less stable. My guess is that by restricting the supply of domestic oil and destabilizing the middle east he can speed up the Cloward-Piven strategy. Just a thought.
A coalition lead by the US should have already been plowing down ISIS with missiles and drones. While we cannot control that part of the world we can break things when it gets out of hand and we cannot allow ISIS to take over the middle east. Our Chamberlain in the WH is utterly clueless about what is going down.
It’s the Marines Hymn, not the Marine Corps anthem.
Thank you.
Yes, even Freepers forget that cease fire violations were the main reason for the taking of Iraq.
The Duelfer Report concluded that Saddam would have reconstituted his WMD if he had remained in power. Most likely that would have cost MORE American lives.
Saddam was thumbing his nose at the UN, the US, Israel and Kuwait. I don't see why it's responsible to leave someone like that in power; if not taken out other countries would have gotten the idea that they could do the same.
Is it responsible to leave someone like Obama in power?
LOL
Looked it up to make sure.
I blame the website I confirmed with....
No it will never happen because there is no reason to nuke Mecca.
Clearly the Presidential Chair is empty on the Inrernational Stage......Obam’s too busy taking down our country to bother IMO.
Obama said when he ran ...”Iraq is a dumb war”...and further...”I’m not only going to end that war but the mindset that took us there”.
He has o interest in Iraq.
Three days ago a White House spokesman said in effect the Jordan may need Israel to bail them out. I’m sure the Muslim population of Jordan (95% Sunni) living under a monarchy loved hearing that.
Obama is destabilizing Jordan, as much as he dares.
+1
How do you know he is not? Everything he does aids the killers against the innocent. His actions not his words reveal what he is.
Jordan’s big concern is internal Jihad from the tribes about 2 hours south of Amman near Petra, in the village of Ma’an. The young guys there have been flying ISIS flags for quite awhile. I doubt a ISIS military operation would gain much ground. The desert from the Iraq border to any developed region of Jordan is a rock strewn region. From Syria to Amman is another story as the drive is around 45 minutes. We have around 12,000 troops in Jordan at a few bases. We have had operation of patriot systems for 2 years near the Syrian border as well as or folks in the underground operations bunker we built for them a couple years ago. Jordan needs to worry about internal suicide bombers and isolated folks shooting up shopping malls.
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