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Sorry, whole article:

Former President Bill Clinton voiced support for the U.S. strategy to defeat ISIS and said only the Iraqi people can win a land war in Iraq.

Speaking Thursday night on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” Clinton said the United States has proven it can’t win an Iraq war with boots on the ground, but that moderate Sunni tribal leaders working with an inclusive Iraqi government can.

“We can’t win a land war in Iraq, but they can and we can help them,” Clinton said.

Clinton said he thinks President Barack Obama’s strategy to combat ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, “has a chance to succeed.”

“The Iraqi government finally includes Sunnis who were representing those tribal leaders who are moderate and without whom ISIS cannot be defeated,” he said.

“We can give them intelligence, and we can do bombing, and we have to do that to send a signal to them. That there’s a price for decapitating those people,” he said, referring to the recent beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and of British aid work David Haines.

“You can’t let people get away with that, that’s a terrible signal to the world,” he said.

Obama: ISIS threat against U.S., allies ‘doesn’t frighten us’

Clinton also believes that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa can be stopped, but that “it will take a Herculean effort.”

“A lot of these people can survive if they get proper care quickly, and we can stop the epidemic and let it burn itself out,” Clinton said.

Obama, officials from the World Health Organization, the United Nations and Doctors without Borders will gather with the former president at a meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative, which starts Sunday. The Ebola outbreak “probably represents the confluence of all the various things that you can do at Clinton Global Initiative,” said Stewart.

“This is an emergency because nobody knows how to cure this,” said Clinton.

Ebola patients buying survivors’ blood from black market

The World Health Organization said Thursday that the death toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 2,622 dead. The number of reported infections is 5,335, though the actual number is “almost certainly” higher, Clinton noted.

Clinton said that this Ebola epidemic is different than previous outbreaks in remote rural areas mainly because of the density of people in the urban areas in which it is striking.

“There are a lot of people there and there are just too many bodies brushing up against one another every day,” he said.


2 posted on 09/19/2014 2:14:59 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

Notice he is setting up Barry to explain his failure on handling Ebola matters by saying it is Herculean, so if he does gain some success he will be a hero.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 2:16:26 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Slick Willy, always fast and loose with the facts.


4 posted on 09/19/2014 2:19:00 PM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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FUBC. The FIRST World Trade Towers bombing, not to mention a whole lot of other stuff, happened on YOUR WATCH. Yep. You were the Best First Black President. Ever. Doofus. *Rolleyes*

And, Please. Don’t anyone think I don’t LOVE watching the blood feud between these two pos ‘families.’ :)


7 posted on 09/19/2014 2:22:53 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Not with stupid rules of engagement like they had to work with.

In order to defeat a ruthless enemy, you must be more ruthless than they are....................


8 posted on 09/19/2014 2:25:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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I'll go one step farther. The United States will not win another war. PERIOD
We have not fought a war to win since WWII or since the Joint Chiefs of Staff were created. We have fought “police actions” holding to the preexisting situations that only invite further problems. Our only chance to change this disgusting record is to fight a damn war to WIN. Knock the snot out of the enemy, not by words like Obummer but by destroying the enemy, killing all who support them and leave them with the “NOTION” to not fuck with the USA. We are just too damned nice to our enemies.

Food for thought: DOES ANYONE THINK THAT WE WILL BE BUYING CARS OR COMPUTERS FROM IRAQ, IRAN OR AFGHANISTAN?

23 posted on 09/19/2014 3:05:18 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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SORRY SERIAL RAPIST CLINTON, WE WON, THE US MILITARY KICKED TAIL AND TOOK NAMES. EVEN THE IDIOT OBAMA ADMITTED IRAQ WAS STABLE! Then dumb butt Obama pulled the troops out to early and gave away the candy store! Bush said exactly what would happen if we pulled out to soon. The community organizer we call “president “ THOUGHT he was smarter than Bush and the military leaders and gave a vacuum the area that allowed ISIS to fill the vacuum.
30 posted on 09/19/2014 3:24:16 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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We did not lose the war, We LOST the PEACE!
See video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJ_59_adp8&index=12&list=WL

34 posted on 09/19/2014 4:21:45 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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The only thing that has been proven to date is that we can't win a land war in Asia with a Democrat President.

Truman in Korea
LBJ in Vietnam
Obama in Afghanistan

37 posted on 09/19/2014 4:30:44 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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