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Obama: U.S. underestimated rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
CBS News ^ | September 28, 2014

Posted on 09/28/2014 11:56:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

The U.S. had expected the Iraqi army to do more against extremists, president says in acknowledgment of intelligence shortcomings

resident Obama acknowledged that the U.S. underestimated the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also called ISIL) and overestimated the ability of the Iraqi military to fend off the militant group in an interview that will air Sunday on 60 Minutes.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Syria
KEYWORDS: caliphate; caliphate4jarrett; hussein; iran; iraq; khorosan; lebanon; obamasfault; syria; valeriejarrett
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To: Kaslin

Captain Obvious strikes again!


61 posted on 09/28/2014 2:21:43 PM PDT by coldoc
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To: All
Obama's a liar.

Source: Obama given detailed intelligence for a year about rise of ISIS

62 posted on 09/28/2014 2:23:43 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Kaslin

Obama acknowledged that the U.S. underestimated

not quite, it is Obola who underestimated them.


63 posted on 09/28/2014 2:37:41 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama underestimated the rise of ISIS, not the US. The U.S. have been warring him about this for a year now. Warring Obama choose to ignore and even when he finally couldn’t ignore it anymore, Obama choose to drag his feet and allow ISIS to seases large shares of territories.

The Iraqi army was not ready because it lacked leadership and air support. If Obama had been paying attention he would have bombed ISIS back into a simple terrorist organization 6 months to a year ago. But OBAMA didn’t want to face reality that Iraq still needed support.


64 posted on 09/28/2014 3:04:40 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Carry_Okie

Yep. It’s already being done. Obama insists that he has to OK the bombings and the bombings that are being done fall on empty buildings. Just like Obama delayed the attempted rescue of the later-beheaded journalist until his captors had already left. Just like he refused to let the standard military protocols be used to protect the Benghazi compound - by refusing cross-border authorization that fell on his shoulders alone.

Obama is the guy making sure the bad guys always get away. That is his role - which he claimed specifically for himself in waging this “war”. It falls on nobody’s shoulders but his own, because he insisted that he alone have the authority. He alone would be the watchdog. The buck stops there, and he is doing exactly what he told the Egyptian ambassador in 2010 that he would do: support the Muslim agenda (the destruction of Israel and the US and the institution of worldwide sharia) because he was and still is a Muslim.

He said it himself, that he’s “pretty good at killing”. Seems to me that when he wants somebody dead we have the technology that enables him to make sure they end up dead. ISIS is not dead because Obama DOES NOT WANT THEM DEAD AND IS MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE NOT DEAD.

The existential threat to the United States of America is the foreign enemy combatant in our White House. He is fighting for the other team.


65 posted on 09/28/2014 3:05:56 PM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Mears

OBAMA IS A TAQIYYA MUSLIM... AWAKE AMERICA... ORDER MASS DEPORTATION OF RADICAL MUSLIMS... CLOSE DOOR TO FURTHER MUSLIM IMMIGRATION... NO MORE MOSQUES BUILT IN USA...DESTROY MOSQUES SUPPORTING ISLAMIC TERRORISM... SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO CRHISTIAN LEBANON AND IS HAPENNING IN EURABIA.

“THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DAMNED TO REPEAT IT” Jorge Santayana

The Truth About Islam - An Interview With Brigitte Gabriel

This youtube must be opened …every loving American should hear Brigitte. Every student should be educated to the historical truth on Islam. One hour 28 minutes and worth every second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8o8OWpfa6E&feature=player_detailpage

Oriana Fallaci Quotes
“The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”

“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. (Obama is taking the U.S. in the same path.)”

“The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.”


66 posted on 09/28/2014 3:07:58 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Dqban22

Thanks-—I’ve bookmarked this for later viewing.

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67 posted on 09/28/2014 3:11:51 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Kaslin

Obama-the JV pResident


68 posted on 09/28/2014 3:26:35 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Kaslin
Between Bosnia and Kosovo, what was the common ground?

Clinton was exhausting the American military while advancing Muslim interests and giving the Russians and Chinese a causus belli.

Gosh, that sounds familiar. Why, it sounds like a group of guys who WANT an apocalypse! Who would think of such a thing? I guess I should put on my thinking cap!

Guess we're the objects of fezzy thinking.

69 posted on 09/28/2014 3:29:00 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: darkwing104

Benagazi was a cover up of weapons smuggling to ISIS in Syria is my guess. The greatest political support for creating the last days Caliphate and Islamic World War II is the present Executive branch and the State Department.


70 posted on 09/28/2014 4:03:05 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Kaslin

“Plus he has his nose stuck up in the air, like the arrogant pos that he is”

Imagine “how quick” that smirk will drop off of his face when our Lord Returns.


71 posted on 09/28/2014 9:17:15 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: Kaslin; GeronL; Nachum

“We underestimated Al Qaeda’s return, I mean ISIS, I mean ISIL, I mean Khor... and by ‘WE’ I mean ‘YOU’!!!” - Prezzydent Baraq H. Ubama, Boy King, Golden Child, Nobel Peace Prize Winner.


72 posted on 09/29/2014 5:34:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Bump


73 posted on 09/29/2014 5:37:06 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Timber Rattler
Obama's a liar.

That is factual

74 posted on 09/29/2014 5:38:57 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: dfwgator

America underestimated this Marxist/Islamist traitor!


75 posted on 09/29/2014 3:49:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

He said “I think” Clapper said so and so. He thinks?


76 posted on 09/29/2014 5:19:13 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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