Posted on 02/19/2015 7:25:59 AM PST by SoConPubbie
“ISIS is the face of evil, and these latest atrocities … our heart breaks,” he said on the Fox News program “The Kelly File” on Wednesday night, using an alternate acronym for the terrorist group. “And to see 21 Coptic Christians murdered, beheaded by radical Islamic terrorists, to see 45 people lit on fire … this is horrific and it is deliberate and it is targeted at Christians. It is targeted at Jews. It’s targeted at Muslims in the region who do not accede to the radical Islamist view.”
The president defended his words on ISIL on Wednesday during the White House summit on violent extremism, reiterating that the United States is not “at war with Islam.”
“We are at war with people who have perverted Islam,” he said during his closing speech.
Cruz also slammed remarks from State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, who said earlier this week that the U.S. “cannot kill its way out” of the war against ISIL, suggesting an examination of the root causes of extremism in addition to military action.
“Now, with respect, that is idiocy,” he said. “The solution here is not expanded Medicaid. The solution is the full force of U.S. military power to destroy the leaders of ISIS. They have declared war … jihad on the United States. Jihad is another word the president doesn’t say.”
Cruz then blasted a “false moral relativism” from the administrating, admonishing the president for remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he mentioned people who “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.”
“Now last I checked, the Crusades began a millennia ago, and I don’t think it’s too much to ask the president to stay in the current millennium,” Cruz remarked, before suggesting the president take a cue from his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Cruz praised al-Sisi, a Muslim, who used the occasion of his New Year’s Day speech to speak out against religious extremism.
“Why don’t we see the president of the United States demonstrating that same courage just to speak the truth about the face of evil we’re facing right now?” he asked.
What do you expect? The guy IS a Muslim, more shame on Americans for electing a Muslim when the Muslims are at war with them.
Yes, you nailed it.
Amateur hour at the State department. Who knew? Do they have 2 for one beer?
HE IS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST !!
We are now at the point where this regime must be defenestrated by a military coup and its enablers destroyed via a short but savage civil war.
The time for voting, talking and debates is, to quote a famous philosopher, “...a distant ship smoke on the horizon.” And it’s not heading our way.
It would be a very very very short civil war because there is not a cop or military vet who supports this administration. They would all stand down rather than defend this puke. Just imagine a million or so armed and ready citizens descending upon Washington calling for the arrest of B. Hussein. Plan a flash mob, it would be over very very quick. Secret service can shuttle him away, fine. We’ll take over the White House, the Capital, put in place a new leader. You are no longer recognized B. Hussein by Order of the people.
I believe that there are some lamp posts in Washington DC that are in need of some decoration.
Such a courageous truth telling man!
I stand with Ted
It’s saying something that just calling the sky blue in DC these days qualifies one as a profile in courage. Not to take anything away from Ted Cruz, but that’s the depth to which this country has sunk-that just speaking a plain, normally non-controversial fact is a courageous act. That more than anything tells us that we are already in Orwellian times.
When IF ever will the real American’s IF there are any in the Democratic Party step up against Obama?
I hope he ruins their damn party. For decades. Or maybe forever.
Correct, and I am as mortified as you are.
All this because the “Submission Accomplished” President pulled troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and doesn’t want the blame for putting them back.
I say we ask Hillary why the troops were pulled out. See what her excuse is.
” I say we ask Hillary why the troops were pulled out. See what her excuse is.”
GREAT idea!
Put the miserable wretch on the spot.
No eyecandy, no political tricks, not need to parse. Just plain spoken American patriotism. Who could ask for more?
Sen Cruz speaks to us, not at us. Refreshing.
Marie Harf, who said earlier this week that the U.S. “cannot kill its way out” of the war against ISIL,>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thats OK Harfsey Barfsey. Stand by and watch US kill every stinking mother effin’ one of them.
And whats more, they need burying after anointing with pigs grease. No Virginians for them.
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