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Obama: 'I Don't Think We're Losing' War Against ISIS
Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/5/15

Posted on 05/21/2015 5:29:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

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US President Barack Obama has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Islamic State as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being lost.

"I don't think we're losing," Obama said in an interview with news magazine The Atlantic published Thursday, days after the Iraqi city of Ramadi was overrun.

Shia militias converged on Ramadi Monday in a bid recapture it from jihadists who dealt the Iraqi government a stinging blow by overrunning the city in a deadly three-day blitz.

The loss of the capital of Iraq's largest province was Baghdad's worst military setback since it started clawing back territory from the jihadists late last year.

Days after a rare message from ISIS supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urging mass mobilization, the group also came close to also seizing one of Syria's most famed heritage sites, ancient Palmyra, but the army pinned it back.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had been reluctant to deploy Shia militias to Anbar province for fear of alienating its overwhelmingly Sunni Arab population.

He favored developing locally recruited forces, a policy that had strong US support.

But militia commanders said on Monday that Ramadi's fall had shown that the government could not do without the so-called Popular Mobilization units (Hashed al-Shaabi) - am alliance of Iranian-backed Shia Islamist militias regularly criticized for carrying out war crimes comparable to...ISIS.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: albagdaddi; albaghdaddi; albaghdadi; daesh; iran; iraq; isis; losing; nationalsecurityfail; obama; palmyra; ramadi
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To: Eleutheria5

Just and endless series of strategic retreats.


21 posted on 05/21/2015 5:46:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Eleutheria5

That light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.


22 posted on 05/21/2015 5:46:13 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Eleutheria5

These ISIS guys are fighting a 3 front war, against Iraq and Syria and the Kurds, Except for the Kurds, they are winning. If the Shiite militias join what’s left of the Iraqi Army I could see the Sunni tribes thinking blood is thicker than Water and joining ISIS which now has an abundance of weapons in addition to black market dollars or euros or whatever. This is no al Queda terror group. They have established a territory over which they exercise control. They have currency, police, courts. They are barbaric and ruthless but they have an arm with identifiable formations. They want to be a nation. Maybe our response should be to treat them like one and declare a state of war between us and them, and act accordingly. Of course Barky won’t do that but somebody must, before Iran does and rules a swath of area from Afghanistan to the Med.


23 posted on 05/21/2015 5:47:29 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Eleutheria5

I would say what war on ISIS.


24 posted on 05/21/2015 5:47:38 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Eleutheria5

Whatever comes out of the Bammy’s blue lips just go with the opposite and you will be correct 99% of the time. When it comes to truth and accuracy Bammy is a 1%’er at best.


25 posted on 05/21/2015 5:52:33 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Eleutheria5

What ISIS Really Wants:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/


26 posted on 05/21/2015 5:52:39 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: VRWCarea51
"Yeah and if you believe that I have a Health Care policy that I will sell you that will save you 2500 dollars a year!"

That's a perfect replacement for the worn out bridge sale retort.
27 posted on 05/21/2015 5:55:09 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Eleutheria5

28 posted on 05/21/2015 5:55:48 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Eleutheria5

He isn’t losing the war he’s fighting.


29 posted on 05/21/2015 5:58:02 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: Eleutheria5

[”I don’t think we’re losing,”]

Neither would an Ostrich with his head buried in the sand.


30 posted on 05/21/2015 5:58:03 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: RightGeek

Um.

Now, I have a headache.

Seriously, that’s good work.


31 posted on 05/21/2015 6:00:35 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Eleutheria5
"Obama: 'I Don't Think We're Losing' War Against ISIS..."

..... Nah .... of course not ... That would be terrible ..... They're just winning against us.

32 posted on 05/21/2015 6:01:11 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: gorush

I’d love the opportunity to go over there and help the Kurds, but I don’t know the process of joining. When i looked into it I found web pages set up for IS recruitment. I kid you not. I smell our pro-IS government all over that. Joining the bad guys seems way too easy these days.


33 posted on 05/21/2015 6:01:32 PM PDT by IluvmyKalashnikov
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To: Eleutheria5

This idiot will still be saying that when Isis is on the White House lawn. He lives in la-la land.


34 posted on 05/21/2015 6:01:42 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Is he complaining?


35 posted on 05/21/2015 6:04:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Eleutheria5

So many similarities to Hitler, this sounds like his bunker days near the end...


36 posted on 05/21/2015 6:04:55 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: beethovenfan

Dude, ISIS is in the oval office.


37 posted on 05/21/2015 6:05:03 PM PDT by IluvmyKalashnikov
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To: Eleutheria5
Obama: 'I Don't Think We're Losing' War Against ISIS
38 posted on 05/21/2015 6:07:56 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Diogenesis

Well, I think Obama isn’t lying lying.

I think one has to actually fight a war in order to lose a war.


39 posted on 05/21/2015 6:10:27 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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To: IluvmyKalashnikov

No, he’s a Muslim in the Oval Office but he claims that Isis is NOT Islamic. he doesn’t even know Islam.


40 posted on 05/21/2015 6:13:36 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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