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.
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Get them some shovel-ready jobs. Mo Hammedo-phones. Subsidized housing. Give them space to vent their frustrations. Show them how to hang curtains and ride a girl’s bike.
What an inspiring answer the president gave. Put that one right up there with ‘with the unbounding determination of our people- we will gain the inevitable triumph- so help us God’.
Obama “isn’t” against ISIS. Keep that in mind.
ISIS is the equivalent of the mongol hoards, or the barbarians.
They need to be put down like the mongrel dogs that they are, no mercy, no quarter.
Tit for tat.
They kill us, we kill them in a greater number. That’s how warfare works.
The American people have been abandoned. We are on our own with a community organizer as our “leader.” May God help us all.
What he “claims” is irrelevant, imho. I saw the smug look on his face when traitor pig filth bergdahls raghead father spouted that towelhead tripe on camera. He’s with them. Everything he says, does, and believes is contrary to the good of this country. As far as I care he is ISIS. The same as them. What of the American kids who join IS? I somehow doubt they “know” isslam either. Doesn’t stop them from being IS.
N'est pas?
He’s got the blondie, Harf, in lieu of Baghdad Bob.
Now, read his quote carefully:
“I don’t think we’re losing,”
His side isn’t losing. The man is being truthful.
Well in part he’s telling the truth this time actually.
If you’re not in a fight to begin with, then you’re definitely not losing the fight.
Obama’s word play in full force!
Hey Barry, there’s a lot of bodies in mass graves that prove you wrong, ya’ idiot.
Key Quote,”I don’t Think.”
Like Hitler when the Russians were at Berlin’s outskirts. “Ve vill vin dis yet, yah?”
There I fixed it!!!
IF ONLY that happened in every class AND with every martyr !!!
“This idiot will still be saying that when Isis is on the White House lawn.”
Well, he does have the two girls he can offer them as “brides.” Maybe a little long in the tooth for their taste but probably they would take them.
In Obama’s world every day is “opposites day”.
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