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Obama: We Are Not Losing War Against ISIS – Loss of Ramadi Just a “Setback”
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/21/15 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 05/22/2015 6:09:39 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Barack Obama says,“We’re not losing,” the war against ISIS in Iraq. Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 21, 2015, 10:54 PM

Barack Obama says,“We’re not losing,” the war against ISIS in Iraq.

Baghdad Barack

Tell that to the Ramadi refugees.

After ISIS takes Ramadi, Iraq and Palmyra, Syria, Barack Obama insists we are not losing. Yahoo reported:

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.

“There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time,” he said.

Since August 2014, on Obama’s orders, a US-led coalition has hit more than 6,000 targets in Iraq and Syria with airstrikes, with the aim of degrading the Islamic State group.

Obama has refused to return US combat troops to Iraq, following a long brutal war after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

But the rout in Ramadi has called into question US strategy and the credibility of Iraq’s central government.

Obama blamed it on a lack of training and reinforcement of Iraq’s own security forces.

“They have been there essentially for a year without sufficient reinforcements,” he said.

“But it is indicative that the training of Iraqi security forces, the fortifications, the command-and-control systems are not happening fast enough in Anbar, in the Sunni parts of the country.”

Ramadi is in Iraq’s minority Sunni heartland, a short drive from the capital Baghdad.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: denial; iraq; isis; losing; obama; palmyra; ramadi; setback; syria
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To: BitWielder1

ISIS just seized another town, the last Syrian border crossing with Iraq. Syrian troops in full retreat from the terror army.


21 posted on 05/22/2015 7:03:51 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Enlightened1


22 posted on 05/22/2015 7:07:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Enlightened1

Someone needs to ask him what he means by “we”.


23 posted on 05/22/2015 7:07:57 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: BitWielder1

Everything he says is a lie and everything he believe/thinks is a delusion!


24 posted on 05/22/2015 7:09:40 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Enlightened1

25 posted on 05/22/2015 7:17:10 AM PDT by seawolf101
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To: Diogenesis

LOL and posted it on my FB page as it was too good to leave just here:-)


26 posted on 05/22/2015 7:19:44 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Enlightened1

Obama becoming President is only a small set back for the US


27 posted on 05/22/2015 7:45:05 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Harpotoo

“Everything he says is a lie and everything he believe/thinks is a delusion!”

True, and that’s all anyone needs to know. Expect the opposite
to be true.


28 posted on 05/22/2015 7:51:09 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Imagine—its late 1944—Gobbles comes on the German State Controled Radio and says; “The Fatherland is not losing the war against the Gangster West! We are not withdrawing in the face of the Americans and British—we are tightenting our lines. The Fall of Paris is only a minor ‘setback’. We will win the war! Any other talk will be only defeatism in the cause of National Socialism.”


29 posted on 05/22/2015 11:33:20 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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Partisan Media Shills echo:

New York Times Op-ed: Calm Down. ISIS Isn’t Winning.


30 posted on 05/22/2015 4:46:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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