Posted on 12/08/2016 3:48:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In January 2014 President Obama referred to ISIS, one of the most vicious terror armies to ever exist, of being a "JV team."
“The analogy we use around here sometimes,and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told the New Yorker at the time.
After that comment the group marched from Syria to Iraq, taking large swaths of territory, pillaging and raping along the way and slaughtering thousands.
Now with just a month left in his presidency, President Obama is saying he was surprised by the capability of ISIS to control major parts of the region, becoming a world wide threat.
"The ability of ISIL to not just mass inside of Syria, but then to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul, for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen," Obama told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview airing Wednesday night.
There was no reason for Obama or those in his administration to be surprised, after all, they were warned about the consequences of rapidly leaving Iraq and did it anyway.
Obama knew a group like ISIS had potential, but ignored warnings for political and ideological reasons. The consequences for that decision have been deadly.
Obama will live out the rest of his life unforgiven.
Obama Now Admits He Was Surprised that ISIS didn’t do better with the Billions of dollars in cash and weapons he gave them
“Yeah, OK, I was warned. But the guy who warned me was an idiot and probably a racist and I have always hated racists and white people. I am smart enough not to listen to them, I don’t need their honky cracker advice. Besides, I had my own experts and they said I would look really good if I withdrew the troops from Iraq. So, I wasn’t wrong not listening to GWBush and nothing that happened after the disastrous war he lied and got us into can be blamed on me. It was all his fault for being a racist.”
Honestly, we’ve had the functional equivalent of a juvenile delinquent running the government for 8 years.
The island of Elba is still available if he chooses to self-exile.
What a tool. He gave them Hilux toyotas. Ammo...humvees. Manpads. The US airforce....they bomb targets for the rebels.
He gave his precious isil leaflets as warning when we would bomb a isis site. Posted info on what we were going to do daily in media.
Doesn’t he always call them “ISIL”?
Obama supports ISIS.
RE: Doesn’t he always call them “ISIL”?
He doesn’t want to limit the group to Iraq and Syria, he wants them to expand to the entire LEVANT (Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, and Turkey are sometimes considered Levant countries)
JV team...remember how reports stated he never listened to his own briefings? Smartest man in his own world never did much work as evidenced by $85,000,000.00+ in vacations.
Yep. Which is a ‘finger’ to Isreal.
Affirmative sir, along with Bill and Hill, plus a whole assortment of other slime sucking scum bag rats and RINOs.
Your take is spot on!
thing is, they already have expanded to many countries
His secretary of state and he created ISIS. How could he be surprised?
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