When New Yorker editor David Remnick pointed out to Obama during a November interview that years after Osama bin Laden had been k**led, the f**g of al-Qaida is now flying in Fallujah, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria and al-Qaida has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too, the response he got was either delusional or deceitful.
The president retorted that if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesnt make them Kobe Bryant. (IBT)
Well, the JV team is now a full-blown army that has successfully conquered whole swaths of the Middle East. Today, Brett McGurk, deputy assistant secretary of state, said that The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is al Qaeda
it may have changed its name, but it is al Qaeda. In fact, it is worse than al Qaeda, at a House Foreign Affairs Committee. McGurk warned that after the jihad organization seized enormous financial and military assets in Iraq, ISIS is no longer a terrorist organization. It is a full-blown army.
This is Obamas catastrophic failure JV. Hes a JV president benched.
The Hill: The testimony from senior officials sparked alarm and frustration on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers said more should have been done to counter ISIS sooner.
Over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder said the threat of ISIS fighters infiltrating the U.S. was more frightening than anything I think Ive seen as attorney general.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told The Hill on Wednesday that the threat from ISIS had been blinking red a long time.
Now its flashing more frequently and is a lot brighter, he said. Theyve got a lot of fighters who are from European countries that are visa waiver countries, which means all they have to do is shave their beards and look like normal, responsible civilians and walk into the United States of America without a visa.
Its a real challenge for our intelligence community to identify them and get their names on a watch list.
During Wednesdays hearing, officials laid out steps for countering ISIS, including pressuring countries in the region to close their borders to stop the spread of fighters and offering U.S. training for local Iraqi security forces and centrist Syrian groups.
But it is still unclear whether the administration is planning any military response. U.S. advisers on the ground in Iraq have yet to begin helping local units as the Pentagon reviews an initial intelligence assessment that found embedded American forces would be easy targets for extremists.
Lawmakers expressed concerns over the delays but also remained deeply divided about what military steps the U.S. should take.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said the administration had ignored the threat for too long and had rejected Iraqi requests for drone strikes as early as August 2013.
What it seems like is the administration is just paralyzed. They just dont know what to do, added Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an Iraq War veteran.
Im renewing the call to the administration for massive manned military air strikes to push back this very, very bad cancer thats encroaching on the Middle East, he said.
Other lawmakers though expressed caution and said any solution must include political reforms in Baghdad.
I supported the presidents decision to send assessment teams to Iraq, but Im cautious of our future action. We cannot end up in another sectarian quagmire in Iraq, said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the committees ranking member.
Lawmakers cautioned against providing Iraq with more military help until a stable government was in place. Critics of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki say his Shiite-majority government has alienated Sunni and Kurdish minorities and emboldened ISIS. Several lawmakers called for him to step down.
Maliki is not a good guy just because we installed him. Now we need a new prime minister, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said.
McGurk said the administration had not ignored the threat and had already offered military assistance to Iraq.
We set up intelligence fusion sharing centers, we helped them with the Hellfire missiles precision strikes, we helped them in terms of training forces on the ground of special operations, he said.
But he cautioned that the focus should be on supporting an Iraqi unity government, requiring political reforms initiated by Baghdad.
This is a uniquely Iraqi process, with Iraqi political dynamics. And the outcome will reflect that process, McGurk said.
There will not be an exclusively military solution to the threat posed by ISIL, Slotkin added. Iraqis must do the heavy lifting.
Holders statement reveals his innate weakness and the proof that he was never qualified for the position.
Tom Ridge admitted that the "red light" had long since been ignored and allowed to continue without response.
Now we have an enemy on the ground and they are clearly defined down to the location of their stronghold.
And the infiltrators ? They arrived long ago. In fact, they are dug into American soil and have managed to prosper.
The enemy is already here. The problem is in the indoctrinated masses of this nation who refuse to understand the severity of this circumstance.
This country has no leadership in regard to the conquering spirit that lead our forefathers.
We have homosexual d*****ts running this nation.
America, is long gone.
This is now the new Babylon.
CharlesRabb wrote:
Over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder said the threat of ISIS fighters infiltrating the U.S. was more frightening than anything I think Ive seen as attorney general.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told The Hill on Wednesday that the threat from ISIS had been blinking red a long time..
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The only JV's around here is Obama. Now that Obama has given our Bradley high teck tanks and humbies, and god only knows what else. We could not do them in when all they had was AK47, what the hell will it be like fighting that now.
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Holders statement reveals his innate weakness and the proof that he was never qualified for the position.
Tom Ridge admitted that the "red light" had long since been ignored and allowed to continue without response.
Now we have an enemy on the ground and they are clearly defined down to the location of their stronghold.
And the infiltrators ? They arrived long ago. In fact, they are dug into American soil and have managed to prosper.
The enemy is already here. The problem is in the indoctrinated masses of this nation who refuse to understand the severity of this circumstance.
This country has no leadership in regard to the conquering spirit that lead our forefathers.
We have homosexual d*****ts running this nation.
America, is long gone.
This is now the new Babylon.
Holders statement reveals his innate weakness and ... (
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It's sad but true. We may still get it back, but only if the masses of nitwits wake up.
cold iron wrote:
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It's sad but true. We may still get it back, but only if the masses of nitwits wake up.
I don't think anything short of an attack will wake these people up. ISIS is in America and they will plan their attacks right under our noses and we will not do a thing about it until it is to late.
MrEd wrote:
I don't think anything short of an attack will wake these people up. ISIS is in America and they will plan their attacks right under our noses and we will not do a thing about it until it is to late.
I have a bad feeling about the up coming September 11th.
No way dude,,,,, obama and holder are like the dynamic duo, and backing up the bench is a linebacker extrordinaire, hillary, with that sly as a fox quarterback Joe Biden,,
I "FEEL" good about it, what could possibly GO WRONG!?!
All you need is love,,, love is all you need....
cold iron wrote:
I have a bad feeling about the up coming September 11th.
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