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Obama Believes Terror Threat Reduced to Pre-9/11 Level
Breitbart's Big Peace / The Associated Press ^ | May 25, 2013

Posted on 05/25/2013 4:43:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.

Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is steering the United States away from what he calls an equally frightening threat: a country in a state of perpetual war.

In a landmark speech Thursday in which he sought to refine and recalibrate his counterterrorism strategy, Obama asserted that al-Qaida is "on the path to defeat," reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels. That means that with the Afghanistan war winding down, Obama is unlikely to commit troops in large numbers to any conflict -- in Syria or other countries struggling with instability in the uncertain aftermath of the Arab Spring -- unless, as his critics fear, he tragically has underestimated al-Qaida's staying power.....

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; obama; peacecreep; surrender; surrenderjunkies; terrorism; whatshesmoking
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

wasn’t the terror threat pre 9/11 high?


21 posted on 05/25/2013 5:25:05 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: GotMojo
wasn’t the terror threat pre 9/11 high?

Yes - as we soon discovered, it was high enough to produce the horrific 9/11 attacks.

Today is no better, as our rotten corrupt government busybodies merely list the names of foreign terrorist suspects here on "watchlists" and "no-fly" lists instead of deporting them or arresting them.

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22 posted on 05/25/2013 5:34:57 PM PDT by repentant_pundit (Sammy's your uncle, but he behaves like a spoiled rotten kid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WTF is wrong with this POS ‘s thinking . . . does he read or listen to anything?


23 posted on 05/25/2013 5:36:35 PM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Deranged islamist


24 posted on 05/25/2013 5:37:59 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pre-nine eleven, eh? So he is disbanding TSA in 10 ... 9 ...8

Oh, wait, not that 9-11 ... maybe 9-11-2011

25 posted on 05/25/2013 5:38:49 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It will only take ONE anti Islam movie, and then who knows how the threat level will increase! Or did I miss something? You would think that Zero Dark Thirty movie would have caused all sorts of troubles.


26 posted on 05/25/2013 5:42:52 PM PDT by petitfour
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27 posted on 05/25/2013 5:49:25 PM PDT by CapnJack
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Considering 9/11, it seems that the terror threat level on 9/10 was prety high.


28 posted on 05/25/2013 5:53:05 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God Bless America)
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29 posted on 05/25/2013 5:57:52 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s because the Ft. Hood massacre, the Benghazhi attacks, the Boston Marathon bombings, etc. were not terrorist incidents. Lone wolf frustration is all. No religious component. Obama tells us so.


30 posted on 05/25/2013 6:58:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The terror threat on 9/10/2011 was pretty high, wouldn’t you say?


31 posted on 05/25/2013 7:24:05 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: Personal Responsibility
Incredibly high.
32 posted on 05/25/2013 7:25:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But the pre-9/11 threat level is what led up to 9/11.


33 posted on 05/25/2013 7:31:42 PM PDT by Spok
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Obama Believes Terror Threat Reduced to Pre-9/11 Level

That would be like 9/10 ,not quite yet but coming

34 posted on 05/25/2013 7:44:30 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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Obama is sending out a smokescreen trial ballon.

Obama’s definition of JOBS has now been revealed: Just Obama Bull Shi*.


35 posted on 05/25/2013 8:24:53 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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Bong hazy!


36 posted on 05/25/2013 8:36:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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>> But the pre-9/11 threat level is what led up to 9/11.

Anything to avoid crediting Bush.


37 posted on 05/25/2013 8:39:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation: Expect another 9/11.....


38 posted on 05/25/2013 9:06:37 PM PDT by GraceG
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Obama Believes Terror Threat Reduced to Pre-9/11 Level
Reduced? The threat level was high pre-9/11 we just didn't know it.
39 posted on 05/26/2013 12:02:49 AM PDT by lewislynn ( We bet on the black, it came up red.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor today, the current administration would first start making excuses for the Japanese and then call Americans racist.


40 posted on 05/26/2013 12:08:42 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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