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Obama warns of U.S. action as jihadists push on Baghdad
Reuters ^ | June 12, 2014 | BY AHMED RASHEED AND ISABEL COLES

Posted on 06/12/2014 10:55:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Barack Obama refused to rule out U.S. action in Iraq against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to threaten Baghdad, threatening to divide the country and establish their own jihadist state

Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by telephone. The White House signalled on Wednesday that it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; dither; iraq; terrorism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama doesn't warns of U.S. action as jihadists push on Baghdad

There, fixed it.

Nowhere in the body of the article does Obama make anything that might be considered a threat. He simply refused to rule out not making a threat, or something like that.

Not passing judgment on whether we should or shouldn't get involved, just commenting on the typically misleading headline, which infers that Obama is strong and decisive, when he clearly is the opposite.

This is further fruit of Obama's childish and ill-advised meddling in the Arab world, beginning with Tunisia. Good Lord he has screwed up so badly.

41 posted on 06/12/2014 11:25:13 AM PDT by keat
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To: AU72

LMAO! That’s outstanding.

P.S. War Eagle!


42 posted on 06/12/2014 11:26:16 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what bathhouse barry gonna do?
SURGE? nah he wasted that one he never supported anyway

Send over a Cia-Brennan stooge with suitcase full of money to buy off the bad guys (worked with al Haqqani) Nah not this crowd

Send in a drone? Yeah right

LOL at JugEars the poodle trying to sound like a pitbull

and weep for the sacrifices of so many good men wasted on useless stoopid policies of arrogant pricks like Obama Rodham Kerry and biden


43 posted on 06/12/2014 11:28:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

44 posted on 06/12/2014 11:28:42 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A lavender line in the sand, and a scathing letter with a warning in UPPER CASE BOLD. If that doesn't work, make no mistake, we will escalate to upper case bold italic. Period. Full stop.
45 posted on 06/12/2014 11:29:10 AM PDT by omega4412
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To: omega4412

” If that doesn’t work, make no mistake, we will escalate to upper case bold italic. Period. Full stop.”

Well Yeah, one thing is for sure, it won’t be cursive.


46 posted on 06/12/2014 11:31:52 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let it burn...every soldier sent over there is a waste of time and money, and sometimes lives. I give zero sh!ts about Iraq.

Send the troops to our southern border instead.


47 posted on 06/12/2014 11:34:03 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: AU72

“How many #Hastags can a B-52 carry?” asks Obama.

An aide reply’s “We have to put them in #Hastagclips, and our #Hashtagclips can only old 9.” “Our 30 round #Hashtagclips were made in New York and they are illegal there now”.


48 posted on 06/12/2014 11:41:33 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Mich Patriot

You may not care about AQ in Iraq...but they care about you.

Once upon a time, people could afford not to care about something thousands of miles away. But not anymore, not since September 11, 2011, when a “regional” dispute wiped out 3000 Americans as they waited for the elevators or ate breakfast at their desks, and then killed those who braved horrible odds to try to rescue them.

It’s not your granpa’s isolationism anymore. ISIL has already proclaimed that the US is on its list of targets. But that’s ok, Bambi will surrender long before then, so we can then have the fun of watching mass beheadings.


49 posted on 06/12/2014 11:41:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The White House signalled on Wednesday that it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.”

Don’t the Iraqi’s have an air force? How hard is it to locate a convoy of Toyota’s in the open desert and attack it?
If the answer is that they don’t have the pilots, I’m sure that the Iranians or Russians would be delighted to send in some on the QT.


50 posted on 06/12/2014 11:42:28 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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51 posted on 06/12/2014 11:43:01 AM PDT by keat
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To: AU72

#HashTagBomb
Twitters away!


52 posted on 06/12/2014 11:44:25 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: keat

EPIC! Posting on FB now!


53 posted on 06/12/2014 11:54:42 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, he might even turn them over to the UN for discipline.


54 posted on 06/12/2014 11:55:45 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kinda hard to go after the people that you are holding hands with in Syria. Right? Ignorant ass Obama.

I want no new wars, but in this case, maybe some airstrikes would be okay, but wait, we can’t go after our Syria allies can we? After all, they will be shootin’ those weapons Obungle supplied them with AT US.

What a freakin’ Obungle mess.

Wag that freakin’ dead dog. More Americans get to die for Obama’s stupidity and progressive idiocy.


55 posted on 06/12/2014 12:03:28 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many of our people have to die to clean up the mess that Obama and Biden are indirectly responsible for??


56 posted on 06/12/2014 12:13:45 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Wyatt's Torch

This time he is really really upset so much so that he is willing to draw an extra wide red line.


57 posted on 06/12/2014 2:02:19 PM PDT by chiefqc
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58 posted on 06/12/2014 3:05:38 PM PDT by tomkat
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