Posted on 08/08/2013 10:29:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just days after issuing a sweeping terror alert that broadly warned Americans against global travel and temporarily closing embassies across the Middle East, President Obama returned to pressing his longtime narrative that al-Qaeda is on the run.
Obama told Marines at Camp Pendleton this afternoon that he was there to mark the war in Afghanistan entering “the final chapter.”
“More of our troops are coming home. We’ll be down to 34,000 this winter. By the end of next year, in just 17 months, the transition will be complete, Afghans will take full responsibility for their security, and our war in Afghanistan will be over,” the president said.
“…After our nation was attacked, you were some of the very first conventional forces in Afghanistan, racing in hundreds of miles by helicopter, toppling that regime and driving al-Qaeda from its camps.”
Before his address, Obama met with wounded warriors and Gold Star families, as well as local Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Susan Davis (D-Calif.) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). It was his first visit to the base.
Because of the “9/11 generation,” Obama said, “we are accomplishing what we set out to do” — citing first the death of Osama bin Laden.
“Because of you, al-Qaeda’s top ranks have been hammered. The core of al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is on the way to defeat,” he said.
“…As I have said before, even as we decimated the al-Qaeda leadership that attacked us on 9/11, al-Qaeda affiliates and like-minded extremists still threaten our homeland. They still threaten our diplomatic facilities. They still threaten our businesses abroad. And we have got to take these threats seriously, and do all we can to confront them,” Obama later added.
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Maybe when Mecca is glassed over.
Sounds like an eighth grader running for traffic guard.
If they are near defeat, shouldn’t the term being used be “annihilated” rather than “decimated?” Decimated only means a loss of 10%
If there anybody that knows bull$hit when they hear it (and see it), it's a Marine.
He doesn't care. "Just words," I believe he once said.
“Decimated” only means reduced by 10%. The remaining 90% can still cause a lot of trouble.
Once again the liberal wordsmiths depend on the low/no educated voter to ignore that the most brilliant black man ever to live cannot even comprehend the word decimated.
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Home School if you have the time.
Private school if you have the money.
Non-union Charter school if no other possibility.
Well, the Marines will just have to take his word for it.
After all, what would they now about Al-Qaeda?
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The General who gave the introduction was not happy with the response he was hearing and yelled out: MAKE SOME NOISE!!!
IN THE MEANTIME:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3052493/posts
Al-Qaida Gloats Over Middle East Embassy Closures
One of our acquaintances performs security assessments all over the Middle East. He contends that al-Qaeda is merely a “bogey man” in the sense that it’s a way to tell people the problem is solved.
The reality is that there are hundreds of similar loosely affiliated Muslim groups with the same Jihadist viewpoint to take their place. He estimates that 10% of the Muslim world is radicalized. Another 10% are intellectually Muslim under the influence of “scholars”. The remaining 80% are cultural Muslims.
Tell me Mr. _resident, then why did you promise to give their affiliated group $500k recently?
RE: . He estimates that 10% of the Muslim world is radicalized.
Islam has about 1.62 billion adherents. 10% of that is 162 million. That’s about HALF the SIZE of America’s population.
That’s why we evacuated our embassies?
Dunce alert.
Yes, that is a real problem. He is not contending that this 10% are active members of terrorist cells, but he is saying that they have sympathies with the terrorists and would certainly support them politically.
It’s really too bad they didn’t turn their backs onhim.
...blah blah blah....he also told them he was fighting “his” sequester...????...yeah he did
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