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Obama: Bad Intelligence Behind ISIS Underestimation
Breitbart TV ^ | 8-9-2014

Posted on 08/09/2014 11:31:17 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Saturday from the White House South Lawn, President Barack Obama blamed "intelligence estimates" for not anticipating the speed in which ISIS would capture large sections of Iraq.

(Watch the 2:41 video clip at source)

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airstrikeonisis; badintelexcuse; iraq; isis; isisiraq; kurdistan; obama; obamaisis; obamaownsiraq; obamapresser; underbarrysbus; yazidi; yazidis
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To: ASA Vet

Have a shot or take a shot? Haha just kidding SS/NSA/CIA/ect.


101 posted on 08/09/2014 3:04:56 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Enterprise; Sir Napsalot; GilGil; Publius; Chainmail; Kenny Bunk; The Sons of Liberty; PapaNew; ...
There is no Obama "policy."

The people who run Team Obama are strictly situational. No matter what happens, and they really have very little interest it exactly what happens, their only though is to turn it to their benefit.

IOW, there is no policy, but there is an agenda and an ideology that must be advanced, happen what may. Observe how cleverly they have ordered the mouthpiece "back from the Vineyard" to handle the "Humanitarian Crisis" in Iraq. With Team Obama, there are no disasters, just opportunities.

Waddaguy! 8,000 MREs to feed 40,000 refugees. It's a miracle!

102 posted on 08/09/2014 3:24:05 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
there is no policy, but there is an agenda and an ideology that must be advanced, happen what may

Call it "agenda" call it "policy" call it whatever, his "policy"/agenda is exactly what he said it was (kinda like Hitler telling everyone exactly what he was going to do): "fundamentally transform America" from a free constitutional republic into a Marxist/collectivist command and control regime.

Chaos helps. Confusion helps. What people call "failure" helps. It all helps to destroy the America we love so the tyrants can build what they love.

103 posted on 08/09/2014 3:31:57 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate over unjust law & government in the forum of ideas)
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To: GilGil
Obama is the best salesman for fertilizer factory. He is always over quota. What an evil, evil man.

Indeed!

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.




104 posted on 08/09/2014 3:48:22 PM PDT by rdb3 (Get out the putter, this one's on the green.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

105 posted on 08/09/2014 3:59:44 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Obama is O'Bryan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUoPNpa9Rrw)
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To: Sir Napsalot

another dis of the CIA and MI... How to win friends in the groups that could likely hurt you the worst...


106 posted on 08/09/2014 4:27:01 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Bravo Sierra on the ‘bad intelligence’

Unless the bad intelligence is his lack thereof.


107 posted on 08/09/2014 4:31:49 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: mikrofon

Sadly, he’s right about the American voter, who seems to be getting dumber and more easily manipulated with every election.

That said, Obama is not a smart man. He’s crafty and ideological, but not intelligent.


108 posted on 08/09/2014 4:58:21 PM PDT by livius
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To: Sir Napsalot

The bad intel was Iranian ... they thought they could handle ISIS alone, but things weren’t working out that way one the ground. So the mullahs told VJ to kick the kid’s butt and make him use his Air Force to do something quick, before ISIS gets too strong and turns on Iran.


109 posted on 08/09/2014 5:13:09 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: tcrlaf

I was just thinking that. Wasn’t Isis the “rebels” that obama wanted to help in Syria against Assad only a few months ago?


110 posted on 08/09/2014 7:46:44 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Semper911

His MB advisers said it would be a bad idea to bomb ISIS.


111 posted on 08/09/2014 7:48:28 PM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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To: 4Liberty

Thread killing post


112 posted on 08/09/2014 8:34:41 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: Sir Napsalot
When Representative Joe Wilson called Obama a LIAR at the State of the Union Address he was right. Joe Wilson left off a few qualifiers. I would suggest the following qualifiers:
1. Liar without conscience.
2. Liar who's lies put our troops in harms way.
3. Liar whom lies to advance and agenda the people do not want.
4. Liar who's race bating exacerbates racial strife and violence between races in our great nation, and his lies cause violence and he knows it will and because of his agenda he does not give a damn.
5. Liar about his personal experiences as a youth in his book, “Dreams of my Father.” A man he never knew and he created a fictional history that was politically advantageous to himself.

Barrak Hussien Obamas entire public and political life is a web of deceit and lies. The only thing that can be said with certainty is he is an extreme leftists, avowed socialist, quasi communist if not communist in fact but lacking papers that says he is. It can be said with absolute certainty that he does not love our great nation with all its grandeur and flaws. We do have flaws but they pale in comparison to the flaws of all other nations. Obama seems to know nothing of our greatness and knows only of our flaws which have been paid for in double in the civil war. The blood shed by the North and the South are payment in full for our great nations one great flaw. The debt has been paid.

However the greatest liars of all is the media. They listen to him, know he is lying and do not call him on his lies. They do not call him on his lies because they agree with his leftist agenda. The media is the greatest liar of all. Our Constitution grants the media great privilege to be the "watch dogs" of the executive, the legislative and the judiciary. They have privilege of inquiry and publication that no one else has. They are shielded by the law as they should be. They are supposed to be the advocates of truth.

When the media become advocates of ideology instead of "The Watch Dog of Truth," they are indeed the most evil of all as they will bring our great nation to its knees and freedom will fail.

113 posted on 08/09/2014 10:08:29 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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To: cpdiii

Well, the CIC has a Major General whacked on his legacy.

Obama is an idiot. Face the truth MSM and get your tongue out of his fat ass wife’s butt.


114 posted on 08/09/2014 10:16:41 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Sir Napsalot

115 posted on 08/09/2014 10:38:51 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Melowese Richardson - Democrat Vote Fraud Expert)
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To: Sir Napsalot

OK, I’m going to side with him on this one. For the most part everybody understands that arming Islamic Terrorist is a really bad idea. But when a very inexperienced person is leading the country and they surround themselves with really inexperienced people, these are the kind of results you get. We’ve done this in Central America, Vietnam, Africa, and now the Middle East. And each time there has been a blowback. So, he had bad intel, from his staff, his intelligence departments and his outside advisors. But I have to say that even BBC ran an article in early 2013 that claimed the US was training known terrorists in the Jordan training camps and red flags were going up. The US said it had identified those and had eliminated those “insurgent trainees”, Obviously now we know that was untrue. The CIA continued to train these terrorists and now they make up the Core leadership of IS. And ISIS is more powerful than the Taliban ever was. We basically created ISIS by training, arming and funding them. So, yeah, if i were Obama I’d try to find someone else to blame right away because this is a colossal screw up.


116 posted on 08/10/2014 9:40:46 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: realcleanguy

So when Obama and his gang making rounds taking credits for the “Arab Spring”, CIA went around him and supplied/trained these ‘rebels’ without his knowledge and/or authorization?

WHEN did Obama know it then? How far up in his admin chain know it? I know Congressional committee and investigation are useless, but where is the outrage?


117 posted on 08/10/2014 4:45:22 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: PapaNew
It seems strange that as Assad gains the upper hand against Obama's Christian-crucifying friends in Syria, that this ISIS action should suddenly heat up in Northern Iraq.

Are the ISIS people the same people supported in Syria?

118 posted on 08/11/2014 6:01:51 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
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