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Obama: Turkey has the right to defend itself and its airspace
CNN ^ | 11/24/15 | Kevin Liptak

Posted on 11/24/2015 10:43:29 AM PST by jimbo123

Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter plane shouldn't lead to further wartime escalation in the region, President Barack Obama insisted at a press conference Tuesday.

But he maintained Turkey had a right to defend its airspace and charged that Russian air activity near the Turkey-Syria border has been an "ongoing problem."

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1 posted on 11/24/2015 10:43:29 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Standing with his fellow Muslims, as always.


2 posted on 11/24/2015 10:44:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: jimbo123

As is always the case, Obama runs his mouth without running his brain.


3 posted on 11/24/2015 10:45:05 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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Like Russia was attacking targets in Turkey? The plane flew through a small corner on it’s way to or from ISIS targets.


4 posted on 11/24/2015 10:45:20 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: dfwgator; SJackson; Nachum

Bloody damn fool.

But he got the Noble Peace Prize. For not being Bush.


5 posted on 11/24/2015 10:45:57 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SkyDancer
Like Russia was attacking targets in Turkey? The plane flew through a small corner on it’s way to or from ISIS targets.

Exactly. FUBO

6 posted on 11/24/2015 10:46:14 AM PST by PGalt
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To: jimbo123

I wonder if we are going to soon see leaks of Obama’s college transcripts...


7 posted on 11/24/2015 10:46:40 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: jimbo123

Yes, but they don’t have the right to violate the Geneva Conventions and shoot pilots parachuting out of disabled airplanes.


8 posted on 11/24/2015 10:46:59 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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I am not seeing the problem here to be honest. You fly in a states air space after being warned not to you get shot down. Says nothing about the players. Says everything about self defense.


9 posted on 11/24/2015 10:48:38 AM PST by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: Jack Hammer

Just keep poking the Bear... Just keep poking. Obama is a special kind of stupid.


10 posted on 11/24/2015 10:49:01 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: jwalsh07

You think NATO planes don’t regularly fly over Russian airspace?


11 posted on 11/24/2015 10:49:37 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: jimbo123

Does Syria have a right to shoot S300 and 400s at Turkish planes that come in after the Kurds then?


12 posted on 11/24/2015 10:50:17 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: SkyDancer

IMHO, 0vomit is help bent on starting WW 3 in earnest..


13 posted on 11/24/2015 10:51:06 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: dfwgator

It’s a good thing for Turkey to defend its border but it’s a bad thing for us to defend our own?


14 posted on 11/24/2015 10:51:32 AM PST by Brownie63
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To: jimbo123

Hey, whatever happened to “over-reaction” and using “proportional restraint?” Or is Obama just full of ****?

/s


15 posted on 11/24/2015 10:51:49 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: sheik yerbouty

He’ll destroy America but he’ll have his race war first.


16 posted on 11/24/2015 10:52:49 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: jimbo123

Turkey’s moving toward being a fundamentalist Muslim hellhole...


17 posted on 11/24/2015 10:53:33 AM PST by GOPJ (Bill Clinton needs to apologize for the rape of Juanita Broaddrick. Hillary needs to apologize too.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

You would like to think someone somewhere has seen enough.


18 posted on 11/24/2015 10:54:23 AM PST by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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To: dfwgator

They are in NATO. Is it not our obligation to defend them?


19 posted on 11/24/2015 10:54:24 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

You think that’s why Obama said what he did?


20 posted on 11/24/2015 10:55:52 AM PST by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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