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Joe Cooper
Dec 6, 2015, 12:02:16 PM12/6/15
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Al Qaeda is "on the run." ISIS is "contained." The unraveling
of Barack Obama's national security policy has turned the 44th
president into Baghdad Bob.
“ISIS is contained” is the new “American tanks are not in Baghdad” of
2015.
In the throes of a tight re-election campaign in October of 2012,
President Barack Obama declared that al Qaeda was “on the run.” In one
sense, he was right: al Qaeda was running into the arms of ISIS, which
was running wild in the Middle East. But his intended implication–that
his policies had routed the terrorists, rendered them incapable of
hurting Americans, and as a result made America safer from the threat of
terrorist attack–was demonstrably false.
In an interview with ABC News the day before deadly terrorist attacks in
Paris which killed 130 people and injured scores more, Obama famous
declared that ISIS had been “contained” due to his administration’s
policies.
On Wednesday, while the San Bernardino terrorists were still at large,
Obama told CBS News in a taped interview that America was safe from the
threat of ISIS attacks.
“The American people should feel confident that, you know, we are going
to be able to defend ourselves and make sure that, you know, we have a
good holiday and go about our lives,” Obama said.
As a result of Wednesday’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, at least
14 people will most certainly not be going about their lives, nor will
their families and friends be enjoying a “good holiday” this year. On
Friday, just a day after Obama’s ISIS comments were aired, law
enforcement officials disclosed that one of the San Bernardino terrorists
had pledged allegiance to ISIS on her personal Facebook page.
[IMAGE: Bagdhad Bob]
In other words, the 44th American president is now our very own Baghdad
Bob. He is a man clinging so desperately to his narrative–terrorists are
on the run because I ended the war in Iraq and killed bin Laden–that no
amount of facts or evidence could possibly convince him his narrative
might be wrong, even as that narrative is unraveling in real-time before
his very eyes:
In March of 2003, Saddam’s Minister of Information was
everybody’s favorite inadvertent comedian. Sporting a kicky
black beret and delightfully bombastic lexicon, Mohammed
Saeed al-Sahaf appeared on TV daily to predict American
failure and deny the Baghdad invasion–sometimes even as U.S.
tanks appeared behind him. “He’s great,” President George W.
Bush said of Sahaf, admitting that he occasionally interrupted
meetings to watch Sahaf’s briefings. “Someone accused us of
hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.”
Sahaf became the subject of T-shirts, mugs, adoring websites,
a pop song, and an action figure. Besides adding levity to
news cycles otherwise filled with fuzzy green explosions, Sahaf
represented everything that made Iraq’s invasion seem not quite
like a real war. Wars are serious, and this guy was adorable.
Even if you opposed the Iraq invasion, you had to admit it’s
hard to respect a government whose official mouthpiece told a
reporter, “Shock and awe? It seems that we are the awe on them.
They are suffering from the shock and awe, okay?”
We all laughed at Baghdad Bob at the time, because what kind of
delusional apparatchik would declare that there are no America tanks in
Baghdad when American tanks can be seen in the background rolling through
Baghdad? Baghdad Bob was funny, because Baghdad Bob was not in charge of
protecting us. He was in charge of protecting Saddam Hussein.
But when your own president engages in the same absurd behavior–declaring
that ISIS is contained while the group was planning a devastating attack
in Paris that it would launch the very next day, or declaring that
America is safe from the terrorist threat of ISIS while a terrorist who
had pledged allegiance to ISIS was on the run from police after assisting
in the execution of at least 14 completely innocent people at an office
party in California–it’s not even remotely amusing. It’s terrifying.
And it’s not just Obama. This disease of delusion has spread to members
of his cabinet as well.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced after the attacks in Paris
and San Bernardino that her “greatest fear” was not future deadly
terrorist attacks against innocent Americans. Instead, Lynch said her
“greatest fear” was that there might be an anti-Muslim backlash as a
result of the terrorist attacks. She then transitioned into a discussion
about the need for America to accept more refugees from the Middle East,
according to Politico, which covered her remarks at a Muslim Advocates
dinner event on Thursday. She did not mention during her remarks that one
of the San Bernardino terrorists was an immigrant with a Pakistani
passport who had passed a Department of Homeland Security background
check prior to being admitted into the U.S.
This is madness.
Barack Obama refused to admit that Americans are most certainly not safe
from the threat of ISIS attack, even while ISIS apostles were murdering
American citizens in California. The White House refuses to admit that
ISIS, an acronym in which the very first letter stands for “Islamic,” is
driven by a devotion to a radical interpretation of Islam that declares
all infidels must be slaughtered by faithful Muslims in service of Allah.
This is not foreign policy. It is a deadly form of political
schizophrenia that has all but crippled the president’s ability to
differentiate between reality and fantasy. “ISIS is not Islamic” and
“Americans are nowhere near Baghdad” are two sides of the same delusional
coin.
Our president has decided that his narrative is more important than our
safety. That his legacy is more important than our security. Extreme
Islamic terrorists are not “on the run.” ISIS is not “contained.” And
America is not safe from the threat of future terrorist attacks from ISIS
and its radical Islamic adherents.
That is the reality of 2015, whether Baghdad Barack wishes to acknowledge
it or not.
Source: http://bit.ly/1Rukigl
--
Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS"
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who aren’t and to impose their will on those who
didn’t ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Liberals never argue with one another over substance; their only dispute
is how to prevent the public from figuring out what they really
believe." (Ann Coulter)
of Barack Obama's national security policy has turned the 44th
president into Baghdad Bob.
“ISIS is contained” is the new “American tanks are not in Baghdad” of
2015.
In the throes of a tight re-election campaign in October of 2012,
President Barack Obama declared that al Qaeda was “on the run.” In one
sense, he was right: al Qaeda was running into the arms of ISIS, which
was running wild in the Middle East. But his intended implication–that
his policies had routed the terrorists, rendered them incapable of
hurting Americans, and as a result made America safer from the threat of
terrorist attack–was demonstrably false.
In an interview with ABC News the day before deadly terrorist attacks in
Paris which killed 130 people and injured scores more, Obama famous
declared that ISIS had been “contained” due to his administration’s
policies.
On Wednesday, while the San Bernardino terrorists were still at large,
Obama told CBS News in a taped interview that America was safe from the
threat of ISIS attacks.
“The American people should feel confident that, you know, we are going
to be able to defend ourselves and make sure that, you know, we have a
good holiday and go about our lives,” Obama said.
As a result of Wednesday’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, at least
14 people will most certainly not be going about their lives, nor will
their families and friends be enjoying a “good holiday” this year. On
Friday, just a day after Obama’s ISIS comments were aired, law
enforcement officials disclosed that one of the San Bernardino terrorists
had pledged allegiance to ISIS on her personal Facebook page.
[IMAGE: Bagdhad Bob]
In other words, the 44th American president is now our very own Baghdad
Bob. He is a man clinging so desperately to his narrative–terrorists are
on the run because I ended the war in Iraq and killed bin Laden–that no
amount of facts or evidence could possibly convince him his narrative
might be wrong, even as that narrative is unraveling in real-time before
his very eyes:
In March of 2003, Saddam’s Minister of Information was
everybody’s favorite inadvertent comedian. Sporting a kicky
black beret and delightfully bombastic lexicon, Mohammed
Saeed al-Sahaf appeared on TV daily to predict American
failure and deny the Baghdad invasion–sometimes even as U.S.
tanks appeared behind him. “He’s great,” President George W.
Bush said of Sahaf, admitting that he occasionally interrupted
meetings to watch Sahaf’s briefings. “Someone accused us of
hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.”
Sahaf became the subject of T-shirts, mugs, adoring websites,
a pop song, and an action figure. Besides adding levity to
news cycles otherwise filled with fuzzy green explosions, Sahaf
represented everything that made Iraq’s invasion seem not quite
like a real war. Wars are serious, and this guy was adorable.
Even if you opposed the Iraq invasion, you had to admit it’s
hard to respect a government whose official mouthpiece told a
reporter, “Shock and awe? It seems that we are the awe on them.
They are suffering from the shock and awe, okay?”
We all laughed at Baghdad Bob at the time, because what kind of
delusional apparatchik would declare that there are no America tanks in
Baghdad when American tanks can be seen in the background rolling through
Baghdad? Baghdad Bob was funny, because Baghdad Bob was not in charge of
protecting us. He was in charge of protecting Saddam Hussein.
But when your own president engages in the same absurd behavior–declaring
that ISIS is contained while the group was planning a devastating attack
in Paris that it would launch the very next day, or declaring that
America is safe from the terrorist threat of ISIS while a terrorist who
had pledged allegiance to ISIS was on the run from police after assisting
in the execution of at least 14 completely innocent people at an office
party in California–it’s not even remotely amusing. It’s terrifying.
And it’s not just Obama. This disease of delusion has spread to members
of his cabinet as well.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced after the attacks in Paris
and San Bernardino that her “greatest fear” was not future deadly
terrorist attacks against innocent Americans. Instead, Lynch said her
“greatest fear” was that there might be an anti-Muslim backlash as a
result of the terrorist attacks. She then transitioned into a discussion
about the need for America to accept more refugees from the Middle East,
according to Politico, which covered her remarks at a Muslim Advocates
dinner event on Thursday. She did not mention during her remarks that one
of the San Bernardino terrorists was an immigrant with a Pakistani
passport who had passed a Department of Homeland Security background
check prior to being admitted into the U.S.
This is madness.
Barack Obama refused to admit that Americans are most certainly not safe
from the threat of ISIS attack, even while ISIS apostles were murdering
American citizens in California. The White House refuses to admit that
ISIS, an acronym in which the very first letter stands for “Islamic,” is
driven by a devotion to a radical interpretation of Islam that declares
all infidels must be slaughtered by faithful Muslims in service of Allah.
This is not foreign policy. It is a deadly form of political
schizophrenia that has all but crippled the president’s ability to
differentiate between reality and fantasy. “ISIS is not Islamic” and
“Americans are nowhere near Baghdad” are two sides of the same delusional
coin.
Our president has decided that his narrative is more important than our
safety. That his legacy is more important than our security. Extreme
Islamic terrorists are not “on the run.” ISIS is not “contained.” And
America is not safe from the threat of future terrorist attacks from ISIS
and its radical Islamic adherents.
That is the reality of 2015, whether Baghdad Barack wishes to acknowledge
it or not.
Source: http://bit.ly/1Rukigl
--
Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS"
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who aren’t and to impose their will on those who
didn’t ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Liberals never argue with one another over substance; their only dispute
is how to prevent the public from figuring out what they really
believe." (Ann Coulter)
someone else
Dec 6, 2015, 12:07:33 PM12/6/15
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On 12/6/2015 10:59 AM, Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> This is madness.
Someone else would say that it is your own madness
With the revelation that the terrorist attack on San Bernardino,
California was carried out by radicalized adherents to ISIS ideology,
the growing Islamophobia that is permeating the American conscience has
only gotten worse. We even have the president of a major Christian
University urging students to buy guns and hunt Muslims. This same
dangerous rhetoric has now stretched to former New York governor and
little-known GOP 2016 Clown Car candidate George Pataki, who has used
his twitter account to promote a “war on radical Islam” amongst his
followers. Pataki tweeted:
“We must declare war on radical Islam.@LorettaLynch I’m not edging
toward violent speech, I’m declaring we kill them. Go ahead, arrest me.”
We must declare war on radical Islam. @LorettaLynch I'm not edging
toward violent speech, I'm declaring we kill them. Go ahead, arrest me.
— George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) December 4, 2015
So, not only is he literally calling for murder via social media, he
also trying to get the Attorney General to engage in his craziness in
public. Classy, Governor. Real classy. The reason for Pataki’s inclusion
of Lynch in his comments could be that she has pissed off many
Muslim-hating right-wingers, by calling for calm, cool heads in the
midst of this very tense climate, saying:
“I think it’s important, however, that as we again talk about the
importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on
violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we
do and they will be prosecuted.”
And she is right. Free speech is just that — free. You can’t be arrested
for what you say if it does not involve direct threats. However,
Governor Pataki is inciting hatred and violence.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/05/gop-2016-candidate-calls-for-muslim-genocide-im-declaring-we-kill-them-tweet/
>
> This is madness.
Someone else would say that it is your own madness
With the revelation that the terrorist attack on San Bernardino,
California was carried out by radicalized adherents to ISIS ideology,
the growing Islamophobia that is permeating the American conscience has
only gotten worse. We even have the president of a major Christian
University urging students to buy guns and hunt Muslims. This same
dangerous rhetoric has now stretched to former New York governor and
little-known GOP 2016 Clown Car candidate George Pataki, who has used
his twitter account to promote a “war on radical Islam” amongst his
followers. Pataki tweeted:
“We must declare war on radical Islam.@LorettaLynch I’m not edging
toward violent speech, I’m declaring we kill them. Go ahead, arrest me.”
We must declare war on radical Islam. @LorettaLynch I'm not edging
toward violent speech, I'm declaring we kill them. Go ahead, arrest me.
— George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) December 4, 2015
So, not only is he literally calling for murder via social media, he
also trying to get the Attorney General to engage in his craziness in
public. Classy, Governor. Real classy. The reason for Pataki’s inclusion
of Lynch in his comments could be that she has pissed off many
Muslim-hating right-wingers, by calling for calm, cool heads in the
midst of this very tense climate, saying:
“I think it’s important, however, that as we again talk about the
importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on
violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we
do and they will be prosecuted.”
And she is right. Free speech is just that — free. You can’t be arrested
for what you say if it does not involve direct threats. However,
Governor Pataki is inciting hatred and violence.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/05/gop-2016-candidate-calls-for-muslim-genocide-im-declaring-we-kill-them-tweet/
Oleg Smirnov
Dec 6, 2015, 12:12:27 PM12/6/15
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> Barack Obama refused to admit that Americans are most certainly not safe from
> the threat of ISIS attack, even while ISIS apostles were murdering American
> citizens in California. The White House refuses to admit that ISIS, an acronym
> in which the very first letter stands for "Islamic," is driven by a devotion
> to a radical interpretation of Islam that declares all infidels must be
> slaughtered by faithful Muslims in service of Allah.
<http://tinyurl.com/phh72ky>
> the threat of ISIS attack, even while ISIS apostles were murdering American
> citizens in California. The White House refuses to admit that ISIS, an acronym
> in which the very first letter stands for "Islamic," is driven by a devotion
> to a radical interpretation of Islam that declares all infidels must be
> slaughtered by faithful Muslims in service of Allah.
.. to funnel donations not only to Al Qaeda but to Islamic State as well .. The
U.S. has not only acquiesced in such activities, moreover, but has actively
participated in them. In June 2012, the Times wrote that the C.I.A. was working
with the Muslim Brotherhood to channel Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-supplied arms
to anti-Assad rebels <http://nyti.ms/1PutB0e>.
Two months later, the Defense Intelligence Agency reported
<http://bit.ly/1FvL5zI> that Al Qaeda, Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood
dominated the Syrian rebel movement, that their goal was to establish a
"Salafist principality in eastern Syria" where Islamic State's caliphate is now
located, and that this is "exactly what the supporting powers to the
opposition" - i.e. the West, Gulf states, and Turkey - "want in order to isolate
the Syrian regime." ..
<https://archive.is/Y2jla>
.. the White House's sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL
and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was "a willful decision." ..
<https://archive.is/0zq7L>
.. secret official documents received from the Ministry of Defense and the US
State Department .. shed light on the internal evaluation of the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA). These documents envisage 'the Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria (ISIS) as a US strategic asset in the region ('2012 Defense
Intelligence Agency document: West will facilitate rise of Islamic State in
order to isolate the Syrian regime .. <https://archive.is/E7dpR> ).
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