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WH last week: Not at war with ISIS; this week: USA will destroy ISIS
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:39 am
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:39 am
Total amateur hour from the white house.
Shitty source, but it's what I found
Just last week
Shitty source, but it's what I found
quote:
"Our objective is clear. That is to degrade and destroy (ISIS) so it's no longer a threat," he said. "We can accomplish that. It's going to take some time, it's going to take some effort."
Just last week
quote:
"Before getting into the strategy, though, there seems [to be] a fundamental, existential question: Is the United States presently at war with ISIS — yes or no?" MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked President Barack Obama's top spokesman, White House press secretary Josh Earnest, on Thursday.
Earnest went with "no."
"No, Chris. What we are doing is we are working very aggressively with international partners, with Iraqi and Kurdish security forces, to take the steps necessary to mitigate the threat that's posed by ISIL," he responded.
The interview was part of a series of television appearances for Earnest on Thursday and Friday after Obama stumbled and said "we don't have a strategy yet" for dealing with the Islamic State in Syria. Earnest insisted Obama actually has a "comprehensive strategy" even as critics slam the administration for not articulating a more forceful foreign-policy vision for the region.
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program Friday, Earnest was again pressed with the "war" question.
"Does the president agree with [columnist] Eugene Robinson that we are, in fact, at war with ISIS even though it's not a declared war?" host Joe Scarborough inquired.
Earnest again maintained the U.S. was simply trying to "mitigate the threat."
This post was edited on 9/3/14 at 7:41 am
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:43 am to C
Yeah, it makes sense. We're not at war with them, we just want to annihilate their faces from existence.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:44 am to Rickety Cricket
quote:
Yeah, it makes sense. We're not at war with them, we just want to annihilate their faces from existence
With a kinetic overseas contingency operation
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:53 am to jamboybarry
But what if ISIS infiltrates the cub cadet factory, they could rig the blades to fly of and behead Americans everywhere?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:54 am to cave canem
quote:
But what if ISIS infiltrates the cub cadet factory
Jobs created or saved
Recovery/Terrorism summer!!!!
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:57 am to Rickety Cricket
quote:
Yeah, it makes sense. We're not at war with them, we just want to annihilate their faces from existence.
Okay, I chuckled.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:58 am to cave canem
quote:
But what if ISIS infiltrates the cub cadet factory, they could rig the blades to fly of and behead Americans everywhere?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 8:00 am to SirWinston
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How's your 401k looking?
Great, but I have/had a job through the Obama presidency. Probably not the best question for the record number of people not in the workforce.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 8:23 am to C
last week on PT: "Obama isn't doing anything!"
this week on PT" "Obama wasn't doing anything last week!"
this week on PT" "Obama wasn't doing anything last week!"
Posted on 9/3/14 at 8:44 am to Tigah in the ATL
Straw man so much easier for you.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 8:48 am to C
TOTAL amateur hour from this Clown Show.
The best retort that the Obamabots now have? Blaming Bush and declaring "Bush did it too" !
Keep voting Democrat, America!
We are almost there !
The best retort that the Obamabots now have? Blaming Bush and declaring "Bush did it too" !
Keep voting Democrat, America!
We are almost there !
Posted on 9/3/14 at 8:51 am to constant cough
Pepridge farm remembers a time when ISIS was JV, and there would be no boots on the ground.
It was last week.
It was last week.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 8:58 am to C
Past week: 20 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq
Week before: 30 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq
Week before that: 49 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq
And you're bitching about messaging?
Tell us what you would do.
Week before: 30 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq
Week before that: 49 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq
And you're bitching about messaging?
Tell us what you would do.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 9:13 am to Decatur
quote:
Tell us what you would do.
This is a terrible response. The President of the United States and his security advisors should not only have a strategy on how to deal with ISIL but on every potential threat. The fact that they failed to see this threat developing is a massive failure on their part. Thankfully they have not been able to hit us here yet. Hopefully the administration will begin to take this threat much more seriously.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 9:16 am to Radiojones
Especially since the administration was warned of this growing threat A YEAR ago.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 9:30 am to Radiojones
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The President of the United States and his security advisors should not only have a strategy on how to deal with ISIL but on every potential threat.
As long as they are bombing ISIS I'll excuse them from publicly releasing a white paper to assuage people so concerned about messaging.
Action is what matters right now.
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