A year ago, Obama said that he did not have a “complete strategy” for dealing with ISIS. Almost a year later, Obama said today that he did not have a “complete strategy” in dealing with ISIS. Did he think we didn’t know that? He went on to blame Iraq for his failures — he pulled out all of our soldiers after Iraq despite their plaintive pleas for a status of forces agreement.
They needed help. Obama said no.
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Obama claims he was waiting for options from the Pentagon. The Pentagon said today they have “given Obama lots of options.”
Obama has a complete strategy to nuclear weaponize Iran.
Obama has a complete strategy to undermine and abandon Israel.
Obama has a complete strategy for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Obama had a complete strategy for nationalizing healthcare.
But the Islamic State, which is engaging in the wholesale slaughter of Christians and non-Muslims across the Middle East, slaughtering journalists, aid workers, taking over country after country… Obama shrugs. Readers of this blog are long familiar with the repeated warnings I expressed for years about the Islamic supremacist jihadists growing in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, et al. Obama supported them — moderate al Qaeda, that’s what his administration referred to them as.
According to a poll released today, 71% of Americans said Obama did not have a complete strategy for Iraq. 17% said he does. Those Americans ought to put down the mushrooms: If Obama said he doesn’t have a strategy, what are those Obots thinking?
Inaction is an action. Obama sat back while our arms and aid went directly to the Islamic State. ISIS met little resistance.
If you missed my book back in 2010, read it: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America. I warned of the catastrophic consequences of this dangerous radical.
Watch this video: Obama “Keeps His Back Turned,” snubs, ignores Iraqi PM trying to speak to him.
These are not the actions of a president, they are the actions of a Chavez, they are the actions of a tinpot dictator.
“Obama under fire for saying no ‘complete strategy’ yet for training Iraqis,” FOX news, June 9, 2015
Obama says US reviewing range of options for training Iraqis
President Obama took heat Monday for admitting he doesn’t yet have a “complete strategy” in hand for training Iraqis to fight the Islamic State — months into the coordinated campaign to defeat the deadly terrorist network.
“When a finalized plan is presented to me by the Pentagon, then I will share it with the American people,” Obama said, adding, “We don’t yet have a complete strategy.”
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said in a statement: “It is no surprise this administration does not have a ‘complete strategy’ for training Iraqis to fight ISIS. What is surprising is that the president admitted it.”
The president addressed the ISIS fight during a press conference on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Germany. He appeared to be speaking specifically to a new strategy for accelerating the training and equipping of Iraqi security forces. “We’re reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that,” Obama said.
A U.S. official afterward stressed to Fox News that Obama was indeed talking only about optimizing that train-and-equip mission, “including integration of Sunni fighters,” and not “overall strategy.” State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke also said Obama was not speaking to overall strategy.
But the comments nevertheless fueled critics’ concerns about the direction of the U.S. mission, particularly on the heels of ISIS gains in Ramadi, and the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.
Obama meets with Iraqi PM to discuss ISIS strategy
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tweeted: “Pres Obama admits: ‘We don’t yet have a complete strategy’ to combat #ISIS”
Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short cited a similar comment Obama made 10 months ago, saying in a statement, “the fact he still doesn’t have a final plan for the deteriorating situation in Iraq is unacceptable.”
A military official also took issue with Obama’s claim that he was waiting for options from the Pentagon. “What the f— was that? We have given him lots of options, he just hasn’t acted on them,” the official told Fox News.
Obama, similarly, said last August that the U.S. did not “have a strategy yet” for confronting ISIS in Syria. The administration later approved airstrikes in Syria.
Underscoring the work to be done training Iraqi forces, a Pentagon official told Fox News that zero soldiers are being trained at the al-Asad Air Base in Anbar — the province where ISIS seized the city of Ramadi last month.
However, the Pentagon says 2,598 are in training at other locations in Iraq. And 8,920 Iraqi soldiers have been trained to date by the U.S. military.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren backed up the president on his assertion he was still awaiting a “finalized plan” from the Pentagon. He said Defense Secretary Ash Carter has assembled a group of “experts” to develop courses of action to “increase support” to Iraqi forces. Warren would not give a timeline on when this “finalized plan” would be presented to the White House.
A separate defense official told Fox News that any potential increases in the size of the U.S. military presence would likely be in the “train-and-equip” mission and not tactical air controllers to call in close air support against ISIS forces by U.S. aircraft flying overhead.
Echoing the president, the official said, “the problem is the number of recruits” that the U.S. military can train. “We are sending weapons as quickly as we can to Iraq, I don’t think we can send anymore,” he said.
Obama put some of the responsibility on the Iraqis themselves, urging them to be more inclusive. Speaking Monday, shortly after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Obama said a “big part” of the solution is “outreach to Sunni tribes.”
“We’ve seen Sunni tribes who are not only willing and prepared to fight ISIL, but have been successful at rebuffing ISIL. But it has not been happening as fast as it needs to,” he said. “And so, one of the efforts that I’m hoping to see out of Prime Minister Abadi and the Iraqi legislature when they’re in session is to move forward on a national guard law that would help to devolve some of the security efforts in places like Anbar to local folks and to get those Sunni tribes involved more rapidly.”
Courtesy of Pamela Geller.
