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Obama: "We Don't Have A Strategy Yet"

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UPDATE: Damage Control Spin begins...

World Cloud of Josh Earnest's brief interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer after Obama press conference... ("strategy" used 33 times!)

 

President Obama 'knows' how to handle Putin's 'continuation' (not 'invasion') - more sanctions (and costs for Europe) - but when it comes to beating the most "barbaric" terrorists known as ISIS, ISIL, or The Islamic State; he had this to offer... "I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet." Rest assured Americans - who have been told that ISIS could be crossing the borders every day and a constant threat, President Obama is 'working on it'. Perhaps most crucially, while we 'joke' that the administration has no strategy, it is noteworthy that Obama stated it was "not US policy to defeat ISIS, only reverse gains."

QUESTION: Do you need Congress's approval to go into Syria?

OBAMA: You know, I have consulted with Congress throughout this process. I am confident that as commander in chief I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently. As our strategy develops, we will continue to consult with Congress, and I do think that it'll be important for Congress to weigh in and we're -- that our consultations with Congress continue to develop so that the American people are part of the debate.

 

But I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet.

 

I think what I've seen in some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we're at than we currently are. And I think that's not just my assessment, but the assessment of our military, as well. We need to make sure that we've got clear plans, that we're developing them. At that point, I will consult with Congress and make sure that their voices are heard.

 

But there's no point in me asking for action on the part of Congress before I know exactly what it is that is going to be required for us to get the job done.

Maybe instead of golfing around Martha's Vineyard, he could have been working on "strategy"?

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But perhaps more crucially...

...my priority at this point is to make sure that the gains that ISIL made in Iraq are rolled back and that Iraq has the opportunity to govern itself effectively and secure itself.

 

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"Do nothing stupid" like admit you don't have a strategy?

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And this wins the internet today...

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Of course - to be serious for a moment - as long as Qatar has a strategy on how to progress on its Gazprom-bypassing pipeline to Europe, whether Obama had a strategy or not, is completely irrelevant.

 

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Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:05 | 5155805 himaroid
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McChrystal laughing his ass off.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:35 | 5156731 Freddie
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Why?  What did the military do to stop the destruction of America by the NWO, MIC, Obama, Soros and Deep State?  They did nothing.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:05 | 5156833 himaroid
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Gut instinct tells me it ain't that dudes fault.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:09 | 5155807 LFMayor
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Fuckola!  I'm pretty damn far from being a mens fashion guru but all Prenit Bagger Vance had to do was fucking call Phillip Michael Thomas and ask for some of his old Miami Vice threads.

Next speech I hope he dresses like Huggy Bear. 

Maybe Piglet opened up a Dear Leader's Fashion WearHouse.

"Yourrrrr ruv how you rook".

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:10 | 5155827 lakecity55
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"Leisure Suit Barry."

(thanks to the poster on the other dumbass barry post)

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:06 | 5155808 jacship
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tHIS JUST PROVES THAT THE WH IS CLUELESS

SMUDGE

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:10 | 5155826 Seize Mars
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Gee whiz, it's almost as if American foreign policy is self-defeating on purpose! Hmmm! /s
It's all by design, suckers. 100%.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:18 | 5156679 conscious being
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How do we get to the third act?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:09 | 5156850 Seize Mars
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Just continue to do nothing.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:13 | 5155828 stant
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Just 15 mins can save you on klunker ins. Did you know that Obama wasn't always a bad liar?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:57 | 5156417 knukles
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cut to scene...

"Mike, will you marry me?"

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:11 | 5155831 tradingdaze
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Obi-Wan said: "I have a bad feeling about this."

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:12 | 5155839 pcrs
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Don't want to hurt these Blackwater forces

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:14 | 5155845 sosoome
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At least he's trying.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:23 | 5155881 knukles
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No 
No he's not.
He quit trying that night in Denver on the raised stage backed by the Styrofoam Doric columns
That was his high, his complete and total self-aggrandizement, his pinnacle of human false pride.
Since then he's gradually become closer to hitting bottom and the need for professional rehab
The disappearing adulation of the masses and constant haranguing by the insignificant fringe bloggers, et al, has caused the little voices in his head, know as one's conscience, to over and over whisper "It's a lie, it's all lies, Barry, and you know that better than anybody else... all lies"
That's when one enters into the true fringe of madness....
And shortly therafter, the pain of doing what one has continued to do, becomes worse than the pain of doing something else that one doesn't know.
It's Called Bottom

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:28 | 5155920 Jethro
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I doubt he hears any voices other than the cretin sycophants he surrounds himself with.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:37 | 5155940 SAT 800
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He wouldn't know what trying looked like if it bit him in the ass; he's a been a no-account slacker all his worthless life.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:39 | 5155954 Rican
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He's been a bottom for a while.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:57 | 5156026 Barnaby
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Zing!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:39 | 5156163 RiverRoad
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It's also called the Peter Principle and/or Affirmative Action Run Amuck.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:58 | 5156804 surfer433
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At least he's trying.

Fore!


Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:13 | 5155846 orangegeek
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same taupe color as Castro's fatigues

 

nice job barry - such an ass

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:14 | 5155848 Seize Mars
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News is 100% fake.
Our government is 100% turncoat traitorous.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:20 | 5155849 luckystars
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In other words "ISIS hasn't done enuf killin yet"

Just like when he told Israel to stop killing then sent more bombs.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 00:18 | 5157179 Freddie
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Russel Brand is a fool because all TV and all of Hollywood and entertainment is shit and total propaganda.   He is a retard.  Fox and the rest are total NWO shit and idiots who watch TV deserve the hell of Amerika.

They enpower the evil every day when they switch their TV on.  Morons.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 01:40 | 5157293 trader1
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you clearly haven't watched a full trews episode.

that's ok.  stay confined to your narrow world view that never changes.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:16 | 5155858 Q-Q-Q
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Do an air-drop of booze and porn mags, that will keep them occupied...........most of ISIS fighters are twenty somethings.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:17 | 5155859 Veritasgrad
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Plan A:  Bomb the hell out of them.
Plan B:  Stop funding them. 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:19 | 5155872 Yen Cross
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    Just go back to the Put-Put golf course Barry... You left your brain at the "Wind Mill Hole."

  Obama's "Strong Disapproval" Double His "Strong Approval"

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:37 | 5155945 SAT 800
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That's about right.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:21 | 5155880 Statetheist
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The less of a plan government has, the better off we'll all be.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:26 | 5155905 Rastech
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That was my thinking too. *grins*

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:21 | 5155882 Chuck Knoblauch
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Will Obozo resign after the 2014 elections?

I don't think his heart is in it anymore.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:54 | 5156170 RiverRoad
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From your lips to God's ears.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:22 | 5155885 Rastech
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Actually, for Obama, having no strategy is probably a vast improvement over him having a strategy?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:24 | 5156696 auntiesocial
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shhh, you are gonna let the cat out of the bag!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:23 | 5155893 q99x2
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Why would a guy with the middle name of Hussein want to bomb his people?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:23 | 5155894 Budd aka Sidewinder
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Damn right he's got no plan for ISIS....they'll stop when CIA says down boy....remember the last POTUS that rolled hard against the CIA ended up with half his head on Elm St in Dallas

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:23 | 5155896 paint it red ca...
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Silly me, I thought the strategy was to go to war with Russia by bombing the rebels cabal funded and trained and at the same time maintaim a twisted childlike fairness by bombing Assad in a tit for tit strategy.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:13 | 5156084 NotApplicable
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I still think that's his strategery. As long as Assad stands, ISIS lacks a safe-haven.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:26 | 5155909 JohnFrodo
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Its  pretty fucking obvious that ISIS will be ruling us all by November.  I just want to ask my Jewish friends, will they give their lives for my foreskin?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:30 | 5155924 Seize Mars
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LOL

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:39 | 5155956 Oldballplayer
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Fortunately, even though I was circumcised when a baby, my dick is so little when it shrinks up in the cold you can't tell. So I got that going for me.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:28 | 5155916 Atomizer
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Obama is still working on his golf strategy. Just stop pressuring him on ISIS. 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:01 | 5156037 Barnaby
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Unless you're playing against your boss, a dignitary or a visiting alien you don't want to anger, there is no strategy in golf.

Otherwise golf is just an arms race to see who has the bigger Ping, the holier ball and the fastest fatwagon.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:35 | 5155938 Glasshopper
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ISIS need some good ole American "humanitarian aid"

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:37 | 5155946 Tenshin Headache
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"They haven't told me what we're gonna do yet."

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:38 | 5155947 smacker
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"Obama stated it was "not US policy to defeat ISIS, only reverse gains." "

There we have it. Obama only wants to bring ISIS back on script. When they learn to do what they're told and know who the boss is, he'll stop bombing them.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:38 | 5155951 Oldballplayer
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I probably won't agree with his strategy when it's proposed.

But, what the fuck?

My strategy is pretty much to make it through the day without shitting myself.

I expect a little more from the guy in charge of the military.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:38 | 5155953 ejmoosa
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Trojan Horse Presidency

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:50 | 5156196 RiverRoad
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You can thank Ted Kennedy for his death bed annointing of Obama.  The Irish don't get mad; they get even.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 09:16 | 5157934 lakecity55
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"presidency due to a broken Trojan."

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:39 | 5155955 Lea
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"Not US policy to defeat ISIS."

Wy not?

Is he confirming the "ISIS is only our merc army" theory? 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:40 | 5155961 Duc888
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paint it red ca...: "Silly me, I thought the strategy was to go to war with Russia by bombing the rebels cabal funded and trained and at the same time maintaim a twisted childlike fairness by bombing Assad in a tit for tit strategy."

 

It was, but that was yesterdays strategy as of about 2 pm.  O-BomB-A's handlers readjusted their hands up his ass and are now squabbling on how to spread some more good ole USA lovin' out of a bomb bay door from 60K ft.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:57 | 5156025 paint it red ca...
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Forgive my crudeness and lacking any outward evidence to the contrary, I imagined his handler's primary area of expertise being a potus reach around.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:40 | 5155962 AdvancingTime
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Well Obama better get a strategy and I mean damn soon. Things have deteriorated to the point that Americans are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and has morphed into a failed State. It is often unwise to take your eyes off a problem for long because when you look back you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.

The lyrics from a song "slip sliding away" come to mind as a way to describe the massive investment made in Iraq by America. Recently the group called ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared  an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. More on what is happening in the article below.

 http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:24 | 5156308 Escrava Isaura
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AdvancingTime,

You wrote: "Americans are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq,..."

AT,

Americans, that’s including many Hedgers, have NO clue what Iraq ‘really’ means.

Iraq has very little to do with the domestic US population. Iraq is the future gas-station for the US army. The wild cards are Turkey and Egypt. Once Turkey and Egypt changes side, for survival needs, we will have a major war.

Then, you go on and wrote: “the country has become …. a failed State. It is unwise to take your eyes off a problem … you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.”

AT,

You write as if we would just face the problem, the problem could be fixed. The problem is not Iraq or Syria.

"One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your neck, another, a smaller power which happens to have its boot on other people's necks. And I think that anyone in the Third World would be making a grave error if they succumbed to illusions about these matters." Noam Chomsky

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:42 | 5155966 Joebloinvestor
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He needs to send more MSM press to get the real ISIS view.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:43 | 5155972 jomama
Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:45 | 5155977 jubber
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...meanwhile as no one is looking it's all gone tits up once again in Libya, way to go Obama you useless Prick

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:02 | 5156044 Emergency Ward
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There was once a way out but no longer.  He's locked in a prison of his own device.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:48 | 5155985 bankonzhongguo
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Just a honest question to ANYONE supportive or even just working for the Democratic Party as a troll on this board.

What EXACTLY is going well these days?

What is going through the mind of an Obama true believer these days?

Is the current amnesty bum-rush IT?!

Is it all about fostering a permanent political underclass to promise bread and roses to?

Is it just about evolving into El Norte PRI.

Just when you think things can't unwind anymore another tripwire gets crossed.

And we haven't even had THE stock market correction yet.

I understand the whole strategy of crisis capitalism and spiritually destroying your frenemy, but surely at some point even the blackmailed republi-tards and the fellow-traveler Spring Hill AIPAC brigade must concede that even they can get sucked into the black hole of their own making.

The words Obama and mental illness are going to start creeping into the same sentence.

Is Obama going down like Nixon, or are his own people going to take him out like JFK?

In the meantime, Putin will send another obrSpN every time Barry tees up after exploring his noon-time man-hole.

 

 

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:42 | 5156127 Everybodys All ...
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All of the liberal agenda boils down to feeling better. The gays can now get married you see. The trans-gendered can use either bathroom from elementary school on. The atheist can now know that God will be taken out of every publicly funded entity. The climate change people can now know that carbon credits and alternative energy will run the dirty coal industry out of business. The food stamp and disability president will continue to fund these services beyond our bankrupted budget. The illegal immigrants will be encouraged to continue to flood the borders knowing this president will gladly hand them their democrat voter guide.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:47 | 5156184 surf0766
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$777 trillion is not so far away when 51% of the country can vote themselves moar food stamps.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:49 | 5155990 surf0766
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Just leave.. The prompter by itself would be better

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:51 | 5155992 anonnn
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...as commander in chief I have the authorities to engage in the acts "...

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any other of man's inventions.

Wm O Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:53 | 5156006 beavertails
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"Our strategy is to continue to destroy America by ignoring the Constitution by spying on world citizens and hitting Ctrl P"

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:54 | 5156008 disabledvet
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THE GERMANS HAVE ONE THOUGH!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:53 | 5156009 Duc888
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jubber:...meanwhile as no one is looking it's all gone tits up once again in Libya, way to go Obama you useless Prick.

 

Not so.  That was the plan all along.  Destabilize the mid east.  He's doing exactly as he is told (between holes on a golf course).  

Hoooraaahhh..  Go "Murica.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:55 | 5156019 crazybob369
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A limited list of items Big ‘O’ doesn’t have a strategy for:

1. How to save Social Security/Medicare/Medical

2. How to pay back $20,000,000,000,000 in current debt

3. How to fix the $1,000,000,000,000/yr. deficit

4. How to keep the $ from falling like a brick once the BRIC’s stop using it to trade between themselves.

5. How to keep the Ukraine and their gas infrastructure from falling under Russian influence.

6. How to come up with the other 295 tons of Germany’s gold.

7. What to do with Fort Knox know that it sits as empty as a Detroit mall.

8. What to do about the next Ferguson (heard last night that cops killed some poor bastard filming cops).

9. How to keep Kerry from constantly embarrassing the U.S.

10. How to keep Yellen from constantly embarrassing the U.S.

11. How to keep the SP/Dow from dropping like a brick once QE dries up

12. How to take care of that nasty slice of the first tee.

 Which do you think he’ll concentrate on first?

 Feel free to add to the list.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 17:59 | 5156031 esum
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i doesn't wants to bomb mah brothers.... let them roam free to behead, rape, anal jihad, marry thier sister, marry goats, crucify, impale, come on...dont be racist... islam is for peace... 

this useless pos is ONE OF THEM.... ive been saying it for years... he is ussa's second BENEDICT ARNOLD .......

 

 

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:10 | 5156070 Barnaby
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Why would you continue to say something so cross-purpose for so many years? Benedict Arnold was first a traitor to the Crown then a traitor to the Yanks, all the while working to cement the false notion of a free and independent "Colony." If it weren't for Arnold's false flags, General Washington might be in history's dustbin and we'd all be speaking some other language. N'est-ce pas?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:04 | 5156041 NOTaREALmerican
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Where are the MEN in this goddamn country?   Goddamn liberal pansies have taken over the entire goddamn place.    We should do in ISIS the same goddamn thing we did with those goddamn gooks in Nam; bombed their goddamn asses back the goddamn stone-age.  

THAT's what we should do those goddamn commies in ISIS.  

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:55 | 5156211 RiverRoad
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Finally, a war we can BELIEVE in.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:10 | 5156643 Barnaby
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Where do I report for my gun and armored codpiece?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:02 | 5156042 Irishcyclist
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Barry doesn't want to fight with Qatar/Saudi's.

They're the financial and military supporters of ISIS.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:03 | 5156047 JohnFrodo
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Obama is being groomed with the SHTF he will see his anglo saxon side close up,.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:04 | 5156052 anonnn
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Former UK Ambassador speaks out re the global grab for resources.  His inside scoop is  broadly relevant to understanding past and present aggression and  terror activities.

video of speech this week; about 4 minutes.

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/08/st-andrews-speech/#comments

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:42 | 5156376 Dapper Dan
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Anonnn, thank you for the link, great video.

 

found this in the comment section,

1.      Republicofscotland

28 Aug, 2014 - 4:23 pm

Dutch Intellectuals Apologize to Putin for Lies on MH17, Syria, Ukraine…
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Dear Mr. President Putin,

Please accept our apologies on behalf of a great many people here in the Netherlands for our Government and our Media. The facts concerning MH17 are twisted to defame you and your country.

We are powerless onlookers, as we witness how the Western Nations, led by the United States, accuse Russia of crimes they commit themselves more than anybody else. We reject the double standards that are used for Russia and the West. In our societies, sufficient evidence is required for a conviction. The way you and your Nation are convicted for ‘crimes’ without evidence, is ruthless and despicable.

You have saved us from a conflict in Syria that could have escalated into a World War. The mass killing of innocent Syrian civilians through gassing by ‘Al-­?Qaeda’ terrorists, trained and armed by the US and paid for by Saudi Arabia, was blamed on Assad. In doing so, the West hoped public opinion would turn against Assad, paving the way for an attack on Syria.

Not long after this, Western forces have built up, trained and armed an ‘opposition’ in the Ukraine, to prepare a coup against the legitimate Government in Kiev. The putschists taking over were quickly recognized by Western Governments. They were provided with loans from our tax money to prop their new Government up.

The people of the Crimea did not agree with this and showed this with peaceful demonstrations. Anonymous snipers and violence by Ukrainian troops turned these demonstrations into demands for independence from Kiev. Whether you support these separatist movements is immaterial, considering the blatant Imperialism of the West.

Russia is wrongly accused, without evidence or investigation, of delivering the weapons systems that allegedly brought down MH17. For this reason Western Governments claim they have a right to economically pressure Russia.

We, awake citizens of the West, who see the lies and machinations of our Governments, wish to offer you our apologies for what is done in our name.
It’s unfortunately true, that our media have lost all independence and are just mouthpieces for the Powers that Be. Because of this, Western people tend to have a warped view of reality and are unable to hold their politicians to account.

Our hopes are focused on your wisdom. We want Peace. We see that Western Governments do not serve the people but are working towards a New World Order. The destruction of sovereign nations and the killing of millions of innocent people is, seemingly, a price worth paying for them, to achieve this goal.

We, the people of the Netherlands, want Peace and Justice, also for and with Russia.
We hope to make clear that the Dutch Government speaks for itself only. We pray our efforts will help to diffuse the rising tensions between our Nations.

Sincerely,

Professor Cees Hamelink http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cees_Hamelink&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dprofessor%2Bcees%2Bhamelink%26biw%3D1093%26bih%3D475

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:12 | 5156656 Barnaby
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I love that letter. My investment manager blew his load when I sent it to him, and he promptly dismissed his Russian hooker. So indirectly, the Kremlin suffers.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:06 | 5156055 Bumbu Sauce
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Pray now more than you ever have.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:16 | 5156090 Barnaby
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I would like another mansion, a yacht, naked small-breasted ladies with arms akimbo, a giant infinity pool and many more sexy ladies all around, these ones possibly in gossamer panties, plus a vault filled with gold and silver coins I can actually dive into without hurting myself.

We're supposed to be praying to Santa, right?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:06 | 5156057 esum
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just exactly what did the bobbleheads think they were getting from a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER...... aka empty suit racist commie muslim anti amerika crack/pot head gender confused bathhouse towel boy.... whose favorite pasttime is picking up the soap.... and learning golf...this fuknuts has been to 400 fundraisers and how many vacations... 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:06 | 5156059 smacker
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"The lyrics from a song "slip sliding away" come to mind as a way to describe the massive investment made in Iraq by America."

And above all, this is the great tragedy of Obama's Iraq policy and Bush before that.

Huge sums of money and very many lives have not produced any improvement in the country. By most peoples' criteria, things are far worse now then when Saddam was running the show.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:07 | 5156061 ShrNfr
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It's amazing that this shit still has a 40% approval on Gallup. 14% is from the blacks voting their skin color instead of their brains, but I guess it proves that 30% of whites and hispanics are dumber than a bag of hammers.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:14 | 5156086 Emergency Ward
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They're bitterly clinging to their man.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:10 | 5156073 Everybodys All ...
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What a f-in pathetic loser. Surrounded by so many who are of the same liberal idiocy that they can't even fathom that Islamist in Syria and Iraq need to be eliminated. What a total and complete ass you people voted for not once but twice. Meanwhile the ISIS strategy is to export terror to the US and he can't even outline his own strategy. You know why? Because he thought all these people hated America because of GW. Well maybe the dumb fuck should put down the golf club and do your job. I am so fucking pissed when I think at where this fool is taking this country in foreign and domestic policy. Don't give me this bs that he's not in charge either. That's lunacy.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:10 | 5156075 blindman
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you have heard of "shock and awe" but do you
love "schlock and drawl"? ahhh ...

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:11 | 5156077 Emergency Ward
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Warmonger-in-Chief Obama will be monitoring all the contigencies from a globalist perspective and micro-managing the appropriate kinetic responses to be initiated in response to the ever-changing fluidity of events on the ground.  And tomorrow, more of the same.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:34 | 5156147 The Phallic Crusader
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Thanks, Duc- half the reason I check out ZH are some of the great links I'd enver come across otherwise.

Wheres Russian Boris been hiding??

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:15 | 5156088 dobermangang
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They should get their strategy from a magic eight ball.  Much smarter than anybody at the White House or State Department.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:18 | 5156104 Bumbu Sauce
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Who once said, "The future does not belong to those who insult islam?"

Sunni Barack Hussein Obama.  ISIS/ISIL is Sunni, His chief is Sunni Valerie Jarrett.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:28 | 5156130 The Phallic Crusader
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I recall him having Rahm Emmanuel, Axelrod, and Cass Sunstein as advisors too.

And don't recall him appointing eeeeeevil Moooslims to head the fed, or irs, or treasury, and the like, but sure, you're right... it was Chicago Muslims that propelled him to power.

Because Jarrett.

That's some good disinfo, bro.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:48 | 5156185 Everybodys All ...
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The Caliphate Muslims are all over this administration's foreign policy and there can be absolutely no denying that.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:51 | 5156198 Bumbu Sauce
Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:22 | 5156114 Atomizer
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The light colored suit enhanced his tan. He needs glasses to look smarter. 

 

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:22 | 5156116 Duc888
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Everybody's all...  :Don't give me this bs that he's not in charge either. That's lunacy.

 

Really?

He is allowed off the porch to dabble in domestic policy.......keeps the serfs busy (Trayvonn / Ferguson)

 

across the pond? 

 

No.

 

Notice the continuation of 80% Bush policies.  Keep whacking the hornets nest and destabilize any way possible. 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:04 | 5156627 SmittyinLA
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80% Bush policies?  

More like 160% Bush policies, the guy is a seamless continuation of Bush, an apolitical sociopath for sale to the highest bidder.

The "Arab Spring" was all BS and "Bush script", the Ukraine thing also a redux of attempted Georgia S Ossetia war and Bush Script. 

(it didn't work again).

He probably has an itinerary written by Cheney with revenue updates & estimates on his desk blotter right now. 

The Kenyan reads a script.

 

 


 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:23 | 5156122 Dre4dwolf
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That's because . . . "ISIS". . . .  IS    the plan.

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:25 | 5156128 madmax1965
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The "tell" in this situation is that the good ol USSofA could have given IS/ISIS or ISIL, whichever they are going by today, the "highway of death treatment" easily!  Therefore, this shitshow must be funded/planned by CIA or one of the other alphabet agencies! 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:30 | 5156141 The Phallic Crusader
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I can't believe we really might get into world war 3 by the end of this puppet's term.

Seriously - what the fuck - is there no voice of sanity within the administration or whomever the fuck really runs things?

I don't mind the CIA making money on the side and overthrowing cunts - but do they really want the US to get sucked into yet more wars, all of them?

As others have said - too bad Obama's a Dem. Were he a white repug, we'd have antiwar protestors, columnists, and pols...

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:35 | 5156355 new guy
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I made this comment in an earlier thread about bankers but it works here as well.

Parasites don't make decisions based on whats good for the host. They don't require you to be happy, just obediant.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:32 | 5156144 SmittyinLA
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We don't have a DISCLOSED strategy yet, there fixed it.

His strategy has always been loot, loot, and loot some more, then repeat, whine about looting and loot. 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:34 | 5156146 Joebloinvestor
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How about announcing immediate incarceration for anyone supporting ISIS in the US?

Considered a terrorist organization, shouldn't be to hard to do except Barry might piss off his buddies.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:25 | 5156315 Wahooo
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Had a guy with a middle eastern accent call into a school here in central Ohio yesterday threatening to set off a bomb because of what's been happening with ISIS. Lot f nut cases.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:46 | 5156386 falconflight
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Barry could claim that the TeaParty affliated are supporters of ISIS.  

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 08:28 | 5157717 lakecity55
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Hohoho, The Bath House would have to arrest himself!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:39 | 5156158 Jackagain
Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:41 | 5156166 stormsailor
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well, on saturdays the course is so full that he has to wait behind the tee sometimes.  he will develop a strategy then.  first, drone the party at the tee, then  drone the party on the green.

 

wait,  where is isis?  isn't that the 55th state?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:47 | 5156178 Son of Captain Nemo
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"We Don't Have A Strategy Yet"...


You know I thought about putting a list of President's together with their quotes from speeches delivered during critical times in war, but I don't think anything will equal this one...

I hate to even say it but this idiot has just outdone his predecessor G.W. which I would have thought at one time impossible -Until of course this "utterance".

A grunt would have been better than these words!

Truly spectacular... And more importantly just what Americans deserve!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:09 | 5156256 RiverRoad
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Make that Obama-Americans and you've nailed it.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:52 | 5156188 BustainMovealota
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What do you expect from a community organizer with absolutely no experience running or leading anything.  This is not news at all!

But, rest assured, he hasd a startegy for America.  It's one that goes againt everything our Constitution provides in terms of freedoms and liberties.  Welcome to the NWO.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:54 | 5156208 Duck077
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I recall Obama saying that ISIS was JV!  I'm sure the Dem's are blaming Bush, that's his strategy.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:55 | 5156209 Duck077
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I recall Obama saying that ISIS was JV!  I'm sure the Dem's are blaming Bush, that's his strategy.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:57 | 5156216 p00k1e
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C'mon, it's not over until Boehner cries. 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:07 | 5156636 Yes_Questions
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speaking of useless colored people

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:57 | 5156217 Joe Tierney
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He's looking for the ISIS murderers on the golf course.

 

Can you imagine how long and tortuous the last two years of this lame dick president are going to be? SHEESH! Then we get to look forward to 4-8 years of the klintoon war bitch. Or maybe 4-8 years of the Mormon war hound.

 

When's the next shot to Mars? I'm volunteering.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:58 | 5156219 Fuku Ben
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He is no longer POTUS

He is GOTUS.

as in GOTUS MAXIMUS

or I PET GOTUS II

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 18:59 | 5156224 Madcow
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The USA should just get the heck out of Europe entirely before it turns to mayhem and cannibalism.

The "Euro-Zone" has turned into a giant homeless shelter - which is now so "politically correct" that people are running around chopping each others head's off in broad daylight.

That's great for business - but only if you're part of the police-state industry. 

How do i invest ??

 

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:17 | 5156281 Zero Govt
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don't in-vest ...di-vest

just get the hell out of Europe ...no point trying to push water up hill or tell politicians they're going in the wrong direction and are insanely stupid repeating historical policy errors that never work

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 23:58 | 5157142 Peak Finance
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This:

which is now so "politically correct" that people are running around chopping each others head's off in broad daylight.

And raped, don't forget raped:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:04 | 5156242 USD Long
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None of this would be happening if John Kerry was still alive!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:07 | 5156247 phoolish
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Was his teleprompter on?

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:08 | 5156254 Bumbu Sauce
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Has the SecState or SecDef deployed their hashtag to the ME yet?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:21 | 5156270 Zero Govt
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No Plan yet?!

How about mind your own f_cking business ...for a change

US Foreign Policy wreaks of total failure and has done for decades... you can't even sort your budgetsout at home without bringing it to total farce

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:15 | 5156276 SilverIsMoney
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So he told the truth?! Wow!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:23 | 5156301 MrBoompi
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It must be really tough to act like you have a plan to "deal with" the group you created to fight Assad.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:23 | 5156305 GrinandBearit
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Brain aneurysm, stroke, or heart attack... please.  

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:24 | 5156309 I Write Code
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"Reverse gains"?  He says we want to "degrade ISIS".  Probably by calling them names.  "You, camel boy, I'll bet you couldn't hit the green from a hundred yards with an 80mm mortar!"

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:27 | 5156323 tuttisaluti
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Can anybody throw brain at him?

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 08:26 | 5157701 lakecity55
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The transplant of a chicken brain may increase his mental prowess.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:32 | 5156341 metaStable
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"I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet."

Ahem! YOU dont have a strategy. Most of us ZHers do.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:33 | 5156352 rwe2late
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The plan is to keep bombing everybody

until they no longer "hate us for our freedom".

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:39 | 5156366 Rene-Paul
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I am 65 years young. I drank the Vietnam kool aid. [nov68-aug74]. This is Vietnam on steroids, with a much more explosive outcome............

Brgds,

Rene

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:44 | 5156375 herohedge
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All he was saying is that they're starting bombings in Iraq and bombings in Syria will begin after they can piece together a Sunni political solution for the long term. That's a better strategy than to Shock & Awe and then figure the rest out later. Also, his Russia strategy was that we'll continue with sanctions and use force to protect NATO countries as needed (Ukraine's not NATO). This is all pretty reasonable. I don't think Obama is bad on foreign policy. It's his policies at home and with the economy that suck.

Also, my theory is that elements in the CIA have gone rogue ever since the Cold War and somehow pull paychecks from the Treasury still and manage to fuck shit up everywhere in the world. Kind of like Fight Club.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:43 | 5156380 falconflight
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Why would this man say such things?  It is incomprehensible to me.  Don't have a strategy yet?  What?  Where are all of the off the shelf senarios planned for by the bureaucracy??  

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 20:57 | 5156606 Yes_Questions
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the "beheading" video just wasn't enough to freak out a genpop now way too broke to pay attention, and way too crisis wary from collapse to give a fuck anymore.

 

the Bushies already overplayed that hand and now their boy has nothing to work with mid-east wise.

 

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:57 | 5156402 earleflorida
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Turkey has a 550 mile border with Syria alone! (and, Erdogan has kept the borders porous?)-- also  stretching across a vast area of Iraq and Iran... not to be out`done bordering Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Unfortunately it doesn't border Turmenistan nor ( South Cacasus Pipeline/ Caspian Sea) Kazakhstan (   http://www.ramazanozey.net/rozey/icerik/detay.asp?id=4&dil=en   ) regarding Turkey's land borders.

The USSA will do whatever to disrupt Syria's Assad's government, Period!!!

The goal is to use Iraq and Syria to infiltrate Syria for the final kill... opening up gas from Qatar to Europe.

The writings on the walls! Assad and the Iraqi Government better be prepared. Iran knows the score as does Putin.

Ukraine is just a diversion, not even being a NATO member with its neighbors showing feigned concern of Russian aggression. This has to be the biggest fucking ruse the world could be witnessing today!

USSA foreign policy has been laid bareass by the internet tethered to a speed-of-light instant messaging, that can't be massaged by the yellow[MSM]press?

jmo 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:53 | 5156407 Sick
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They have no strategy because there is no threat to the USA by ISIS.  The real threat is from the false flag that they will blame on ISIS but no one could have predicted it.

This ZH link was the best I have seen in a long time, perhaps the best I have seen.  It was enough to make me really angry.  Everyone should forward this to anyone that does not have their head in the sand and cares.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-27/chris-hedges-our-liberty-has-been-sacrificed-altar-national-security

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:58 | 5156424 falconflight
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If Americans joining the military want to continue to perform as cattle fodder, and/or as a mercenary army be my guest.  I would strongly discourage anyone from joining the armed forces in any capacity.  I actually saw an armed forces commerical a couple of days ago espousing protecting freedom and democracy around the world.  I thought I'd fall off my chair.  

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 20:28 | 5156503 asa-vet52
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As a vietnam era vet myself. I whole heartedly agree with you.

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 20:47 | 5156573 SmittyinLA
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They're recruiting in Spanish in CA 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 19:59 | 5156425 Grouchy Marx
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Yawn. If everyone would just realize that Obraniac is an ISIS sympathizer, none of this will surprise.

He is all facade, the perfect fraud.

What kills me is that anyone in the world gives any weight to what the liar says.

Just watch what he DOES, and what he DOESN'T do. He knows perfectly well what he is up to. This whole notion that he is somehow "detached" is BS. It is a play.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 20:02 | 5156432 falconflight
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Why has the Administration stopped using ISIS and now uses ISIL?  Along with the media molls obviously.  

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:59 | 5156805 homiegot
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Confusion tactic.

 

Usama/Osama 

Mujahideen/al Qaeda/IS/ISIS/ISIL

Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship

Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama

Coke/New Coke/Coke Classic

Datsun/Nissan

OSS/CIA

 

 

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 08:22 | 5157684 lakecity55
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Yes, the facts tend to show radical Islamic sympathies with Leisure Suit Barry.

Not to mention the Islamic agents he has secreted thru government.

I think the boys who bought him to follow their orders got more than they paid for.

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