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Obama's National Security Council Meeting Has Concluded: Here Are The People Bringing You ISIS "Strategy"

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Shortly after Obama admitted to the world he has no strategy how to deal with ISIS, about two weeks after the "humanitarian" bombing of Iraq started, he rushed into a meeting of his National Security Council. Two and a half hours later, the meeting has finished and we hope the president finally does have a strategy, one that isn't determined solely by Qatari natural gas pipeline interests.

Here, courtesy of Mark Knoller, is who was present at the NSC meeting (and how):

WH posts list of participants in Pres Obama's National Security Council meeting this afternoon/evening on Iraq, ISIL and Syria. Ran about 2½ hours.

  • The Vice President (via secure video)
  • Secretary of State John Kerry (via secure video)
  • Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (via secure video)
  • Attorney General Eric Holder
  • Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (via secure video)
  • White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
  • National Security Advisor Susan Rice
  • U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power (via secure video)
  • White House Counsel Neil Eggleston
  • Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
  • Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan
  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey (via secure video)
  • Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Winnefeld
  • Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen
  • U.S. Central Command Commander Lloyd Austin (via secure video)
  • Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shaun Donovan
  • Deputy National Security Advisor Antony Blinken
  • Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco
  • Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Caroline Atkinson
  • Deputy Secretary of State William Burns
  • White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and Gulf Region Philip Gordon
  • Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs Katie Fallon
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk
  • U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Robert Stephen Beecroft (via secure video)
  • Suzanne George, Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council

Meanwhile, we must admit that we doubt Obama was honest when he said there is no strategy. Alas, the White House has a very clear strategy of what to do in Iraq. Here it is:

 

 

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Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:05 | 5156632 suteibu
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Crime, Inc.

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:07 | 5156638 90's Child
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He's gonna give Assad chemical weapons to go to war with ISIS then after the fact he's gonna declare war on Syria for using chemical weapons.

Kinda the same concept with what we did to Iraq to go to war with Iran.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:19 | 5156660 knukles
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That's a awful lotta people to solicit opinions from and come to some form of a consensus, no?
Ah.... just hit the practice range at Congressional to clear the mind.
Maybe grab a nice 80% pan fried double cheeseburger and fries on the way home, chat with a few of the "folks" see how they're doin', ya'kno

don' figger I gotta make a decision today, it's a long weekend and everybody be off till Tuesday

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:46 | 5156766 Xibalba
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No Clintons? 

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 00:49 | 5157213 0b1knob
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 "(via secure video)"

 

 

 

Wanna bet that every government intelligence agency on earth watched it in real time.   And laughed their asses off.

 

The real strategy will of course be dictated by Iranian muslim Valerie Jarrett.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 02:58 | 5157350 California Nigh...
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Lot of women present.

I don't trust this.

Smells like affirmative action for women. 

What the fuck do women know about war and violence?

Only what they see in sentimental bullshit movies. 

Count me among the "STRONGLY DISAPPROVE".

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:49 | 5156777 Bloppy
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WaPo, DailyKos blame Bush, Cheney for ISIS terror techniques:

http://tinyurl.com/ox7a3yt


Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:04 | 5156829 Otrader
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Destruction of human lives, infrastructure, bla bla bla.  It's all about bucks...the rest is conversation.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:13 | 5156658 90's Child
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That doesn't make sense, holder will sue a state but won't do anything bout the IRS for discriminating?

That's rassys.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:16 | 5156674 knukles
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Disgusting ....

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:30 | 5156712 Rusty Diggins
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So that's why everyone in this mothetfuckin trailer park is white.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 00:14 | 5157171 HK21E
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Slime, Inc.

Will the fuckery ever end with these assholes?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:12 | 5156633 MonsterBox
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Go all black ops like they do us. Mercs will gladly deliver heads for $1000 apiece. And get this shit off the news....

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:14 | 5156666 knukles
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Is that $1,000/head with or without ears?

 

by invite only... BYOS  (bring your own sticks)

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:10 | 5156642 Fidel Sarcastro
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Obummer is a tool

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:12 | 5156647 Smegley Wanxalot
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Food is needed here at home.

Pricy bombs are "needed" somewhere over there.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:10 | 5156650 disabledvet
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Number 5 "Repeat. And rinse if need be...

I did read a good article on a two thousand foot tall building going up in Chicago.

Seriously! "The Spire." Foundation was laid a long time ago. "Right off the LSD"...which is a highway for all you weirdos out there.

They don't call Chicago the Windy City for nothin so here's hopin they build it right.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:17 | 5156663 Joebloinvestor
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ISIS is pulling babies out of incubators........... or what ever reason you want to use to bomb the crap out of someone.

Saudi Arabia is probably shitting eggrolls as they are gonna reap what they sowed having friendly relations with extremists.

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:23 | 5156689 john39
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They beheaded a defenseless mannequin, the freaking savages!

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:59 | 5156802 nmewn
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Far be it for me to defend O'Barry (anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows I never will) BUT "the freaking savages" have beheaded more than just mannequins John. And him sending "the freaking savages" back to hell (or wherever they're from) will never redeem him in my eyes, not even close.

However, I won't shed the first tear for "the freaking savages" fate either.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:22 | 5156691 Dr Strangemember
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Yep, only a matter of time before S.A. becomes a battleground.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:27 | 5156706 PeeramidIdeologies
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Nothing unites better then a common enemy.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 03:47 | 5157403 Gandulf
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I remember thinking, after reading a couple of years ago that the Saudi regime sent 30,000 jihadiis into Syria, that the apostate regime had sown the seeds of their own destruction.

It's a bit like lighting farts. The blowback can be very painful.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:47 | 5156749 therevolutionwas
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Hell, Saudi Arabia beheaded a dozen people the day Foley was (supposedly) beheaded.  One of them for "witchcraft".   They are funding their fellow crazies, and yes, will someday reap what they sow.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/08/eric-margolis/about-that-alleged-beheading/

And the US gov't, knowing this, has been backing SA all along.  Shame.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:11 | 5156856 nmewn
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Infidel!!!

A fatwa on you! ;-)

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:16 | 5156671 i_call_you_my_base
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They were never going to allow popular opinion to deny them the opportunity to bomb the shit out of Syria. It only took them a year to set it up again.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:16 | 5156673 directaction
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American foreign policy guidlines under Obama are as follows:

 

1. If they to what we want we rob them.

2. If they do not we bomb them. 

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 07:48 | 5157602 Kobe Beef
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3. then we rob them. 

Spot on, directaction; though I hesitate to call it Obama's policy, since it's been going on for decades.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:19 | 5156678 Reaper
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Stupidity and corruption are not additive. moron+ moron+ moron+... = moron

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 05:38 | 5157471 Lea
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Stupidity and corruption ARE accumulative. Think competition, think collective building up of frenzy and stupid ideas.

Scary, if you think about it.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:26 | 5156694 Cabreado
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The rise of the clinically, pathologically Self-Absorbed is nearly complete.

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:24 | 5156698 PeeramidIdeologies
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At some point they will have to admit the Middle East is lost. Every piece of hardware that touches ground out there is potentially enemy ordinance. That is quite clear IMO.

Soon the Robot will have to turn, set co-ordinates for the "setting sun" and return to the land from which it has come.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:24 | 5156699 Hughing
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Obama's aim is to avoud responsibility. He does not know how to do that yet. He will, and then, everything is back to normal. The world is still screwed, but, he doesn't give a shit.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:34 | 5156724 therevolutionwas
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It's not the world that's screwed in the long run, it's the US. 

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 03:00 | 5157359 California Nigh...
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Seems we're fucked if we do, fucked if we don't.

With this roster of class F dimwits, we're doubley fucked.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:25 | 5156700 Bumbu Sauce
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Eric Holder...SMH

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:27 | 5156705 Yen Cross
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    That's a lot of shapeshifters in one place, at one time... The first 1.5 hours of the meeting was probably chooms d'oeuvres so they could transform back into their true forms.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:28 | 5156709 TrustWho
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What a bureaucracy. Spend a  lot of money to get nonsense from a lot of these people who think they are somebody. All the smart guys, except for Kerry, were playing computer games while saying present by video.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 03:33 | 5157385 Gandulf
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Reminds me of McCain during the debate last year on whether to bomb Assad on behalf of his Syrian pals

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkh5TAK75Q"> McCain Busted </a>

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 07:06 | 5157535 Winston Churchill
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On the subject of useless bureaucracy, I'm having to do some Cont.Ed for my state license.

Did you know there are five seperate Federal laws that administer accessability.With five standards,

three different govt. depts governing them, and then with state and local sub regulation on top.

Amazing anything ever gets built.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:33 | 5156725 olle
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If we bomb them first, there is no need for a food drop.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:41 | 5156748 Aquarius
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This is consistent with the composition of a Committee, as it has been stated:

 

A lot of stomachs with not one (x1) brain.

A "Collective"

 

Pallas Athena

 

Ho hum

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:48 | 5156769 nmewn
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1. Cite humanitarian crisis as excuse to intervene

2. Drop a nominal amount of humanitarian aid

3. Drop a lot of bombs

4. More bombs

Who is he talking about, Putin? ;-)

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:49 | 5156774 alfred b.
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     Strategy yet to be revealed from DC:  confuse & bomb!     Strategy from Federal Reserver: confuse & print....anyone see a pattern here???

 

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 03:58 | 5157409 Gandulf
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What qualifications does one need to be a security 'expert'?

It seems the only common denominator is 'Passion Fingers' ie they fuckup everthing they touch.

 

 

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 21:51 | 5156785 MrTouchdown
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Obama did this one right:

 

If you're going to engage in Group Think, you gotta have a halfway large sized group of people with important sounding titles.

Whatever it is they decide to do, you can rest assured that one person volunteered the idea and all the rest nodded like a bunch of palsy victims while biting their tongues.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:07 | 5156839 novictim
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Shit. What a bunch of DOUUUUUUCHE bags.

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:14 | 5156868 caustixoid
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"Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shaun Donovan" ???

Is his job to call the Fed and Belgium to tell them how much to print up and buy for the operation?

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:17 | 5156877 Quaderratic Probing
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My first Presidential question " Why do I pay you people, so I can get blind sided and left flat footed every fucking week."

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 22:29 | 5156902 QQQBall
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Of those names, which jumps off the page as one smart badass? Lots of chicks,  although I seeonly ome military type and no generals. I mean, why involve the military beforehand. Just ask the chick from Leguislative Affairs if she can make spin that shit so it sticks.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 00:10 | 5157157 Notsobadwlad
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We sure seem to be insecure considering we have all of those fine and upstanding civil servant and the staff/commands protecting us.

I am wondering how much more secure we could be if we only had 1/10th the number?!?

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 01:17 | 5157265 Schmuck Raker
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25 various functionaries proving their resolve to protect their turf.

"DC" = Dysfunctional Cunts.

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 02:01 | 5157320 joego1
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I wonder how much it costs to have them all sit in a room and plan on fucking up the world more?

Fri, 08/29/2014 - 07:14 | 5157543 Who was that ma...
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The clusterfuck will not be televised.

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