DC: President Barack Obama recently laid blame on the intelligence community for failing to anticipate and properly inform him of the impending 2014 sweep of ISIS across Iraq, in a Wednesday interview with CNN.
“The ability of ISIL to not just mass inside of Syria, but then to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul, for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen,” Obama told CNN. Intelligence officials dispute Obama’s claim, saying he ignored the warning signs in favor of his narrative that he successfully withdrew the U.S. from the Iraq war.
When Obama took office in 2009, he was determined to pull troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. Obama believed the historic lows of violence in Iraq justified his campaign pledge to bring the war to an end, without keeping a significant U.S. presence in Iraq to ensure stability.
Obama decided did not successfully negotiate a limited military presence beyond an agreed upon 2011 withdrawal date. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over,” he triumphantly declared in October 2011. Obama ignored rumbling political turmoil in Iraq, and easily cruised to an election victory in 2012.
The Defense Intelligence Agency produced a report as early as 2012 warning the Obama administration that the Syrian civil war was allowing al-Qaida to flourish. Al-Qaida could “declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria,” the report declared. Al-Qaida elements in Iraq and Syria later splintered from the global terrorist organization, and declared themselves the Islamic State.
“This particular report, this was one of those nobody wanted to see,” Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor and then DIA chief, told The New York Times in 2015. more
Drunk Robert Barone – “And let me just say…you…….are…ASS!!”
Kinda makes you wonder where all this fake news comes from don’t it.
But, but, I thought he read about it on the TV?
How can I put this succinctly without offending anyone? Hmmmmmm…
Ah screw it. F*CK YOU!!!!!!
Sorry. 🙂
aww they forgot to get Bobo’s attention..you have to hit him over the head with a 12 inch huge cock first, then he notices….like in the club in Chicago.
It is obvious that Obama only believes the intelligence community when it says something that is politically advantageous to him
Why does Obama always ALWAYS say ISIL while everyone else says ISIS and nobody calls him on it?? Research the full meaning of the acronym ISIL and you will see why he insists on using it rather than the more common ISIS. Proof positive that he is at heart a Muslim? Could be…
Dave in Battle Ground,
The L actually gives legitimacy to their cause. Fing Muzzies got to stick together you know
Maybe if he showed up to his intelligence briefings.
POTUSPOS.
He only says it now because he is caught with his hand in the cookie jar and the new administration is coming in.
Purge the intel agencies of muslims. Also purge the white house of muslims.
Yet he “knew” enough about them to call them the JV team.
When you are incompetent, you always blame someone or something for your failures. Obama has become the poster child for deceit, deception, cover-ups and incompetence.
Intel should’ve stuck to making semiconductors and stayed out of international politics.
🙂
But our armed forces were going gang busters on the gender confused and more importantly, fighting globull warming.
@venturaguy
More like Obama only believes intel agencies have been fed by Jarret the Jackal and Slimy Barry.
All ‘intelligence’ briefings were scorned by the self-proclaimed ‘most intelligent’ faux president.
hey! he always said he was smarter than his advisors!
this proves it, right?
First of all, you’re the only one who calls them ISIL, for whatever reason. Second, it’s nearly impossible to be up-to-date on the various world crisis WHEN YOU DON’T ATTEND THE DAILY BRIEFINGS!!!
He is and has always been too weak to take the blame for any of his boneheaded decisions. It takes strength of character to admit you were wrong, and that’s something he is sorely lacking.
this Filthy Mohammedan Savage is such a fucking liar. As my Brit friend says, “the bloody poofter is a cunt!”
It is a FACT that this Filthy Mohammedan Savage routinely blew off his intelligence briefings. He wouldn’t even read the one-page summaries cuz they made his poor widdle bwain go owie. His attendance at briefings averaged maybe one a month during his entire time in office.
WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER. Seriously, he’s even worse than Frank Roosevelt. Even Frank didn’t DOUBLE our fucking natl debt while he was in office for FOUR terms, versus this little shit’s two terms.