3 Times Obama Administration Was Warned About ISIS Threat

By JONATHAN KARL
September 29, 2014



Did the intelligence community underestimate ISIS or did the president?

In his "60 Minutes" interview, President Obama seemed to put the blame on the intelligence community, saying, “I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.” At the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest cast the net quite a bit wider.

“Everybody was surprised to see the rapid advance that ISIL was able to make from Syria across the Iraqi border,” said Earnest. “To be able to take over such large swaths of territory in Iraq did come as a surprise.”

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But for nearly a year, senior officials in the U.S. government have been warning about the alarming rise of ISIS, or ISIL as the terrorist group is also known, and the inability of the Iraqi government to confront the threat.

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What is at question here is Obama's refusal to take responsibility for this and all the other foul ups he has created. In effect Obama squandered the blood and treasure of America by the total withdrawal from Iraq. It was Obama's choice to lose and he certainly did it.

 

The fact that he campaigned on pulling out troops means that he cannot blame anyone for it. When history determines that the withdrawal from Iraq was the main cause of the increase in terror then Obama will get that responsibility for being the one who did it.

History is not going to be kind to the first black president, other than to mention he was the first black president. That will be Obama's only legacy in the positive.

 

President Pantsuit was told by every intelligence source we have that funding & supplying the Muslim Brotherhood and Syrian Rebels would ultimately end up the in hands of what became ISIS ...and he didn't give a damn.

He knew this (*)(*)(*)(*) was coming and was excited by the thought of a murderous radical Islamic faction coming to power.

Have we all forgotten Obama was raised by these types?

 

Obama created ISIL?

America had treasure in Iraq?

What has Obama lost?


This is just a bunch of vague nonsense.

 

Which is why he didn't do it, dispite the rantings of the neo cons and John McCain, and right wing media.

 

I fail to see how this President can be held responsible for instituting agreements and policies made by the former one, it is also interesting to note how similar these claims are to the run up to the 9/11 attacks which the originator of this thread likely defends the last president for.

 

Of course, anyone with half a functioning brain knows that Obama is a pathological liar who blames everybody but himself for his own ineptness and incompetence.

 

Pulling troops out wasn't the main cause, invading Iraq and destroying the secular government, and replacing it with sectarian rule was the main cause...

 

That is so stupid its ridiculous.

So what was the cause of Iran becoming an Islamo-Fascist state back in '79 ?
Let me guess: They knew Bush would become president 20 years later, thats why. ROFL

 

Are you claiming that Obama's grandparents were Muslim??

 

Politics trump.

Obama - in concert with a criminally complicit Fourth Estate - simply ignored, downplayed or covered up anything that could be detrimental to "the first African-American President's" bid for a second term. Now the chickens are coming home to roost in a big way, and... in typically arrogant, morally and intellectually "superior" fashion...rather than acknowledge their grievous error in twice selecting this pathetic "post racial" piece of (*)(*)(*)(*), leftists must continue aiding and abetting the charade, and continue recklessly and transparently blaming anything and everything BUT Mr. Wonderful (in a cynical, purely political move to try to protect the political prospects of the current and subsequent salvos of leftist incompetents, liars and frauds).

TL;DR: It's not our fault. Nothing is ever our fault.

 

Are you claiming that Obama's grandparents were Muslim??

 

His dad was, thats a fact. Why wouldn't his grandparents be.

 

Almost undoubtedly.

Although there are a lot of right wingers how who have revised their own history and now claim that they didn't support Bush or Bush's war.

They were practically non existant in 2003, but there seems to be a lot of them now. Wonder where they were hiding all these years??????

 

That was his Kenyan half his white grandparents were ???

 

His father and step father were atheist.. His grandparents were presumably of Christian heritage and non-religious.

You make yourself look foolish with such over the top garbage.

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I was a Republican until after Bush took office.. and I sure protested the war on Iraq.

 

ISIL and ISIS have another name....

Obama and pals gave them those names.....

When Bush was in the white house, ISIL and ISIS were known as Al Queda....

Dont you remember when obama claimed he defeated, Al Queda?

Well, that was just another lie....

"If you like your head attached to your shoulders, you can keep your head attached to your shoulders, Period"



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G.W. Bush was just a president. The agreements his State Department reached were not Congressional treaties and therefore were not irrefutably binding. In other words all foreign policy agreements made under one president are subject to being renegotiated by the next president. So either Obama didn't even try or he tried but wasn't president enough to accomplish those tasks.

Considering that he wanted out of middle-east involvement no matter what, it's doubtful that he ever ordered his State Department to do more than just go through the motions . . . if he ever had them try at all. No, historians are not likely to be kind to this president. G.W. Bush damn well should go down in history as one of the nation's very worst and Barack Obama should be right on his tail vying with the shrub in a neck and neck run for . . . last place.

On the other hand, Jimmy Carter is purported to be jubilant. "Nobody can say that I'm still the worst Democratic president of the last half century!" Now isn't that nice?

 

His white grand parents were communists.

So we've got Muslims on one side, and communists on the other.

 

Congresses war. A democrat majority congress. I think you guys are so used to Obama's unilateral combat incursions that you forget who always has and is constitutionally required to do that. The dem house and senate had access to the same intelligence as the president, and supported it almost unanimously.

 

To be fair it's hard to concentrate on those pesky intelligence briefings when you are trying to sink a twenty foot putt with your golf buddies.
Maybe text message based briefings aren't such a good idea.

 

Actually, no, he signed an infamous executive order that enabled the arming of these groups.

It's true that he did much less in Egypt(due to the Suez Canal), but he did vocalize support for the Brotherhood, leading to Muburak's ouster and military rule in Egypt. So Egyptians don't hold US in high regard.

Egypt-Libya-Syria may look like individual events, but they were chronic failures by an Administration that doesn't believe we're at war.

 

No we are saying that Baghdad Barry created the circumstances that allowed ISIS to flourish and did nothing about it or a long period of time. He was warned but decided to ignore his advisors from both the military and intelligence experts. Now he blames them just as he took responsibility for the withdrawal and when things went south blamed Bush. When things go the way he plans its me, me, I, I now it's they and them. Incompetence is so apparent and this time everyone including his supporters except for some die hard ideologists see it. He's lied to us from the start.

 

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On his father's side yes and that includes his stepfather that enrolled in in school. Baghdad Barry Soetoro continues to tell us all is fine and good while ISIS is two miles from Baghdad, Hmm,,,,?

 

Rand Paul disagrees with you. But who is he, right?