Saturday from the White House South Lawn, President Barack Obama blamed "intelligence estimates" for not anticipating the speed in which ISIS would capture large sections of Iraq.
The president,who has been under harsh media criticism for likening ISIS to an Al-Qaeda JV basketball team in January said, "There is no doubt that their advance their movement over the last several of months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates and I think the the expectation of policy makers both in and outside of Iraq."
Comment: But your MH17 Intel was good....
The president also made clear no troops would go into Iraq during this operation of humanitarian aid and military airstrikes on ISIS.
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Comment:
"Bad intelligence" is the excuse Shrub trotted out for 9/11. Obama is pathetic excuse for a 'world leader'. The US has been on top of ISIS from the beginning. After all, ISIS is their creation, as are most of the 'jihadi' groups creating havoc in Eurasia.
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. . . just keep coming. There are so many lies put out by the US gov't that one needs a scorecard to keep track of which lies go with which topic.
What is particularly galling about this situation is that not only did we know about ISIS and its allies since the beginning, we actually contributed to their ascendancy. It is extremely unlikely that the activities in Benghazi involving the US ambassador and other players (during which several Americans were killed) were anything other than the co-ordination of an arms delivery operation to the Syrian insurgents, of which ISIS was/is a major part.