USS Harry Truman launches airstrikes against ISIS from Mediterranean Sea

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The USS Harry Truman, a Navy aircraft carrier, is now in the eastern Mediterranean conducting air strikes against the Islamic State, a Navy official confirmed to Fox News.

“This is showing the U.S. Navy can conduct flight operations (against ISIS) from other locations, not just the (Persian) Gulf,” the official said Friday.

Good.

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This also counters continued Russian Navy presence in the Eastern Med.

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Glad to see we're taking that JV team seriously.

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

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Glad to see we're taking that JV team seriously.

Before the invasion of Iraq, Daesh didn't exist at all.

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Right, because radical Islam was never a problem before George W. Bush.

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

Well, it's been 10 years since we killed their founder. :-\

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

Well, it's been 10 years since we killed their founder. :-\

Muhammad ?

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

Well, it's been 10 years since we killed their founder. :-\

Muhammad ?

Well, here we go.... :-\ Shortly, you'll be protesting how you aren't a xenophobic bigot.

Daesh did not exist until we invaded Iraq.

That's a true statement. It cannot be evaded by blaming the entire religion, unless of course, one is a weaseling, xenophobic, bigot like you are.

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

And yet, you still cling to the silly political implications of one statement. You are truly the most idiotic member of the forum.

Perhaps, it is more difficult to systematically restore order from chaos, than it is to lie your way into a the war that created chaos?

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

And yet, you still cling to the silly political implications of one statement. You are truly the most idiotic member of the forum.

Perhaps, it is more difficult to systematically restore order from chaos, than it is to lie your way into a the war that created chaos?

That " one statement " shows how dismissive and unconcerned Obama is with the threat he refuses to utter by name, Militant radical Islam. To him, it's just " fanatics ", or some man caused disaster crap.

That you can't get your brain around when anyone dares to disagree with your fantasy messiah's view of the world view isn't a sign that they are idiotic, it just shows how blinded you are to Barry's naive, childish view of reality.

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We always have. You just havent been paying attention.

Is it 3 1/2 years after he called them the JV team now ?

Right.

And yet, you still cling to the silly political implications of one statement. You are truly the most idiotic member of the forum.

Perhaps, it is more difficult to systematically restore order from chaos, than it is to lie your way into a the war that created chaos?

That " one statement " shows how dismissive and unconcerned Obama is with the threat he refuses to utter by name, Militant radical Islam. To him, it's just " fanatics ", or some man caused disaster crap.

That you can't get your brain around when anyone dares to disagree with your fantasy messiah's view of the world view isn't a sign that they are idiotic, it just shows how blinded you are to Barry's naive, childish view of reality.

Once again your ignorant, bull s*** opinions don't quite jive with the actual facts:

http://www.theatlant...le-east/379886/

"Here are two things that are also true: Obama has become the greatest terrorist hunter in the history of the presidency; and his successful push to disarm the Assad regime of the bulk of its chemical-weapons stockpiles has removed from the Middle East, and beyond, the possibility of an unparalleled cataclysm.

Why does he get no credit for these achievements? He gets no acclaim as a terrorist hunter for two reasons. First, Republicans will not credit him with any achievements in this endeavor because they won’t credit him with any achievement ever, for anything. He could concoct a cure for Ebola in Sam Kass’s kitchen and conservatives would criticize him for wasting time on a disease that doesn’t affect Americans. Second, the left-leaning Democratic Party base is hesitant to tout his record in the terrorist-killing department because it is uncomfortable with the idea of their president as a drone-deploying killer. No love from the right or left means that attacks such as the one that eliminated the head of Somalia’s terrifying al-Shabab militant group received relatively little notice. But I think the record will show that Obama has focused U.S. efforts on combating al-Qaeda and al Qaeda-like groups in at least half a dozen countries in a way that his predecessor did not. (And as for his predecessor’s predecessor, well, he did virtually nothing to stop al-Qaeda from metastasizing into what it became by September 11, 2001.)

http://www.politico....ill-list-124688

The Terrorist Notches on Obama’s Belt

The list of senior terrorists killed during the Obama presidency is fairly extensive.

There’s Osama bin Laden, of course, killed in May.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlakias of today.

Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.

In August, ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.

In June, one of the group’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan.

In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.

Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta.

Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.

In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.

Then in December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed.

In February 2010, in Pakistan, Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqaniwas killed; and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed.

In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan, while senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.

In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadiwere killed.

In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masriwas killed.

In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.

Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists?

If this is defense, what does offense look like?

http://www.cnn.com/2...time-president/

Countries Bombed During Obama Presidency

Quick: Which U.S. president

has authorized wars of various kinds in seven Muslim countries?

If you guessed Barack Hussein Obama, you are correct.

Many did not think it would turn out this way. Early on in his presidency, on June 4, 2009, Obama delivered a widely anticipated speech in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, which was billed as the start of a "reset" with the Islamic world.

As it turned out, Obama was one of the most militarily aggressive American presidents in decades, authorizing military operations of various kinds in seven Muslim countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and, now, Syria.

The bombing of Syria is the first time the United States has mounted a full-scale war since World War II without any one of the following

-- A U.N. resolution authorizing force.

-- As part of a NATO operation.

-- An Arab League resolution in favor of military action.

-- A specific U.S. congressional authorization for war in another country.

-- The invitation of the host country to conduct military operations as we have recently seen in Iraq, where the Iraqi government has been begging for U.S. military intervention.

Do the thought experiment where George W. Bush had gone to war in another Middle Eastern country without the cover of a U.N. resolution, or of a NATO operation, or of Arab League approval, or of a specific congressional authorization. The howls of protest from American liberals and the Muslim world would surely have been deafening.

Instead there have been no protests. That's partly because of the adept manner with which the Obama administration assembled a Sunni coalition of the willing -- Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, the UAE and Bahrain — to help with the airstrikes.

How Obama came to launch strikes in Syria

But it partly must be something to do with the fact that so many of his critics, and even his supporters, regard Obama as some kind of peacenik.

In fact his record shows him to be anything but:

Consider that he mandated a threefold increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan, from 30,000 soldiers at the end of the Bush administration to 90,000, a surge of troops that played a critical role in blunting the Taliban's momentum, which had gathered strength in the final years of Bush's second term.

Consider that under Bush there were 48 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. Under Obama there have been 328, which have killed some two-dozen al Qaeda commanders, according to

a count by New America.

Consider that under Bush there was only one CIA drone strike in Yemen. Under Obama there have been 99 drone strikes and 15 airstrikes, which

have killedmore than three-dozen of the group's senior operatives there.

Obama is also the first American president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen, the New Mexico-born al Qaeda operational commander Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in Yemen in a drone strike in 2011.

The same year Obama initiated the alliance that overthrew the Libyan dictator, Moammar Gadhafi.

Obama has also waged an effective covert war in Somalia against the al Qaeda affiliate based there, Al-Shabaab,

whose leader, Ahmed Godane, was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month.

And Obama, of course, also authorized the risky U.S. Navy SEAL mission that killed al Qaeda's founder, Osama bin Laden, in 2011 in Abbottabad, a city deep inside Pakistan.

This is not the record of someone who is afraid to use American power, as his critics would have it, but rather a president who is comfortable exercising American hard power even in a country like Syria, where he has launched a war without the kinds of specific international or congressional authorizations other presidents have sought since World War II.

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Flatter yourself w/ sycophantic Obama coverage from his dutiful minions, but he still can't say " Islamic radicals " , and he did call ISIS the JV team, long after everyone knew they were the real deal in the M.E.

I like Barry's drone work, for what it's worth. Always been a fan of the killer drone program.

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Flatter yourself w/ sycophantic Obama coverage from his dutiful minions, but he still can't say " Islamic radicals " , and he did call ISIS the JV team, long after everyone knew they were the real deal in the M.E.

I like Barry's drone work, for what it's worth. Always been a fan of the killer drone program.

Daesh is a JV team.

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Flatter yourself w/ sycophantic Obama coverage from his dutiful minions, but he still can't say " Islamic radicals " , and he did call ISIS the JV team, long after everyone knew they were the real deal in the M.E.

I like Barry's drone work, for what it's worth. Always been a fan of the killer drone program.

He can say it, but - exactly like his predecessor - he chooses not to. Why? Look in the mirror. You are exhibit "A".

Unfortunately, there are way too many Americans who are stupid and xenophobic enough to take such a statement and apply it to any Muslim without condition. Just like you do.

The fact you try to make it an issue at all just proves your stupidity. The xenophobia is included as a part of the 'stupid package".

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No, he won't call them what they are. THAT is the issue.

It really is just that simple.

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No, he won't call them what they are. THAT is the issue.

It really is just that simple.

Why does Obama avoid that terminology? Why did Bush also avoid that terminology?

It's obvious to any thinking person. It's to discourage stupid, xenophobic people - such as yourself - from directing their hatred toward all Muslims.

That's why it pisses you off so much. No one else is so fixated on it as you are. But every time you bring it up you just confirm what a stupid bigot you are. Waaaaaah! Obama refuses to lump all Muslims together! Waaaaaah!

You are pathetically transparent.

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It's an empty excuse, not calling the enemy who they are.

Bush was stupid enough to refer to the Iraq war as a 'crusade', so of course he had to deflect away from the issue. But Iraq wasn't about Islam. It was about Sadam, the UN, and of course, WMD. NOT Islam.

ISIS, al Qaeda, bin Laden = ALL radical MUSLIMS. Nations are of no consequence. It's about RELIGION, and the mutation of one, to justify the slaughter of innocents.

Yes. I am transparent. I hate those who wish to destroy freedom. Who butcher men and women for Allah.

Everyone should. Why don't you ?