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Obama Admits U.S. Intelligence Didn’t See ISIS Coming

posted by n1 on Monday September 29 2014, @03:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the wasn't-looking,-too-busy-listening dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Time reports on statements made by President Obama during an interview:

When asked about comments by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has said the U.S. overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi military to fight the extremist group, Obama said, “That’s true,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s absolutely true.”

Obama had already admitted that the rise of ISIS took the U.S. by surprise. “I think that there is no doubt that their advance, their movement over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates and I think the expectations of policymakers both in and outside of Iraq,”

Statement by the President on Iraq: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/09/statement-president-iraq

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Arik on Monday September 29 2014, @05:04PM

    by Arik (4543) on Monday September 29 2014, @05:04PM (#99679) Journal
    "Created it, funded it, trained it, supplied it, yet didn't see it coming."

    It's been truly amazing for the past 10+ years watching as over and over again, the people that actually get it right are run out of town, and the people that get it wrong, stupendously, unbelievably wrong, over and over and over gain - those are the people that get promotions, those are the people that the media trots out as experts. Over and over and over again.

    The sheer idiocy level of US policy here is amazing. We nurture ISIS on one side of a border they do not recognize, while ostensibly opposing them on the other side. We send weapons, then react with shock when those weapons are turned against us. We talk about a broad coalition against ISIS, then attempt to exclude Syria and Iran, two of only three nations already fighting them. We dont want to talk with the Russians either, although they are in position and highly motivated to help. It's nonsense.

    None of this makes any sense whatsoever if you credit our leaders own statements as to what they are trying to do, but if you ignore their lips and watch their hands, a pattern may be discerned. And that pattern is warmongering. They want a war and every item they get is sorted - not by credibility or reliability - but by usefulness in the effort to start a war. They dont care a whit whether what they are saying is true or not, only that it results in shooting and bombing and destruction.
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