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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: 5, Insightful) by bziman on Monday September 29 2014, @06:27PM

    by bziman (3577) on Monday September 29 2014, @06:27PM (#99711)

    Lies on so many levels. First, ISIS doesn't actually pose any meaningful threat to the United States. Second, most of the trouble-making groups in the middle east exist either because the United States destroyed the governments that were keeping them in check, or worse, funded the groups in the first place to help destabilize the governments that would have kept them in check.

    And as far as I can tell, the whole point of all of this is to continue a perpetual state of war and surveillance allowing money to be diverted from the American public to the appropriate corporate interests.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday September 29 2014, @08:14PM

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 29 2014, @08:14PM (#99752)

    First, ISIS doesn't actually pose any meaningful threat to the United States.

    But it does pose a meaningful threat to several oil pipelines owned by major US oil companies. That's why the US government cares, at all, about ISIS.

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    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday September 29 2014, @09:39PM

      by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 29 2014, @09:39PM (#99783) Journal

      Can you name even ONE oil pipeline in the area owned by US Oil Companies?

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      • (Score: 2) by bziman on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:31AM

        by bziman (3577) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:31AM (#99858)

        Yeah, I can't really believe it's about oil anymore... twenty years ago, I believed (probably incorrectly) that it was about oil. Today, the reality is that the United States produces more oil than it imports, and of what is imported, the largest source is Canada.

        Out involvement in the middle east is nothing more than war profiteering.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:14AM (#99885)

    Mod up somebody! :D

    This is the Standard Operating Procedure for the Military-Industrial Complex [wikipedia.org] that
    Ike [wikipedia.org] warned the U.S. about in a speech [wikipedia.org] he gave on his way out of office. [wikipedia.org]