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Iraq
Obama: Bad Intelligence Behind ISIS Underestimation
2014-08-10
[BREITBART] Saturday from the White House South Lawn, President Barack Obama
Because I won...
blamed "intelligence estimates" for not anticipating the speed in which ISIS would capture large sections of Iraq.
So it's not that he did anything wrong. Of course.
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."

The president also made clear no troops would go into Iraq during this operation of humanitarian aid and military Arclight airstrikes on ISIS.
Posted by:Fred

#21  If these guys were so minor-league, why was Obama counting on them to take over Syria?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2014-08-10 19:58  

#20  ...well, the western coalition gave them practice on that. The problem is that the ISIS is not constrained by silly things like protestors and lawyers and just butchers the captured.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-08-10 18:57  

#19  O'Reilly showed videos of hundreds of ISIS vehicles entering the barren Iraqi desert. They had no cover whatsoever. Why did US allow them to walk right in?
Iraqi military responded with a 'feet don't leave me now" moment.
Posted by: borgboy   2014-08-10 18:52  

#18  Obama only read about it in the newspaper a few days ago.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-08-10 18:39  

#17  So when ISIL killed off the Free Syria commanders and said join us or die, nobody noticed?

When AQ expelled them for being too violent, nobody cared?

When McCain's buddies in his picture were said to be really bad people, nobody checked?

When the Kurds were banging on the alarm, nobody looked?

When Fallujah was captured, nobody winced?

When ISIL released a series of highlight and recruitment flicks over weeks, nobody watched?

When ISIL captured that Christian town in Syria and purged it, nobody took notes?

Look, I'm just some dude who reads Rantburg and between being on belay for my toddler and cleaning kitchen is just now finishing my morning coffee - this is my professionaly trained and asset equipped job. Bad or no intelligence is chicken crap.

So enjoy your Czechoslovakia Mr. President. I'm sure like that group who waited a good 8 minutes after receiving your TOWs to join ISIL, everyone will keep their word - and you, you lying SOB. Come to think of it, all other parties have been pretty straight forward about where they stand.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-08-10 13:35  

#16  The slogan's been changed to "The bucks stop here."

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2014-08-10 13:10  

#15  Need to go thru DCIs like Lincoln went thru generals.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-08-10 13:09  

#14  Brennan is the end product of the failure to clean out and reform the CIA after their spectacular failure of 9/11, and sabotage-by-leak during the Bush administration.

Now more than ever the CIA needs a cleaning, with a figurative flamethrower.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-08-10 13:08  

#13  He couldn't blame Bush, although all of the liberal blogs and MSM tried, so he had to blame someone.

What the hell ever happened to "The Buck Stops Here?"
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-08-10 11:42  

#12  If we knew and he didn't perhaps he should read Rantburg.

I'll expect a donation of at least a billion from the White House come next bleg.
Posted by: Fred   2014-08-10 11:35  

#11  Or Fauxcohantas.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-08-10 11:25  

#10  ...you mean like Hillary?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-08-10 09:37  

#9  Obumble never takes responsibility for anything. That will be his legacy. Brennan seems to be Machiavellian and a little too cozy with Obama and the Muslims. If he was tossed by Obumble, his replacement would probably not be much better.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-08-10 09:24  

#8  He's right. The lack of intelligence exhibited by American people in 2008 & 2012 elections.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-08-10 03:49  

#7  Rantburg had been posting stories of increasing levels of violence in Iraq for years. The average regular at Rantburg.com may not have known with any specific detail about what was going on in Iraq, but we knew it wasn't Peace, Love and Three Days of Music either.
Posted by: badanov   2014-08-10 03:42  

#6  Obama = Bad Intelligence.
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166   2014-08-10 02:49  

#5  Entirely correct Pan. He'll never blame Brennan. Brennan has our Champ by the nads, it's how they roll.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-08-10 01:32  

#4  It never works to blame the CIA. Obumble will learn this one.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2014-08-10 01:22  

#3  The center of the "bad intelligence" lies between Obama's flapping ears. Nobody could have expected it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-08-10 01:06  

#2  Obviously it wasn't General Mike Flynn at DIA. That only leaves your puppet master Klingon buddy Brennan. Appears it's time for him to go eh ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-08-10 00:43  

#1  How about replace that with bad leadership from the State Dept and Whitehouse?
Posted by: 3dc   2014-08-10 00:20  

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