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Obama: US intelligence underestimated militants in Syria
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Published: 28.09.14, 19:48
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1. Exactly what needs to be done to Hamas
Ezra ,   USA   (09.28.14)
Formula to eliminate Hamas: "We just have to push them back, and shrink their space, and go after their command and control, and their capacity, and their weapons, and their fueling, and cut off their financing, and work to eliminate the flow of foreign fighters"
2. BO THOUGHT THE MUSLIMS WERE ALL A-OK
stude ham   (09.28.14)
so BO most probably refused to allow alarming reports on what they were doing. BO failed miserably on his ME 101 course.
3. U.S. Intelligence also underestimated Hitler ! and
barbara ,   Haifa   (09.28.14)
9/11 among the worst to be underestimated. There are more. How about JFK assassination? But go back to 9/11 - more recent underestimation. Guess the U.S. geeks are not so high IQ, after all.
4. In O's spirit of openess/glasnost will he admit wrongly
Alan ,   SA   (09.28.14)
(with Lieut Kerry) wrongfully roughing up Israel Eg closing BG Airport Suspending usual arrangements regarding weapons. And much more
5. Bush underestimated Sadaam
Larry ,   LA (formerly)   (09.28.14)
Bush was the idiot who screwed up the Middle East. He did not realize that Sadaam Hussein, a ruthless ruler, kept the Islamic crazies under control by fear of death in the night or worse: torture. He thought he would avenge his father by getting rid of Sadaam and instead opened a Pandora's box letting the Islamic crazies out to stir up worse problems than anyone could have seen. Don't blame Obama for Bush's stupidity. Obama may be stupid, but it doesn't match at all the stupidity of Bush!
6. #5 Wrong
(09.28.14)
The Sunni crazies that now fight for ISIS were Saddam loyalists.
7. Woe is USA.....
Gideon Reader   (09.28.14)
,,A criminally incompetent putz, with appearantly NO particular skills for sucessfully performing the tasks needed ;for which he was hired.
8. Intelligence didn't underestimate. Obama ignored warnings
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (09.28.14)
because he wants Islamic State to be created in the Middle East, United States and all over the world. Now he is doing about face futile bombings to avoid being impeached for treason and executed.
9. Day light lies!!!
Calibi ,   Sydney Aust   (09.29.14)
That is all he is more than lies = I don't know no one tell me = I wasn't given the correct paper to read = I find out the facts only in CNN report............. a US drug addict can do better in politic than him. Is sad a society like USA can vote a president like him. (end)
10. the man is a pathological liar
C   (09.29.14)
it has been known for at least a year that isis was active in syria.
11. Obama: US intelligence underestimated militants in Syria
Shoshieb ,   Migdal Israel   (09.29.14)
BUT Israel is not allowed to do it! Jeez what a bunch of hypocrites the world is....
12. "U.S. intelligence"
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (09.29.14)
That's a splendid oxymoron.
13. Obama's Islamists
Brod ,   USA   (09.29.14)
The world should not be fooled by Obama the Islamists. It does not take rocket science to figure out the genesis of the problem. The fact is Obama is an Islamist. He meets with Muslim Brotherhood leaders at the White House. He treats them as his buddies. The Muslim Brotherhood is the father of all Islamist-Jihadist terrorist organizations in the world. Experts on Terrorism attest to this. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Obama surrounds himself with Islamist and Papist Anti-Semites in his administration. He appoints an Islamist convert to be his CIA director. They are anti-America and anti-Israel. It is because of them that the Islamist-Jihadist world in the Middle East and around the world has become emboldened and mushroomed. If Congress does not know this, they are ignorant and sleeping. It is time for them to wake up to protect and defend America and Israel from this existential threat.
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