Susan Rice is sure this just a counterterrorism campaign, not really a war since there are to be no boots on the ground.
John Kerry also feels that it isn’t really war.
Though, today Obama’s spokeshole Josh Earnest and the Pentagon’s Rear. Adm. Kirby are saying something different
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby used almost identical language when pressed by reporters Friday whether or not the expanded military operation against the terrorist group is in fact a war.
“In the same way that the United States is at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates … the United States is at war with ISIL,” Earnest said.
Kirby said “this is not the Iraq War” from a decade ago, “but make no mistake — we know we are at war with ISIL in the same way we are at war and continue to be at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates.”
Geez, all this public disagreement about labels.
Appears someone has not been paying attention (again).
The non-Islamic Islamic State is also not a state.
Not only is there no “I” in ISIS, there is no “S” in ISIS.
And we have NEVER been at war with Eastasia.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
No boots on the ground Mr. Roosevelt. Shame on you.
From today’s “Goldberg File” email.
Or to modify the quip of a grizzled old wag: You Don’t Go to War With the Executive You’ve Got.
this whole retarded not-war is only happening cause food stamp fucked up and admitted failmerica didn’t have a strategy
so they had to pull one out of their ass
so let’s be clear no this bullshit exercise is not a war
it’s too gay and too stupid and too retarded to be a war
The Word Game Warriors of the Obama Administration
Some other publications weigh in.
NYT.
Foreign Policy.
The Long War Journal.
Stephen L. Carter at Bloomberg.
– What is somewhat amazing is that people actually debate this nonsense instead of just pointing at Bumblefuck and laughing hysterically.
– I’m with di. shouldn’t that be “the unwar with the non-islamic Islamic non-state State”?
– You keep thinking these assholes can’t get anymore feckless and they raise the bar daily.
#isisisislam
Which can get annoying when it spills your drink.
ha not that kind of bar silly it’s a figurative bar
like how the war on isis is a figurative *war*
you can’t take these things literally lol
>you can’t take these things literally lol<
-you can keep your health …-
Is there an exit in this funhouse?
“We are 100% inclusive and diverse, except for people we have bigotries toward or don’t like.”
– More Lefties gone wild, and they even lie about the reasons. Progressives are morons, and the worst of the bunch are the ones they grow out here in LaLa land.
american public schools are for retards and illegal immigrants and for kids whose parents are saving up for college thinking they can make it up to their kids later Mr. Hunter
but they can’t make it up their kids will carry the scars forever
“I can’t find the exit.
I quit looking for doors.
I stole a razor from the commissary,
I just couldn’t take it no more.“
The administration is feckless and indecisive about saving the lives of the two beheaded reporters but shows that they can be firm and decisive when it comes to those “little people” who might ruin a perfectly good plan of too little-too late-too bad-so sad- where’s my cad-dy?
Always make sure your picked underlings are people whose skeletons are kept locked in your own closet so they’ll be handy if needed.
Last time he had to go through a metal detector before meeting the Egyptian president, will an groping be next?
And in coalition news, the Syrian Muslim Moderates have signed a truce with ISIS/ISIL/IS
Thank God we’ve got a steady hand on the putter.
nicely putt Mr. guins
Has the US ever sought to use mercenaries to fight its wars in the way in which this AssClownDisaster proposes to do? I can’t think of a comparable instance, really.
But if the Kurds are going to be brought on board in this capacity, don’t we think they’re going to want a quid pro quo in the shape of their own nation, independent and finally apart from Iraq? And yet, the AssClownDisaster stands primly opposed to a Kurdish Independence! So just how the hell is this going to work? Anybody?
In other unnews, today (or tonight) is the 200th anniversary of the bombardment of Ft. McHenry, with tomorrow morning the anniversary of the sight which inspired Francis Scott Key to write his famous four stanza poem, The Defense of Ft. McHenry:
Those days are done, right? There is no Republic anyone seems to desire to fight for any longer, or send others to fight for, if not to go themselves. Pity, ’twas a glorious thing, that Republic. It’ll be missed.
I don’t recall an obituary as such, sdferr. But I’m pretty sure the body has been stone cold for decades.
No obituary as such accords with the discrete silence which often accompanies a suicide, SW. A silence entirely fitting the tragic nature of the thing.
And yet, the country lingers on, like a spectre from a Christmas Carol.
That fact points to the distinction between the country and the regime. It’s the regime which died, the miserable country has chosen another.
#isisisislam news
Reports of a new video from ISIS showing the beheading of British hostage David Haines
w’s 4th term news
Obama Sees Iraq Resolution as a Legal Basis for Airstrikes, Official Says
Don’t think that dog will hunt.
proggtardia news
Foley Family Threatened With Terror Charges If They Paid Ransom For Their Kidnapped Son
Making Iraq = Vietnam, advisers uh huh.
The “Friends & Family” plan, WH edition.
the liar and his “friends”
the “horns” pic of baracky is nice
the “horns pic” coupled with the:
Obama’s Commemorate 9/11 With Group Called ‘KaBOOM!’
hey baracky your slip is showing
Casting Crowns – Behind The Song “Courageous”