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Q. How can you tell when Obama is lying?

A. His lips are moving.

2014_09 07 Obama lied again

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ISIS Threatens Revenge for Counterfeit Flags

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Gruntington Post (Parody): It’s been reported by extremely reliable news sources, such as the World News Bureau, that the Islamic State has threatened to kill everyone responsible for thousands of counterfeit ISIS flags (above) being distributed by elusive vendors worldwide and mistakenly bought by eager Jihad supporters throughout the Middle East, southeast Asia and, for some reason, Detroit. According to WNS:

The infidels who have profaned Allah’s chosen symbol for his divine caliphate will drown in their own blood – this we promise,” claimed ISIS spokesman al-Fhart Aldai.

There are suspicions, unconfirmed, that the flags originate in the United States, possibly as part of a promotional scheme by the Boar’s Butt Brewing Company in Charleston, South Carolina. In fact, the Gruntington Post has uncovered additional instances of other ISIS banners being substituted for fakes, such as the one below at a rally in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and these are also linked to Boar’s Butt.
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During a grueling undercover operation in the bars of Charleston which involved drinking enormous amounts of microbrew ale, operatives for the Post uncovered documents indicating that BB Brewing was intercepting the ISIS shipments of cheap Chinese-made nylon flags and replacing them with their own cheap Chinese-made nylon flags with offensive slogans and images. Apparently this was done covertly by boarding container ships traveling by Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean on their way to the Strait of Hormuz.  It is believed that this could only have been done with the help of U.S. Military resources at Diego Garcia.  When asked if the U.S. Government might be involved, U.S. State Dept Tri-Delt Spokes-Pledge Marie Harf made an extensive statement.  It wasn’t recorded what she said, but after she talked for a few minutes, it became obvious that the State Department couldn’t possibly be involved in anything as awesome as this flag-swapping operation.  If personnel from Diego Garcia were involved, they must have been doing it without the knowledge of their civilian leadership.
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The Traitor in the Oval Office

2014_09 02 Obama had intel on ISIS a year ago

Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/02/source-obama-given-detailed-intelligence-about-rise-isis-for-year/

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Why does Obama keep using the acronym ISIL?

On June 13, 2014, President Obama carefully SPELLED OUT the acronym ISIL as “EYE ESS EYE ELL”, but then said, “a terrorist organization that operates in both Iraq and in Syria.”

June 13, 2014 remarks by Obama: See first 30 seconds of video

Why is that weird? Because it is the more common acronym – ISIS – that stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIL stands for Islamic State in Levant.

I don’t think his insistence on ISIL is a mistake. With only a single exception on August 9, Obama has used “ISIL” in every statement he’s made this summer, even while reporters asking him questions referred to the group as “ISIS.”

2014_09 Obama uses ISIL

Is his choice significant? I don’t know. Maybe ISIL is just what his intell wonks use. Or maybe he’s broadcasting a message of support for the destruction of Israel. I lean to the latter explanation, because I have not forgotten these two official White House photos. But I could be totally off base.

2009_06 10 Using the Resolute Desk to dis Israel

2012_03 19 BHO polite to Palestinian Authority Prez

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Summer 2014: A Time Line of ISIS in Iraq

The scale of the horror in Iraq is hard to fathom. Here are two personal stories to put a human face on it. Below the graphics is a timeline. Note: IS, ISIS and ISIL are all the same people.

2014_07 29 Elderly refugees in Iraq

2014_08 29 3 yo ISIS victim

TIMELINE: JUNE 2014

  • June 10: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captures the city of Mosul, Iraq, occupies the Assyrian village of Qaraqosh, enters the St. Behnam Monastery, bombs an Armenian church.
    • June 11, 2014: OBAMA’s Press Secretary condemns attacks by ISIS, offers condolences to the families of those killed, and underscores Obama’s commitment to limit U.S. involvement to primarily diplomatic encouragement to Iraqi leaders to fix their own problems.
  • June 12: ISIS issues Islamic rules for Mosul.
    • June 13: OBAMA announces “We will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq, but I have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraqi security forces. … Ultimately it’s up to the Iraqis, as a sovereign nation, to solve their problems.”
  • June 14: Assyrian, Yazidi and Shabak Villages come under Kurdish Control.
  • June 15: Kurds attempt to remove an Assyrian council leader in Alqosh and replace him with a Kurd.
  • June 18: ISIS Cuts Off Water, Electricity, Destroys Churches.
  • June 19: ISIS destroys statue of the famous Arab poet Abu Tammam.
  • June 21: ISIS begins imposing a poll tax (jizya) on Assyrians in Mosul, orders unmarried women to ‘Jihad by sex’, destroys the statue of the Virgin Mary at the Immaculate Church of the Highest in the neighborhood of Al Shafa in Mosul, as well as the statue of Mullah OsmanAl-Musali. Shiite Turkmen in the villages of Al Kibba and Shraikhan flee after receiving threats from ISIS. ISIS arrests 25 village elders and young men who are Turkmen in the village of Al Shamsiyat; their whereabouts is still unknown. ISIS orders Christian, Yazidis and Shiite government employees not to report for work in Mosul.
  • June 23: ISIS Rape Christian Mother and Daughter, Kill 4 Christian Women for Not Wearing Veil.
  • June 25: ISIS limits water from the plants in Mosul to one hour per day. Residents in surrounding areas are forced to dig wells.
  • June 26: Kurds Clash With ISIS Near Assyrian Town East of Mosul, forcing nearly 50,000 Assyrians to flee.
  • June 28: ISIS kidnaps two nuns and three Assyrian orphans. They are eventually released. ISIS begins confiscating the homes of Christians and non-Sunni Muslims. ISIS rounds up many of the security agency members of the police and army in Sabrine Mosque and asks them to declare “repentance” and surrender their weapons and other military equipment. After doing so, all of the prisoners are tried and sentenced according to Sharia law and executed. ISIS has prevented delivery of government food rations to Tel Kepe and other areas not under their control.

TIMELINE: JULY 2014

  • July 3: ISIS seizes the house of the Chaldean Patriarchate and the house of Dr. Tobia, a member of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization and an Advisor to the Governor of Nineveh on Minority Affairs and General Coordinator with International Organizations.
  • July 8: ISIS Removes Cross From Church in Mosul.
  • July 10: ISIS bars women from walking the streets unless accompanied by a male. Nearly all barber shops and womens’ salons are closed.
  • July 15: ISIS Stops Rations for Christians and Shiites in Mosul.
  • July 17: ISIS issues statement ordering Christians to convert or die.
  • July 18: ISIS in Mosul marks Christian homes with the Arabic letter “N” (for the word Nasrani, which means Christian).
  • July 19: ISIS plunders Assyrians as they flee Mosul; families march 42 miles.
  • July 22: ISIS and Kurds clash near Assyrian town, 2000 Assyrian families driven from Mosul.
  • July 25: ISIS destroys the tomb of the Prophet Jonah.
  • July 29: ISIS destroys or occupies all 45 Christian institutions in Mosul.

TIMELINE: AUGUST 2014

  • August 2: ISIS loots 8 million dollars from Assyrian farms, captures Yazidi towns, kills 2,000 Yazidis, causes 200,000 to flee.
  • August 4: Leader of Iraq’s Yazidis issues distress call, appeals for help against ISIS. Assyrians flee as ISIS approaches Assyrian villages in the Nineveh Plain.
  • August 5: ISIS shells Assyrian town, 1 killed; Yazidis in desperate state.
  • August 6: Kurds and ISIS clash outside Baghdede; ISIS begins using Yazidis as human shields; All the Assyrians from the villages of Bartella, Bashiqa, Bahzany, Tel Kepe, Batnaya and Telsqof flee.
  • August 7: Assyrian Patriarch Pleads to the United Nations on Crisis in Iraq.
    • August 7: OBAMA authorizes targeted airstrikes to protect Americans in Iraq and humanitarian airdrops of food and water to Yazidis trapped on Sinjar mountain.
  • August 8: ISIS captures Baghdede, Bartella, and Karamlis, and moves north into the Nineveh Plain, causing 200,000 Assyrians to flee their towns and villages. Iraqi Parliament passes resolution accusing ISIS of genocide.
  • August 9: ISIS forces all women in Mosul to wear the veil, including the full head cover. ISIS establishes black markets for goods to raise funds.
    • August 9: OBAMA announces that American forces have conducted targeted airstrikes against terrorist forces outside the city of Erbil and made two successful airdrops of food and water to the people trapped Sinjar mountain.
  • August 11: ISIS orders all families in Mosul to obtain approval before burying their dead. ISIS provides gasoline to Assyrians in Nineveh Plain to facilitate their departure. ISIS continues kidnapping women, with female ISIS members helping. Iraqi general says 70% of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar are dead.
  • August 11: OBAMA announces that American forces have successfully conducted targeted airstrikes, stepped up military advice and assistance to Iraqi and Kurdish forces, and continued daily humanitarian efforts to the Yazidis stranded on Mount Sinjar.
  • August 13: ISIS forces child patients at the cancer hospital in Mosul to hold ISIS flags and then photographed them for propaganda purposes. ISIS completely loots and plunders all homes in the the Assyrian Christian towns of Telsqof and Bashiqa. 100,000 Yazidi refugees are now in the town of Khanak without food, water or shelter.
  • August 14: ISIS orders all former Assyrian church guards to surrender their weapons.
    • August 14: OBAMA announces the U.S. and U.K. militaries have made humanitarian air drops of food and water and successfully hit ISIL targets around Mount Sinjar to help Kurdish and Yazidi ground troops evacuate trapped civilians.
  • August 17: Kurdish militants train hundreds of Yazidis to fight ISIS. Kurdish forces capture Telsqof, advance towards Mosul Dam. With help from 2 U.S. airstrikes, Kurds retake Mosul Dam, the largest dam in Iraq.
  • August 18: ISIS forcefully circumcises Assyrian Christian men in Mosul, sells 700 Yazidi women. ISIS kills more than 200 Yazidi men in the village of Kojo.
  • August 19: UN launches new aid effort in north Iraq; Mosul dam recaptured.
    • August 19: United States government officials confirm the video released by ISIS on Tuesday showing the cold-blooded execution of American journalist James Foley, of New Hampshire, is genuine.
  • August 20: ISIS halt Iraqi offensive to recapture Saddam’s home town. Helicopters drop leaflets over Mosul urging residents to fight ISIS. Five Middle Eastern Patriarchs visit North Iraq in Solidarity with Christians. Pictures show aftermath of ISIS looting, plundering Assyrian town.
    • August 20: OBAMA says he’s appalled by Foley video and then goes golfing on Martha’s Vineyard.
  • August 21: ISIS loots Assyrian homes, vandalizes churches in Mosul.
    • August 21: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says the ISIS threat Is “sophisticated and well-funded” and “beyond anything [terrorist group] we’ve seen.”
  • August 22: Iraq voids real estate sales in ISIS controlled areas.
  • August 25: U.N. human rights chief condemns Islamic State crimes in Iraq. Kurds advance on ISIS in Iraq. ISIS abduct 3 year-old Assyrian girl from fleeing family; 3 starve to death.
  • August 26: UN Commission urges UN peacekeeping force for Nineveh Plain in North Iraq.
  • August 27: Iraqi Christians weigh taking up arms against the Islamic State. Syriac Patriarch calls Islamic State actions ‘attempted genocide’.
    • August 28: OBAMA announces the U.S. military continues to carry out targeted airstrikes and to “address the humanitarian situation on the ground” while remaining committed to limiting further involvement to encouraging locals to fix their own problems.
  • August 29: Kurdish fighters recapture 7 villages in North Iraq. ISIS beheads Kurdish fighter.
    • August 29, 2014: Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning an imminent terrorist threat by Islamic terrorist groups operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

August 29:  OBAMA says we don’t have a strategy.

  • August 30: Iraq Sunni rebels ready to fight Islamic State. 850,000 people have been displaced by ISIS in one month.
    • August 30:  Since August 8th, the U.S. has launched over 100 airstrikes against ISIS of varying levels of intensity. It’s safe to assume those planes are dropping bombs, firing missiles, the pilots who are flying these missions are risking their lives, and their loved ones waiting at home for them, would probably say the U.S. is at war. As for ISIS (or ISIS/IS), the ruthless murderers have beheaded one American already and they’re threatening to kill more. In fact, ISIS threatened Americans again today while beheading a captured a Kurdish soldier. ISIS appears to be at war with us, but according to the Obama White House, we are not at war with them.
  • August 30: Iraq Sunni rebels ready to fight Islamic State. 850,000 people have been displaced by ISIS in one month.

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OBAMA’s statements on IRAQ:

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Warning: Graphic video of ISIS violence in Iraq

2014_06 14 ISIS execution

The link below has an embedded video that was linked to my Facebook by Canon Andrew. I believe the title in English is “The Islam State in Iraq.” It reminds me of scenes from World War II movies about Nazi atrocities. I found the photo above at a different site, but it seems to be a scene from the video.

http://gloria.tv/?media=642419%C2%A0%C2%A0&language=MnVpcnQGQh7

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From Junior Varsity to Evil Cancer in just SEVEN MONTHS?

Well, only according to President Unicorn, who told us over and over and over that the death of Osama bin Laden and removal of U.S. troops from Iraq meant that Bush’s “stupid” Global War on Terror was over, Over, OVER.

Those of us who have been PAYING ATTENTION have known disaster was inevitable … just like we know the economy is headed for a great big, possibly fatal crash because of the Obamacrats’ out-of-control spending. But that’s another story.

Today, I want to share the 2014 Junior Varsity to Evil Cancer timeline.

  • On January 27, 2014, President Obama dismissed al-Qaeda inspired groups (like ISIS) as nothing more than junior varsity wannabes.

The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant. … I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian,” Obama said in an interview with The New Yorker.

  • On January 28, 2014, Obama said we needed to get off a “permanent war footing.”

Four Months Later …

  • On May 28, 2014, Obama had to admit that, oopsie, these “jayvee” groups had indeed become Kobe Bryant.

As the Syrian civil war spills across borders, the capacity of battle-hardened extremist groups to come after us only increases,” Obama said at West Point. “And the need for a new strategy reflects the fact that today’s principal threat no longer comes from a centralized al Qaeda leadership. Instead it comes from decentralized al Qaeda affiliates and extremists, many with agendas focused in the countries where they operate.

  • On June 24, 2014, after ISIS captured Mosul, Iraq, SecState Kerry admitted this came as a big surprise to the Obama Administration.

We don’t have people embedded in those [Iraqi] units, and so obviously nobody knew that,” Kerry said on Fox News.

Yes, well, that’s what happens when President Ostrich insists we all play Let’s Pretend GWOT Is Over.

  • On July 23, 2014, an Obama State Department official said ISIS is a “full-blown army … worse than al Qaeda.”

It is al Qaeda in its doctrine, ambition and, increasingly, in its threat to U.S. interests. … In fact, it is worse than al Qaeda,” McGurk told the House Armed Services Committee. “[ISIS] is no longer simply a terrorist organization. It is now a full-blown army seeking to establish a self-governing state through the Tigris and Euphrates valley in what is now Syria and Iraq.”

  • On August 8, 2014, Obama said the U.S. has a “strategic interest” in stopping them.

We do have a strategic interest in pushing back ISIL. We’re not going to let them create some caliphate through Syria and Iraq, but we can only do that if we know that we’ve got partners on the ground who are capable of filling the void,” Obama told The New York Times. (IS, ISIS, and ISIL are all the same group.)

These “partners on the ground” would be the coalition Bush assembled for his “stupid” war …

Those former allies that Obama has systematically ignored and disrespected since Bush retired? Those partners that Obama left hanging when he pulled our troops out so he could do his “I killed Osama” end zone dance again and again?

  • On August 20, 2014, after ISIS beheaded U.S. journalist James Foley, Obama called the group a “cancer” and SecState Kerry called them “evil.”

Junior Varsity to Evil Cancer in just seven months?!

Isn’t this like a doctor who ignored your symptoms until they had grown into a Stage 4 malignancy?

  • August 21, 2014: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says ISIS is “beyond anything that we’ve seen”

“ISIL is as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen. They’re beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well funded. This is beyond anything that we’ve seen. So we must prepare for everything. And the only way you do that is that you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and … get ready.”

Oh, right. “Cold, steely, hard” and “prepare for everything” … you mean, like how BUSH did it?

2014_08 24 James Woods Adam Baldwin Obama Rushmore tweet

Sources:

Obama’s evolution on ISIS threat By Kristina Wong – 08/24/14
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/215812-obamas-evolution-on-isis

Woods and Baldwin tweets
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/24/brutal-youre-about-to-see-why-james-woods-thinks-obama-is-mt-rushmore-level-and-we-agree-photo/

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UPDATE: ISIS in Iraq

2014_08 24 Map of Iraq-ISIS strikes

August 21, 2014 Report by the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization n the situation in North Iraq, via Canon Andrew’s Facebook:

Refugees
* In Arbel there are now 5 refugee deaths per day, going back to August 7.
* The number of refugees has overwhelmed the relief agencies. There is scarcity of food and shelter. Distribution channels are slow and ineffective.
* Refugees are anxious about the military operations against ISIS in their towns and villages, and they fear for their property, especially in light of the fact that many of their former Muslim neighbors have participated in looting and plundering.
* The number of Assyrian Christian families seeking asylum has risen as hundreds of families who are now in Turkey are waiting in front of United Nations offices in Ankara to register and apply for emigration.
* The vast majority of the refugees are pressuring religious and political leaders to find a way for a rapid mass exodus out of Iraq, because of all the suffering, hardship and difficulty they are experiencing. Large numbers of families are still sleeping on sidewalks and parks and there is the fear this situation and their plight will extend into winter.
* There is anger, frustration and tension among the refugees as they are being moved from the halls and courtyards of churches into United Nations camps.
* The Ministry of Displacement and Migration is extremely slow in giving grants to refugees. Thousands of families in Dohuk have yet to receive grants. In the words of one refugee, “they move on the back of a turtle.”
* The condition of Yazidi refugees is becoming critical for lack of camps to house them, forcing hundreds of families to shelter in unfinished buildings in the city of Dohuk.

Mosul
* There is rising discontent with ISIS in Mosul.
* Female doctors have gone on strike to protest ISIS interference in the treatment of patients, especially during childbirth or treatment of some gynecological illnesses.

Sources:
Map @ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/the-iraq-isis-conflict-in-maps-photos-and-video.html?_r=0
Canon Andrew @ https://www.facebook.com/apbw2?fref=nf Timeline date: August 24, 2014 from near Baghdad, Iraq

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No Words

2014_08 18 Obama goes to dinner

Upon hearing news of Foley’s execution, British Prime Minister David Cameron canceled his vacation and returned home to address the situation.  President Obama returned to Martha’s Vineyard.

2014_08 19 PBS sorry to hear Foley died

Sources told ABC that the White House knew as early as August 13th that ISIS was planning to assassinate Foley in retribution for American air strikes. The British government has examined the videotape and believes the purported executioner may be a former Gitmo detainee.

2014_08 20 Obama said some words then went golfing again

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Iraq Update from Canon Andrew

August 17, 2014: Dear Friends,

The traumas of the IS invasion continue to devastate Iraq. The terrific rampage and the slaughtering is continuing. The stories remain too awful to tell, the pictures simply too terrible to show.

All we can do is take assurance in the fact that G-d is our refuge. It is difficult saying that when all, including one’s home, has been taken from you, when some of your loved ones have been killed and when there are ten families sharing a four roomed house and everything you ever had has been taken from you. The one thing that the Christians are saying is that despite everything, Yeshua still loves them.

I have been back in England for part of the week. … On Monday I return to Israel for a short while before returning to Baghdad. Dr Sarah is back in the North of Iraq working on the relief work. Please pray that the Lord will protect us and give us the strength to keep going.

Blessings, Andrew

To do nothing in the face of evil

2014_08 Sharrouf, severed head

Source for Canon Andrew’s facebook post (edited slightly by CtH for clarity):

Source for CtH’s “To do nothing” montage photos:

Sources for CtH’s “That’s my boy” graphic photos and text:

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