Clinton embraces her inner conflicts

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SHE WAS FOR IT BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT.

FRACKING, THAT IS.

CRANKY CLINTON RECENTLY AIRED COMMERCIALS NOTING HER OPPOSITION TO FRACKING; HOWEVER, AS SECRETARY OF STATE SHE PROMOTED IT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, CRANKY DENIED THIS WAS A PROBLEM OR CONFLICT.

"I AM OPPOSED TO FRACKING IN NEW YORK AND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.  I THINK IT IS HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE.  BUT WHO CARES ABOUT CHINA?  IF MY RECORD SHOWS NOTHING ELSE, IT SHOWS THAT I HAVE NO PROBLEM DESTROYING OTHER COUNTRIES -- LOOK AT IRAQ AND LIBYA FOR STARTERS.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Moqtada al-Sadr remaining in Tehran stands a big chance of being harmed.

The leader whose followers are slain?

While he's safe and out of the country?

And denying that he ordered the action?

Haider doesn't win from the incident either.

He's inept and that's only more obvious with Friday's actions.

Two people died.

Which will bother some Iraqis -- even those who favor 'rule of law.'

But the reality is that Haider was yet again unable to protect the Green Zone or, in this case, even his own office.

He's inept.

He's disgraced.

And Barack can try to prop him up all he wants but (a) people died and (b) the Green Zone was breached again.

Those two events speak for themselves -- and speak loudly against Haider.



NINA notes Haider issued a statement declaring that the storming of the Green Zone on Friday (and of his office) must not happen again. He dubbed it a distraction from the fight against the Islamic State.  AL MADA adds that the statement was aired on state TV in the early morning hours.

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Events in #Baghdad, show that the political process is in turmoil & needs a radical revision in which all parties must cooperate. #Iraq

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While Barack had no interest in raising the topic, Mu Xuequan (XINHUA) reports:

The UN envoy to Iraq on Saturday expressed deep concern about Friday's demonstrations when hundreds of followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr broke into the heavily fortified Green Zone, calling for calm and unity to achieve reforms and confront the Islamic State (IS) group which seizes parts of Iraq's northern and western regions since 2014.
"What happened on Friday shows how events could take a different turn and escalate, causing casualties," UN envoy to Iraq Jan Kubis said in a statement.


ALSUMARIA reports that Haider and Barack discussed the upcoming 'liberation' of Falluja.  In fact, that topic is in the statement released by the Prime Minister's office summarizing the phone call.

Strange that it failed to make the statement released by the White House.


Or strange until you realize that the White House is pushing for Mosul to be the next focus.

This DoD article from Friday makes that clear:

The military campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is at an important juncture, with a new focus and steady progress by the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi and Syrian security forces partners, Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland said here today.
MacFarland, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, spoke with reporters who are traveling with U.S. Central Command commander Army Gen. Joseph L. Votel, who is meeting this week with coalition troops and local counter-ISIL partners in the Middle East.
“We’re at an important part in the campaign right now,” MacFarland told reporters. “When I first got here about eight months ago it was all about Ramadi and taking Ramadi back,” he said.
“Well, we’ve taken Ramadi back,” MacFarland said, “and now, the focus of the campaign is shifting more toward taking back the enemy’s centers of gravity in Iraq and Syria -- Mosul and Raqqa. That’s what we’re about today.”


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FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Today, the US destroys Iraq with bombings, for years it has destroyed Iraq by installing 'leaders.'

Shi'ites who were too chicken to fight for Iraq, fled it and returned after the US-led invasion.

These cowards -- and all their pathetic, deep-rooted fears -- were installed as 'leaders.'

And they've destroyed the country with their petty nonsense and their night time terrors.

Take the pathetic Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

Today, he's the Minister of Foreign Affairs. His other positions since 2003 would include prime minister of Iraq.


Since 2003 because the Shi'ite fled Iraq in 1980.  First he ran to Iran and spent nearly a decade there only to move on to London in 1989.

But when it was safe to come back to Iraq, the coward did and wanted to be a leader because what says "leader" more than fleeing while wetting your pants?


Today, Ibrahim's in the news for demanding Jordan turn Raghad Saddam Hussein al-Majid over to Iraq.

Who?

She's the eldest daughter of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Hussein was overthrown in the 2003 US-led invasion and later executed (December 30, 2006).

And his oldest daughter?

ASHARQ AL-AWSAT reported in 2010:

Raghad Saddam Hussein, the eldest daughter of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein fled to Jordan on two separate occasions in her life. Raghad Hussein first fled to Jordan in 1995 along with her husband Hussein Kamel al-Majid who defected from Iraq along with Rana Saddam Hussein and her husband Saddam Kamel al-Majid. Raghad Hussein fled to Jordan for a second time in 2003 following the US invasion of Iraq and the collapse of her father’s regime. Raghad Hussein fled in fear of punishment; in 1995 she fled in order to save her husband’s life from her brother Uday, while in 2003 she fled in fear of the Iraqi people taking revenge against her father by attacking her. Raghad Hussein fled to Amman, where she was placed under the protection of the Jordanian monarch. In 1995, Jordanian King Hussein treated Raghad and Rana Hussein as his own two daughters, and they lived with the Jordanian royals in the royal palace. Whilst in 2003, King Abdullah placed Raghad Hussein under his protection as his guest. 

In 2007, INTERPOL issued a Red Notice (which many in the press falsely called an arrest warrant) but BBC NEWS noted the Red Notice "does not legally oblige Jordan or any other country to act."


Not only that but Arabic and Islamic law are both on Raghad's side -- a detail often overlooked by the press.

In 2006, Nouri al-Maliki repeatedly accused of her funding the insurgency and, years later, the Iraqi government began insisting that she was funding the Islamic State.

Over ten years of accusations and nothing to show for it but high drama.


THE JERUSALEM POST notes, "In a statement released Wednesday following a meeting between the Jordanian consul in the city of Irbil and senior Iraqi officials, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said: 'Iraq asked Jordan to coordinate the extradition of people residing in its territory who are wanted by the Iraqi judicial system'."

Nothing's ever been proven regarding Raghad Hussein and she's a guest of the King of Jordan who, following Arabic and Islamic law, is under no legal obligation to hand her over to Iraq.

This blood lust for vengeance is why Iraq cannot move forward.


Mohammad Tayseer and Dana Khraiche (BLOOMBERG NEWS) report, "Iraq has reached a $5.4 billion, three-year loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund to help OPEC’s second-biggest producer repair public finances damaged by the plunge in oil prices and war with Islamic State militants."


The revenge fantasies, where the daughter of Saddam Hussein must be captured and flogged in the streets of Baghdad?

They are raw meat tossed to the masses to distract them from the ongoing corruption in Iraq.

Billions of dollars have disappeared from the country's coffers as a result of corrupt politicians and officials.

Rather than fretting over the daughter of Saddam Hussein, they might ask how Nouri al-Maliki's son ended up with all those sports cars and residences outside of Iraq.

Where did that money come from?

How did Nouri's two terms as prime minister of Iraq leave him such a wealthy man?

Those are questions that need to be asked.

The Iraqi people live in squalor.

They have no dependable public services.

Baghdad floods in the raining season -- water up to the knees in some sections (including Sadr City) and that's due to the crumbling public infrastructure.

The corruption is not a secret.

There have been US Congressional hearings on the topic going back to the years when Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House.

Billions have been stolen.

And now the IMF is getting their hooks into Iraq.

THE JORDAN TIMES reports:


The IMF $5.4 billion loan to Iraq will have an annual interest rate of 1.5 per cent, Iraq's Central Bank Governor Ali Al Alak said at a press conference, following a week of talks with IMF officials in Jordan, Reuters reported.  
The IMF deal will allow Iraq to secure additional financial aid of around $15 billion over the next three years, including securing international bonds, according to [Iraq's Finance Minister Hoshiyar] Zebari. 


At this late stage, who's still pretending that the IMF helps out countries in trouble?


After Argentina, who still believes that lie?

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"LOOK," SHE TOLD THESE REPORTERS BETWEEN FARTS IN HER DAILY AFTERNOON GAS RELIEF, "I'M NOT A POPULIST.  I DON'T EVEN LIKE PEOPLE. I MEAN, I WANT THEIR VOTES BUT NO ONE SHOULD EXPECT ME TO TALK TO THEM OR ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THEM.  I'M CRANKY CLINTON.  THAT MEANS SOMETHING, YOU KNOW?  AND PEOPLE?  WELL THEY'RE JUST SO DARN STUPID -- WOOPS, THAT WAS A STINKY ONE."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:



In Iraq today, Haider al-Abadi, US-installed prime minister, gave a speech broadcast on state television.  ALSUMARIA reports he expressed dismay over the ongoing political crisis and spoke of the plan (hope?) to liberate Mosul.

For those who have forgotten the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic State seized control of Mosul in June of 2014.  The two year anniversary approaches.

Where's that liberation effort?

It starts.

It stops.

Two years that Mosul's been held and controlled by the Islamic State.

This as Corey Dickstein (STARS AND STRIPES) reports:

Roughly half of Iraq’s American-trained security forces are stationed in and around Baghdad to protect the country’s capital, where recent political turmoil was followed this week by a wave of terrorist attacks, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.


Half the forces are protecting Baghdad?

There's your clue that Haider's government is not working.


Not to mention the fact that last month, with all that Baghdad protection, Moqtada al-Sadr's zombies still managed to storm the Green Zone and storm Parliament.

Haider al-Abadi is a failure.

Nouri al-Maliki, former prime minister and forever thug, used his second term as prime minister (2010 through 2014) to harden divisions along sectarian lines.  The Shi'ite politician went after Sunnis.  He persecuted them.

They protested and did so for over a year and never got a fraction of the world press' attention that Moqtada al-Sadr's zombies got for one Saturday faux-test.

The world has turned its eye away from Iraq, yes.  But worse was it turned its back on the Sunni suffering.

The Sunni people were persecuted. they were disappeared, they were taken away from crimes that others were alleged to have committed (Shi'ite forces show up to arrest a man and he's not there, they take a parent, a wife, a child instead), the Sunni politicians had their homes circled by tanks, at what point does the world pay attention?



In March of 2013, activists in Samarra put their message on display.




"Obama, If you Cannot Hear Us Can you Not See Us?"


They even made it real simple, they put in English in the hopes that the west would notice and carry the message.

That didn't happen.

What did happen?


For one thing, the following month, Sunnis would be slaughtered at a protest elsewhere.

April 23, 2013 massacre of a sit-in in Hawija which resulted from  Nouri's federal forces storming in.  Alsumaria noted Kirkuk's Department of Health (Hawija is in Kirkuk)  announced 50 activists have died and 110 were injured in the assault.   AFP reported the death toll eventually (as some wounded died) rose to 53 dead.   UNICEF noted that the dead included 8 children (twelve more were injured).


And the west yawned, if they bothered to acknowledge the massacre at all.

How did a Sunni terrorist group like the Islamic State flow into Iraq and set up roots there?

Because you had a government that was persecuting and killing the Sunnis.

Sympathy was created.


They were able to present themselves as "defenders."

And they were able to seize that role because the world didn't care.

The White House didn't give a damn.

They installed Nouri for a second term (after he lost the 2010 election) and they looked the other way.

They never condemned anything.

They didn't even condemn the massacre in Hawija -- which was only a larger scale version of events that repeatedly took place.


That's why the Islamic State was able to take root in Iraq.


And until this is dealt with, there is no solution or moving forward in Iraq.



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"LOOSE CANNON?" HE ASKED, "THAT'S WHAT THEY USED TO CALL ME WHEN I MESSED AROUND WITH MONICA AND DIDN'T USE PROTECTION."

REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS AFTER, BIG DAWG BILL DECLARED, "YEAH, I MIGHT HAVE JUST HOSED MY OWN WIFE -- FOR THE FIRST TIME! -- BUT MY NICKNAME BELONGS TO ME.  YOU DON'T SEE ME JUST CALLING ANY WOMAN 'LIFE SUCKING BITCH I'LL ROT IN HELL WITH,' DO YOU?  NO.  BECAUSE SOME PET NAMES ARE SPECIAL AND UNIQUE."



FROM THE TCI WIRE:


In Iraq today, Haider al-Abadi, US-installed prime minister, gave a speech broadcast on state television.  ALSUMARIA reports he expressed dismay over the ongoing political crisis and spoke of the plan (hope?) to liberate Mosul.

For those who have forgotten the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic State seized control of Mosul in June of 2014.  The two year anniversary approaches.

Where's that liberation effort?

It starts.

It stops.

Two years that Mosul's been held and controlled by the Islamic State.

This as Corey Dickstein (STARS AND STRIPES) reports:

Roughly half of Iraq’s American-trained security forces are stationed in and around Baghdad to protect the country’s capital, where recent political turmoil was followed this week by a wave of terrorist attacks, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.


Half the forces are protecting Baghdad?

There's your clue that Haider's government is not working.


Not to mention the fact that last month, with all that Baghdad protection, Moqtada al-Sadr's zombies still managed to storm the Green Zone and storm Parliament.

Haider al-Abadi is a failure.

Nouri al-Maliki, former prime minister and forever thug, used his second term as prime minister (2010 through 2014) to harden divisions along sectarian lines.  The Shi'ite politician went after Sunnis.  He persecuted them.

They protested and did so for over a year and never got a fraction of the world press' attention that Moqtada al-Sadr's zombies got for one Saturday faux-test.

The world has turned its eye away from Iraq, yes.  But worse was it turned its back on the Sunni suffering.

The Sunni people were persecuted. they were disappeared, they were taken away from crimes that others were alleged to have committed (Shi'ite forces show up to arrest a man and he's not there, they take a parent, a wife, a child instead), the Sunni politicians had their homes circled by tanks, at what point does the world pay attention?



In March of 2013, activists in Samarra put their message on display.




"Obama, If you Cannot Hear Us Can you Not See Us?"


They even made it real simple, they put in English in the hopes that the west would notice and carry the message.

That didn't happen.

What did happen?


For one thing, the following month, Sunnis would be slaughtered at a protest elsewhere.

April 23, 2013 massacre of a sit-in in Hawija which resulted from  Nouri's federal forces storming in.  Alsumaria noted Kirkuk's Department of Health (Hawija is in Kirkuk)  announced 50 activists have died and 110 were injured in the assault.   AFP reported the death toll eventually (as some wounded died) rose to 53 dead.   UNICEF noted that the dead included 8 children (twelve more were injured).


And the west yawned, if they bothered to acknowledge the massacre at all.

How did a Sunni terrorist group like the Islamic State flow into Iraq and set up roots there?

Because you had a government that was persecuting and killing the Sunnis.

Sympathy was created.


They were able to present themselves as "defenders."

And they were able to seize that role because the world didn't care.

The White House didn't give a damn.

They installed Nouri for a second term (after he lost the 2010 election) and they looked the other way.

They never condemned anything.

They didn't even condemn the massacre in Hawija -- which was only a larger scale version of events that repeatedly took place.


That's why the Islamic State was able to take root in Iraq.


And until this is dealt with, there is no solution or moving forward in Iraq.

I guess the Iraqi government could kill off every Sunni in Iraq and maybe then they could 'resolve' the issue.


And possibly that's the 'plan'?

But the only way to have a peaceful solution in Iraq is to end the persecution of the Sunnis and allow for a true partnership to take place.

Does Haider al-Abadi grasp that?


There's no indication that he does.

Of today's speech, PRESS TV reports he declared, "The political conflict among politicians and their impact on the brave security forces permits acts of terrorism to occur."



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REACHED FOR COMMENT, CRANKY INSISTED, "IT WAS A SENIOR MOMENT.  WHEN YOU HAVE A SENIOR MOMENT, YOU'RE FORGIVEN FOR BREAKING NATIONAL SECURITY.  IT SAYS THAT SOMEWHERE -- PROBABLY THE CONSTITUTION.  OR IF IT DOESN'T, IT WILL SAY IT WHEN I AM PRESIDENT.  MY FIRST THING WILL BE TO REWRITE THE CONSTITUTION."


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Bombings slammed Iraq today. Jane Onyanga-Omara (USA TODAY) reports, "Three different car bombings in Baghdad Wednesday killed at least 93 people and wounded upwards of 165 in one of the deadliest days in Iraq this year, according to media reports."  Jomana Karadsheh, Joshua Berlinger and Ashley Fantz (CNN) explain, "The Sunni terror group ISIS says it's behind a series of attacks in Iraq's capital Wednesday [. . .]"  AL MADA notes they're the deadliest bombings in Iraq so far this year.  GULF DIGITAL NEWS includes the reactions of some Iraqis:

"The state is in a conflict over (government positions) and the people are the victims," said a man named Abu Ali. "The politicians are behind the explosion."

Abu Muntadhar echoed his anger. "The state is responsible for the bombings that hit civilians," the local resident said. The politicians "should all get out".

Ban Ki-Moon is the Secretary-General of the United Nations.  His Special Representative for Iraq, Jan Kubis, stated:

These are cowardly terrorist attacks on civilians who have done nothing but going about their normal daily lives. Such acts of terrorist violence are certainly against all the principles of decency and humanity, and as such must be strongly condemned. I call on the authorities to do their utmost to quickly bring the perpetrators to justice, and express my deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and wish the injured a speedy recovery.


Human Rights Watch's Joe Stork declared, "Once again ISIS has carried out a devastating attack designed to inflict maximum death and suffering on ordinary Iraqis.  The presence of some militia – even if true – cannot possibly justify this latest ISIS atrocity." NATIONAL IRAQI NEWS AGENCY adds that Iraqiya leader Ayad Allawi condemned the bombings-- including the one in Baquba -- as terrorist actions.

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The bombings?


First,  BBC News notes, "A car bomb at a crowded Baghdad market has killed at least 64 people, officials say, in one of the worst recent attacks in the Iraqi capital." Sinan Salaheddin (AP) describes the scene, "The street was stained red with blood in many places and the facades of several buildings were heavily damaged. Smoke billowed from ground-level stores which had been gutted out by the explosion."

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SOME ARE SAYING CRANKY CLINTON IS NOT A SURE THING.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, CRANKY EXPRESSED JUST HOW OFFENDED SHE WAS BY THIS COMMENT DECLARING, "I AM OFFENDED BY THIS COMMENT.  I AM GROSSLY OFFENDED.  IT IS OFFENSIVE."

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"I'VE BEEN CALLED A LOT OF INSULTING NAMES THIS GO ROUND BUT FOR ANYONE TO DARE SAY I AM NOT A SURE THING?  EXCUSE ME, DID THEY TALK TO ALL MY HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIENDS?  HOW ABOUT THE JANITOR?  HILLARY DIANE RODHAM WAS ALWAYS KNOWN AS A SURE THING.  SOME EVEN CALLED ME 'THE BIG EASY.'  BUT DO THEY WRITE ABOUT THAT?  NO, THEY JUST INSULT ME!  COME ON, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"


FROM THE TCI WIRE:

The Iraq War has not ended.

Whores started it and whores continue it.

And whores actually make the news for their whoring today.

First up, too old to be a himbo, John Aravosis.  By his own account, he failed as a blogger.  He bid it farewell in a post most noted for the use of "I" and "me" -- in fact it may have set a record for the number of times those two words appeared in a blog post.  He was off now, he insisted, for a new road, a new career with the United Nations.

He wasn't successful there either.

So now he's returned to blogging.

And he's whoring for Hillary because he's just that trashy.

And to whore for Hillary who voted for the Iraq War in 2002 and publicly championed it for years afterwards and only came out against the surge -- as former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed in DUTY -- because she thought it would look good for her politically, to help vanish Hillary's huge Iraq problem, John Aravosis decided to Tweet that he didn't even remember where he stood in 2003 on the Iraq War.

As Ben Norton (SALON) details, that whorish lie was greeted with at tremendous backlash.

An array of Twitter users criticized the blogger for allegedly forgetting what his position was on the critical historical moment.

“I joke that pundits have suffered brain damage,” comedian @Trillburne said, but Aravosis should “see a doctor.”
Trillburne followed up writing a “timeline of Proper and Serious opinions about the Iraq War,” a satirical chronology depicting how the commentariat whitewashed the U.S.’s illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country, destroying Iraq’s government, leading to the deaths of at least 1 million people, destabilizing the Middle East and creating a sectarian civil war that gave rise to extremist groups like al-Qaeda and eventually ISIS.


The dirty whore got caught without his clothes and the whole world laughs.

AL BAWABA reports on it and notes:

Aravosis's Twitter followers immediately pounced. 

"You were for it. If you were sentient & against it, you'd never forget," wrote one. 

"Not to be rude, but, serious question: are you in the wrong business?" wrote another, which apparently angered Aravosis. 

The whole world is laughing at him.

That's what happens when you get caught whoring with a politician.

He is now a disgrace.

And he brought it on himself.


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"Cranky Clinton's biggest fan cries wah wah wah all the way home!"

Cranky Clinton's biggest fan cries wah wah wah all the way home!

BULLY BOY PRESS &     CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

OVER AT BLUE NATION (PROPAGANDA OUTLET FOR CRANKY CLINTON -- MADE UP OF RACISTS WHO USED RACISM TO ATTACK BARACK OBAMA IN 2008), LITTLE NICOLE BELLE HAS A HISSY FIT AND PISSES HER PANTIES BECAUSE JILL STEIN DARED TO QUESTION CRANKY CLINTON.



IN NICOLE BELLE'S TINY WORLD, EVERYONE MUST SUPPORT HER CANDIDATE -- EVEN THOSE RUNNING AGAINST HER.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, NICOLE BELLE TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "WAH! WAH! I'M A CRY BABY -- A LITTLE CRY BABY! I CAN'T WRITE ABOUT POLICY BUT I CAN WHINE LIKE A LITTLE BABY AS I THROW MY LOT IN WITH RACISTS!"

STAY CLASSY, NICOLE.


FROM THE TCI WIRE:


Since August 2014, the US government has bombed Iraq non-stop.

The Islamic State has not been defeated.


But two US service members have died in Iraq this week alone.

Tuesday, US Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV was killed in Iraq.

Friday, CNN reported:

An American service member died of a non-combat injury in Iraq on Friday.

The U.S.-led coalition announced the death but did not immediately name the service member. A Defense Department official said Saturday that the service member is American but did not provide further details.

Non-combat injury.

Of course, the White House spent last week insisting Keating's death wasn't a combat injury.

Regardless, two Americans dead in the never ending war on Iraq because Barack, like Bully Boy Bush before, doesn't have the good sense on how to end a war.


From Tuesday's White House press briefing moderated by spokesperson Josh Earnest:

  
Q    Sure, thank you.  On the death of the U.S. Navy SEAL in Iraq, is there any reaction from the President to that, or expression of condolence?  And can you tell us when he was informed about that?

MR. EARNEST:  Darlene, I can tell you that the President has been briefed on this incident, and everyone here at the White House, including the First Family, extends our condolences to the family of the servicemember that was killed today in northern Iraq.  This individual is the third U.S. servicemember killed in action since the beginning of Operation Inherent Resolve, and this servicemember’s death reminds us of the risks our brave men and women in uniform face every single day.


Reminded of the risks involved?

I don't think so.

I think Barack's been babied and coddled and spared the risks involved.

History will not be so indulgent.

He will be the liar who campaigned for the presidency insisting he would end the Iraq War but did not, in fact, end the Iraq War.




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