Category: War

Possibly the most severe burn in Twitter history right here

Know who you’re talking to before getting smug: A case study

Barack Obama dove into the midterm campaigning fray headfirst today, and the self-awareness pool was empty as usual.

Obama’s speech contained this:

The former president was encouraged to take it a step further:

Somebody thought this was a good comeback in defense of Obama:

This retort should be framed and hung on a wall in the Twitter Pwn Hall of Fame:

Yeah, I don’t think that person knew who he or she was talking to.

The moral of the story: Always know who you’re talking to before getting smug.

(h/t Twitchy)

Will the Obama library’s ‘legacy’ wing include this detail about his admin’s treasured ‘deal partner’?

These are the people the Obama administration sent a pallet of cash to, defended against Israel criticism, and tried unsuccessfully to launder money for:

Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives who eventually went on to fly commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City, according to new remarks from a senior Iranian official.

Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant in the Iran’s judiciary, disclosed in Farsi-language remarks broadcast on Iran’s state-controlled television that Iranian intelligence officials secretly helped provide the al Qaeda attackers with passage and gave them refuge in the Islamic Republic, according to an English translation published by Al Arabiya.

“Our government agreed not to stamp the passports of some of them because they were on transit flights for two hours, and they were resuming their flights without having their passports stamped. However their movements were under the complete supervision of the Iranian intelligence,” Larijani was quoted as saying.

The remarks represent the first time senior Iranian officials have publicly admitted to aiding al Qaeda and playing a direct role in facilitating the 9/11 attacks.

Can’t say I’m surprised in the least.

AWW: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed wants to tell the Senate why CIA director nominee Gina Haspel is wrong for the job

The libs on the Senate Intelligence Committee spent the better part of the Haspel hearing arguing as if they’re defense attorneys for Guantanamo Bay prison detainees so frankly I’d be surprised if some of them didn’t seriously entertain making this happen:

President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the C.I.A. has revived debate over the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program and still-murky questions about her involvement. Now, on the eve of her Senate confirmation hearing, a striking voice is trying to join that fray: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Mr. Mohammed, the principal architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was captured in March 2003 and tortured by the C.I.A. This week, he asked a military judge at Guantánamo Bay for permission to share six paragraphs of information about Ms. Haspel with the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Ms. Haspel ran a black-site prison in Thailand where another high-level detainee was tortured in late 2002. But it is not known whether she was involved, directly or indirectly, in Mr. Mohammed’s torture. Mr. Mohammed was held in secret C.I.A. prisons in Afghanistan and Poland.

Frankly I’m a little surprised that Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein and other Dems on the panel hyperventilating over Haspel’s nomination haven’t invited Mohammed up from Club Gitmo to share his emotions with the Senate and possibly give him a chance to join the call for Trump’s impeachment.

Kerry spokesman’s Iran Deal statement contains so many whoppers it’s been officially declared a Burger King

John Kerry’s one-man rogue attempts to save Obama’s Iran Deal legacy while using the Logan Act as toilet paper on his yacht aren’t going over well at the White House:

Kerry, through a spokesman who may or may not have written this in an office in Tehran, put out a statement with a doozy of a first sentence:

Americans so overwhelmingly support a continuation of Obama administration policies that Hillary Clinton was sent packing on election day and Trump’s in the White House! And don’t you just love the “nuclear agreement prevented a war” BS? Congratulating themselves for saving humanity from things that only might have happened is a hallmark of Hope & Change-era heroism.

Also it’s interesting when Obama flacks cite “America’s closest allies” as supporters but conveniently ignore Israel, which gathered the intel showing what a joke the Iran Deal truly is.

Rasmussen: Many Dems who believe Obama deserved Nobel Peace Prize for nothing don’t think Trump deserves one for something

Many congressional Republicans have signed a letter to officially nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize:

What I found interesting — and by “interesting” I mean hilarious — is that according to this Rasmussen poll, there are a whole bunch of Democrats who think Obama deserved his Nobel for nothing more than showing up for the start of his presidency but don’t think Trump’s done anything to earn one:

Sixty-five percent (65%) of Republicans say Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize if he resolves the North Korea situation, but only 30% of Democrats agree. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats say Obama still deserves his Nobel, but only 21% of Republicans agree. By nearly identical margins, Americans not affiliated with either major party tend to feel neither president is entitled to the prestigious award.

Maybe if Trump delivered more flowery speeches, drew more red lines and partook of hashtag diplomacy a little more some Dem minds would be changed.

‘I ordered their annihilation’: SecDef Mattis keeps ensuring progressive safe spaces remain filled to the rafters

This guy gives all the right people night sweats and stress diarrhea — this week was no different:

Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. has a deconfliction line with Russia to ensure that the two countries can communicate in order to avoid direct conflict with one another in Syria. He said that a group of “irregular forces” were in conflict with U.S. forces, and once it was ascertained that those forces were not Russian regulars, Mattis directed a counterattack.

“The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people, and my direction to the chairman was for the force, then, to be annihilated,” Mattis said. “And it was.”

To the safe space!

(h/t Hot Air)

North Korea offers gullible, desperate lame duck administration another faux foreign policy legacy opportunity

North Korea sees the Obama administration freeing up over a hundred billion in frozen Iranian assets and sanction relief in return for a “deal” that allows self-inspection of nuke sites (and even forgives taking U.S. military personnel prisoner and using their photos and videos for propaganda purposes) and they want in on that action before the spineless, self-serving bureaucrats potential peace partners in the White House are out of office in a year:

North Korea said it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea.

The North’s statement carried by the state media late Friday was a repeat of past offers that have been rejected by the U.S., which wants Pyongyang to commit to a complete abandonment of nuclear weapons.

An unnamed spokesman of the North’s Foreign Ministry called the purported hydrogen bomb test on Jan. 6 a justifiable move to ensure its survival against external threats.

Don’t think for one second the geniuses in the Obama administration won’t find a way to jump all over this before they’re out of office.

What’s Korean for “re-set button”?

Update:

Iran has shown North Korea how to get the Obama administration and UN on board with lifting sanctions against them: Take hostages and use them as human currency to get whatever you want.

Update II:

Right on cue.

Obama returns to ‘more jobs to keep people from wanting to join ISIS’ insanity

When you’re completely devoid of real-world ideas, you return to stuff like this:

President Obama called upon a conclave of world leaders on Tuesday to fight violent extremism not just with weapons but with ideas, jobs and good governance, a strategy he has long advocated. There are few signs that it is succeeding.

Military pressure, Mr. Obama said at a United Nations summit meeting, will be insufficient to vanquish groups like the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.

“This means defeating their ideology,” he said. “Ideologies are not defeated with guns. They are defeated by better ideas — a more attractive and compelling vision.”

I’m officially at a loss for words and he’s still got over a year to make things worse.

ISIS takes Ramadi; Expect Obama to counter-strike with a hashtag from his new Twitter account

This is both maddening and sad considering almost 1,300 Americans died securing Anbar province:

Quite a parade for the “JV team.”

Obama last September: “We will degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.” Replace “ISIL” with “all gains the U.S. and its allies made in Iraq since 2003.”

Meanwhile, back in DC…

Hashtag counter-strike coming soon!

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Update (Wednesday):

Responding to the above threat, Obama’s giving Coast Guard graduates a lecture about climate change. Obama’s speech to Coast Guard grads didn’t contain much mention of guarding the coast.

Israel’s Iron Dome? Obama created that! (according to John Kerry)

John Kerry lied again this morning, but you knew that because his lips were moving:

“As I said, the prime minister is welcome in the United States at any time. We have an unparalleled close security relationship with Israel and we will continue to. President Obama has done more to ensure the security of Israel by the creation of Iron Dome, by the development of weapons that are specifically calculated to be able to deal with Iran’s nuclear weapon’s problem…[etc].”

It’s at the 8-minute mark:

President Obama created the Iron Dome, eh?

In 2004, the idea for Iron Dome gained momentum with the installation of Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold as the head of the research and development bureau of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Gold was a strong backer of the antimissile project, even skirting army contracting regulations to secure financing. He also helped persuade key politicians to support the project.

Wow, Obama had a lot of global pull considering he was only a state senator from Illinois back then!

Kerry’s such an ass.