Obama Just Making It Easier for al-Qaida in Iraq

President Obama continues to clear the path for al-Qaida’s takeover of Iraq, like the sweeper on a curling team.

To say he’s squandered the opportunities a democratic Iraq could have provided is to be exceptionally lenient.

There is blood on the man’s hands, and he keeps going back for more.

Not only did he essentially abandon Iraq, he has refused to live up to U.S. legal obligations to protect Iraq when it is endangered.

Not only did he release in 2009 the man who has become the leader of the ISIS army that is tearing through Iraq, but he’s publicly assured al-Qaida that they will face no U.S. opposition because Obama will only send in 100 more troops to supplement the handful at the embassy. Now, he’s ruled out airstrikes, even with drones.

He may claim to be a Christian, but Obama’s sympathies are with radical Muslims, as all his policies and actions to date have led to this pass in Iraq and have given aid and comfort to our enemies around the world.

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Obama Sticks a Toe in Iraq

President Obama has been such a laggard on the subject of Iraq that the joke just the other day claimed that he was sending in troops, but they were Iranian.

Now, he really is sending in the troops, a whopping 275 of them. Rather, that's "as many as up to" 275, which could mean fewer.

And they're not going in to set anything to rights, just provide cover fire for fleeing embassy personnel.

Let's hope that if they need to call for backup, no one at the White House gives a stand-down order to nearby bases, as happened in Benghazi.

In addition to the 275 insufficiently armed lambs to the slaughter, Secretary of State John "I Served in Vietnam" Kerry assures us, the White House is thinking about maybe, perhaps in a few days, should the weather cooperate (global warming, ya know), sending in a drone or two.

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IRS to Congress: Oops, We Did It Again

Despite the near impossibility of it happening, the IRS lost the emails of Lois Lerner, the central figure in the IRS targeting scandal, in a computer crash, including those she sent to addresses outside the IRS, such as the White House, that might have led to whoever gave Lerner her orders.

So, the math question of the day is, what is Impossible times 7?

Because now, according to Republicans on the congressional Ways and Means Committee, which is investigating the scandal, the IRS is claiming that it has also lost the emails of six other people who are subjects of the probe in an utterly amazing string of computer crashes.

Among the lost emails are those from Nikole Flax, the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller.

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What Liberals Don't Know Can Kill Us

What liberals don't understand could fill volumes. In fact, it already does, especially under the names of authors like Adams, Jefferson and Madison.

But the particular area of liberal ignorance that should concern us most at this moment involves Iraq's importance in the Middle East, to America and to the world.

In the world seen through liberal lenses, the war in Iraq was a) about oil, b) about carrying out some agenda of the first President Bush, or c) both.

According to the Left, there was no reason to be there, Saddam Hussein was a perfectly nice guy and no threat, al-Qaida didn't exist there, it just wasn't worth American lives or effort.

They still cling to the mantra that "there were no WMDs," (even though it's clear that Saddam had a stockpile ...

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Shame on Obama, Shame on Liberals

Over the past five years, I have been alternately annoyed, bothered, bewildered, aghast, appalled and even occasionally amused by the Obama Administration.

But NOW, I’m angry.

I’m angry because Iraq, a country we spent so much time and effort to rebuild into a nascent democracy, is falling.

I’m angry because American men and women lost blood, limbs and lives to destroy a tyrant, to crush a terrorist movement and finally to give decent people in a rough corner of the world a chance at a better future.

I’m angry because of all the years the Left spent harping on President Bush and the war effort, never once looking past their regurgitated talking points to even try to comprehend the strategy of what was going on in the Middle East.

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Obama on Iraq: Hell No, I Won't Go

Of all the betrayals of Barack Hussein Obama's presidency, the decision announced this week not to give any aid to the legitimate Iraqi government in its fight against a rampaging al-Qaida army must be one of the worst.

Joseph Farah at WorldNet Daily made a point that Obama's foreign policy is derivative of the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy for bringing about a communist economy by overloading the welfare system, and thus ensuring maximum government control. Farah believes that Obama's goal at all times is to create chaos for chaos' sake, with the ultimate aim of creating stricter, stronger government.

If that's the case, Obama's idea of stronger government must be one that follows shariah law, because that's what he has a pattern of supporting, from the Muslim Brotherhood coup in Egypt to the al-Qaida "rebels" in Syria.

But I think it's even simpler than that. Some of the people behind Obama certainly have grand plans, and Obama himself may have a few fantasies about how he'd like things to turn out, but I think that ultimately, Obama operates on an instinctive level.

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The Truth About the IRS Scandal? The Computer Ate It

Ah, those dear old days of school, when you hadn't done your homework and told the teacher that Rover, the faithful family dog, had mistaken your project for kibble.

Such excuses are a little less endearing in grown-up life, especially when they involve matters such as turning over evidence in a congressional investigation.

The latest bit of stonewalling by the IRS in Congress' investigation into the targeting of conservative groups for harassment involves the unlikely tale of two years of Lois Lerner's emails and a computer crash.

Read more at Political Outcast.