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Terror Networks
White House says US is at war with ISIL
2014-09-13
[Iran Press TV] The White House has announced that the United States is at war with the ISIL terrorist group, rejecting Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
's remarks about the terror network.

"In the same way that we are at war with al-Qaeda and its affiliates around the globe, we are at war with ISIL," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said on Friday.

He made the comments one day after Kerry said that the US strategy to fight ISIL included "many different things that one doesn't think of normally in context of war."

Earnest added that Washington's new strategy was "different than the strategies previously pursued in Iraq."

The strategy for handling the group was "consistent with the counterterrorism strategy we've pursued in cases all around the world," he said.

"This president, as is expected of American presidents, is stepping up to lead an international coalition to confront that threat and to deny ISIL a safe haven. And ultimately, this international coalition will be responsible for degrading and destroying ISIL," according to the press secretary.

Meanwhile,
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Pentagon front man John Kirby reiterated that the US military is at war with ISIL.

During a speech on Wednesday, President Barack Obama
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said that his country was prepared to expand its bombing campaign against ISIL Death Eaters and launch Arclight airstrikes in Syria.

The Pentagon announced that the United States already has conducted more than154 Arclight airstrikes against ISIL targets in Iraq.

The B.O. regime has also planned to further arm and train what it calls "moderate" hard boyz in Syria to fight against ISIL terrorists.
Posted by:Fred

#8  To be a war congress has to declare it.
Posted by: irishrageboy   2014-09-13 17:10  

#7  "What is the meaning of 'is'?"
Posted by: borgboy   2014-09-13 16:35  

#6  So its a not-war war.

What a muddle.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-09-13 15:46  

#5  International coalition = A gaggle of Arabs singing "Onward, Christian Soldiers" in bad three-part harmony.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-09-13 12:52  

#4  Limited or global? ISIS seems to be attracting jihadist boneheads from all over the world including the U.S. A lot of whether things go global is up to them unless things can get tamped down where they are.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-09-13 11:21  

#3  The war against AQ was authorized by an AUMF passed by Congress in September 2001. That doesn't cover ISIL today. The 90 day clock is in countdown (the clock established by the Donks in the War Powers Act).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-09-13 09:58  

#2  Would that be a limited, local war, or a war of a "global" nature ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-13 08:14  

#1  Now Josh, it wasn't so hard saying war was it? Now can you say Islamic?
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-09-13 07:56  

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