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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how Jeb! Bush is now claiming that Obama created a quagmire in the Middle East.  Dude, your brother owns that honor!
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It's like a five-year old denying that he was responsible for the broken vase laying in pieces in the living room floor.[/quote]

It's like denying that the current president has been in office for 8 years and referenced a jv team.[/quote]

I deny that the current president has been in office for 8 years.
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OK, noted.  But I'll stand by the jv reference.[/quote]

They are the jv.  He's not wrong about that.  They are not very good fighters.[/quote]

No, I'd say he was wrong about that.  And it was a cavalier statement as well.  [/quote]

Assuming that you are interested in facts and not simply interested in bashing the president, let's take a look at the "jv reference". It came from an interview in January 2014 and went like this:

[quote]Remnick:  "You know where this is going, though. Even in the period that you’ve been on vacation in the last couple of weeks, in Iraq, in Syria, of course, in Africa, al-Qaeda is resurgent."

Obama:  "Yes, but, David, I think the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV 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."

Remnick: "But that JV team just took over Fallujah."

Obama:  "I understand.  But when you say took over Fallujah –"
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Note that "ISIS", "ISIL", "IS" or any other name for the group is even mentioned. To the contrary, Redneck seems to refer to the group as "al-Qaida".  If you did not know that ISIS had just taken over Fallujah, you would even connect this conversation to ISIS. In sports, "JV" stands for "junior varsity". As JV players group up and improve, many of them join the varsity team. In January 2014, ISIS was a JV team. It was not even well enough know to be distinguished from al-Qaida. The only thing it had done was capture Fallujah. Time has past and ISIS is not a varsity team in terms of international terrorism and in the minds of many Americans.
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