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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: longnshort who wrote (858985)5/21/2015 3:34:47 PM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (1) of 1574216
 
Dumbfounded Americans UNLOAD on Marie Harf’s unbelievable statement: ‘Iraqi forces held their lines’

May 21, 2015 by Tom Tillison

Doing her best impression of Baghdad Bob, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf gave the Iraqi army props following the fall of Ramadi.

Never mind that Iraqi forces cut and ran, surrendering the city to Islamic State militants.

“The Iraqi security forces have held their lines on the outside of the city,” Harf told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Wednesday.

Talk about putting lipstick on a pig, that’s taking spin to a whole new level.

Bloomberg columnist Josh Rogin posted Harf’s comment on Twitter and the reaction indicates that the Obama administration is fooling very few people these days.

Here’s a sampling from Twitter:

Participation medals for ISF! @joshrogin t.co

— S D Winkler (@sdwinkler) May 20, 2015



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