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:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The extremist group has continued to expand its ‘caliphate’, despite more than 800 airstrikes hitting targets in ISIS-controlled areas since last summer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The map, created by the Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS), shows just how much land has fallen to ISIS – which now has a third of the country under its control.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Before the summer, the militants controlled just half that.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The following is the map that was created by the Coalition for a Democratic Syria.  As you can see, ISIS is now much closer to Damascus than when U.S. airstrikes first began…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/?attachment_id=4844"><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><u><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/?attachment_id=4844"><span style='color:blue'>image: http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Coalition-For-A-Democratic-Syria.jpg</span><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></u></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/?attachment_id=4844"><span style='color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=634 height=445 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D0558D.AA4A2540" alt="Description: Coalition For A Democratic Syria"></span></a></span></i><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And it is funny how the U.S. military keeps making “mistakes” by air-dropping weapons right into the hands of ISIS.  The following is <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/isis-video-america-s-air-dropped-weapons-now-in-our-hands.html" target="_blank" title="many of those weapons too"><span style='color:blue'>just one example of this phenomenon</span></a>…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>An ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a new video online Tuesday entitled, “Weapons and munitions dropped by American planes and landed in the areas controlled by the Islamic State in Kobani.” The video was also posted on the Twitter account of “a3maq news,” which acts as an unofficial media arm of ISIS. The outfit has previously posted videos of ISIS fighters firing American made Howitzer cannons and seizing marijuana fields in Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq. ISIS videos have showed its fighters driving U.S. tanks, MRAPs, Humvees.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We have the most sophisticated military on the entire planet and yet we drop weapons into the hands of the enemy by mistake?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Come on.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Meanwhile, Obama and many members of Congress continue to insist that we need to give lots more weapons to the “moderate rebels” in Syria.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But do these “moderate rebels” actually exist?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ayad Jamal Al-din, a former member of the Iraqi parliament, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/iraqi-politician-obama-is-supporting-isis-in-syria-will-he-support-isis-in-iraq-too-video/" target="_blank" title="is skeptical to say the least"><span style='color:blue'>is skeptical to say the least</span></a>…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The pressure on the Syrian regime, which is fighting ISIS, must be lifted. They should not try to strengthen the feeble Free Syrian Army [FSA]. There is no FSA. There is ISIS in Syria and Iraq. You cannot fight ISIS in Iraq, yet support it in Syria. There is one war and one enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The U.S. should give up its hypocrisy. People are not brainless. How can it be that a State Department spokesperson talks about Iraq, and then a White House spokesman says: “We must pressure the [Syrian] regime so that it surrenders”? Surrenders to whom? To ISIS. Where is the FSA? There is no such thing. The war is one and the same.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And what the American people are not being told is that these “Free Syrian Army fighters” are <a href="http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/3000-fsa-fighters-defect-isis-qalamoun-mountains/" target="_blank" title="continually defecting"><span style='color:blue'>continually defecting</span></a> and joining forces with ISIS…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Up to 3,000 Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have defected from the organization and given ba’yah (religious payment; servitude) to the self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, in the Qalamoun Mountains of the Rif Dimashq Governorate – these fighters belonged to multiple brigades that formed the conglomeration of the FSA.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As ISIS continues to spread their presence on the border of Lebanon and Syria, many rebel groups have found this organization more appealing than their predecessors due to their success in eastern and northern Syria. The Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) – who fought ISIS in Deir Ezzor – has seemingly repaired relations in eastern Lebanon and western Syria. The 2 militant groups have been spotted working together during armed engagements with loyalist forces in ‘Assal Al-Ward and Rankous.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So when we train “moderate rebels” in Syria, there is a very good chance that they will use that training and the weapons that we give to them to help ISIS take over that nation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But Obama knows all of this.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>He just wants to take down Assad.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And he has used this playbook before.  In fact, the Citizens Commission on Benghazi has released an interim report that claims that Obama <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/generals-conclude-obama-backed-al-qaida/" target="_blank" title="“changed sides in the war on terror”"><span style='color:blue'>“changed sides in the war on terror”</span></a> in 2011 by arming al-Qaeda fighters and helping them take down Moammar Gadhafi…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Obama White House and the State Department under the management of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “changed sides in the war on terror” in 2011 by implementing a policy of facilitating the delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-dominated rebel militias in Libya attempting to oust Moammar Gadhafi from power, the Citizens Commission on Benghazi concluded in its interim report.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In WND interviews, several members of the commission have disclosed their finding that the mission of Christopher Stevens, prior to the fall of Gadhafi and during Stevens’ time as U.S. ambassador, was the management of a secret gun-running program operated out of the Benghazi compound.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This is what our government does.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>They are not even afraid to use al-Qaeda to achieve their twisted foreign policy goals.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So is Barack Obama actually trying to help ISIS take over Syria?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The evidence is mounting that this is indeed the case, and history tells us that he has done this kind of thing before.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/is-barack-obama-actually-trying-to-help-isis-take-over-syria/#CzEsZjcIvE2z0qCx.99<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>