By contrast, since Obama announced his intention to defeat ISIS, the United States has conducted a paltry 6,846 air strikes in Iraq and Syria.
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ISIS is doing tremendous damage to the civilian populations, with the assistance of a slow and lumbering Administration.
If a Russian missile intentionally shot down a United States aircraft, I would recommend a swift and forceful response.
Unfortunately, Putin doesn't care about us being in touch with our allies; he understands that we won't respond, and because we show weakness he does what he wants.
How confident are you that the problems with CENTCOM's intelligence products now under investigation are confined to the mission against ISIS?
Have you ever directed and guided your senior intelligence officers what on what acceptable reports will or will not include?
The American people need confidence that DOD's intelligence products are apolitical assessments.
The fight against ISIS is one of the most serious challenges to our national security.
Sunni tribes in Iraq can be fickle; after years of disenfranchisement under former Prime Minister Maliki, they seem very unlikely to side with the increasingly sectarian and Shiite Iraqi Security Forces against ISIS.
I remain concerned by the refugee crisis facing our partners in the Middle East, including Turkey...
If those refugees (of which the overwhelming majority are Iraqi IDPs) are not properly cared for, they will become a ripe terrorist recruiting pool for generations.
They withdrew from the site, and that says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIS and defend themselves.
In May, you stated that Iraqi Security Forces 'just showed no will to fight' in explaining the Islamic State's victory at Ramadi.
Chairman Grassley and I have joined together in introducing legislation, the Expatriot Terrorist Act...
It is one of the good things about Obamacare is that the statute provided that members of Congress would be on the exchanges without subsidies, just like millions of Americans.
We'll be getting new health insurance, and we'll presumably do it through my job in the Senate. So we'll be on the federal exchange, like millions of others, on the federal exchange.
Today, roughly half the born-again Christians aren't voting. They're staying home. Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values.
Imagine in 2017, a new president, signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare.
Abolish the IRS! Take all 125,000 IRS agents and put them on our southern border!
Obamacare is a train wreck. We're seeing our constitutional rights under assault.
This is our fight. The answer will not come from Washington. It will come only from the men and women across this country, from men and women from people of faith, from lovers of liberty, from people who respect the constitution. It will…
I believe god isn't done with America yet. I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America. And that is why today, I am announcing that I'm running for president…





