The Washington Free Beacon - Pompeo Rips Apart Obama's ISIL Speech

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Congressman Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) called President Obama's Wednesday night prime-time address "disappointing," "dangerous," and "disconnected from reality."

Pompeo told radio host Hugh Hewitt that Obama made a series of untrue statements regarding Somalia and Yemen, the "Islamic' nature of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and the Assad regime's disposal of chemical weapons.

"It's just a very narrow effort to try and recapture some political high ground with no strategic though behind it," Pompeo said.

"Incredibly disappointing, I was hoping he would finally step out and lead in the way an American commander-in-chief is going to have to."

Other glaring omissions, Pompeo said, were the threats posed to Israel and the threats posed to U.S. forces now preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan.

"He doesn't recognize that the radical Islamic threat is real; the jihadist threat is real, it is global in nature, and it wants to attack America," Pompeo said. "He used the words "America is safer today' … That's simply not the case."

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