President Barack Obama may insist the United States is not losing the war against the Islamic State (ISIS) — but he's lying, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says.
"Once again the president is not telling the American people the truth. Gosh, that's surprising. And he will continue that way," DeLay said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"There is no way this president is going to do militarily what needs to be done to stop the growth of ISIS."
In an interview with The Atlantic, published Tuesday, Obama said, "I don't think we're losing."
He called the following the fall of the pivotal Iraqi city of Ramadi to the ISIS a "tactical setback" as a result of disorganized, undertrained Iraqi Defense Forces.
"The training of Iraqi security forces, the fortifications, the command-and-control systems are not happening fast enough in Anbar, in the Sunni parts of the country," Obama said in The Atlantic.
DeLay said that if nothing else, the United States should be helping those countries that want to fight against ISIS "in every way that we can."
"If nothing else, we could send one general to run the army in Iraq and that would be better than the Iraqi generals running the army in Iraq," he said.
"But the problem is none of these countries
— Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and others
— trust this president.
"And if they commit to put boots on the ground or commit to stand up to ISIS, they don't trust him to be there for them."
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