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John S. Herlihy: Calling ISIS terror’s JV team proves Obama’s incompetency

In 2014 President Obama called ISIS the JV team of Islamic terrorism. It was, of course, an ignorant statement. But from 2010, two years after he took office in 2008, the nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism found that an average of 30,000 people have been killed by the “JV team” when prior to 2010 it was just 3,284.

When Obama discussed the JV team in 2014 he was chastising conservatives and moderates for being more concerned about ISIS and said they were overreacting. Hillary Clinton defended his comments in 2015.

Wow! How ignorant can these people be? And one of them wants to be president and the other would wish for a third term. Lord, please help this country.

John S. Herlihy, Modesto

This story was originally published March 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM with the headline "John S. Herlihy: Calling ISIS terror’s JV team proves Obama’s incompetency."

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