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'MOST NAIVE STATEMENT' IN OBAMA'S ADDRESS

Congressman: 'He's sent every signal to adversaries that we're not going to stand strong'

Greg Corombos

Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., says President Obama continued to project weakness in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, and he asserts Obama’s characterization of America’s fight against terrorism and a nuclear Iran is not backed up by the facts.

In his speech, Obama claimed the shadow of crisis has passed when it comes to the threat posed by radical Islam. In one of the most striking statements, Obama said the U.S. has halted progress in Iran’s nuclear program.

“Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material,” Obama said.

But Pittenger said Iran is doing just fine because the nuclear program has not stopped, more money is pouring in after the easing of sanctions and Iran is only too happy to string the West along by suggesting the prospect of some breakthrough agreement that will probably never come.

“Now we’re on our second extension (of nuclear talks with Iran) for another seven months,” Pittenger said. “We’ve unfrozen billions of dollars of more assets for them. We already provided $8 billion of economic aid. This is a terrorist state that has funded terrorism for the past 30-plus years.”

Obama also stated his administration is leading a successful coalition to defeat the Islamic State, or ISIS. Pittenger said that appraisal clearly fails the smell test.

“Syria is the staging ground for al-Qaida and ISIS throughout the world,” Pittenger said. “There are over 90 countries represented in Syria today, over 3,000 Western passports. It would be the most naive statement to say that we are winning the war in Syria.”

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