Roy, you are badly, bigly misinformed. Just anothe
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But perhaps I've jumped to conclusions. Do you have some hard numbers to refute the ones below?
Reads to me as though Obama's military was a 'busy and effective bee'.
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How many terrorists has President Obama actually ‘taken out’? Probably more than 30,000.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w...b8416183a5
In October, the Atlantic's Kathy Gilsinan tried to estimate how many Islamic State fighters had been killed in coalition actions since fall 2014, relying on a figure of 20,000 that had been leaked to USA Today. The independent site Airwars has a running tally, that as of writing stands at 23,000.
Gilsanin also points to an interesting quote from Rear Admiral John Kirby in January of this year. Asked how many Islamic State fighters had been killed, Kirby replied, "First of all, we don't have the ability to -- to count every nose that we shwack [sic]. Number two, that's not the goal. That's not the goal. The less of these guys that are out there, certainly that's the better, but the goal is to degrade and destroy their capabilities."
Total terrorists schwacked: 23,000
Schwacked by Obama: 23,000
Over those five theaters, then, the total number of terrorists killed since fighting began ranges from 65,800 to 88,600. Of that number, Obama is responsible for between 30,000 and 33,000 -- including only the Islamic State, Pakistan, Africa and the Iraqi kills since 2009 as indexed by the AFP.