Tonight, President Obama spoke to the American people from the White House and addressed a topic that has been the subject of much consternation over the last few weeks: the lack of a defined response to the terrorist threat posed by ISIS in Iraq.
An abrupt departure from his “We don’t have a strategy yet” gaffe from an August 28th press conference, the President spoke in clear terms and outlined his strategy for routing the Islamic State militants, a strategy that is to include the use of airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria.
Additionally, the President communicated plans to deploy 475 American military advisers to Iraq, bringing to number who are stationed in the region to 1,000.
As expected, a number of Americans took issue with certain parts of Obama’s speech and provided some interesting, and sometimes humorous, feedback for the President about his new strategy. Here is just a sampling of some of the better Twitter responses to President Obama’s ISIS speech:
Let him be clear: ISIL in not Islamic. Except that they call themselves the Islamic State. And they kill in the name of Islam. #ObamaSpeech
— Nadine Elhindi (@NadineElhindi) September 11, 2014
#ObamaSpeech: This effort will be diff. from wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 11, 2014
Who's gonna tell the Air Force they're not combat troops? #ObamaSpeech
— The Morning Spew (@TheMorningSpew) September 11, 2014
Pres. Obama: "We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq." #ObamaSpeech #CAVUTO
— Neil Cavuto (@TeamCavuto) September 11, 2014
Stop telling the enemy how many people we are sending #isis #ObamaSpeech
— Jerry Boykin (@GenBoykin) September 11, 2014
“@Jaxhana: Seems legit …
#anarcho #libertarian pic.twitter.com/7A4sSSs8Ew” #ObamaStrategies #ObamaSpeech
— Gerald Geddes (@lesstaxingcpa) September 11, 2014
@marklevinshow I received a copy of the presidents speech #obamaspeech pic.twitter.com/lM1k5sqRPy
— cpwal (@cpwal) September 11, 2014
Ready! Set! Go… and speechify! #ObamaAddressOnISIS #ObamaSpeech pic.twitter.com/iKsvjcIDvX
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) September 11, 2014
Clint Eastwood was right…
#ObamaSpeech pic.twitter.com/0x7fcYcpWV
— Liars Never Win (@liars_never_win) September 11, 2014
Wonder if ISIS is watching to learn Obama's plan? #ObamaSpeech pic.twitter.com/JJbr8wpRAN
— Bill Garrett (@agolfcourse) September 11, 2014
Obama in a picture #ObamaSpeech pic.twitter.com/UjH7dQvbW9
— Call me Ricky (@RakinKhan) September 11, 2014
Apple is breathing a sigh of relief – at least their broadcast wasn't this bad
#ObamaSpeech #PresidentialAddress pic.twitter.com/Km73X8tU69
— Hank Reardon (@wwjgdnet) September 11, 2014
It's Miller-time!
#tcot #tgdn #lnyhbt #tlot #pjnet #teaparty #ccot #UniteBlue #ObamaSpeech
#PresidentialAddress pic.twitter.com/LJrEG8FXVY
— Michael A Nöthem (@mikandynothem) September 11, 2014
Apparently the Constitution is now optional… #WarPowers Act anyone? #ObamaSpeech
Read: https://t.co/BN2wqIL66v pic.twitter.com/dLy6H1iXmS
— Dennis Kucinich (@Dennis_Kucinich) September 11, 2014
Obama: if you threaten America, you will find NO SAFE HAVEN, unless you took out a consulate in Libya, then whatever. #ObamaSpeech
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 11, 2014