To be clear, Obama has been fighting ISIS since 2014

<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/exclusive-inside-anti-isis-command-center-31594520">Obama's long on going fight against ISIS</a>

<b>U.S. jet fighters, drones strike ISIS fighters, convoys in Iraq
Sat, August 9, 2014</b>

U.S. fighter jets and drones repeatedly bombed Sunni Islamic extremists in northern Iraq on Friday, targeting what officials described as ISIS artillery units and convoys advancing on the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil.

The airstrikes ramped up America's involvement in Iraq where ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State, is seizing control of towns and key infrastructure in an advance that has forced hundreds of thousands to run for their lives.

News of the second round of U.S. airstrikes came just after the governor of Irbil told CNN that ISIS may be as close as 30 kilometers (just over 18 miles) from the city of more than a million people.

The airstrikes began just hours after President Barack Obama authorized "targeted airstrikes," saying in a televised address late Thursday that the United States had an obligation to protect its personnel in Iraq and prevent a potential genocide of minority groups by ISIS.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/08/world/iraq-options/

AFP, Washington
<b>Tuesday, 16 September 2014</b>

The United States bombed the Islamic State near Baghdad, the first time the U.S. has targeted the militants close to the Iraqi capital, U.S. officials said Monday.

A U.S. defense official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity that American warplanes carried out one air strike near Baghdad and another near Mount Sinjar, in the north of Iraq, in the past 24 hours.

The <b>United States last month began a campaign of air strikes against ISIS</b> positions in northern Iraq, but Monday’s announcement that U.S. warplanes had targeted the militants near Baghdad marks an escalation in the scope of the mission.

“U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIS (ISIS) terrorists in Iraq, employing attack and fighter aircraft to conduct two airstrikes Sunday and Monday in support of Iraqi security forces near Sinjar and southwest of Baghdad,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/16/U-S-in-first-air-strike-near-Baghdad-on-ISIS.html

<b>AP November 6, 2014, 10:38 AM - U.S. bombs ISIS foes in Syria</b>

BEIRUT -- U.S. aircraft bombed al Qaeda's Syrian branch as well as another hard-line rebel faction in northwestern Syria early on Thursday, activists said, in an apparent widening of targets of the American-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group.

The series of airstrikes overnight targeted three different areas near the Turkish border, hitting a headquarters and a vehicle belonging to the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front as well as a compound of the deeply conservative Ahrar al-Sham rebel group. It marked only the second time the United States had expanded its aerial campaign against Islamic State militants to hit other extremists in Syria.

There was no immediate confirmation from U.S. officials, but the apparent strikes took place amid a Nusra Front offensive that has routed Western-backed rebel groups from their strongholds in Syria's Idlib province near the Turkish border. The timing suggests that Washington could be trying to curb the militant assault and destroy weapons supplies of hard-line rebels and al Qaeda fighters.

more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-bomb-al-qaeda-in-syria-and-widen-targets-against-isis/

<b>Who's doing what in the coalition battle against ISIS

Updated 7:54 AM ET, Thu October 9, 2014</b>

This week, Canada became the latest country to join the U.S.-led fight against ISIS when its lawmakers voted Tuesday to contribute aircraft and personnel in the battle,... (long article, long list of coalition members, noticably absent on that list is Israel)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/world/meast/isis-coalition-nations/

<b>Thanks to Faux News and other rightwing media, their audience doesn't even know we've been bombing ISIS all along and leading a coalition of nations against this group. Instead they've allowed their pundits and guests to repeatedly scream at their audience, 'why isn't Obama fighting ISIS!' .. thus a poll that said 57% of Americans don't approve of Obama's handling of ISIS.. which is clearly, because that 57% have no clue of the truth of what we've been doing in the middle east.. it's really that simple</b>

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