Tavarish Grumpy makes an excellent post about the Islamic State and barry's response to it:
Comrade Grumpy (9,034 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014910621
Islamic State Reportedly on Baghdad's Outskirts After Week of Victories
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not good
No shit.
Scootaloo (13,810 posts)
1. Isn't that kind of the opposite of what's supposed to be happening? Maybe the president has bad maps, and thinks Baghdad is somewhere in Syria?
or maybe barry should listen to the military who tell him bombing alone isn't gonna cut it.
ballyhoo (1,593 posts)
2. Unlike many in here, I think you get it, Scootaloo. Syria is the target--not ISIS, ISIL, IS, whatever. These entities are all a scam, a front, an artifice, a device...It's all a trick to take out Assad, and it will end as horribly as you can imagine.
ISIS isn't real!
ballyhoo (1,593 posts)
5. No. It is a CIA confab, as has been written many times. That's okay: we all have different contacts. The only thing we are doing in Syria and Iraq is recruiting volunteers for the acronyms. We will continue to fight them until the entitlement money is reduced then gone.
I think we have found our new DU meme. ISIS is a CIA plot!
The Magistrate (84,843 posts)
8. So, Sir, You Are Seriously Maintaining The C.I.A. Directs I.S.I.L. And moves it against Iraq in order to provide President Obama with an 'excuse' to attack Syria....
yup. That is exactly what Loonytoons is 'maintaining'. barry's plans to 'win' the new conflict just isn't working... just like the experts said.
Scootaloo (13,810 posts)
6. It's just not working?
How much does each bomb cost? Can't be cheap. How many have we dropped? Can't be a terribly small number. And how effective have they been? Doesn't look like they've been effective at all.
How many homeless people are in the United States? Apparently 3.5 million people experience homelessness in any given year in our nation; that's 1% of the population, which is not a small number. 50 million Americans are food-insecure, meaning they do not have a steady source of nutrition available to them.
... wait for it...
rtracey (571 posts)
7. time for big boy pants
Time for Iraq to step up. time for turkey to step up, Time for Saudi Arabia to step up, Jordan, Syria, ....step up and fight ISIS. Now, its time for Obama to step up and tell Bush, Romney, Cheney, republican house, and sad too say Democrat Senate to shut the **** up... Time for US to give all these countries 1 week....start getting your shit together or we stop the bombing....
Now time for democrats to shut the **** up and step up... Wassermann-Schultz? where the hell are you.....Harry Reid where are you.... all the Senators not for reelection, where are you, why are you not out there helping.....you are losing time and sadly I believe the Senate.
... so... your plan... to defeat the Islamic State... is to tell the people who haven't been able to do anything about it so far to do something about it in seven days or... we quit fighting the Islamic State?
Gee... I wonder why Chamberlain didn't tell Hitler if he didn't stop it he'd hold his breath til the Nazi left Poland...
rtracey (571 posts)
10. true. point being.....U.S. OUT...
George II (4,677 posts)
14. I guess bush/Cheney shouldn't have done away with the Iraqi army in 2003?
And we rebuilt the Iraqi Army til 2009. I know. I was there doing it in 2005 with the 1st Iraqi Mechanized Brigade. We recuited, trained, advised and fought with them. It was successful. Then barry sold us, and them, out for his moment to declare 'Peace in his time'.
MannyGoldstein (28,858 posts)
13. Hmmm... looks like we need Boots on the Groundâ„¢
Of course, we all tried as hard as we could to prevent this, but given that we're dealing with the most dangerous danger ever, we simply have no choice.
But let us thank God that America is exceptional. We shall prevail.
With great sadness (other than the joy from the returns on my recent MIC stock investments),
TWM
I believe manny is being sacrastic.
morningfog (9,169 posts)
17. God bless our troops and God bless America.
Anyone who has been paying attention knew is was only a question of when not if.
So, barry has been lying to you the entire time?
Plucketeer (7,458 posts)
24. Are we absolutely certain that Saddam is dead?
That's what we need to bring stability back to Iraq - a ruthless tyrant we can prop up. A guy with enough grit to reinstate the tribal (sectarian) checkmate that was in place prior to US going in there and spreading democracy. I'm feeling GOOD about bringing democracy to Iraq - how's bout the rest of you? And one day - when the smoke clears and the place looks like a moonscape - the few Iraqis left standing will be anxious to put together a productive congress - just like the one we have.
...says the man with the Vietnam campaign ribbon icon.
