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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on June 12, 2014, 08:42:55 AM
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Hissyspit (42,932 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014824050
Iraq Sunni Militant Group Vows to March on Baghdad
Barry's crowning achievement is about to come true.
(http://carryingthegun.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/fall-of-saigon1.jpg?w=920)
Archae (29,957 posts)
1. Seems even Al-Qaeda can't stand this bunch...
Too vicious and brutal for them!
nitpicker (135 posts)
2. Iraq crisis: UN 'deplores' militants' capture of cities
The UN Security Council has condemned attacks by Islamist militants in two major Iraqi cities, Mosul and Tikrit.
It said the humanitarian situation around Mosul, where up to 500,000 people have fled, was "dire and is worsening by the moment".
Government forces have stalled the militants' advance near Samarra, a city just 110km (68 miles) north of Baghdad.
The US says it is considering further assistance to Iraq in fighting the militants, without giving details.
The insurgents, from an al-Qaeda offshoot called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), and other Sunni Muslim militants have been consolidating positions in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, which they took on Wednesday, after capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city
msongs (33,394 posts)
5. so what are our obscenely wealthy arab best friends doing about any of this? nt
Someone bought into Barry's "lead from behind" strategy.
dipsydoodle (41,440 posts)
8. Who's to blame for the fall of Mosul?
Middle East analyst Juan Cole has a long charge sheet including: the Bush administration, Saudi Arabia, the Iraqi army, and Nouri al-Maliki. But he says the roots of the problem go right back to the "shameful European imperial scramble for the Middle East during and after WWI".
Of course. It couldn't be because of Barry's rush to leave, could it?
another_liberal (5,412 posts)
9. The Russian Foreign Minister had this to say concerning the disaster that is Iraq.
“This is an illustration of the complete failure of the adventure that was started by the US and the UK and has now spiraled out of control completely. We express our solidarity with the Iraqi authorities, the Iraqi people who should restore peace and security in their country, but the actions of our Western partners raise a lot of questions,†Lavrov said.
Keep pressing that reset button, Hillery.
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The answer is very simple:
#BringBackOurCities
Show that to Al Qaeda and they will leave Iraq in an hour. It worked with Boko Haram, right?
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Barry's crowning achievement is about to come true.
(http://carryingthegun.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/fall-of-saigon1.jpg?w=920)
With Hagel's budget guts we'll be lucky if we could still afford a Huey.
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With Hagel's budget guts we'll be lucky if we could still afford a Huey.
Maybe al-Qaeda will loan us some of the Blackhawks and Kiowas they just captured in Mosul.
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The plus side of the situation in Iraq? When someone asks how bad Jimmy Carter's foreign policy disasters were, you have plenty of current examples to compare it to.
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Archae (29,957 posts)
1. Seems even Al-Qaeda can't stand this bunch...
wait, I thought obama had al queda on the run after he personally iced bin ladin.
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wait, I thought obama had al queda on the run after he personally iced bin ladin.
Guess Barry forgot to check under the bed and in the closets.
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If we go back there, the only way to be sure to cure the problem is kill them all let GOD sort them out.
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If we go back there, the only to be sure to cure the problem is kill them all let GOD sort them out.
It's not an if, it's a when. That was apparent when Obama pulled all of our troops out, but he was warned this would happen. He wouldn't even help Morsi when Morsi was pleading with him to come back and help.
The left must be so proud of their leader.
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It's not an if, it's a when. That was apparent when Obama pulled all of our troops out, but he was warned this would happen. He wouldn't even help Morsi when Morsi was pleading with him to come back and help.
The left must be so proud of their leader.
Oh, they are so proud.
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wait, I thought obama had al queda on the run after he personally iced bin ladin.
My thought too. I thought we didn't have to worry about Al Queda anymore.