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Dempsey says fight against ISIS 'starting to turn'
2014-11-17
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] During a an unannounced visit to Iraq, the most senior U.S. military officer told American troops in Baghdad that the battle with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Death Eater group was "starting to turn."

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told the troops the U.S. military had helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces "pull Iraq back from the precipice," Rooters news agency reported.

"And now, I think it's starting to turn. So well done," he told a group of Marines at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Dempsey landed in Iraq for the first time since President Barack Obama
If you have a small business, you didn't build that...
authorized an array of responses to an offensive launched by ISIS this summer, which he said would take several yearts to "drawn-out."

Obama last week authorized roughly doubling the number of American ground forces as the military expands the reach of its advisers after slowing the Death Eaters' advances with U.S. Arclight airstrikes.

Earlier on Saturday, an Iraqi army colonel said security forces were close retaking the country's biggest refinery at Baiji, which has been under siege for months by ISIS Death Eaters.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Wasn't GWB crucified in the media for this sort of "Triumphilism"?
Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-17 07:26  

#1  "And now, I think it's starting to turn. So well done," he told a group of Marines at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Victory lap for the Marines Champ. Nice touch Marty old boy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-17 00:56  

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