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2014-06-11 Iraq

$%^@ Midas Strikes Again: Iraq Asked U.S. for Strikes, Officials Say; Was Denied

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-06-11 20:25|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Ask Secretary Hagel, he has the last word on military matters...or is that only on Fridays?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-06-11 20:35|| 2014-06-11 20:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Just remember who played hard ball on the Status of Forces Agreement. It's just not the WH's fault here.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-11 20:36|| 2014-06-11 20:36|| Front Page Top

#3 JHC.

The world is in serious need of Mr. Obamas unemployment.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-11 20:39|| 2014-06-11 20:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Understood Procopius2k, but sometimes the adults have to take charge of the situation.

Regrettably, we have none to offer at this time.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-11 20:40|| 2014-06-11 20:40|| Front Page Top

#5 They're mounted up and headed toward Tikrit. Baghdad is next.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-11 20:44|| 2014-06-11 20:44|| Front Page Top

#6 NYT, no less.

Posted by KBK 2014-06-11 20:53|| 2014-06-11 20:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama also promised support for Iraq after the last troops had left. They'll get air support I'm sure..Chinooks to the Greez Zone.

What do you expect Obama to do? Call in airstrikes on the very team he has been trying to arm and give air cover to? Why that would be contradictory, make him look bad. McCain has been on TV for the last three years trying to blow up somebody, anybody, and here is his chance to do so, to prevent a massacre. Where is the olde saber rattler?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-06-11 20:56|| 2014-06-11 20:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Speaking of the US NOT already bombing al-Qaeda like during the Cold War ... ...

Saddam Hussein's hometown of TIKRIT has now fallen.

* FREEREPUBLIC > [NYT] IRAQI MILITANTS, PUSHING SOUTH, AIM AT CAPITAL.

* SAME > [Daily Beast] IRAQ WANTS AMERICA BACK TO FIGHT AL-QAEDA WID AIRSTRIKES.

* FYI see also TOPIX > [Daily Mail.UK] THE US HAS NO PLANS TO SEND ANY OF ITS 35,000 MIDDLE EAST-BASED TROOPS INTO IRAQ AFTER AL-QAEDA OVERRUNS TWO TWO CITIES AND FORCES 500,000 TO FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES.

* SAME > NOW TIKRIT FALLS TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS ... ...

* SAME > AL-QAEDA BREAKAWAY PURSUING AN ISLAMIC STATE, from Syria to Iraq, | IRAQ CRISIS: BATTLE FOR MOSUL USHERS IN ISLAMIC CALIPHATE FROM SYRIA TO IRAQ.

* SAME > [Commentary Magazine] OBAMA'S RETREAT + JIHAD'S RISE.

Iraq = Vietnam = PHIL = all want the Bammer = USA to be more hands-on, or take active determinative steps inluding USDOD-led "shows/displays of force", vee ongoing crises.

Iff one believes as I do that the Bammer + Globies desire for Rising Iran to be a OWG Co-Superpower in control or dominating one or more OWG Global Fed Union(s), then the questions to be asked is WILL IRAQ'S SHIA-LED GOVT-ARMY ASK IRAN-N-ONLY-IRAN TO INTERVENE, + WILL IRAN REGIONAL RIVAL TURKEY ALLOW IT???

Again, OWG GLOBALISM = FUTURE OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS RISING IRAN, RISING CHINA, + RUSSIA, ETC. MAY UNILATERALLY = FORCIBLY? EXPAND THEIR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE WID LITTLE TO NO INTERVENTION BY THE GLOBALIST OBAMA = USA SAVE FOR PCORRECT-DENIABLE DEMANDS FOR DIPLOMATIC SOLUTIONS + STRONGLY-WORDED LETTERS OF DISPLEASURE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-11 22:54|| 2014-06-11 22:54|| Front Page Top

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