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2014-06-13 Iraq

Iran Deploys Quds Forces To Support Iraqi Troops, Helps Retake Most Of Tikrit

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Posted by KBK 2014-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Can I call 'em, or what?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-13 06:18|| 2014-06-13 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes my brother, we are Quds just passing through on our way to help Baby Assad and the Russians. We're staying over at FOB Speicher. Thanks for the MRE's. Glad to be of assistance.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-13 07:00|| 2014-06-13 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like Iraq is unraveling into three parts: Kurd, Sunni, and Shiite. Just trying to figure out where the lines are going to be drawn or going for an Arab-dominated caliphate across the region?

Iran is Shia and supporting Assad who is a Ba'athist which is Sunni. Iran is Persian. The rebels are made up of a hodge-podge of groups and alliances such as AQ, ISIS, etc., some more moderate. SA supports the rebels. There is a Byzantine witches brew. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-13 07:54|| 2014-06-13 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 What could possibly go wrong?

What went wrong, has already gone wrong. At this point, mutually assured extinction should be viewed a feature, not a bug. Please do not touch.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-13 08:01|| 2014-06-13 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. Eight years of buttered popcorn.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-13 08:06|| 2014-06-13 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Sad to say I am rooting for the Iranian thugs to exterminate the Wahhabi bastards. But I have a short attention span, moth-like as it were.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-13 08:29|| 2014-06-13 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like Iraq is unraveling into three parts: Kurd, Sunni, and Shiite.

One of the few things that 'Uncle Joe' Biden stated that ever made sense to me.

Of course, a stopped clock is right twice a day....

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-06-13 08:33|| 2014-06-13 08:33|| Front Page Top

#8 If the White House ever decides to provide air support it will, at some ironic point, be used in support of the IRGC.

I stopped reading cheap adventure novels years ago - they started getting too close to reality.

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-13 10:08|| 2014-06-13 10:08|| Front Page Top

#9 "Sad to say I am rooting for the Iranian thugs to exterminate the Wahhabi bastards."

And v.v., of course.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-06-13 10:33|| 2014-06-13 10:33|| Front Page Top

#10 fight each other to the last man, and he dies of MERS.

Posted by Frank G 2014-06-13 10:58|| 2014-06-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

#11 [Rooters]Exclusive: Alarmed by Iraq, Iran open to shared role with U.S. - Iran official

That second front thing must have Iran worried.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-13 11:41|| 2014-06-13 11:41|| Front Page Top

#12 So now with Saddam, Bush, Clinton, the UN and NATO out of the way these people can finally have the nasty big frickin' war they've all been longing for all these years.

IIRC, one of the big concerns during the 1980s war between Iran and Iraq was that Iranians would conquer Soddy Arabia and for our role in helping the Soddies we got 9/11. So this time I find myself unconcerned. Maybe it will degenerate into the Iranian Mad Mullahs trying to figure out how to handle a bleeding guerrilla war against lunatic Sunnis on the Arabian Peninsula. That way they won't have time to worry about Jews and Christians. It's time to walk away from these murderous, barbaric morons and let them figure it out for themselves. Yeah, and Obama is just the guy to do the walking...from one hole to another on the golf course.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-06-13 11:52|| 2014-06-13 11:52|| Front Page Top

#13 munch...munch...munch

Posted by Large Sforza6389 2014-06-13 11:53|| 2014-06-13 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Arm the Kurds. Let the Sunni and Shia kill each other. Its what Allen wants.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-06-13 12:08|| 2014-06-13 12:08|| Front Page Top

#15 I still remember the prediction by a nuclear proliferation expert that the first nuclear exchange would be between Middle Eastern Islamic countries.

Seems more likely everyday.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-13 12:09|| 2014-06-13 12:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe, DV. But if they bleed themselves dry in ceaseless ground fighting they might not have the resources left over for nukes.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-06-13 12:16|| 2014-06-13 12:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Or they see it as good propaganda, a temp alliance to tempt the US from bomb worries.

If I were the Kurds, I would do the small discrete things to secure my territory, and put down a wet line.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-06-13 12:17|| 2014-06-13 12:17|| Front Page Top

#18 My goodness, the empty suit is without shame.

First the French shame him into helping in Libya, then the Russians scare him into helping(?) in Syria and NOW we have the three ring circus/insane asylum known as Iran helping to salvage a mess he created.

To bring Nancy Pelosi up to speed, WMD WERE found in Iraq, the Wilson mission to Nigeria, which he went on every talk show in the world to say he found no proof of Iraq trying to buy yellow cake, when his report to the CIA stated he had found proof of inquiries by Iraq. Then we have all of those barrels of stuff labeled insecticide that made troops deadly sick (note to Nan, most insecticides ARE nerve agents and in concentrations over 2% can be lethal to humans).

Just another example of how ghastly and wrong the treaty of Versailles was. We have been fighting wars and genocide ever since...Yugoslavia was a cockup created by the Treaty, Czechoslakia was created as was Iraq and Kuwait.

We will wind up with three nations. Of course the most deadly development would be the creation of Kurdistan and the implications of THAT to Turkey and Iran.

Are there any adults in the white house (I won't capitalize that until we get someone who CARES in office)?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-13 13:27|| 2014-06-13 13:27|| Front Page Top

#19 It's time to walk away from these murderous, barbaric morons and let them figure it out for themselves.

I don't like totally agreeing with this, but I do. Keep the juices armed to the teeth and just walk away, there is not a damn thing we can do to change the trajectory of this CF. Plant a few cameras and send a ground crew to investigate once every 50 years.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-13 14:18|| 2014-06-13 14:18|| Front Page Top

#20 Are we on a 100 year time loop? Looks like the 21st century is gonna be exciting. If they try to outlaw my booze in a few years there's gonna be a problem.

Posted by Lowspark 2014-06-13 14:19|| 2014-06-13 14:19|| Front Page Top

#21 Don't worry LowSpark, Coca-Cola will have a new sparkle and cough syrup will be seriously soothing.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-13 14:21|| 2014-06-13 14:21|| Front Page Top

#22 I am starting to agree with Ship's thought, mostly because watching 8 years of blood, sweat, toil, treasure be swept aside by the very forces this administration tried to go to war with vs. Syria is pukeable.

IMHO, the US's best chance of affecting this was to catch initial convoys and resupply out on the road, and that time is gone.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-06-13 14:50|| 2014-06-13 14:50|| Front Page Top

#23 Hummmmm - Muqtada al-Sadr - 2014: The powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has withdrawn from politics,on February 18, 2014, dismantling his influential political movement in a move that has stunned his followers and handed a pre-election boost to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Posted by Sheresing Chaique9739 2014-06-13 14:58|| 2014-06-13 14:58|| Front Page Top

#24 That is interesting. Makes me think of Assad and his post-election pardons. Taunts from ISIL/S weeks ago about capturing Iraqi equipment. Perhaps the reason so many troops fled is the olde rumor mill has been turning for some time.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-06-13 15:14|| 2014-06-13 15:14|| Front Page Top

#25 What I find ironic is the left railed on the right for Iraq and fighting for big oil. As this progresses and they talk about the oil field being lost Obama will eventually get in the fight, not to liberate Kuwait but for control of the oil fields.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-13 16:46|| 2014-06-13 16:46|| Front Page Top

#26 From the land of the morning mustachio
We sons of the Prophet are good to go.
No beards for the barber;
We launch for Pearl Harbor --
It's not our first time at this rodeo.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-06-13 18:18|| 2014-06-13 18:18|| Front Page Top

#27 Rising Iran has been the Bammer's = USA's BFF + future OWG Co-Superpower since the Assad-Syria Crisis, + its good Globalism.

AS OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS RISE, THE SUPERPOWER USA = [Post-WW2, Cold War] GREAT POWERS MUST REDUCE OR SHRINK.

Once firmly entrenched in IRAQ + ME, count on IRAN NOT withdrawing or pulling out its forces willingly widout a fight.

* FYI REUTERS, YAHOO NEWS > ALARMED BY IRAQ, IRAN OPS FOR SHARED ROLE WID US - IRAN OFFICIAL.

IIUC, IOW the Bammer Admin = USA may find itself in the position of using US = US-Allied Airpower to help support Iran's IRGC Quds Force, etal. on the ground presum of course that POTUS-Obama-the-Anti-US-US-Globalist does decide to SSSSHHHHH
... PCCCCCC minimally support the main Iraqi Govt-Army???

SUB-IOW, THE US WILL COVERTLY DENIABLY HELP OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN EXPAND ITS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE AT THE EXPENCE OF ITS OWN TRADITIONAL ME ALLIES???

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > IRAQ CRISIS: ISIL [aka ISIS] CLAIMS TO HAVE EXECUTED 1,700 SHIA SOLDIERS, GROUP CLAIMS MASS KILLINGS OF IRAQI TROOPS AS MILITATNTS BATTLE 50 MILES FROM BAGHDAD.

* FREEREPUBLIC > ISIS LEADER [Al-Baghdadi] TO US: "SOON WE WILL BE IN DIRECT CONFRONTATION".

D *** NG IT, BAGHDADI, YOU CALL THAT GLOBALIST "FAIR/MULTI-POLAR SHARING"???

* SAME > [BreitBart] A SHIA-SUNNI HOLY WAR ABOUT TO COMMENCE IN BAGHDAD?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-13 20:39|| 2014-06-13 20:39|| Front Page Top

#28 Yes, Joe, I believe you are correct.

Unfortunately, Americans buy into the hope that a war of this nature could be kept local to their neighborhoods (maybe its the complacency of almost 10 generations of relative protection by our surrounding waters?), but such shall not be the case.

Make way, partner. There's gonna' be renewed interest in "nowhere-villes" once the feces really impact the oscillating atmospheric motion-impartment device.

Now I have to go get another glass of wine.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-13 22:34|| 2014-06-13 22:34|| Front Page Top

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