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2014-06-13 Iraq

Kerry calls for Iraqis to 'come together,' as militants seize more territory

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-13 11:42|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 He roller-coaster, he got early warning
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking cos he looks so Frenchy
Come together right now over me

Posted by Snusort Spomose2148 2014-06-13 12:53|| 2014-06-13 12:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Kerry and most of the libs in the State Department refuse to acknowledge nice sounding speeches and platitudes and kind phone calls to panicked heads of state mean NOTHING if there is not the willingness to do something.

Problem is diplomacy should be a means to an end not an end unto itself. At some point, you have to get up from the table and say "I don't think we are getting anywhere, you aren't negotiating in good faith, my second will be contacting you about our next meeting" and walk out. AND be willing upon walking out to call the nearest general and tell him to remount, reload, be prepared to move.

The only reason we are not still negotiating in Viet Nam is because Le Dak To know that Nixon and Kissinger would bomb the north into the stone age and not blink an eye.

We are still negotiating in Korea because we were afraid of Russia (who had just shown off their first A-Bomb for vast PR purposes) and we did not have the resolve to bomb the North into a rock pile (though both China and Russia now thoroughly regret staring us down).

The only time the US has won a war is when we've shoved an Unconditional Surrender document of about one paragraph in front of someone and stuck a pistol to their head. Too bad the Dems don't read history.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-13 13:37|| 2014-06-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Jawn, the jihadists are doing their best to bring the Iraqis together.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-06-13 14:42|| 2014-06-13 14:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Welcome to Joe Biden's self-fulfilling prophecy.

Posted by DepotGuy 2014-06-13 14:45|| 2014-06-13 14:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama, Kerry, Hillary, and the rest remind me of kids at a school fight. You know these kids, standing at the back of the crowd, crying and screaming for it to stop. But unwilling to do anything but cry and yell.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-13 14:49|| 2014-06-13 14:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Kerry you are a fucking moron.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-13 15:40|| 2014-06-13 15:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I hope they come together and beat this worthless slime into a thin smear of toxic protoplasm.

Posted by AlanC 2014-06-13 15:52|| 2014-06-13 15:52|| Front Page Top

Forget Maliki and his slimeballs. Forget the Champ and Kerry. The really sad news is, a lot of innocent people in Iraq are not going to live to see to tomorrow.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-13 15:59|| 2014-06-13 15:59|| Front Page Top

#9 a lot of innocent people in Iraq

Who?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-13 16:41|| 2014-06-13 16:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, certainly not you, * .

Posted by Snusort Spomose2148 2014-06-13 16:45|| 2014-06-13 16:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Christians, women, kids, the elderly. Been there g(r)om ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-13 16:45|| 2014-06-13 16:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Christians mostly left Besoeker. As for the rest---don't be disingenuous.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-13 17:29|| 2014-06-13 17:29|| Front Page Top

#13 John shut up. Stop talking.

Posted by irishrageboy 2014-06-13 17:29|| 2014-06-13 17:29|| Front Page Top

#14 p.s. I've been serving in "the territories" when you Americans were still kissing Arab ass.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-13 17:30|| 2014-06-13 17:30|| Front Page Top

#15 g(r)omgoru -- I just read that about 300 contractors were hung out to dry Benghazi style.

Posted by warthogswife 2014-06-13 17:43|| 2014-06-13 17:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Thank you for effort and sacrifice g(r)om; but before go off on another 'hate America' rant, it might be instructive to keep in mind just who backed up your pay stub, provided the ammo and rations......just for the fok'n record.

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance. Almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance, although in the past Israel also received significant economic assistance.
Link.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-13 17:59|| 2014-06-13 17:59|| Front Page Top

#17 USA aid is 3% of Israel's budget. The estimates of the damage to Israel from America's bull in china shop thrashing in ME for the last 50 years, I'll leave to future historians.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-13 18:23|| 2014-06-13 18:23|| Front Page Top

#18 g(r)om, take a pass on the attitude. Its not warranted or appreciated. Christians did not leave, they were exterminated. 3%, really? We are the only reason the Jewish state still exists. You dont have to like our president, but fuck you for your attitude. Kissing Arab ass is unacceptable around here. Most here have gone to too many funerals to hear you pissy assed ignorant bullshit!

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-13 21:03|| 2014-06-13 21:03|| Front Page Top

#19 Fine, but when you support and comment with glee on the return of Olde Soviet Tymes, I say: Nice try.

Posted by Frank G 2014-06-13 21:13|| 2014-06-13 21:13|| Front Page Top

#20 USA aid is 3% of Israel's budget.

Then refuse to accept the money dickhead. If your government weren't as big a bunch of pussies as ours, you would go in and do some hard core culling.

By now you should realize that world (meaning U.N.) consensus is worthless. We, and Europe, arent going to do shit. If you don't need the money, go in and kill the mother fuckers...wholesale..and tell the rest of the world to STFU.

The jews are on their own, even if Obama and the Left weren't such feckless assholes, I would still tell the jews to suck it up and do what you need to do. I personally do not give a rats ass if Israel survives or not, the jews have been persecuted over a significant period of history for a reason, maybe you should look at that.

Arabs, Islam, Jews, Judaism...delenda est. May all of you fucking perish...soon.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2014-06-13 23:16|| 2014-06-13 23:16|| Front Page Top

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