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Iraq
Sen. Elizabeth Warren supports President Obama's airstrikes in Iraq
2014-08-11
Just for fun and a bit of exercise, try to see if there's any political bias in the article.
BOSTON — Warning against a new U.S. war in Iraq, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday stood by President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
's decision to authorize targeted Arclight airstrikes to help defend Americans in Erbil, Iraq, and provide aid to a religious minority taking refuge in the Sinjar mountains. On Thursday night, Obama announced he had authorized air strikes to protect American diplomats, civilians and military personnel in Erbil, and humanitarian air drops of food and water had already begun to assist Yezidis, a religious minority, who fled to the Sinjar mountains.

Renowned for its financing strategies and media savvy and feared for its brutality, a group of Sunni sectarian hard boyz that now calls itself The Islamic State has expanded out of war-torn Syria into Iraq, where it imposes taxes and kills people of other religions, according to news accounts.

An American-led invasion of Iraq was launched in March 2003, starting a war that was divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
 politically and costly. After Obama failed at reaching accord on a new status of force [sic] agreement with the Iraqi government, the U.S. stuck to an earlier timetable, withdrawing troops from the country by Dec. 31, 2011.

"It's a complicated situation right now in Iraq and the president has taken very targeted actions to provide humanitarian relief that the Iraqi government requested, and to protect American citizens," Warren told news hounds. "But like the president I believe that any solution in Iraq is going to be a negotiated solution, not a military solution. We do not want to be pulled into another war in Iraq."

Warren said the actions announced by Obama will change the dynamic in the country, which has a Shi'ite led government and an independent Kurdish region in the north.

"It's a very complicated situation in Iraq. The president has now taken two very targeted actions, and those two actions will change the mix of what's happening in Iraq, and we'll have to just monitor it," Warren said.

Warren was in the State House for a closed-door meeting between state and federal officials and Jorge Carlos Fonseca, the president of Cape Verde. Asked if she had a broader plan for dealing with the crisis in Iraq, Warren said, "Certainly these Arclight airstrikes are going to change the mix of what's going on, so we'll just have to monitor it literally day by day, hour by hour."
The burning question is, as an inexperienced Senator from the Peoples' Democratic Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a legislative record only slightly better than that of Hillary Clinton, why she was asked a foreign-policy question in the first place. Perhaps she's being groomed to replace John Kerry...
She's being groomed to replace Champ...
She was a professor of some sort before she went into politics. She'll do meetings with the president quite well, I'm sure, and isn't that the key skill for the job? She's also Valerie Jarrett's choice for presidential candidate over that Clinton female, I believe. SoS would check off that crucial international experience box, neutralizing Ms Clinton's advantage, and of course she also has all that experience being a Senator...
While calling for a negotiated solution, Warren said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a terrorist organization and the U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists, while leaving open the possibility the U.S. could assist the Iraqi government negotiating with ISIS.

"The point is there has to be a negotiated solution in Iraq, but we don't negotiate with terrorists," Warren said. She said, "This is partially a question of whether the U.S. government negotiates or whether we have the Iraqi government doing these negotiations, and how we help support them as they try to maintain an integrated country, and a country that better represents all of the people who live there."

Warren said her caution not to entangle the United States in another military conflict in Iraq is a viewpoint shared across the country.

"I am concerned that none of us want to be pulled into a war in Iraq. I think that's clear across this country, and I feel very strongly about that," Warren said.

A champion of those squeezed by big banks who toppled Scott Downtown Scotty Brown in a 2012 election for the seat, Warren is a favorite among liberals, and regularly disavows any plans to seek the president [sic].
And there, Dear Reader, is the "money quote."
Posted by:Pappy

#10  Hey, I resemble, er, resent that remark!
Posted by: Raj   2014-08-11 16:30  

#9  dumb as a Massachusetts voter

Heh, heh. You may have just coined a new expression.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-08-11 15:04  

#8  Can the Lame-Stream Media elect three presidents in a row?
Posted by: Bobby   2014-08-11 13:55  

#7  She pretended to be an Indian to get an affirmative action placement at Harvard. Like our worst pols, Oblahma, Shrillary, Reid, Dick Turban and Jawn F'n Kerry, she will say and do anything for power.

If you believe anything that comes out of her mouth, shame on you, you are as dumb as a Massachusetts voter.
Posted by: regular joe   2014-08-11 13:45  

#6  The clueless competing to lead the shiftless.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-08-11 12:43  

#5  Oh no. Not another junior senator.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-08-11 12:23  

#4  Wanna-be African American supports wanna-be American Indian. Few surprises here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-08-11 10:53  

#3   She's also Valerie Jarrett's choice for presidential candidate over that Clinton female, I believe.

Which likely explains her repeating White House talking points.

Articles like this don't happen on their own initiative.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-08-11 10:45  

#2  Reads like she is running for President in 2016. she is squaw, who wants to go on warpath, after drinking too much from the cup of politics. Very drunk with false power. Following Chief Lost Leader of great white house.

Posted by: Don Vito Bucket1902   2014-08-11 09:48  

#1  Reads like she is running for President in 2016.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-08-11 09:35  

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