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2014-06-12 Iraq

US has no plans to send any of its 35,000 Middle East-based troops into Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  The White House said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton deserves credit for 'ending the war in Iraq, responsibly winding down the war in Afghanistan, and decimating and destroying core al-Qaeda'

Please run that by me gain.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-12 07:10|| 2014-06-12 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 we'll have troops there - helicopter evacuating terrified embassy staff and refugees from the roof of the embassy.

Deja Vu all over again?

Posted by Frank G 2014-06-12 08:04|| 2014-06-12 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Well all those lives spent and people maimed were sure for nothing.

Why is it that all great sacrifices by people and our troops are wasted at the first moment by craven politicians?

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-12 09:26|| 2014-06-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I've seen it argued that we had to try, to give us justification for what may, or more accurately, will likely come in the future...the true arc light, rubble bouncing to eliminate the Islamic threat. The Iraqis had a functioning, fairly stable, by regional standards, democracy. But they just couldn't make it work. It goes against their nature to make such a system work. It will not work out well for them. Sad for the innocents.

Posted by remoteman 2014-06-12 13:24|| 2014-06-12 13:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Its a Sunni v Shia war where we want both to lose!

Posted by Slinelet Pelosi7787 2014-06-12 18:43|| 2014-06-12 18:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I would support shifting troops to Kurdish country, including the Embassy staff. Treat the place as a defacto country but otherwise let Sunni and Shia work out their differences.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-06-12 21:43|| 2014-06-12 21:43|| Front Page Top

#7 In some ways, Iraq is still sorting out WWI and the Balfour Agreement and that nasty back door agreement to subdivide the ME into French and English fiefdoms.

Common sense then and now would have said you don't put Shia, Sunni and Kurdish folks in the same room and expect them to play nice.

Iraq should have been three countries in 1924 and it looks as if it is going to morph into such an arrangement in 2014. My only regret is how the empty suit pissed away a really good effort at bringing a working democracy to the ME.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-12 22:43|| 2014-06-12 22:43|| Front Page Top

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