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2014-06-14 Iraq

Iran sends forces to Iraq as ISIS militants press forward

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1 Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

The empty suit, afraid of his anti-war constituency, wrings his hands as he sits on the floor under his desk and snivels at the few options he has.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-14 00:18|| 2014-06-14 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Why again does he care about any constituency? He is never going to be elected dog catcher after his two terms.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-14 00:46|| 2014-06-14 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 A mauve line has been drawn.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-14 01:52|| 2014-06-14 01:52|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, this shows that even an affirmative action POTUS can make right decisions. Let Sunni & Shia butcher each other to their hearts content.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-14 04:32|| 2014-06-14 04:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The issue is not Shia vs Sunni, it is the leaders on both sides playing the "great satan" card on the US to deflect criticism of their incompetence, much as the empty suit blames Bush for everyone of his cockups.

When they play the Great Satan card, we get some radical splinter group taking the leader on his word and creating some horrible terrorist attack somewhere.

The greatest problem is Islam covers about 1/3 of the planet and has almost 2 billion followers. We cannot ignore this as strictly an internal struggle, at some point, it will boil over and the non-Muslim west will pay a price for treating it as a neighborhood problem.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-14 11:55|| 2014-06-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Bill, Nero fiddled, but, there are some who claim that he set the fire in the first place.

That's closer to my feeling about the traitor in chief.

Posted by AlanC 2014-06-14 12:01|| 2014-06-14 12:01|| Front Page Top

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