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2014-06-17 Iraq

Iraq calls for Iranian help to fight militants

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 The US ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf on Saturday

The official Pentagon line is that "SecDef Hagel gave the order to move the G.H.W. Bush into the Gulf."

Apparently authorization has been 'pushed down'?

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-17 00:55|| 2014-06-17 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 With Champ on the links and the potential for activating a NEO very near, Hagel probably figured it would be better to ask forgiveness than permission. The Champ is totally combat ineffective.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 01:08|| 2014-06-17 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Possibly. Or combat-averse.

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-17 16:32|| 2014-06-17 16:32|| Front Page Top

#4 This poll suggests 16% of Americans favor sending troops back into Iraq.

From: Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling
Subject: Voters support Obama approach in Iraq over NeoCon Republicans
Date: June 17, 2014
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that Americans strongly prefer President Obamas approach to handling the situation in Iraq over that of NeoCon Republicans like John McCain, and that voters across party lines continue to be strongly opposed to sending combat troops to Iraq.
Key findings from the survey include:
-Only 20% of Americans think that the renewed fighting in Iraq is due to the United States withdrawing troops from the country before the job was done, whereas 67% think its more rooted in centuries of internal conflict that was exacerbated by the US invasion during the Bush administration.
-Only 16% of Americans would support sending combat troops to help deal with the crisis in Iraq, compared to 74% who are opposed. Theres a bipartisan consensus on that issue with with Republicans (28/57), Democrats (10/86), and independents (9/86) all strongly opposed to sending combat troops.
-Asked specifically whose vision they agreed with more about having US troops in Iraq between Obama (no troops under any circumstances) and John McCain (troops should have remained in Iraq after 2011), voters side with Obama by a 54/28 spread. In addition to Democrats strongly siding with Obamas perspective, independents (53/28) and Republicans (49/30) do as well.
-What a majority of Americans do support doing in Iraq is providing intelligence to the Iraqi government (56/30) and a major diplomatic initiative aimed at mobilizing the international community to stabilize the situation there (52/30). Both of those courses of action have support across party lines.
Voters continue to repudiate the way NeoCons handled the situation in Iraq, and considerably prefer the approach President Obama has taken there.
PPP surveyed 790 registered voters on June 14th and 15th on behalf of Americans United for Change. The surveys margin of error is +/-3.5%
FULL RESULTS: http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/-/IraqPollResults61614.pdf

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 16:37|| 2014-06-17 16:37|| Front Page Top

#5 OTOH WAFF > VIDEOS: [Mostly Iraqi]SHIAS CREATE THE BIGGEST MILITIAS IN THE WORLD COMPRISED OF 1.0MILYUHN VOLUNTEERS.

ARTIC = indics that ROUGHLY ONE-HALF will go to Baghdad, ostensib to help protect the Shia-led Malicki Govt. of Iraq, while the other half will begin ANTI-ISIS FIELD COMBAT-SECURITY OPERATIONS.

versus

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > TURKEY SUPPORTS INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN, PARTITION OF TURKEY.

IMO Artic read, OPPORTUNITY FOR ANKARA = TURKEY + ASYMMETRIC/SELECTIVE GEOPOL AGENDA TO SEND TURKISH ARMY FORCES INTO IRAQ.

AKA TURKEY FINALLY GETTING OOPORTUN TO EXPAND GEOPOL SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN THE NAME OF GOOD OWG GLOBALISM = "VICHY" OBAMA/AMERIKA???

Still leaves CHINA over in East-Asia-Pacific.

As said before, US-VS-CHINA aka CHINA-VS-EVERYBODY + INDIA in East Asia-Pacific will be the litmus test for Obama + Globalists. Unlike the US-VS-RUSSIA/OBAMA-VS-PUTIN over the Ukraine + CRimea region of same, the US will have mutliple sovereign countries to deal wid as poetntial strategic or military battle fronts, + a China that is most likely uninterested in any Crimea-style partition or secession = geopol "sharing" wid the US = US-Allies/West. IMO OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA WILL DEMAND CHINESE-N-ONLY-CHINESE "SOLE" CONTROL OR DOMINATION OF EAST ASIA + WESTPAC WHILE THE US UNILATERALLY WITHDRAWS + CONFINES ITSELF TO EASTPAC [Hawaii] + US WEST COAST.

PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY, OF COURSE.

* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY OPENS FOR IRAQI KURDS.

* SAME > NO GOING BACK FOR IRAQ [pre-ISIS/Fall of Mosul status quo] AFTER ISIS OFFENSIVE, KURDISTAN PM.

Kurd PM Nechirvan Marzani.

* IIRC RUSSIA TODAY > "AMERICA CAN'T BE PART OF ANY SOLUTION TO END ISIS VIOLENCE IN IRAQ".

A mighty Kelly Bundy-ian "The Hell You Say"! is heard again over Asia-Pacific from a Madonna Fan on Guam.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-17 20:52|| 2014-06-17 20:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Americans United for Change is a liberal group whose message closely mirrors that of the Obama White House... The groups leaders include: acting Executive Director Tom McMahon, a former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and former deputy national campaign manager for Howard Deans 2004 presidential bid; and Deputy Executive Director Caren Benjamin, a former aide to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Brad Woodhouse was the groups executive director, before leaving in 2009 to become the DNCs director of communications.

What's the saying about the Devil being able to quote Scripture when it suits him?

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-17 22:17|| 2014-06-17 22:17|| Front Page Top

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