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2014-06-17 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2014-06-17 10:38|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Whatever works for these people is fine with me. If we show up to the party, they'll all just turn on us. Leave them to their good work.

Who knows, perhaps Assad isn't such a SOB after all.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 11:14|| 2014-06-17 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The bad news for ISIL is no outlet to the ocean and, IIRC, that part of the country is not where most of the oil is. Skirting Baghdad and moving for Basra might be the best strategy. But then, IRGC might be waiting for them in Basra.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-06-17 11:29|| 2014-06-17 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 How ISIS Games Twitter.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 11:39|| 2014-06-17 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 They have been fighting the Kurds for months in Syria for that finger to Turkey.
What's the special sauce they are getting from Turkey?

Posted by 3dc 2014-06-17 12:13|| 2014-06-17 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 The appear to be river centric.

Posted by 3dc 2014-06-17 12:29|| 2014-06-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 that part of the country is not where most of the oil is.

Mosul has plenty of oil and Baiji has a very large refinery. whether or not ISIS takes over the oil fields, Iraq can kiss much of its oil revenue good bye.

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Posted by frozen al 2014-06-17 12:47|| 2014-06-17 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Borders of ISIS area are bit out of date - the Kurds have already pushed them back from Kirkuk and are pushing into Salaheddin. And Samarra is very much contested, not ISIS. Fallujah and Ramadi on the other hand,basically flipped sided without a shot being fired. Sunni generals there pretty much turned their troops over.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-17 14:54|| 2014-06-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#8 We should send more money and arms to the Kurds.

Posted by Odysseus 2014-06-17 17:42|| 2014-06-17 17:42|| Front Page Top

#9 'Assad is a SOB' - fixed

Posted by linker 2014-06-17 20:28|| 2014-06-17 20:28|| Front Page Top

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