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Posted on 01/02/2014 2:58:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen battled on Thursday to put down al-Qaida-linked gunmen who, in a coordinated surge, ran rampant in two of the country’s main Sunni cities, overrunning police stations and sweeping through the streets, emboldened by mounting sectarian tensions between minority Sunnis and the Shiite-led government.
Troops hammered the militants with Hellfire rockets recently sent by the United States to help the government’s fight against al-Qaida’s Iraq branch, which also operates with increasing strength in Syria’s civil war across the border. The militants’ swift uprising a day earlier overwhelmed police forces in Ramadi and Fallujah, two cities in the Sunni heartland of Anbar province that were once strongholds for militants battling U.S. troops.
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It is their country...It is about time they did some of the fighting.
Wasn’t there an article about the Iraqi government turning a bunch of suspected terrorists loos from Abu Graib?
I’m an ODS Vet. I KNEW the MINUTE we got involved with these b@stards that we would be spending BILLIONS in American treasure and untold countless American lives due to these tribal, INSANE goat-puckers.
And that was in 1991. But NO ONE listens to me now, do they? Huh? Huh?
We needed to be SO out of the Middle East - like TWO DECADES ago - and be energy/oil/natural gas/self-sufficient.
Which we could EASILY DO if our fecking Government would Lead, Follow or GTF OUT of the WAY!
*Steps Off Soap Box*
The Obama Admin cut and ran from Iraq when the Shite tinpot president didn’t agree to give extra judicial protection to US forces remaining in Iraq [our troops would still be subject to US justice]. We should have told him we were staying so as to not loose what we fought for, agreement or not, as we called the shots.
With no US troops, Iraq’s security is crashing and they are on the verge of civil war, AQ will likely win.
By the way, Afghanistan is heading down this road too. Obama is letting it happen the same way.
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