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US and Islamic State: "We did see this coming"
Mercedsunstar.com ^ | July 25, 2014 | Johnathan S. Landay

Posted on 07/25/2014 4:33:18 AM PDT by Biggirl

WASHINGTON — Like the rest of the world, the U.S. government appeared to have been taken aback last month when Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, fell to an offensive by jihadis of the Islamic State that triggered the collapse of five Iraqi army divisions and carried the extremists to the threshold of Baghdad.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: iraq; islamicstate; jihadis
Indeed, we did see this coming.
1 posted on 07/25/2014 4:33:18 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Wonder if they see the same thing coming to America...


2 posted on 07/25/2014 4:47:19 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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The only real big difference is that Americans more or less are ARMED to the teeth.


3 posted on 07/25/2014 4:49:25 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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Yes - no thanks to Obama, who’s done his best to screw that up, too.


4 posted on 07/25/2014 4:52:20 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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....Yet I live not too far from a Cabela’s and they still sell the guns.


5 posted on 07/25/2014 4:55:22 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Jack Hammer

They probably do, but then they would have to do something and so the truth is held back. That is the norm for this regime. Supposedly our intelligence knew those missile launchers were moved from Russia to Ukraine 2 months ago.
I was kind of wondering why they didn’t inform Ukraine so they could stop commercial air traffic over the area.

Of course., nobody asks them these questions and never will.

Very hard to believe them at all and very hard to have any reason to believe that they don’t hold info so it can be manipulated for their use when they want it.

Some of these ISIS heathens are probably already here.


6 posted on 07/25/2014 5:02:23 AM PDT by dforest
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Of course they saw it coming.

Obama has been financing ISIS in Syria for a long time.


7 posted on 07/25/2014 5:28:13 AM PDT by Iron Munro (IRONY)
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