Russia would consider air strikes in Iraq at Baghdad's request: RIA

Reuters ^ | October 6th, 2015 | Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Writing by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Andrew Osborn

[Mariner]

Russia will consider extending its air strikes against militants in Syria to Iraq if it receives such a request from Baghdad, the RIA news agency quoted the head of the country's upper chamber of parliament as saying on Tuesday.

The speaker, Valentina Matviyenko, said Russia had so far not received such a request from the Iraqi government.

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[Mariner]

This is the Second time Russia has floated this generosity. First Lavrov and now a big shot in the Duma.

What are the odds that Iraq will take them up on it?

[PGR88]

if it receives such a request from Baghdad,

And given that Iran controls the remaining rump of Iraq, the answer is YES - he will receive such a "request."

So George Bush, and then Barack Obama, have handed Iraq to Iran and Putin. Please God, do not let our present government ever go to war again. They are simply incapable of good judgement and wise decisions.

[null and void]

What are the odds that Iraq will take them up on it?

The alternative is to trust obama...

[mak5]

And it is Obama’s lack of leadership that left the vacuum that Putin is filling.

[Mariner]

"The alternative is to trust obama... "

The Saudi's will go bat sh!t nuts with Russian jets crowding their borders.

[entropy12]

Bush & Obama’s Iraq war — the biggest kerfuffle and fiasco of American foreign policy since the Vietnam war. And they are worried about Trump’s foreign policy experience? Bret Baier admitted today Fox did fact checking and Trump was indeed correct about opposing attacking Iraq using Chine credit card.

[virgil]

And it is Obama’s lack of leadership that left the vacuum that Putin is filling.

That's what I find the most disturbing about this. It's Obama's lack of leadership that is causing American influence to recede. What a loser president he is.

[stormer]