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US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared
Zero Hedge ^ | 4-30-16 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/30/2016 8:43:57 AM PDT by dynachrome

As can be seen in the photo (and live webcast below), hundreds of demonstrators occupied the country's parliament. Video from inside the building showed jubilant crowds waving Iraqi flags and shouting "peaceful, peaceful." Supporters of Sadr, whose fighters once controlled swaths of Baghdad and helped defend the capital from ISIS, have been demonstrating for weeks at the gates of the Green Zone, responding to their leader's call to pressure the government to reform.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chaos; failure; iraq
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Another ISIS state?
1 posted on 04/30/2016 8:43:57 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Direct link to live webcast:

http://rudaw.net/english/onair/tv/live


2 posted on 04/30/2016 8:44:47 AM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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I realize Zero Hedge is a blog,but I did not see anything out there yet. please move if needed


3 posted on 04/30/2016 8:45:48 AM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing Due to Obama Withdrawing Support When He Took Over As President: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared

There, fixed it.

4 posted on 04/30/2016 8:45:55 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Obama's legacy - Christianity outlawed, America shamed, morality destroyed. Need I say more?)
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To: dynachrome
US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing

Another "make sure nothing Republican ever succeeds" accomplishment of the present administration.

5 posted on 04/30/2016 8:46:26 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: ducttape45

Hate to remind you, Obama IS us-created


6 posted on 04/30/2016 8:47:36 AM PDT by stanne
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To: dynachrome

From purple fingers to this.....nice work, Obama and Hillary. Just as planned.


7 posted on 04/30/2016 8:48:16 AM PDT by doug from upland
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How long before we see the Huey’s on the embassy roof again?


8 posted on 04/30/2016 8:49:55 AM PDT by CMSMC
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Iraq must be divided into three ethnic sections. Until
this happens, there will be turmoil!


9 posted on 04/30/2016 8:51:18 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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This is what we got for our $Trillion.

[GWB said they would pay for us for their liberation with their oil money. Have they paid us yet?]


10 posted on 04/30/2016 8:52:30 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: dynachrome

Could this be what Trump was talking about that you cannot bring Western democracy to regions and people that do not have any use for it?


11 posted on 04/30/2016 8:55:29 AM PDT by chuckee
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Another ISIS state?

Perhaps another extremist Islamic state but the protesters are Shiite while ISIS is Sunni. They would be just as happy fighting each other as fighting non-Muslims.

12 posted on 04/30/2016 8:56:32 AM PDT by Petrosius
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the protesters are Shiite while ISIS is Sunni. They would be just as happy fighting each other as fighting non-Muslims.

Well Let the Good Times Roll!

Let's git-er-done.

13 posted on 04/30/2016 8:58:04 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be President!)
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To: dynachrome

Should dispel forever the mistaken notion that a Muslim population is in any way capable of joining the civilized world.


14 posted on 04/30/2016 9:00:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Nice try, but George was the stupid one to go there in the first place.


15 posted on 04/30/2016 9:03:17 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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The delusion was toppling the dictator would result in democracy throughout the middle east.

This delusion led George W. into Iraq. It then led the MSM and Obama to celebrate the “Arab Spring.”

Islam isn’t consistent with democracy. It’s anti-democratic. Once the strong man dictators were displaced, inevitable it’d turn into 1979 Iran.


16 posted on 04/30/2016 9:03:52 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: dynachrome

What is the lesson here that we will not learn?


17 posted on 04/30/2016 9:07:04 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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...and just how much taxpayer funds mas been spent on the mega-US-embassy there?


18 posted on 04/30/2016 9:14:39 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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pictures on twitter of the security/bomb protection walls of the green zone being torn


19 posted on 04/30/2016 9:23:40 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: dynachrome

This ties in to Trump’s excellent foreign policy speech. We cannot spread democracy or waste billions trying to change these people. Saddam was evil, but at least he provided stability and relative peace.


20 posted on 04/30/2016 9:27:50 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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