Posted on 06/13/2014 6:11:03 AM PDT by marshmallow
Mosul, Iraq’s second city, is now free of Christians for the first time in 1,800 years
War in Iraq has returned with dramatic speed, with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, a group extreme even by jihadi standards, having taken Mosul. Just 100 kilometres from Baghdad, ISIS also threatens the major city of Kirkuk and so bringing the Kurds into a wider war.
Aid to the Church in Need is reporting that Mosul’s Christian population, which had declined from 30,000 to 3,000 in the years following the 2003 US invasion, is now down to virtually nothing. They fled, along with half a million other people, from a terrorist group who had already carried out multiple beheadings and even crucifixions in the areas of Syria they control. ISIS are also notorious iconoclasts, destroying anything non-Islamic they can get their hands on, so the thought of their controlling the capital of the ancient Assyrians is extremely depressing.
As Nina Shea has reported, it is now the end game for Iraq’s Christians, with the second city now free of Christians for the first time in 1,800 years. Mosul is, of course, also called Nineveh, the present city being built on the opposite bank to the Tigris, still called Ninwe in Syriac.
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Thanks a lot George. Better think up a good excuse come Judgement time.
I knew something was wrong with you when you referred to Jesus Christ as a ‘philosopher’.
+1
Exactly.
The entire Iraq War is immoral as we attacked a country that had no ability to attack us, wasted the lives of 4500 brave American soldiers and spent 2 trillion dollars.
A fake country like Iraq needs a dictator with his boot on the necks of the fanatics.
People like GW Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Kristol, and the rest of the PNAC crowd shouldn’t even show their faces in public
It’s not Bush’s fault. This is the sin of the people in Iraq killing their own.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Thousands of Christians have already been martyred in Iraq. Christian blood has been flowing freely for the past decade. We have no concept of what these people are enduring.
Rather we must as brother/sister Christians to pray for those Christians who are suffering for the Lord in the Middle East.
It absolutely is. He gave the "go" order to poke a stick into this rats' nest and sacrficed over 4,000 Americans in the pursuit of an Islamic Republic in Iraq. He gave the thumbs up to a new Iraqi Constitution which explicitly states the preeminent role of Islam in government.
The good news is that it is now possible to say this on FR without fear of either being banned or flamed incessantly since it is now so damn obvious. To state the stupidity of this action in '03 was to be labeled a "Saddam lover" or a " supporter of totalitariansism". I remember it vividly. The Pope (JPII) also warned us to stay out of it and copped a torrent of abuse from the "bomb Baghdad" cheeleaders.
The Iraq War was an ummitigated disaster and yeah, it was Dubya's fault.
This confirms what I believe, that there will be no rapture, that we who are believers in the Lord will have to begin to get ready to suffer for LOVE of Him.
And why did it happen in the first place?
Attacks
Remember?
They get the opportunity to kill their own because Bush killed the leader who prevented it in the past.
Yeah, Jesus Christ was a philosopher and Islam is a religion of peace.
That kind of thinking is now biting us in the butt.
No invasion in 2003, no mass killing of Christians (remember Sadaam had Christians in his cabinet) and no rise of ISIS, and probably no Syria civil war as the border between Iraq/Syria would be secured.
The invasion in 2003 cost us 4000 lives and 2 trillion dollars for nothing.
Some people, in their present state, simply aren’t ready for true freedom.
“Bush’s fault” is a liberal/libertarian lack of logic.
We were in Iraq based on intelligence reports. Not acting on that intelligence would have been negligent to America’s security interests.
Iraq accidentally benefited and has proven they are not willing to fight for their own freedom.
>Not acting on that intelligence would have been negligent to America’s security interests.<
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So the US decided to establish their system of government in Iraq when it is not even working at home?
This attempt of nation building is a waste of American lives, American fortune and American time.
Simply answer my question: “What did we get in return?”
Not even a barrel of free crude oil from Kuwait or Iraq. We are the absolute dumbest people in the world.
And to put a crown on our stupidity, we elect a Muslim as president.
The nation-building stuff never works, unless the enemy is totally defeated into submission like German and Japan.
Nation building is a mistake. Our goal should have been to militarily defeat their army and leave, we only lost about 260 people in this phase of the war.
We should have left and then told them, we’ll be back if we have to, to repeat that process.
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