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Obama Rejects Kurds’ Plea For Help Against Isis
Powerline ^ | 07/25/2014 | BY PAUL MIRENGOFF I

Posted on 07/27/2014 5:59:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Obama famously failed to act when warned that ISIS was preparing to mount an offensive in Western Iraq. This left ISIS free to conquer, with virtually no resistance, city after city in the defense of which American soldiers have shed blood.

Now Obama is receiving new warnings, this time from the Kurds in Northern Iraq. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Kurds are “pleading for U.S. military aid.”

Unlike the Iraqi government, the Kurds possess a viable military that is prepared to fight ISIS. Indeed, they are fighting ISIS, and fairly effectively.

However, the Kurds now have a 650 mile border to defend, thanks to the abandonment of the area by Iraq’s military forces. Thus, the Kurdish forces are stretched extremely thin.

The Kurds should be receiving a share of the weapons the U.S. is supplying to the Iraqi government. But that, of course, isn’t happening. Mansour Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s intelligence and security chief, told the Post that Baghdad hasn’t provided “a single bullet.”

Meanwhile, says the Post, the ISIS forces attacking the Kurds have seized weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from retreating Iraqi soldiers. In effect, Baghdad is supplying ISIS while providing the Kurds with nothing.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda; democrats; iraq; isis; kurdistan; kurds; obama
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To: JimRed

Thank you, America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifcx_Epa2gk


21 posted on 07/27/2014 6:29:21 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SeekAndFind

Barack told them, “So Sunni me.”


22 posted on 07/27/2014 6:34:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Kurds should be appealing to Russia for help with ISIS.


23 posted on 07/27/2014 6:34:40 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: DAC21

Obama is not a clown...He is doing exactly what he has wanted for some time...To effectively end the USA as we know it...
This ?man? knows exactly what he’s doing....


24 posted on 07/27/2014 6:42:14 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: SeekAndFind
When ISIS Commandos are seen off the Nantucket coast, approaching the beech in 300 rubber dingys, will the President activate the Coast Guard and Armed Forces or will be be out on the golf green?
25 posted on 07/27/2014 6:46:20 AM PDT by Netz
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To: SeekAndFind

I support the Kurds


26 posted on 07/27/2014 6:47:21 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have a great opportunity using US airpower and Kurdish fighters to deal a huge defeat to al Qaeda, yet Obama acts as if this is a merely tactical matter of no greater consequence to him than how many Christians end up dead in Iraq. It’s shameful and stunning. The level of fatuousness of this man is nearly equal to his hubris.


27 posted on 07/27/2014 6:51:49 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Is there any doubt now? King Obama is a communists BLACK Muslim Traitor. He has issued in the total destruction of the middle east. And Countries like Russia, France, Germany, and many others are blind to their real enemies.
28 posted on 07/27/2014 6:55:36 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: SeekAndFind

The lamentations of the Kurdish women sound sweet in Obama’s ears.


29 posted on 07/27/2014 6:56:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: elhombrelibre
"The level of fatuousness of this man is nearly equal to his hubris."

Is it fatuous if he's chosen a side and it's not the side of the Kurds? If he's just stupid then he has an excuse, but what if it's calculated?

30 posted on 07/27/2014 6:57:33 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: JW1949
Our community organizer at work


31 posted on 07/27/2014 7:00:38 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: SeekAndFind
From the Internet

The Kurdish people, or Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, Kurd), are an ethnic group in Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which are members of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages.

The Kurds number about 30 million, the majority living in West Asia, with significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey, in Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Lebanon and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States.

The Kurds have had partial autonomy in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991. Nationalist movements in the other Kurdish-populated countries (Turkey, Syria, Iran) push for Kurdish regional autonomy or the creation of a sovereign state.

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From Google:

Nearly three fifths of the Kurds, almost all Kurmanji-speakers, are today at least nominally Sunni Muslims of Shafiite rite. There are also some followers of mainstream Shiitem Islam among the Kurds, particularly in and around the cities of Kirmashan, to Hamadan and Bijar in southern and eastern Kurdistan and the Khurasan. These Shiite Kurds number around half a million.

THEIR loyalty SURE won't be to any "infidels" like us Christians. Why would it be?

32 posted on 07/27/2014 7:14:55 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: SeekAndFind

The Kurds are ignored to appease Turkey in a desperate attempt to keep the soon-to-be radicalized Muslim nation in NATO. Things are getting very dicey as the hits keep coming faster and faster. The whole world is in upheaval, and many assumptions are coming unglued.


33 posted on 07/27/2014 7:16:02 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: SeekAndFind; blueplum
(blueplum: courtesy ping)

Revisiting Kurdistan: 'If there is a success story in Iraq, it's here'

Google image search using terms: Saddam Kurds Genocide

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE KURDISH GENOCIDE

34 posted on 07/27/2014 7:28:33 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SeekAndFind
The Kurds are not his type, therefore Bathhouse Barry has no need for them.


35 posted on 07/27/2014 7:34:55 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you want to know who the “good guys” are in the middle east, pay attention to the group to which obama extends help. The “good guy” are the other group.


36 posted on 07/27/2014 7:48:16 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
And, he’s not just a Muslim. He’s a Marxist. He’s an LGBT fanboi (or maybe that’s just an Alinsky technique to get votes), and an obvious anti-white racist to boot.

Worth repeating!

He is the enemy in our camp. There was a time when there was a special way to deal with the enemy once discovered..................

37 posted on 07/27/2014 7:59:03 AM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“He’s a Muslim. “

You know, at one time, I thought that people who believed this were nuts and kooks.

I now apologize to those people.


38 posted on 07/27/2014 8:04:51 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Netz

Nah He will grant them refugee status.


39 posted on 07/27/2014 8:13:45 AM PDT by autumnraine
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To: The Working Man
Bush and Obama have that in common: They both abandon the Iraqi Kurds to massacre.
40 posted on 07/27/2014 8:22:27 AM PDT by GingisK
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