Islamic State Routs Last Elite Iraqi Units from Ramadi in Huge Defeat for Baghdad

McClatchy ^ | Sunday, May 17, 2015 | Mitchell Porthero

[stboz]

By elite, they mean had uniforms.

Can they tie their shoes?

[SunkenCiv]

• Key Iraqi town of Ramadi falls to ISIS (80 Americans Killed taking Ramadi in 2006)
• Islamic State Crisis: Militants Seize Ramadi Stronghold [Obama's JV-Team At Work!]
• REPORT: US Troops Flee Habbaniyya Base Near Ramadi From ISIS
• IS jihadists seizes government HQ in Iraq's Ramadi: officials
• Abu Sayyaf raid required U.S. troops to use 'hand to hand' combat
• US Special Operations Forces kill Islamic State commander in Syrian raid
• U.S. soldiers kill senior Islamic State commander in Syria raid, capture wife
• Senior ISIS leader killed in U.S. raid in Syria
• Sources: U.S. Special Operations forces kill ISIS commander Abu Sayyaf in Syria raid
• The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein's.
• ISIS leader declares 'Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting
• ISIS Leader Pronounces: "Islam Religion of War, Islam is Not Religion of Peace"
• Arab Media: ISIS Have Stolen Passports from Westerners for Easy Infiltration
• U.S. 'expediting' weapons to Iraq to fight ISIS
• North Carolina Mom, 25, Leaves Three Children Behind To fight For Kurds In Iraq
• Fox News Poll: Voters believe White House incompetent, US still in recession and ISIS has moved...
• Texas Security Guard -- and US Army Informant -- Arrested for Joining ISIS (VIDEO)
• Islamic State releases 'al-Baghdadi message'
• Women Working in Iraq Testify About Horrifying Genocide of Christians and Their Heritage By ISIS
• Hollywood Actor Wasn't Content Being Fake 'Action Hero' -- So He Did Something 1000 Times More Badass
• 'I knew they were here,' West Texas sheriff says of ISIS
• UN official on life under ISIS: 'Girls are being stripped naked, examined in slave bazaars'
• Sickening. ISIS Strips Children Naked -- Sells Them at Slave Auction Then Rapes Them
• Detroit TV Anchor Angers Local Muslim Community with ISIS Comments
• Desperate for a victory in Syria, Assad looks to Hezbollah for a win

[Gritty]

I fought over that filthy city.... To think that it’s all gone...

That is same for me and Vietnam.

I second that, Parmy. I still get sick to my stomach thinking about it and how we won it with our effort, treasure and blood only to have the Democrats purposely throw it all away at the end.

They used to call Great Britain "Perfidious Albion". I think we have rightly taken over the title. Maybe we can be called "Perfidious Liberal Land"?

[hal ogen]

Hey, iraquis. It’s you’re country. Fight for it, you ingrates.

[Zhang Fei]

Ten years ago, I fought over that filthy city. You can still see the FOB perimeter clearly on GoogleEarth. We lost hundreds of US troops in that town just in the year I was there. I documented my time there, right here on FR. To think that it’s all gone...

Here are a few questions - how is ISIS able to use artillery on Iraqi forces? Why aren't coalition air forces plinking their big guns every time they raise their heads? And how is ISIS able to mass against Iraqi forces, in the face of coalition air cover? And where the heck is Iraqi artillery and armor? And what about their rotary and fixed wing close air support units?

[wiggen]

amazing. If you want to use drones, if you want pinpoint strikes, then this is the place. Several hundred more videos of murders are whats coming if they don’t get them out.
If theres a good fight in this world, taking ISIS and Boko Harum is it. Obama is more concerned with taking Assad out than these savages.

[mcshot]

Seems they would rather surrender only to be gunned down in road side ditches.

[wiggen]

If they’re lucky they get gunned down. Only if they’re very lucky. I’d never let them take me alive. Screw that. Hug a grenade.

[mware]

Except for the innocent civilians that are about to have Satan minions take over their city. I feel the worst for those of you who shed your blood taking and holding that city.

[McGruff]

We should nuke the city while they're celebrating their victory.

[freeandfreezing]

So much for Obama's promise to provide US air support. Just how would ISIS be able to set up and use artillery if the US, and other nations were really providing air support?

Does anybody really think that the US can't locate and target artillery on the ground? Particularly in open terrain with no forest cover.

And how did ISIS manage to mass their forces to surround and overwhelm the Iraqi troops if there were US fighter bombers in the area?

The answer is simple - there was no air support, or it was done at such a minimal level as to be ineffective.

[ronnie raygun]

What does this say to our fallen and thier families? This despicable administration and the imposter have spat in all thier faces

[NormsRevenge]

God’s Busy.. Send PUFF.

[Parmy]

I second that, Parmy. I still get sick to my stomach thinking about it and how we won it with our effort, treasure and blood only to have the Democrats purposely throw it all away at the end.

I totally am with you on this. When I tell my liberal, democrat relatives and friends that their perfect icons, Kennedy, Biden, Dodd, et al, stopped funding the ARVINS and caused Vietnam to fall, plus the 1.5 million Cambodians and .5 million Laotians and .5 million Vietnamese to be exterminated. Then I throw this at them. Because they voted for these guys, they have blood on their hands as if they voted to cancel the funding as well.

[Svartalfiar]

Here are a few questions - how is ISIS able to use artillery on Iraqi forces? Why aren't coalition air forces plinking their big guns every time they raise their heads? And how is ISIS able to mass against Iraqi forces, in the face of coalition air cover? And where the heck is Iraqi artillery and armor? And what about their rotary and fixed wing close air support units?

By artillery, they likely mean a few random dudes with mortars. Not anything large at all. And I don;t think we're supplying that much air cover to where ISIS can;t make any gains at all. And then the Iraqi Army is poorly manned, led, and organized. Once US support left, the crutch was pulled and Iraq just fell over.

[Travis McGee]

Tragic, heart breaking, pathetic, shameful.
To throw away such sacrifice..............
Incredible.

[Travis McGee]

How? Why? It's not complicated.

[Travis McGee]

“I totally am with you on this. When I tell my liberal, democrat relatives and friends that their perfect icons, Kennedy, Biden, Dodd, et al, stopped funding the ARVINS and caused Vietnam to fall, plus the 1.5 million Cambodians and .5 million Laotians and .5 million Vietnamese to be exterminated. Then I throw this at them. Because they voted for these guys, they have blood on their hands as if they voted to cancel the funding as well.”

Amen, brother. Amen.

[Zhang Fei]

By artillery, they likely mean a few random dudes with mortars. Not anything large at all. And I don;t think we're supplying that much air cover to where ISIS can;t make any gains at all. And then the Iraqi Army is poorly manned, led, and organized. Once US support left, the crutch was pulled and Iraq just fell over.

Thanks. It's a crying shame. Whatever their reason for losing, it's not a lack of resources vis-a-vis ISIS, given that the Iraqi government controls the oil.

[MinorityRepublican]

The Iraqi Army is manned by Shiites who doesn’t want DTP fight in the Sunni heartland.