Posted on 05/17/2015 12:20:11 PM PDT by Cementjungle
Most Iraqi troops have abandoned their positions in Ramadi as Islamic State militants have advanced further into the city, officials have told the BBC.
They said IS militants had taken control of a compound that was used as the provincial military command centre.
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I’m confused how the Iraqi army lost.
Did you see this little gem earlier? 8000 Iraqi infantry fled.
That means ISIS is much, much bigger than anyone is telling us.
Probably a huge threat, how big a threat will depend on what type of President we get in 2016.
is slime ic countries demand a tyrant.
all muslims respect is death.
but the west now wants to get respect with pretty words and free nuclear weapons.
BTW Saudi Arabia will be buying nuclear weapons via Pakistan apparently. Thanks to the REAL JV team @ 1600 PA Ave all the muslim countries will have nukes soon. Unlike the west, they won’t hesitate to use them. Just getting the Armageddon show @ TBA ready to go.
The Iraqi guys are probably just there as a job to get paid - no heart in it. I imagine 1000 demented ISIS guys would be enough to chase out the 8000.
The guy they just droned was some finance guy. And near an oilfield ISIS had captured. I’m guessing after we supplied them with arms in Syria, the captured oil fields have been supplying the rest of their needs and wages.
Maybe. They had American air support though.
Someone was calling the shots. Someone called the retreat.
Who?
I bet ISIS was allowed to take Ramadi. They either
1.) Have sympathizers in the Iraqi government,
or
2.) Have leverage.
In either case (yours or mine) it doesn’t matter.
The Iraqi army is then there just for show, and ISIS will call their bluff and Iraq will fold.
And then what? What makes you think the Iraqi troops will fight better for a dictator than for the boob they have as president now?
I don’t think the white house team is JV. They know exactly what they’re doing. I look at them as the Washington team who played the Harlem Globetrotters. They always let the other team win.
Our policy should be whenever ISIS takes over a major building or facility, we blow the shit out of it. Buildings can be replaced, but their soldiers and weapons, not so far.
We must use massive air power to level certain areas (esp. of the civilians have fled), to show ISIS that we will hit them no matter where they are, and when we want to.
Now this is all predicated on the US having a real military leader not the commie in the White House or the recent disasterous JCS led by Gen. the Coward Dempsey, and the drag queens in the Air Farce and U.S. Naval (with all the gender crap going on, we no long have a real Navy leadership).
“Next, we shall build a gopher...”
Same old story going all the way back to Desert Storm. Iraqi National Salute = Two arms and hands extended into the air.
It’s a matter of time and Baghdad will fall.
Since we pulled out there are NO good solutions....NONE.
Put our fighting troops back in to this hell hole...NO!!!!!
At this point let them all fight it out. Why should we be backing Iran?
There is nothing we can do to undo the idiocy of this man child president of ours.
Seems to me everything is going according to plan for him.
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