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Shi'ite forces move in on Iraqi city taken by Islamic State
REUTERS ^ | May 18, 2015

Posted on 05/18/2015 6:29:41 AM PDT by McGruff

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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’m not seeing any evidence of the Iraqi Army in this whole thing. This is Sunni vs Shiite


21 posted on 05/18/2015 7:15:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: arthurus

Not much sign of that. The US Obama regime is clearly siding with Shi’ite Iran.


22 posted on 05/18/2015 7:17:47 AM PDT by expat2
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To: AppyPappy

The Iraqi army is predominantly Shi’ite, since the Sunni officers were removed after the BushII victory. So it is Sunni vs shi’ite Iraqi army (plus Iran help).


23 posted on 05/18/2015 7:23:37 AM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2

No. Obama is setting up Iran to nuke Israel and then the IDF would retaliate from hardened sites and from its subs, totally wiping out Iran. I am betting, however, that Israel has an anti missile capability we know not yet of. If that turns out to be true then Iran will launch and Israel will kill the missiles then have the choice before it of destroying Iran or refraining. Israel is probably restrained from using its air force to pre-empt by knowledge that the US Navy is ordered to shoot down any Israeli AC headed for Iran.


24 posted on 05/18/2015 7:30:23 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Steven Tyler

For Hussein Everything will, indeed, be Better when Iran gets the Bomb! That is, I believed designed to eliminate both Israel and Iran and leave the ME all to the Sunni.


25 posted on 05/18/2015 7:33:25 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

What about a land for the Christian Assyrians — Mosul and Nineveh (all of Akkad in fact)


26 posted on 05/18/2015 7:54:07 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

“What about a land for the Christian Assyrians — Mosul and Nineveh (all of Akkad in fact)”

Not a bad idea.


27 posted on 05/18/2015 7:57:10 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: McGruff

both sides screaming allahakbar.... roflmao


28 posted on 05/18/2015 8:06:41 AM PDT by zzwhale
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More tweets:

Unite States not considering deploying US ground combat forces in Iraq, military officials say - @Reuters

Iraq government must ‘own’ fight, US to support Iraqi-led efforts against Islamic State, officials say - @Reuters

Iraqi forces face difficult challenge in reclaiming lost ground in Ramadi, like in other parts of Iraq, US military officials say - @Reuters


29 posted on 05/18/2015 8:17:32 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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US, allies conduct 6 air strikes in Syria, 19 in Iraq against Islamic State militants, combine joint task force reports - @Reuters


30 posted on 05/18/2015 8:31:04 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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What about a land for the Christian Assyrians — Mosul and Nineveh (all of Akkad in fact)

I support this.

31 posted on 05/18/2015 8:34:01 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: expat2

I don’t see ISIS being all that good defensively either. Speed and terror is their game.


32 posted on 05/18/2015 8:55:54 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: arthurus

We beg to differ. The Iranians (Shi’ite Persians) hate the Sunni Arabs at least as much as they hate Israel (remember the long Iran/Iraq war). the first Iranian nuclear missile will target Ryad.


33 posted on 05/18/2015 8:55:55 AM PDT by expat2
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the first Iranian nuclear missile will target Ryad.

I'm cool with that.

34 posted on 05/18/2015 9:19:02 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: expat2
Precisely. How do we differ on that? Hussein, being Sunni, hates both and is setting up a nuclear attack by Iran on Israel in order to eliminate both as it surely would if Israel does not have sufficient antimissile capabilty thus far unknown to Iran and Hussein. I suspect that a nuke on Riyadh would trigger an appropriate Israeli response. Riyadh is likely to have retaliatory or even first strike nuclear capability very quickly. Arabia will simply import the gear from Sunni Pakistan and the technicians to operate it and train the Saudis. Iran has to keep spinning those centrifuges. Arabia can be nuked up in a month. Iran requires a bit longer
35 posted on 05/18/2015 9:39:52 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: arthurus

What makes you think Hussein O is sunni?


36 posted on 05/18/2015 9:45:06 AM PDT by expat2
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To: AppyPappy

Lets see how the Shiite/Iranians volunteers do agaisnt the mad on victory IS forces. My money is they will fight hard for a day or so then run like scared camels back to Baghdad. Iraq id done as a nation. Biden’s 3 part solution may become de-facto truth in time.


37 posted on 05/18/2015 10:49:44 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

As best I can tell, these countries don’t like organized fighting. They prefer terrorism and guerrilla groups.


38 posted on 05/18/2015 11:10:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: expat2

His direct training was in Sunni Djakarta. Moslems don’t ho around to different sects. They stay with the one they started with except a few will “convert” at the point of a sword. Mostly sunnis and shias, because of that, don’t try hard to convert each other and they don’t keep prisoners as prisoners. They either sell them or kill them or enslave the women and children.


39 posted on 05/18/2015 8:41:35 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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It’s my understanding that his father and relatives in Kenya were Shia. Just because Djakarta was mainly Sunni, it does not mean that there were no shia there. Look at Iraq and Syria.


40 posted on 05/19/2015 5:20:41 AM PDT by expat2
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