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Posted on 05/25/2015 3:24:39 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday sought to end an embarrassing rift between Washington and Baghdad after Pentagon boss Ashton Carter blamed Iraqi forces for the fall of Ramadi.
The White House said Biden called Iraqi's prime minister Haider al-Abadi, just hours after the US Defense Secretary's suggested the Islamic State group won control of the city because "Iraqi forces showed no will to fight," according to AFP.
Biden "recognized the enormous sacrifice and bravery of Iraqi forces over the past eighteen months in Ramadi and elsewhere," the White House said.
As well as rowing back Carter's comments, Biden called to "reaffirm US support for the Iraqi government's fight against" Islamic State jihadists.
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Ashton Carter’s problem was that he broke the cardinal rule of Middle Eastern diplomacy — whenever anything goes bad there, blame it on the Jews.
This gives the world an opportunity to stage anti-Israel protests; liberal news outlets get to excoriate Israel for days at a time; and the U.N. gets to declare an anti-Israel resolution.
In contrast, blaming the Iraqi army makes no one happy.
Ashton Carter now needs to turn his talents to preparing a statement for when Baghdad falls that won’t offend anyone. If he can also manage to include some innuendos suggesting that Jewish ancestry in some of the Iraqi generals might have caused Iraq’s downfall, all the better.
People will false teeth sure like to show them, huh.
He's the expert.
Not to change the subject but where is Dirty Harry now days?
Maybe he assumed that one of the generals would claim that the Randoms demoralized them with sex hormone chewing gum, subliminal porn images, and migrating ducks with surveillance cameras. If they haven’t done that already, they really must be demoralized.
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