Posted on 06/11/2014 12:15:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The group so extreme it got booted from al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory. And now ISIS has got the heavy weaponry to back it up.
With the fall of Mosul on Tuesday, Iraq’s al Qaeda offshoot has not only seized the country’s second-largest city, it appears it also has come into possession of the heavy weapons and vehicles the U.S. military had provided Iraq’s military to fight them.
That’s terrible news for America’s few allies left in Iraq as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) morph from terrorist menace to a military force capable of over-running an army the U.S. military trained for nearly a decade. It also calls into question the American government’s decision to withdraw the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011. Three years later that withdrawal now appears premature.
ISIS themselves appear to be pleased with the booty of the Mosul campaign. On Twitter the group posted a photo of a beaming Umar al-Shishani, a senior ISIS commander, examining a captured American-made Humvee, which had already been driven from the Iraqi city to the eastern Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor. “Umar al-Shishani inspects spoils of war…Looks quite pleased,” the tweet said.
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Last I checked we were thrown out. If they stayed that wasn't a good decision.
Iraq can burn as far as I'm concerned. We gave them a chance and they pissed it all away.
Bah!
Obama wanted the Syrian rebels to have the vehicles and weapons anyway.
Yep, if they don’t have the will to stay a democratic nation, we can’t force it on them.
You can blame Bush Jr. for this disaster. No, he could not keep his hands off of Saddam Hussein. Although a dictator, like Tito, he kept control of a mishmash of a culture via fear, intimidation, and death. At least the country did not have any Muslim terrorists. Now, we are about to see the fall of Iraq due to BOTH Bush and Obama.
The left got what they wanted, Al Qaeda is back in control of Iraq
It looks to me like Obama withdrew support from Maliki and now a Sunni army is in the field making war on him. Thats what it looks like to me.
Obama’s handlers have an agenda and it isn’t ours.
Yeah, my "Give A Damn" meter seems to be broke on this issue. I think that all the blood of US soldiers who died, and were maimed in vain seems to have messed it up.
Nah. Couldn't be 0bambi's Fault. Must be Bush's Fault! (TM)
Couldn't see that coming ... < /sarc>
We were not thrown out of Iraq. The Obama admin failed to get an agreement from the Iraqi government to keep our troops there. It was Obama’s agenda to end that war and bring US forces home no matter what the consequences.
The problem is that the terrorist will now have access to a large array of modern weapons, not to mention the revenues from oil sales which will fund their extremist plans right here in the US.
So you may think it is of no concern of ours, until an attack happens in your town or city.
You know, that may very well be what’s happening.
ISIS can’t beat Assad, so they raid Iraq to get the materials to do it with.
The fault goes both ways; Obama was wrong to trumpet exactly when we would be withdrawing, and Maliki was wrong not to allow Amercian Advisors to be exempt from being prosecuted by Iraquis for war crimes. Now everything is quickly unraveling. I can only hope this new Sunni group over-extends and thus eliminates itself in a few years through corruption in infighting.
Mosul is rich in weapons and cash. All they need is the training on how to use them and Obama is more than willing to do that.
If the despots are running around with modern weapons then maybe it's time
for all the AMERICAN HATERS across the pond to Step the F Up and show us how it's done!
Without that damn ROE our young Americans would have cleaned up the mess
without all the casualties. That sums up my true anger over Iraq. ROE.
>>Mosul is rich in weapons and cash. All they need is the training on how to use them and Obama is more than willing to do that.
Either way, this looks like the beginning of the Caliphate and the anti-christ.
They are beheading people. I doubt they need those heads to help them fight in Syria.
But I think you are correct.
I notice the broadcast media only cares about Cantor losing. We are hearing very little about the fall of Iraq to the jihadis.
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