Its scary to think how much worse its gonna get before it gets better.
Posted on 06/11/2014 4:44:37 PM PDT by kristinn
Two and a half years after the last U.S. soldier departed, an al Qaeda offshoot is in control of Mosul and headed for Baghdad—and Iraq’s prime minister is requesting U.S. air strikes.
It seems like only yesterday that Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was celebrating as the last American soldiers left Iraq. Now, with an al Qaeda offshoot threatening to take Baghdad, Maliki’s government is quietly asking at least some troops—specifically airmen and drone pilots—to return.
While Iraq’s government is not requesting a surge in U.S. ground forces like the one President Bush ordered in 2007, Maliki’s government has been asking for the U.S. to conduct targeted air strikes and the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance work to find those targets.
And there are plenty of new targets. On Tuesday, the al Qaeda offshoot known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) overran Iraqi military positions in Mosul, the country’s second largest city. On Wednesday, reports from Iraq said the terrorist group was pushing toward Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.
If President Obama agrees to launch drone strikes in Iraq, it would not be unprecedented for the region. The United States is playing a similar role in Iraq’s neighbor, Yemen, with intense counterterrorism training and drone strikes. But Obama also has boasted that he ended the U.S. war in Iraq and thus far has been hesitant to reenter the conflict.
“What we really need right now are drone strikes and air strikes,” said a senior Iraqi official Wednesday. But the official stressed that so far the Obama administration has been reluctant.
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“I wonder how they feel at the embassy about now...
I’m sure it’s put a damper on the Wednesday night cocktail party on the river bank.
ISIS knows what Russia and China have figured out. America is being led by an effeminate Islamic bitch, with ruthless females giving the dominate bitch advice, and other incompetent stupid females running the State Department. What’s to fear? Take what they want in the world, there is nothing to stop them. Don’t believe it? Ask Boko Haram. Look how scared of Obama THEY are.
Iraq and Iran can pay for the airstrike expenses with oil while adjusting their attitudes.
Denazification, cumulative review. Report, 1 April 1947-30 April 1948.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Denazi
Why should they worry? Look what a great job Obama did with Benghazi.
I understand Iraq has a LOT of oil. Pay back the trillion you already owe us first.
Dear Iraquis: Defend you own crummy country. Enough American soldiers sacrificed their lives for your country. American taxpayers were looted to support you, also. Good luck.
Not that I want to see Chinese troops in Iraq, but didn’t China benefit much more from oil contracts in Iraq than U.S. companies?
It does seem that there was some news about something of that nature long ago, and it wouldn’t surprise us. The debt-for-resources paradigm is another facet of contemporary corruption in leadership.
Well, they certainly aren’t going to wait for Washington to tell them what to do. They can land several helicopters on the ground but they’d have to use a nearby airport to get out of country. I don’t see them wanting to do that. Too many Sunnis at the airports so ISIS will have an easy entry.
Its scary to think how much worse its gonna get before it gets better.
A 50% discount on oil seems fair. Forever.
Agree. If they wait until Washington makes a decision, they will be heads on a spike.
Good Lord - after Libya, Egypt, and Syria we are depending on Barack Hussein 0bama to lead a shooting war in Iraq? For which side?
Yeah, like others have posted, pay us a trillion dollars first, (directly refunded to taxpayers) and we’ll talk about some air support.
IIRC, not one American company was awarded an oil contract in Iraq.
Let's keep fracking, and drown the world's markets with US energy.
Thanks. If China wants more oil, they can buy it from Canada once Canada completes a pipeline to their West Coast.
Dear Iraq, thanks for your inquiry. We are not America anymore though. The jug-eared Marxist in the WH has fundamentally changed that. We may be back but it will be to help the jihadis kill you. Keep your head down. Yours sincerely. USSA
I wonder how President Jarret will respond...?
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