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ISLAMISTS CLOSE IN ON BAGHDAD
Headline on Drudge | June 12, 2014

Posted on 06/12/2014 11:00:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

ISLAMISTS CLOSE IN ON BAGHDAD

Can't post from bloomberg per their copyright complaint.

Where is Baghdad Bob when Commander Obama needs him?


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; iraq; isil; isis; obama; wholostiraq
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To: 353FMG

I stand by my words. He’s a Marxist idiot.


41 posted on 06/12/2014 12:03:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: GOPJ

Wonder if they could have fought back against the current crop of invaders if we had not taken their guns?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/world/aftereffects-the-military-allies-to-begin-seizing-weapons-from-most-iraqis.html

By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Published: May 21, 2003

Iraqi citizens will be required to turn over automatic weapons and heavy weapons under a proclamation that allied authorities plan to issue this week, allied officials said today.

The aim of the proclamation is to help stabilize Iraq by confiscating the huge supply of AK-47’s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons that are used by criminal gangs, paramilitary groups and remnants of the Saddam Hussein government.

Iraqis who refuse to comply with the edict will be subject to arrest. Only Iraqis authorized to use military-type weapons because of their police or military duties will be exempt.

‘’We are in the final stages of formulating a weapons policy to put rules on who can and cannot possess a weapon,’’ Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan, the chief allied land commander said in an interview. ‘’We want to get explosives and AK’s out of the wrong hands.’’


42 posted on 06/12/2014 12:04:22 PM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Saudi Arabia has plenty of Apaches. I’m sure they are in the air heading towards Baghdad as I keyboard this.


43 posted on 06/12/2014 12:05:19 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

The A-10 has been on the chopping AF block for years but a few intelligent politicians won’t let them retire the A-10. The Air Force wants only sexy, $200 million airplanes, not ugly $10 million airplanes.


44 posted on 06/12/2014 12:15:21 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: TADSLOS

I don’t know.


45 posted on 06/12/2014 12:15:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Jim Robinson

No fear. These are the jayvee terrorists. Says Obungo.


46 posted on 06/12/2014 12:17:15 PM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline is for lease)
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To: Jim Robinson

In the US they won’t even let us have Toyota Hilux’s.

I would love a Hilux Diesel.


47 posted on 06/12/2014 12:20:32 PM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I was being sarcastic. I doubt that the Saudis have left the traffic pattern without their US contract IPs yet.


48 posted on 06/12/2014 12:21:49 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: oldbrowser

And blame Bush.


49 posted on 06/12/2014 12:24:28 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Jim Robinson

I grieve for one of my wife’s closest friends who lost her son in Iraq. For what? It was a noble cause at the time, but the usurper has thrown it all away. I am sick at what this bastard has done to the parents and loved ones of all the men and women who gave their lives for Iraqi freedom.


50 posted on 06/12/2014 12:32:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The war presently is not the same. Saddam is gone. That was what the war was about.

The current war is been building since 1918 or so when the artificial nation of Iraq was established by the British. There re lots of very old scores to be settled. That effort is now underway and visible.

It is not true your son died in vain. Saddam is gone and not a threat


51 posted on 06/12/2014 12:37:26 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: bert

background here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3166882/posts


52 posted on 06/12/2014 1:09:32 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: bert

You’re one of few who realizes it was two wars: one to depose Saddam, another to fill the power vacuum. Mission accomplished on the first; Obama handed the second to his allies.

IMPEACH!


53 posted on 06/12/2014 1:20:22 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: Jim Robinson

Cookie Cutter Toyota Tundras in White as far as the eye can see.

Whose port were these Tundras brought through?

Who bought them for ISIS?

Whose army is this?

I’ll bet: SAUDI!


54 posted on 06/12/2014 2:17:10 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: TADSLOS

Those Tundra’s are carrying Saudi’s army to Baghdad.


55 posted on 06/12/2014 2:19:32 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: LeoWindhorse

But just like Benghazi, there will be no Command Authority decision to drop a twinkie.


56 posted on 06/12/2014 2:21:23 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: bert

Clarification — it was the son of a close friend of my wife.


57 posted on 06/12/2014 3:03:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GOPJ
Biden: I am very optimistic about Iraq. I think it’s gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration

I have not seen or heard from Biden in months.

58 posted on 06/12/2014 3:33:33 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
Many US soldiers, and many more Iraqis, died, and Obama is throwing it all away

The only war that had a chance of success was a war of conquest to place American governors in Riyadh and Islamabad.

The Iraq war, based on false premises, was built on sand - and the architect needs to take some of the blame.

59 posted on 06/12/2014 3:48:17 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
It was a noble cause at the time, but the usurper has thrown it all away

It was idiotic from its moment of conception.

The enemy is in Riyadh and Islamabad.

60 posted on 06/12/2014 3:57:16 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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