U.S. starts removing embassy staff from Baghdad as ISIS grabs Iraqi town of Tal Afar [Obama Golfs!]

Washington Post ^ | June 15, 2014 | LIZ SLY AND ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER

[Steelfish]

U.S. starts removing embassy staff from Baghdad as ISIS grabs Iraqi town of Tal Afar BY LIZ SLY AND ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER June 15 BAGHDAD — Al-Qaeda renegades captured another major town in northern Iraq on Sunday, forcing hundreds of families to flee into the surrounding desert as their country’s grim descent into a new round of bloodletting continued unchecked.

The fall of the religiously mixed town of Tal Afar to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria raised the specter of deepening sectarian violence, as the U.S. government announced that it is drawing down staff at its embassy in Baghdad.

Citing the “ongoing instability and violence in certain areas,” a State Department statement said the embassy will also beef up the number of security personnel deployed at the heavily guarded mission, which is in the fortified Green Zone. A separate Pentagon statement said “a small number” of Defense Department personnel was being sent to augment security at the facility.

[Nowhere Man]

I think for a time in the 1950’s, President Eisenhower was criticized on how much golf he played. I think Barky takes the cake and Eisenhower is owned an apology.

[dfwgator]

I wish Obama golfed more, he does less damage that way.

[snoringbear]

“We will be strafing the roads by Friday, with our embassy in flames and Americans dragged through the streets.”

Probably so. We need to evacuate all Americans and westerners before we begin using air power against ISIS. If we start bombing, strafing, etc, before our people are out rest assured they will be slaughtered, behead and the like once captured.