U.S. Drops Aid to Iraqis; Militants Are Hit by Air Strikes

New York Times ^ | 08/07/2014 | By HELENE COOPER, MARK LANDLER and ALISSA J. RUBIN

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President Obama said Thursday that United States military aircraft had dropped food and water to thousands of Iraqis besieged by Islamic militants on a mountaintop in northern Iraq.

Speaking Thursday night from the State Dining Room at the White House, the president said he had directed the United States military forces to conduct targeted airstrikes on the militants if they moved to take Erbil, threatening the American citizens and military personnel there.

And he said that at the request of the Iraqi government, he had authorized the military to use airstrikes to help provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi citizens, many of them religious minorities, who are trapped on the mountain.

[Lil Flower]

The kind working with ISIS.

[left that other site]

While I am glad that the Lyin’ King is helping the Hazidis, he has allowed Christians in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq to be tormented for MONTHS.

Heck, I think he’s ENCOURAGED it.

Finally, when it’s a tiny religious minority with its roots in Zoroastrianism and Islam...finally he does something.

[R0CK3T]

How many people had to be slaughter, how many children had to have their heads cut off by ISIS before now?

Wasn’t this the same guy who told us if he could save just one more child he would makes firearms illegal for citizens to own.

And NOW on the US border he says if we can save the children the we must make them citizens and provide care for them and all of their family forever?

But he allows Kurdish and Christian women and children to be genocidally murdered in Iraq and does noting until scores, thousands, and more have been slaughtered.

Well here is one place I will partially agree with Holder on, the US does have cowards in it.

They reside in the White House.

[dfwgator]

When it’s the Israelis attacking hospitals, Obama is all over it.