Posted on 08/10/2014 2:40:05 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
Iraq’s parliament just chose a new President who refused to rename Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki to a third term. Maliki declared the move unconstitutional and his own State of Law Party pulled support from him. Now his forces are seizing government buildings in Iraq, have closed the airport, and are surrounding the Green Zone.
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“I’m sure Obama will be surprised when he hears this on the news.”
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Yeah, he and Mochelle in Martha’s Vineyard will be so-o-o-o upset, they’ll have only two lobsters each for dinner instead of three each.
Bring the hardware home from there and let’s just pretend he never existed, which based on information prior to 2008, he kinda didn’t.
garf I hope they’re still on the job.
I’m sure Odumber keeps his cell phone off on the weekend. Valerie is the one on-call you know...
Not before he had a gas attack.
Can we start calling him 0bogie yet?
Tweets to #Iraq seem to agree that Maliki has flooded the Green Zone with troops loyal to him and Shia militia. Confused picture elsewhere.
“Situation getting worse Official White House response: “Bush’s fault.””
Don’t laugh...
Obama Bots are already tweeting JUST THAT.
This isn’t a military coup, it is a coup engineered by the PM.
Silly rabbit, don’t ya know..NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is EVER Obama’s fault..he is just an innocent little lamb
Leave it to those damn project managers to engineer a coup on the weekend!!
This isn’t a military coup, it is a coup engineered by the PM.
It’s looking very much like that. Panic.
REUTERS
Shi’ite militia forces step up patrols in Baghdad: police sources
by Derek Caney 5:26 PM
Special forces loyal to Maliki are deployed in strategic areas of Baghdad: Police
by Derek Caney 5:09 PM
CNN saying US is throwing Maliki under the bus.
Yep. Toppling Saddam was one of the worst foreign policy blunders orchestrated by the United States that I can think of.
There is no bounds to their audacious stupidity.
“These are the factions of Weimar Germany fighting for positions while the Fascists get more and more powerful.”
Yes, good comparison.
Then we doubled down on the stupidity by ousting Mubarak and Kadaffy. At least they haven’t succeeded, yet, with Assad.
CNN saying US is throwing Maliki under the bus.
TWEET:
As the crisis unfolds in Baghdad, the Obama team has many interns monitoring CNN for any new breaking developments
To my knowledge, ISIS hasn’t come up against Hezbollah once in Syria. Seems a pretty a strong indication of some understanding between Iran and ISIS.
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