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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ROFL!
Helps to source tweets. Embed is a good function for that
This is the funnies to him. In fact, the whole world is a “funny” to him.
Absolutely, the boy on golf course is just a distraction, as she calls the shots with his approval.
Seems we can also pick our noses and scabs.
Least he’s good at one thing and doesn’t care if he’s caught on camera doing it...
Can’t poor Obama just take a break? With all his golfing, fund raising, candlelit dinners with Reggie, and hobnobbing with celebrities he needs a break in Martha’s Vinyard. Now, he’s going to get interrupted with a text message on his Blackberry telling him about the new situation developing in Iraq. This could really upset his golf stroke.
Guess democracy ain’t for everybody...
CNN BREAKING NEWS: Picking up on this story now. Troops deployed. Curfew inplace.
Twitter beat them.
Scared, I doubt it. They’ll amp up the rhetoric at the UN and of course Obama will rush to help ’em.
There is still some intelligence out there that Iran actually backed ISIS, too. Not the first time things like this have come to light; after all, I’ve had to sift through claims that Hamas and Iran are enemies (they are not) and the Taliban and Iran are enemies (also not); it’d be a remarkable means by which they trick the liberal leaders in most of what we call the “West” into getting Iran’s camel-body into the tent where the nose has been for quite a long time.
The PM or whatever the leader is called there isn’t a ISIS fan. Is the military on ISIS side——————
alMaliki is Shia. IS is practically wahabbist. Zero won’t declare loyalty to either one, so each one is doing what it must to survive.
Arab ‘Spring’. But this won’t end well... too many nations with investments that have to try to find a way to step in.
You’re right about him turning his back. In a heartbeat.
But, I really don’t think he gives two hoots nor a holler about the Iraqis. I think the only reason he’s doing ANYTHING is to keep from hurting the democrats any more in the upcoming elections.
What with Obama specifically omitting Christians when voicing concern for the Yazidis and also saying, “we are not going to be the Kurd’s Air Force” he is giving IS a green light elsewhere. I think that Iran has no desire for anything beyond a holding action against IS in the south and east Shiite and oil areas. I’d be getting out of Bagdad just about now.
#BREAKING Iraqi troops and security forces are deployed in #Baghdad's green zone and have closed some major bridges #Iraq
CNN trying to contact the White House on this development. Nobody home.
LOL
Funny how? / Joe Pesci
Could be. Could be Iran’s way of trying to play “Good Cop”.
Rational? Seriously? Rouhani’s been just as radical as Ahmadinejad, and perhaps more fervent than Ahmadinejad over Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, and they’re more “rational”. The apples/oranges comparison of Vietnam/Cambodia is not helpful, with all due respect.
And just in time. The Iraqi PM himself called efforts to form a national emergency government a coup back in June.
And just in time. The Iraqi PM himself called efforts to form a national emergency government a coup back in June.
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