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US to Make Peshmerga into Professional Army
BasNews, Erbil ^ | 11.09.2014 | Hoshmand Sadiq

Posted on 09/11/2014 8:11:58 AM PDT by GonzoII


Peshmerga forces currently fighting IS Militants in Northern Iraq

US to Make Peshmerga into Professional Army

11.09.2014
Hoshmand Sadiq
BasNews, Erbil

 
The Kurdish Peshmerga Ministry has said that US support in the Kurdistan Region will not end wih sending weapons and military equipment.
 
The United State plans to make the Peshmerga forces into a professional Army.
 
“Beside sending military equipment, arming Peshmerga forces and carrying out air strikes against the IS insurgents. The US has agreed to help make Peshmerga forces into a professional army similar to other developed countries through training and military expertise,” said the Spokesman of Peshmerga Ministry Halgord Hikmat to BasNews.
 
Hikmat did not mention any specific dates that the training will be carried out by the US military experts and commanders.
 
Previously, Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani asked Peshmerga Minister Mustafa Seyd Qadr to have a plan of nationalizing Peshmerga forces and take them out from under control of Kurdish political parties so that they can become a professional army.
 
Peshmerga Minister Qadr showed his full support for this plan.
 
In the recent months, Peshmerga force is the only force currently fighting the Islamic State (IS) Militants in Northern Iraq.
 
Furthermore, several western countries have approved plans to send military aids to Kurdish Peshmerga forces including US, UK, France and Germany.
 



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: irag; isis; kurds; peshmerga
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1 posted on 09/11/2014 8:11:58 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Yeah. Why don’t they help out Christians this way?


2 posted on 09/11/2014 8:21:20 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: GonzoII

Turkey’s not gonna like that.


3 posted on 09/11/2014 8:23:52 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: GonzoII

The Kurds have always been an effective and disciplined fighting force. They were invaluable during both battles for Fallujah.

They just need weapon systems and close air support, and they will defeat ISIL anytime, anywhere.


4 posted on 09/11/2014 8:24:22 AM PDT by gandalftb (Go Seahawks!)
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To: GonzoII

I’m glad we are arming the Kurds, for now. But the nature of the middle east is that, sooner or later, everything you do eventually bites you in the butt.

Somehow, someway, we will eventually be bitten by the Kurds. They can’t possibly be as saintly as we believe.

Still - for now, they’re the best ‘friend’ in Iraq/Syria - light years better than the ‘moderate rebels’.


5 posted on 09/11/2014 8:24:36 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: GonzoII
Hypothetical....

The US is training the Peshmerga to be a professional army. The Kurds are going to want a lot of autonomy, like total autonomy when this is over. Lots of what they'd call Kurdistan is in Turkey. What's going to happen when the Pesmerga decide to free Turkish Kurds to join their new nation? Turkey's in NATO, so would there be obligations to defend them? Turkey's already being way too kind to ISIS fighters, so it's probably inevitable the fighting spills over into Turkey. Then the US will have obligations to both sides.

Obama's policy isn't to not fight wars. It's to pay others to fight the wars his globalist masters want. I guess the narcissist-in-chief thinks that the globalist wars are okay if someone else fights for him. It hasn't worked real well in Egypt, Libya, and Syria because those who fought the wars don't want to cede power when they've served their purpose.

Bottom line...this mess happened because Obama armed, trained, and financed others to fight his wars. And what he wants to do is more of that. It's insane.

6 posted on 09/11/2014 8:25:25 AM PDT by grania
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To: Paine in the Neck

Do we give a flying - whatever - WHAT Turkey thinks at this moment?

They have aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, and are very much interested in re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate, as this fits right in with their world-view of the reincarnation of the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey is no longer a secular state.

And the Peshmerga would make a FINE mercenary army, as long as the support keeps on coming.

But just maybe, the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut, does not WANT to play this particular chess piece.


7 posted on 09/11/2014 8:32:38 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: gandalftb
"They just need weapon systems and close air support,
and they will defeat ISIL anytime, anywhere."

Could this be part of the "3 years" plan? I wonder.

8 posted on 09/11/2014 8:33:06 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: lacrew

That’s a real risk.

I hope that these guys do get an independent nation out of N. Iraq, but seriously don’t push it by screwing with Turkey.

They seem sane and realist, but it IS the middle east.


9 posted on 09/11/2014 8:33:14 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Christians in the region have been finding refuge in Kurdistan.


10 posted on 09/11/2014 8:34:53 AM PDT by lurk
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To: alloysteel

Exactly. Turkey stopped being an ally when the Kemalists were removed from power. They’ve thrown their lot with Islam, so why should we object to the Kurds finally gaining freedom for their homeland?


11 posted on 09/11/2014 8:40:43 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

As long as the Kurds are defending the Christians, I’m OK with it. And so far the Kurds have been-— really-— magnificent.


12 posted on 09/11/2014 8:45:43 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Let us commend ourselves and each other, and all our life unto Christ our God." Liturgy of St.John)
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To: GonzoII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdggP7rw0mg


13 posted on 09/11/2014 8:48:13 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: GonzoII

So the mighty Pershmerga will be trained to:
Reduce global warming
Respect the environment
Enforce women’s rights
Support LGBT rights


14 posted on 09/11/2014 8:50:22 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: alloysteel
Do we give a flying - whatever - WHAT Turkey thinks at this moment?

We don't, but Jarrett, Obama and Brennan do. And I'm pretty sure they get their marching orders from Qatar, who are also very much on board with the restoration of the Caliphate.

15 posted on 09/11/2014 8:51:22 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Shadow44

Turkish foreign ministry just announced no US Air strikes will be permitted from any NATO airbase in Turkey. And remember that a lot of the mess that Iraq became resulted from Turkey’s refusal to allow 4 AD to launch from Turkey. So the only US forces in the north of Iraq were special forces and the reinforced battalion of the 173 Bde. Also The UK and Germany will not mount strikes on Syria. Barky really did his homework before making this speech.


16 posted on 09/11/2014 8:51:41 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Yeah. Why don’t they help out Christians this way?

You mean arm the Palestinian Christian Arabs in the PLO? No thanks.

17 posted on 09/11/2014 8:52:27 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: GonzoII

At least we wont have to worry about turning their guns on our instructors for a change.


18 posted on 09/11/2014 8:53:35 AM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: grania
The US is training the Peshmerga to be a professional army. The Kurds are going to want a lot of autonomy, like total autonomy when this is over. Lots of what they'd call Kurdistan is in Turkey. What's going to happen when the Pesmerga decide to free Turkish Kurds to join their new nation? Turkey's in NATO, so would there be obligations to defend them?

I can't see how Zero wouldn't jump at the opportunity to let the media suck us into a fight that ends up with the dissolution of NATO.

19 posted on 09/11/2014 8:56:14 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us three choices: Defeat them utterly, die, or surrender to a life of slavery.)
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To: Alter Kaker

There’s plenty of Pro-western christians. Look at the Maronite militias like the Southern Lebanon Army and the Guardians of the Cedars.


20 posted on 09/11/2014 9:05:47 AM PDT by Shadow44
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