Leaders of Iraq's Anbar Province Call For U.S. Ground Forces To Stop ISIS [Obama Keeps Fundraising]

CNN ^ | October 11, 2014 | Laura Smith-Spark, Ben Wedeman and Kareem Khadder

[Steelfish]

Leaders of Iraq's Anbar Province Call For U.S. Ground Forces To Stop ISIS By Laura Smith-Spark, Ben Wedeman and Kareem Khadder October 11, 2014

Baghdad (CNN) -- Leaders in Iraq's western Anbar province pleaded Saturday for U.S. ground forces to halt the relentless advance of ISIS, while hundreds of kilometers away in the city of Kobani, Kurdish fighters desperately struggled to hold off the advancing extremist group.

The situation in Anbar, just to the west of Baghdad, is "very bad," the president of Anbar Provincial Council told CNN by phone on Saturday.

Sabah Al-Karhout said the council has intelligence that ISIS has dispatched as many as 10,000 fighters to Anbar from Syria and Mosul in northern Iraq. ISIS putting U.S. allies 'against a wall'

The council's deputy head, Falleh al-Issawi, told CNN that it had asked the central government to intervene immediately to save the province from imminent collapse -- and to request the deployment of U.S. ground forces there.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I don’t like the US fighting Turkey’s battles for it, much as I admire and sympathize with the Kurds. On the other hand, the US is responsible for much of the ISIS armory, thru captured Iraqi weapons (the ineptness of the Iraqi army is a US strategic scandal), as well as intermittent suppression of Assad, the only (God, I hate to say this) source of merely partially-insane order in the region.

[Vermont Lt]

Didn’t Patton say something about paying for the same ground twice?

I understand the concept that if we broke it, we own it, but it was in good shape when we gave it back.

If we have to go back, we should plan on keeping it all, including what’s underneath it.

[PGR88]

Most Freepers were saying 2 years ago that Assad was the least-bad choice among many bad choices.

I have yet to understand Obama’s interest in trying to topple him. Same as my, to this day, my puzzlement over the absolute chaos and danger he and Hillary created in Libya.

[Michael.SF.]

It was not in good shape when we gave it back. That is what we were told. We were deceived.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The Zero may or may not have known this would happen, but he didn’t give a rat’s a$$. He doesn’t really care about anyone or anything other than his powerbase and pushing people around.

Zero’s narcissistic insanity is off the charts.

[Libloather]

Isn’t Hussein busy calling in tomorrow’s tee time?

[rdcbn]

Were you aware that Libya's Gaddafi had over a Trillion dollars invested in Europe through sketchy shell companies with convoluted ownership to avoid sanctions.

Because of the convoluted ownership and secrecy surrounding these investments, they would be very easy for well connected, knowledgeable insiders or bankers to simply step in and take over once Gaddafi was out of the picture and unable to defend his assets with his intelligence thugs.

Motive perhaps?

[SaxxonWoods]

Obama left Iraq and bragged about it.

Going back in with troops would keep him from pretending that he never makes mistakes. The far-left base would have a fit.

So, forget about it. This is better than another “small footprint, smart power, lose in the end anyway” war.

The world is learning what it’s like without Pax Americana. Let that sink in for a while.

[Cen-Tejas]

Iraqi people (majority) are simply ungovernable due to many things including ancient (centuries before there was a US) religion based hatreds that now are part of their very DNA ergo un resolvable by any manly force.

Putting our kids back into that mix is beyond insanity. I despise Obama and the democrats! But, keeping our guys out of that septic tank is a position I hope they stick to.

Nukes ok! B52s ok! Glass over the whole country ok! But no more of dead American girls and boys for these scummy, despicable people who pee on the memory of the 5,281 dead American sons and daughters!

Fallujah no more!!