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To: tcrlaf

And so the assault on Baghdad begins.

They shot down an Iraqi helicopter with a Chinese MANPAD, and now they’re within a few miles of the Baghdad airport.

ISIS has nearly surrounded the city. Soon they’ll be fighting house-to-house on the outskirts. Once the Iraqi military throws down their weapons and flee, it’ll all be over but the flag-raising.

All with Obama’s approval, of course, with the fig-leaf of a tiny number of airstrikes on ISIS to give him political cover at home.


5 posted on 10/11/2014 6:01:26 PM PDT by zipper (In Their Heart Of Hearts, Every Democrat Is A Communist.)
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To: zipper

let’s see, we just threw away a half a billion dollars worth of airplanes in Afghanistan, and by the end of the month we will lose a three quarters of a billion dollar embassy in Baghdad. This is starting to get expensive.


6 posted on 10/11/2014 6:10:47 PM PDT by VMI70
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To: zipper

Now he will have three super-equipped armies: ISIL, DHS and alpha agencies and the once proud US Armed Forces.


9 posted on 10/11/2014 6:30:08 PM PDT by mcshot (Kenya now says 0 or Soebarkah born in U.S..)
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To: zipper

“Once the Iraqi military throws down their weapons and flee....”

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Where will they flee to this time where ISIS cannot get them?

Saudi?


18 posted on 10/11/2014 9:09:41 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: zipper

“Once the Iraqi military throws down their weapons and flee....”

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Where will they flee to this time where ISIS cannot get them?

Saudi?


19 posted on 10/11/2014 9:09:41 PM PDT by 353FMG
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