Posted on 02/20/2015 10:21:15 AM PST by Dave346
Perhaps the most vivid and disturbing evidence that the Iraqi government simply does not share America’s core values emerged on Feb. 6. In a grainy video posted on YouTube, a three-minute horror show plays out on the front lines somewhere in Iraq. Iraqi military officers and presumably Shiite militiamen — dressed in black, skull-adorned “Sons of Anarchy” shirts — crowd an ambulance emblazoned with the Iraqi state seal. Inside, a blindfolded and hog-tied man in military fatigues pleads for mercy as the Iraqi vigilantes beat him over the head, taunting him with expletives.
“We will f— your sisters,” they shout.
“No, God,” the prisoner weeps.
One of the vigilantes picks up a metal toolbox and slams it down on the crying man, as others enter the ambulance to beat and kick the helpless prisoner. A minute into the video, the man is dragged out of the ambulance and onto the ground, still blindfolded, arms bound behind his back. A dozen fighters surround him and begin kicking him until he lies motionless, blood dripping from his head. With some yelling “enough,” a man in camouflaged trousers walks up to the prisoner and beats him over the head repeatedly with a sandal, a gesture of monumental insult. Another man, also in camouflaged trousers, leaps up twice and lands with his full weight on the detainee’s skull. A third man, in full military uniform, kicks and punches the hemorrhaging man, whose blood spills across the sand below.
In the final horrific minute, the vigilantes carry the man a few feet away and drop him to the ground. Several men armed with U.S.-supplied M4 rifles then empty several magazines — perhaps more than 100 rounds — into the man.
The video concludes with one man chillingly yelling, “Enough! What’s wrong with you?”
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What’s wrong with you? - Islam......
Bammy’s final solution is to give nukes to Iran.
The results of that failed doctrine has cost alot of lives and untold suffering lately.
Time to go back to a foreign policy based upon upon what reality dictates is in the USA's best interests.
Or stay the hell out altogether.
Imam Obama's Iraq:
What swell guys. I know! Let’s invite them to the next Democrat Party Convention.
Let the Sh’ia militias take on the ISIS mob (who are Sunni). Since Sunni and Sh’ia Muslims really do hate each other, let them fight it out and have you-know-who sort them out later.
jarrett’s brothers?
What you said. Anyone, such as this author evidently, who thought any Muslim/Arab country shares American core values is too mentally disabled to think at all.
Saw the video.
Animals.
Proof they need plow shares and oxen....
Maybe Dhamer and Manson coukd be highly productive citizens if we gave them a job.
I know exaggeration is the norm but “Recently, one militia commander estimated their total strength at 800,000 men, dwarfing the official Iraqi Security Forces.”
So what is a close estimate and how does that make the families of the 4k Americans on their way to Kuwait feel?
If Bibi is re-elected I don’t think he’ll allow Iran to get the nuke. I believe Mosad is a lot more effective than our muslim led CIA. I wouldn’t blame Israel if they gave Iran one of their nukes.
The administration’s cumulative mistakes have played a decisive role in advancing Iraq’s implosion, the IS’s rise, and Iran’s regional hegemony. From the time that Obama took office until today, violence in Iraq has spiked nearly fourfold from the post-surge lows in 2009 — reaching levels not seen since the height of the civil war in 2006 and 2007. The Islamic State has conquered more than a third of the country while the Iraqi military imploded, despite a $25 billion investment in it by American taxpayers.
And so, Shi'ite butchers from the East meet Sunni butchers from the West. For all that I said criticizing the idea of nation-building in that country we actually left behind about as good a chance as the Iraqis are ever likely to get. Now the Kurds are finally carving out a bit of Kurdistan with precious little U.S. help but at least we aren't actively interfering. The rest of the country is likely to get worse before it gets better, and remaining a country at all doesn't look like the most likely outcome.
Numerous suggestions have been made to carve Iraq into three or more constituent regions, begging the question of whether carving the country up from afar wasn't the problem to begin with. Nevertheless, it is difficult to imagine an equitable solution. The Sunnis, shorn of Mosul and the rest of the north, won't have oil. The Shi'ites, joined at the hip to the Iranians, won't have independence. The Kurds won't have anything they won't have to fight for every day. And that's about as rosy a prospect as we're likely to see.
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