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Iraqi Drama Catches U.S. Off Guard (Senior U.S. Off.: Makes you want to kill yourself)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, June 12, 2014 | Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes

Posted on 06/12/2014 6:30:34 AM PDT by kristinn

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To: SoFloFreeper

Prediction: The formerly great US military will be dragged, nilly-willy, into this conflict, and will be mired much worse than ever happened in Viet Nam. With even less capability and freedom of the commanders on the ground to move in positive manner to protect themselves and strategically engage the enemy, it will turn into a rout that would make Napoleon’s Retreat look orderly and disciplined.

If people thought Iraq and Afghanistan were meat grinders that just chewed up American youth, they shall nave no standard of comparison.

Play to lose. Yeah, THAT’S the ticket.

England in 1940 was not more beleaguered. But then, England had the grand leadership of Winston Churchill.

And who do we have? Even Neville Chamberlain was not so bewildered and astonished by the turn of events, as the Current Occupant must surely be.

Unfortunately, the form of government here in the US does not allow for a “vote of no confidence”, as it could be done in Great Britain.


21 posted on 06/12/2014 6:51:25 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: blueunicorn6
Then why in the world are we spending such big bucks for our intelligence organizations?
Well it's not cheap keeping surveiling 300 million potential domestic terrorists.
22 posted on 06/12/2014 6:51:43 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: kristinn

How convenient......just about ten days ago, Obama released five top terrorist “generals” back into what is now becoming an erupting Middle East. Not a coincidence .


23 posted on 06/12/2014 6:53:27 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: kristinn

Which side does mcain and grahmnesty want to help this time.......


24 posted on 06/12/2014 6:55:46 AM PDT by JParris
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To: Corporate Democrat

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick.

That is pretty funny. It could easily read

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a community organizer team puts on commander in chief uniforms that doesn’t make them FDR and/or Ronald Reagan ”


25 posted on 06/12/2014 6:55:58 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: kristinn

The people that voted for the treasonous Obama should be wanting to kill themselves. Maybe they won’t have to.

The enemy will now do that for them.


26 posted on 06/12/2014 6:56:35 AM PDT by dforest
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To: kristinn

Ivy League idiots. I predicted this exact scenario here on FR 6, 5 and 4 years ago and I went to a state college and got an engineering degree.


27 posted on 06/12/2014 6:59:36 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: kristinn

.... Good thing our Southern Border is now literally wide open for anybody to enter into the US.


28 posted on 06/12/2014 6:59:58 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: kristinn

Well the Dear Leader had a graduation and fund raiser to do in Mass yesterday so he’s probably sleeping in this morning.


29 posted on 06/12/2014 7:06:56 AM PDT by AU72
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To: kristinn

“Iraqi Drama Catches U.S. Off Guard (Senior U.S. Off.: Makes you want to kill yourself)”

When the NSA, CIA and whatever other alphabet intel agencies focus collecting intel on Americans and our allies, we get “surprises” like this all the time in the middle east, the Ukraine, Africa and places we don’t even know about.


30 posted on 06/12/2014 7:07:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: kristinn

WTI Crude 105.82


31 posted on 06/12/2014 7:09:04 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: skams19

Yeah. He heard of it some years ago when he created it with Morsi


32 posted on 06/12/2014 7:09:24 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: kristinn
.... Dear Mr. President: Please step down for the good of the world. Let the grown ups take it from here. You can take care of the Gay Rights and Amnesty for Illegals as well as other very important earth shattering pressing issues that community organizer activists are comfortable with from a rented office with phone banks fit for an activist.

.... PLEASE Let the professional leaders handle the National Security and important International concerns. It's been 3 am in the morning for the past 5 years and nobody has answered the phone in an intelligent manner. Trust us .... the phone that is ringing is not because of a prank call.

33 posted on 06/12/2014 7:09:53 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: mad_as_he$$

“Ivy League idiots. I predicted this exact scenario here on FR 6, 5 and 4 years ago and I went to a state college and got an engineering degree.”

Hey! That’s not fair, you got a degree in reality and real world uses versus a good old boy pat on the back degree in bs.


34 posted on 06/12/2014 7:12:01 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: kristinn
"It makes you want to kill yourself," a senior U.S. official said ..

If only.

35 posted on 06/12/2014 7:16:54 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Corporate Democrat

And the Obama Administration is the Pee Wee League.


36 posted on 06/12/2014 7:20:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: kristinn

The greatest intelligence failure since 9/11; the greatest foreign policy failure since the fall of Saigon.

It’s Barry’s world, we just get to live in it.


37 posted on 06/12/2014 7:21:01 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: kristinn
Are we about to see a replay of Saigon? Tehran? Benghazi? Now stir in a truckload of manpads.

All brought to you by the perfidy of the domestic left.

38 posted on 06/12/2014 7:25:08 AM PDT by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: dfwgator
“I said the first day we rolled into Iraq, that we had to be there for at least 20 years, or else it would quickly crumble.

In hindsight, it was better to leave Saddam in charge.”

Correction:

I said the first day we rolled into Iraq, that we had to be there for at least 70 years, or else it would quickly crumble.

In hindsight, it was better to leave Saddam in charge.

To get Democracy to flourish in that place we would have had to outright run it for 20 years, and allowed another 50 years for at least two generations to be born under Democracy before it would have had a chance. And nobody wanted to do that - hence not much of a reason to go there in the first place. Neutering Saddam made more sense, and we were pretty close to that at the time of the invasion.

I believe the administration had some naive idea that if we got rid of Saddam, the UN and the rest of the world would finish the job. Unfortunately finishing the job still involved hard work, so expecting the UN to do it was crazy.

39 posted on 06/12/2014 7:25:23 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name (\w)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Bush launched a War on Terror. Obama launched an appeasement campaign. How’s that working out?


40 posted on 06/12/2014 7:25:59 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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