Posted on 07/27/2014 5:59:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama famously failed to act when warned that ISIS was preparing to mount an offensive in Western Iraq. This left ISIS free to conquer, with virtually no resistance, city after city in the defense of which American soldiers have shed blood.
Now Obama is receiving new warnings, this time from the Kurds in Northern Iraq. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Kurds are “pleading for U.S. military aid.”
Unlike the Iraqi government, the Kurds possess a viable military that is prepared to fight ISIS. Indeed, they are fighting ISIS, and fairly effectively.
However, the Kurds now have a 650 mile border to defend, thanks to the abandonment of the area by Iraq’s military forces. Thus, the Kurdish forces are stretched extremely thin.
The Kurds should be receiving a share of the weapons the U.S. is supplying to the Iraqi government. But that, of course, isn’t happening. Mansour Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s intelligence and security chief, told the Post that Baghdad hasn’t provided “a single bullet.”
Meanwhile, says the Post, the ISIS forces attacking the Kurds have seized weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from retreating Iraqi soldiers. In effect, Baghdad is supplying ISIS while providing the Kurds with nothing.
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Only thing you left out is that he hates America.
Obama will always stand on the side of Satan.
Kurds may be the only friends that our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq have.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3185607/posts
He’s already said he was going to stand with his muzzy bros.
“Kurds may be the only friends that our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq have.”
Which is why obama wont help them. I hope the kurds can hold out until after this november. And november of 2016.
Republicans should make this a major issue in the upcoming elections, but I doubt that the GOP dares to associate themselves with Christianity the way Obama dares to connect himself with Islam.
After all, there is this PC opinion that Islam is a ROP but Christianity should not be discussed for fear of offending the ROP and our liberals.
We should help the Kurds!
Nevermind that Bush 41 was working with the UN in the Kuwaiti matter. B41 gets blamed for that, however unwarranted. If B43 could’ve stabilized Iraq, the Kurds would’ve been far better off. But that was hopeless given these subhumans.
Yep. Say what you will about Putin, he doesn't abandon his allies.
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