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Military Coup Rocks Iraq
Pundit Press ^ | 8/10/2014 | by Thomas Ferdousi

Posted on 08/10/2014 2:40:05 PM PDT by therightliveswithus

Iraq’s parliament just chose a new President who refused to rename Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki to a third term. Maliki declared the move unconstitutional and his own State of Law Party pulled support from him. Now his forces are seizing government buildings in Iraq, have closed the airport, and are surrounding the Green Zone.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: almaliki; caliphate; charliesierra; clusterhuck; coup; iran; iraq; iraqcoup; iraqipm; maliki; massoum; masum; rop
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To: therightliveswithus; All

CNN has moved on to recorded bs now.

They must have gotten the call from Obama Sycophant and CNN Pres Jeff Zucker to not say anything more until Obama’s Minions tell them what they think about this.


201 posted on 08/10/2014 4:32:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: therightliveswithus

Oh yeah this will really help the good guys (the Iraqi Military, The Kurds and others) to take the country back from ISIS.

Thanks Obama!


202 posted on 08/10/2014 4:33:23 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: nascarnation

They need cards.... they can all have Pokemon, Naruto and Yu-Gi-Oh battles instead of real bloodshed.


203 posted on 08/10/2014 4:34:56 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: MagUSNRET

Don’t forget Mr. Harper (we may be “illegally” immigrating) to Canada in a few years if things get MUCH worse here.


204 posted on 08/10/2014 4:35:09 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

Damned shasme all we have in the Pentagon and JCOS lately are a bunch of TInkerbells, too! (spit)


205 posted on 08/10/2014 4:37:18 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: dfwgator
This image is quintessentially symbolic for the reasons not to have messed with Saddam. Despite the glaring irony, he was, in his own twisted way remarkable in keeping the peace.

I must say, despite having considered Bush the greatest President ever at the time, his, the Neocons' decision to invade Iraq has to rank as one of history's greatest miscalculations, blunders, a geopolitical loss for the West as devastating, destructive as the fall of the Shah.

206 posted on 08/10/2014 4:39:25 PM PDT by lbryce (Barack Obama:Misbegotten, Bastard Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: lbryce

They really had this naive notion that an Arab country would embrace Democracy.


207 posted on 08/10/2014 4:40:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: therightliveswithus

Yep, our President did say the Iraqis need to be the solution. Don’t know if anyone’s going to like this.


208 posted on 08/10/2014 4:41:38 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: therightliveswithus

If this is true, and the regime in Baghdad falls, this will be the Kenyan’s Saigon.

5.56mm


209 posted on 08/10/2014 4:41:58 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: dfwgator

Again...I can’t disagree.

It may have been more economical at the time...but isn’t any longer.

Sadly it would take several years to get the US up to speed. But it could be done...if we could shut down the environmentalist EPA. My solution to that problem...let them freeze a winter or two and walk every where they go.


210 posted on 08/10/2014 4:42:47 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie

We could still do it, if we had the will.


211 posted on 08/10/2014 4:43:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: therightliveswithus
Iraq’s parliament just chose a new President who refused to rename Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki to a third term. Maliki declared the move unconstitutional and his own State of Law Party pulled support from him. Now his forces are seizing government buildings in Iraq, have closed the airport, and are surrounding the Green Zone.

I am getting confused here...who are the good guys in Iraq?

212 posted on 08/10/2014 4:44:03 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: McGruff
"CNN: Iraqi tanks take position in Baghdad neighborhoods."

A question comes to mind:
Why weren't those tanks used to fight the ISIS invasion?

213 posted on 08/10/2014 4:44:57 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: JSDude1

Be careful. If Bebe Turdoo is elected next time, as most polls show, there could be issues. Turdoo is well left of your current pResident. Immigrants from Middle Eastern paradises where prayer to Mecca five times a gay is ‘de riguer’ will be welcomed with open arms by the Lieberal Party of Canada, but those who subscribe to ‘traditional Western values’, not so much.


214 posted on 08/10/2014 4:45:43 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: PastorBooks

That’s because tweeting is for morons.

The fact that US officials engage in the practice is preposterous.


215 posted on 08/10/2014 4:46:19 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

I guess Canadians can’t handle prosperity.


216 posted on 08/10/2014 4:47:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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All contributions are for the current quarter expenses.



FReepathon day 40.

Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.

217 posted on 08/10/2014 4:47:12 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: RightGeek

Oh that Michelle! She’s looking so lean and mean.


218 posted on 08/10/2014 4:47:20 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: therightliveswithus
Obama is a failure.
219 posted on 08/10/2014 4:50:11 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: StormEye

The Iraqis all started running away from ISIS. Someone has to man the machinery.

If you remember that during the 1st Gulf War, after running the Iraqis out of Kuwait, the US started moving into Iraq. The Iraqis abandoned their war machines and ran that time too.


220 posted on 08/10/2014 4:50:14 PM PDT by dforest
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