Posted on 09/02/2014 10:54:59 AM PDT by boycott
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) release video apparently showing beheading of US hostage, Steven Sotloff
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David Cameron has said: "I've just seen the news. It's an absolutely disgusting and despicable act and I will be making a statement later."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The fundraisers are up to $32,000 a plate now. He’s raking in the bucks while the world is burning.
The Christian minorities lived in pretty much peace UNTIL ISIS....brought on by OBAMA”S WEAKNESS!!! Do you think this would happen under Bush/Cheney.....not a chance to this degree.....not a chance.
WHAT is that quote from????
Perhaps they were saving this video for next week?
I wonder why they give such formal notice to heathen barbarians.
“In order to defeat these people there can be no quarter left.”
Precisely. To get rid of a den of vipers you must kill the adults, kill the babies, and smash the eggs. Then burn the nest. Nothing short of that or they will be back.
0bama? His autobiography?
Look at the jaw muscles on those b*itches.
What could cause that?
Trojan Horse, agent provocateur, our own little Evelyn Salt, double agent spook, just pick one.
A lot of that was a little before my time, but I think I read that on here, actually.
Thanks for the correction.
How does one leave comments on that article if they have an account?
In 1955 Iraq was affiliated with the west in the Baghdad Pact under its King, but it was at a time leftists worldwide were fomenting the anticolonial movement, so his position was tenuous. The USSR and western leftists promoted the pan arab movement, which led to the birth of both the Baath Party in Iraq and the one in Syria. In 1956 the US, in an effort to woo Iraq, started the Atoms for Peace program providing education in nuclear science to Iraqis and in hindsight this was not a wise move as the pro-western King would in a couple of years be overthrown. The USSR wasn’t too thrilled about this. In 1957 Saddam Huseein joins the Baath Party, at that time still very small. In 1958 Army officers overthrew the king and sought to make Iraq a Republic, instituting “land reform” which broke up the tribal leader’s lands, at which point some of the revolution’s initial supporters began trying to back the truck up and fighting resumed but they were unsuccesful. The King and Hashemite prince had been murdered.
Under General Kassim/Kassem’s rule Iraq quickly backed out of the prowestern Baghdad pact and Qassim shored up his power by working with the Iraqi communist party, at that time the strongest of all the communist movements in the Middle East, using it to counteract the growing Baathist Party which was then based in Cairo under Nasser, where Saddam Hussein was sheltering along with the Grand Mufti, a former pet of Adolph Eichmann. Saddam was involved in a plot to assassinate Qassim in late 1959 but the plot failed and the conspirators fled. Saddam fled via Syria to Egypt.
Qassim continued his alignment with the USSR, and send Iraqi students to the Ussr to study nuclear engineering.
Five years after overthrowing the King, Qassim would himself be toppled by the Baathist party. Saddam was not yet in power; he instead remained in the shadows and built an intelligence apparatus. He took power by a more circuitous route, becoming president much later, consolidating his power in a spectacular show of brutality when he had the top Baathist Party members murdered at a celebration ... to eliminate potential competitors.
“What could cause that?”
There goes my coffee.
How does one leave comments on that article if they have an account?
I don’t know. I found the story posted on the Drudge Report and then posted it over here.
Remember the USS STARK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident
The USS Stark incident occurred during the Iran–Iraq War on 17 May 1987, when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired missiles at the American frigate USS Stark. Thirty-seven United States Navy personnel were killed and twenty-one others were wounded.
Sorry bro but while it may seem dumbass to you it was a necessary step in the middle east. You actually think that life under Saddam was any better than it is today? President Bush did what should have been done under the Clinton regime and typical of all short minded leftists, Bush was excoriated for his entire eight years for doing what needed to be done.
Iraqi and American officials looking at one of the trenches at the Mahawil, Babil site 2006 (New York Times)
American forensic specialists going through remains at the Samawa site in Muthanna province 2005 (AP)
Torture house, mass graves discovered in Iraq
Ironic as it might seem the above article was written by CNN as if they were surprised by the findings..........
The true facts were disclosed by the once CNN Baghdad Bureau Chief, Eason Jordan, the gutless journalist who admitted after Iraq was liberated by the United States, that he, and CNN were fully aware of all the attrocities that were occuring in Iraq under Saddam Hussein while President B. J. Clinton was in office but never reported on such attrocities because they wanted to maintain their Baghdad office.
FWIW, the photos posted above are the most benign of those that are readily available on the internet............
But as a reminder, I offer you these........
OMG! For ALL the WORLD to see that he is a Mzzie sympathizer at the LEAST!!
The seesucker suit? Well you know he shops at Cox’s? And Sears. But he gets confuzed.
Awwwwwwww, come on.
Thank god the region is SO much more stable now...
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