Posted on 10/14/2014 7:50:30 PM PDT by tcrlaf
On Monday Iraqi military sources confirmed the fall of the military base of Hit, which includes a training camp and the base of the seventh division of the Iraqi army, after a major attack of the organization ISIS, using suicide car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades.
The military sources said that “the organization ISIS attacked the army base in Hit, the third largest military bases in western Iraq, from several axes, and carried out a series of suicide attacks on the walls of the base by car bombs, as well as a missile attack lasted about an hour which led to the storming of the base after the withdrawal of the army from it. “
In a related context, lieutenant colonel, Rahim Aljughaifi said that “ISIS have seized the contents of the base and the training camp, including tanks, heavy weapons, munitions and stores, as well as spare parts and different military supplies,” adding that “the army had requested help of the international coalition during the attack on the base, but the latter did not respond’, asserting the control of ISIS on the three towns surrounding the base.”
(Excerpt) Read more at iraqinews.com ...
Well it’s time to use our neutron bomb arsenal.
Oh that right. Jimmy Carter blocked it’s production.
Never mind.
You misspelled "Who'saSunni" or "Who'syourSunni"...
We’re in a completely impossible position, largely because we entertained fantasies and delusions. It was a delusion that we would be able to “install” or “sell” democracy to Iraq. With zero history of a civil society and with a solid history to the beginning of time of a pre-medieval culture, there was that missing element. It surprised me at the time that there was no understanding of the idea that *any* political system ex-Islam is a de facto rejection of Islam. We were asking people to reject their religion. That never works.
However, in Afghanistan, I thought from the beginning that we should have developed small, very mobile hunter-killer units. And I believe that is the way to fight ISIS now; our guys should not so much engage in firefights but should laser designate targets that should be viciously wiped out with extreme prejudice from the air.
I agree with you as to the Kurds. The Kurdish story will be the functional equivalent of Rwanda when the history of this era is written. However, there is no arming the Kurds with Turkey involved. Turkey *is* one of ISIS’ prime sponsors as far as I am concerned. Their actions to fight anyone are strictly in their own interests, they will do zero when it comes to defending the Kurds, that is complete fantasy. They are happy to let the Kurds die. The poor Kurds are like rabbits out in the wild. Virtually every other animal considers them prey.
If we had anything resembling the free press the founders envisioned, the media would be calling for Obama’s lamp post hanging by now.
apparently under the Obama regime hitting a moving target like IS is an impossibility.
Heck, Janet Reno was able to burn down the Branch Davidians and they weren’t Muslims. Guess the muslim factor is why Dems are hesistant to engage.
Well...I think those armaments that ISIL just seized gives the Israelis plenty of reasons to nuke the Muslims/ISIL.
Israel knows what the Muslims will do to them with all that gear.
or gets one courtesy of the Sultan in Washington?
Yes, they deserve what they get, but we don’t deserve what they get and that is the problem.
Our tax dollars at work.
If King Obama had let the Air Force attack ISIS to prevent them from taking the base he would have had to figure out some other way to resupply them.
It would make more sense, given that for some reason we have to have a Moslem country in NATO, the Turkish seat should maybe go to the Kurds and their newly proclaimed Nation. The Kurds will be very good allies in the ME so long as they are picked upon by all the other Moslem entities in the ME. SHould they become dominant then, well, they are still Moslems.
Seems they never put up a real fight, and run like school girls at the drop of a hat. And they always leave their our gear behind.
They may as well surrender to ISIS now. They're only pretending to resist.
How wonderful.
The US needs to get out and just bring in the B-52’s
And we are not bombing this base into a smoking crater because...?
“Has there ever been a more worthless army than the Iraqis?”
The biggest problem the Iraqi Army has, is that the soldiers don’t trust their leadership, from Lt., up.
“Car bombs and RPGs took out tanks? Or the base commanders were all ISIS sympathizers to begin with and simply surrendered the facility without a struggle?”
Bingo! You win the internet!
The “JV Team” wins another game.
These guys make al-Qaeda look like the Cub Scouts.
I read something similar to that line of reasoning about the Iraqi army some time back.
Don't recall the central premise now, but it ran along the same line, i.e., the officer corps is full of back-stabbing, degenerate scum, who don't care a whit about their troops, and will sell them out or abandon them at the drop of a hat.
Something like that.
That's what I'm thinking - evac what you can, demo everything else. Leave nothing of use.
“And we are not bombing this base into a smoking crater because...?”
...God is Judging us. It’s called, “the beginning of sorrows”. He TOLD us He will not be mocked...that whatsoever a man shall reap, so shall he sow. If we want anything to change, we must change OUR ways, and PRAY to God for Him to have mercy on us...and if it’s His Will, heal and restore this sick world. Nothing else will do.
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