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Can Iraq be saved?
Yahoo News ^
| 18 May 2015
| Sarah B. Boxer
Posted on 05/18/2015 5:34:40 PM PDT by mandaladon
After capturing the capital city of a major Iraqi region, ISIS is claiming one of its biggest victories.
According to local officials, Islamic State militants likely killed as many as 500 people in the city of Ramadi, and forced 8,000 to flee their homes.
Ramadi, a city of 192,000 people, is the capital of Anbar Province, a large desert region that the Iraqi government announced just last month it was hoping to save in a major military offensive.
“It’s a pretty significant setback,” Steve Bucci of the Heritage Foundation told Yahoo’s Bianna Golodryga on Monday.
Bucci says American aid to the Iraqi military in an attempt to save the city was “anemic,” and that more air strikes and special forces would have been needed.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., went one step further today, saying he would like to see more of an American ground presence in the fight against ISIS.
In fact, it was a rare U.S. ground attack in Syria last weekend that killed a major ISIS commando, Abu Sayyaf, and captured his wife.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; iran; iraq; isis; obama; rop; worldwar3
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"As important as taking out one leader is, that doesn’t win a battle," says Bucci. “Taking terrain, capturing cities — that’s pretty significant. So if I was going to weigh the two, I’d say ISIS taking Ramadi is a bigger step back than our Delta forces coming in and taking out one leader.”.......................Not according to Obama
To: mandaladon
Can Iraq be saved?By whom? /s
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:37:07 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: mandaladon
Can America be saved? ...that is my question...
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:38:01 PM PDT
by
mandaladon
(To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
To: mandaladon
ISIS is saving Iraq for Islam....
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:38:38 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: logi_cal869
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:41:26 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: Paladin2
We will be battling our own equipment - as we will be at home. Thanks 0
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:42:27 PM PDT
by
mcshot
(I pray someone comes forth with the strength, fortitude and burning desire to save our Republic)
To: mandaladon
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:42:37 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: mandaladon
‘Can America be saved?’
Not from the enemy within. The “Progressive” wet dream is to bring this once great nation on par with the rest. It’s just not ‘fair’ for the US to prosper when others are failing, donchaknow.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:42:48 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
To: mandaladon
Can America be saved? ...that is my question... That was my rhetorical corollary. However, in hindsight and reading yours, it is befitting.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:44:18 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: griswold3
Face the reality libs, life is NEVER fair.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:44:49 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: mandaladon
Should it be saved?
It’s a hell hole and probably always will be.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:45:27 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: mandaladon
All I want to see is Kurdistan broken off and recognized.
The rest of the place is nothing but a Anglo-French construct.
To: mandaladon
Saved for whom? Both sides are pestilence.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:49:19 PM PDT
by
expat2
To: mandaladon
The war in Iraq is lost. Obama is at fault.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:49:58 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: mandaladon
“Can Iraq be saved?”
No, not with democrats in power.
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:53:46 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.)
To: mandaladon
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posted on
05/18/2015 5:55:15 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: mandaladon
I’m just fuming over the American lives lost and wounded over that sand pile. And for what?
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posted on
05/18/2015 6:01:05 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: mandaladon
Not without a surveillance state cracking down on the enforcement of sharia law.
Same answer as has been given since 1990.
No matter how many times new idiots ask the same question, there is not going to be a different feasible solution.
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posted on
05/18/2015 6:01:23 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: griswold3
Actually it can.
It requires the same solution as in 1775.
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posted on
05/18/2015 6:02:14 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: mandaladon
For Iraq to be saved, someone has to WANT it to be saved. I don’t see that dynamic at work.
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posted on
05/18/2015 6:06:35 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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