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Developing: Baghdad collapsing as US embassy allegedly evacuated amide reports of gunfire casualties [VIDEO]
The Blue State Conservative ^ | 8/29/2022 | Haiely Sanibel

Posted on 08/29/2022 1:48:30 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods

In a video eerily reminiscent of both the disastrous, chaotic pullouts in Kabul and Saigon, unconfirmed footage suggests major evacuations are taking place in Iraq’s capitol city after the Green Zone was allegedly breached by gunmen.

ZeroHedge was early to the story, reporting:

“Days of pro-Muqtada Sadr protests and unrest have reportedly resulted in Baghdad’s high secure Green Zone being breached Monday, placing international diplomatic missions and foreign embassies under threat.

AFP is reporting that an exchange of gunfire has been observed as dozens or possibly hundreds of supporters riot, with police using riot control measures like water cannons to repel an attack on the Green Zone. There are unconfirmed reports that the sprawling and iconic Iraqi Republican Palace has been forcibly breached with protesters inside.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anotherbust; baghdad; bidenvoters; brainlessjoe; braking; brandonfillshispants; china; confirmed; confirmedkaren; iran; iraq; lebanon; muqtadasadr; russia; unconfirmed; yemen
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To: SaxxonWoods

Biden’s weakness knows no bounds.


41 posted on 08/29/2022 2:59:49 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: SaxxonWoods

August 29, 2022 3:10pm EDT

Iraq protests: Multiple deaths, dozens injured after hundreds storm gov’t palace, clash with security forces

https://www.foxnews.com/world/iraq-protests-multiple-people-dead-hundreds-injured-storm-government-palace-clash-security-forces


42 posted on 08/29/2022 3:00:02 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Husker24

“Saddam kept Iran and Islamic radicals in check.”

Iraq under Saddam Hussein saw severe violations of human rights, which were considered to be among the worst in the world. Secret police, state terrorism, torture, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, rape, deportations, extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, assassinations, chemical warfare, and the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshes were some of the methods Saddam and the country’s Ba’athist government used to maintain control.

And besides firing missiles into Israel and attacking his neighbors like Kuwait, he was collaborating with the biggest terrorist of the time in Osama ben Laden giving him safe haven and medical assistance for his kidneys in Baghdad.

And this is the guy that was also attempting to start a nuclear program to go with his chemical stockpile. Not better off.

wy69


43 posted on 08/29/2022 3:00:05 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: SaxxonWoods

CHINA and Shitshow Joe !


44 posted on 08/29/2022 3:02:00 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: dfwgator

The scorecard so far:
Afghanistan 2001 0
Iraq 2003 0
Libya 2011 0
Syria 2014 0

Total: 00


45 posted on 08/29/2022 3:06:33 PM PDT by Vaden (CAUTION: Defending Putin=Defending Hitler=MAGA Destruction)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Soon enough refugees will be heading here.


46 posted on 08/29/2022 3:07:25 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: SaxxonWoods

So, no more the hauling on Syrian oil through Iraq ?


47 posted on 08/29/2022 3:07:27 PM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Is Joetato’s next major failure unfolding?


48 posted on 08/29/2022 3:12:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: SaxxonWoods

‘Muqtada Sadr’, how is this guy still alive?
He’s been nothing but trouble to everyone for decades.
Send in the Ginsu knife missile already!


49 posted on 08/29/2022 3:32:18 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Some of us predicted this way back when Daddy Bush sent troops to oust Saddam. Btw, the Saudis shipped in huge freighters of soil to cover areas where our bases were built so that infidel boots wouldn’t taint sacred Saudi soil. These are our friends, y’know.

It would all end in diaster and tears. These people live in strife and misery because they want to. Every occupier in history has failed there. Every future one will too. Thanks neocons. Your efforts in Eastern Europe will fail too. You just aren’t as smart as you think youvare.


50 posted on 08/29/2022 3:33:11 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Ebenezer
Excellent questions. For quite a while, I have been asking myself if Saddam’s execution was justified.

Sadam Hussein was objectively one of the worst people on the planet and most certainly should have been held to account by the people of Iraq. That is the easy question to answer.

Just about everything else surrounding the US involvement in Iraq after we invaded is harder to answer objectively. From Debaathification, to seizing the presidential palace grounds and declaring it the US embassy (the largest embassy in the world), to letting Mookie Sadr live in 2006, to tolerating the Iranian influence and brutality against Sunni that al-Maliki brought, to bugging out when and how we did. All of it and so much more is questionable, but I think it's a given that once we went in (also itself a questionable act), Saddam had to get it in the end.

51 posted on 08/29/2022 3:34:17 PM PDT by jz638
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To: jz638

Saddam was par for the course in the Middle East.


52 posted on 08/29/2022 3:37:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff
LBJ & FJB...what a disastrous duo of leftists.


53 posted on 08/29/2022 3:40:40 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Lemme guess, Biden and his merry men are learning about this on CNN today, right?


54 posted on 08/29/2022 3:45:58 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: SaxxonWoods

It doesn’t matter if we were ever there or not. Once more muzzies get nukes the end will be here.


55 posted on 08/29/2022 3:49:50 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The ones going through the wood chipper weren’t better off.


57 posted on 08/29/2022 3:53:17 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Maybe Iran can roll in and establish order? With Russian help they can bring peace to Iraq at last. Maybe Kurds can at last have their Kurdistan Dream? It would stick a thumb into Turkey’s eye! Maybe that’s what should have happened all along? US need to send all the weapons and extra men to Ukraine to fight our biggest enemy Russia. This might be a “second Front” to rip the Middle east from Trump’s Peace plan and take out Saudi Arabia?


58 posted on 08/29/2022 3:56:26 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: McGruff

That cleric doesn’t know shiite from Shinola.


59 posted on 08/29/2022 3:59:03 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: SaxxonWoods
Civil War brewing?
60 posted on 08/29/2022 4:13:09 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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