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Iraq

Iraq crisis: Islamist militants attack Tikrit after 500,000 are forced to flee Mosul

2014-06-12

[The Independent] Sunni insurgents advancing on Baghdad after taking Mosul have captured the city of Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein, as government forces disintegrate and fail to offer resistance. Iraqi soldiers and police are reported to have discarded their uniforms, changed into civilian clothes and fled after firing only a few shots.
My assessment: Baghdad will fall within 30 days. A new Sunni Republic has been established. Kuwait, the Kuwaiti oil fields, and the Gulf States are the next targets.

Shit. Just about now I wish I had the vocabulary of a Master Sergeant. I hope you're wrong, Besoeker, mostly because I fear you are not aren't. Prayers for all seeing the spreading circles of Hell approaching.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 ISIL may be fanatics but they are not crazy enough to take on the Kurds. The Kurds will fight for their territory.

As for Muslim fighting Muslim, the problem is the disease metastasizes into blaming the US when the grand caliphate doesn't work and we have a bunch of well financed nut jobs slithering around our country with mayhem on their minds.

It isn't a good idea to give this nasty group of extremists the financial resources that Iraq's oil will avail them, I think the end game here is a full blown Shia/Sunni war with Iran and Saudi Arabia going at it...with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and maybe even Morocco taking up sides in the war.

We're going to see $10 gas as the money grubbers who control crude oil prices (thank you Marc Rich) jack crude into the ionosphere. Our only hope is that the prices get high enough to hit that tipping point in which all of those idle oil wells in Texas, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico are profitable.

Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-06-12 14:33

#5 The Kurds (not ISIS) took Kirkuk.

As they see Maliki's govt. disintegrate, and the AQI types swarming around to the west and north, they figured it was as good a time as any, I guess. They've been bickering with Baghdad about the oil rights there for years.

Don't know if ISIS will try and take on the Peshmerga.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-06-12 13:50

#4 Imagine if each of those 500,000 were given a stick and then set on the 800 during prayers. Even with 30 round AK mags (800*30=24000) the problem would quickly resolve.
No guts, no glory, no voice in their future for the runaways.

Posted by: Skidmark 2014-06-12 12:15

#3 Around 100 ISIL fighters held mass prayers in central Tikrit after taking control.

I have read that this group numbers around 800. Something is seriously wrong if Iraq cannot muster enough forces to wipe out this group. We spent a small fortune in treasure and spilled considerable blood to take over the country and then train these Iraqi forces. It seems the Iraqis don't care enough to defend their own country.

Posted by: JohnQC 2014-06-12 10:29

#2 Jihadists curtail Gulf oil production and export to western infidels. Champ approval rating jumps 10 points overnight as he approves Keystone pipeline.

Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-12 06:54

#1 Approaching? Where. Approaching Kansas?

The only thing we have approaching is Mexicans.

Moslems are killing Moslems. You have a problem with them killing EACH OTHER? You worried that you are going to get some of it on YOUR shoes? They are in Goombah, not in Podumk. Sell them some ammo.

Iran and Saudi are popping each other and neither one of them manufacture their own ball point pens, they BUY most of their stuff from us or our various outlets.

Wars weaken the participants and cost them a whole lot of money. There are LOTs of opportunities here. Kansas is clean and we can make a profit out of seeing the goons in the rag hats bleed themselves white. They aren't going to get bigger, they are going to bleed to death.
Islam is bleeding to death. hello? And you are shaking in your shoes?

Fu..k Kumbaya, Charlie. Think opportunity. I likeed the part about Khadaffy getting bayoneted in the rectum and then taking a mag-load in the head. We can get mileage out of THEM fighting each other. You afraid of "american" Moslems? Terrorists in Iowa? If you weren't nelly you wouldn't have had them here in the first place, Squeegie. We can get rid of them any time we have the nads to just DO IT.
Quit thinking like some victim.

Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-06-12 06:42

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