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Iraq

US using Foley beheading as casus belli to reoccupy Iraq: Michael Burns

2014-08-22

However reluctantly, yes. Also France and Britain, and perhaps others, about which Iran can do nothing but fume impotently. This proves that Iran is actually no more a regional hegemon than Turkey, Qatar, or Saudi Arabia.

[Iran Press TV] The United Sates is using the beheading of journalist James Foley by ISIL murderous Moslems as a "casus belli" to reoccupy Iraq, a political and military analyst in New York says.

"This is used as a casus belli, a casus belli for us to get back into Iraq with full force and full feet," Michael Burns told Press TV on Thursday, a day after the White House confirmed the authenticity of a gruesome online video showing Foley's decapitation by ISIL holy warriors.

The video shows a black-masked ISIL holy warrior beheading Foley in retaliation for US ~~Arclight~~ airstrikes against the group in Iraq. It also warns that the group would slay another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, if the US president did not halt the ~~Arclight~~ airstrikes.

"And sadly enough while we ignore and deny and turn our heads against the Israeli pounding of these innocent Paleostinians which has outraged half the world, the American policy makersâ"" simply ignore and do nothing, but pass a supplement arms bill to resupply arms to Israel before they go on vacation," Burns said, referring to members of Congress who started a five-week summer recess on August 1.

On August 10, US President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
also started his annual vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Burns said that the United States "caused disarray" in Iraq by invading the Arab country in 2003 which is now causing the incidents like the beheading of Foley.

"I think a good part of America is disgusted at our policy makers, playing golf, having a nice vacation, [and] now getting upset over this beheading, macabre and deplorable though it be, and at the same time have nothing to say over Israel and its brutal savagery towards those innocent Paleostinians who fight back with sticks and stones," he added.

"So, I think, sure, it [the US] uses it as a casus belli to try and inflame American people so that we don't have to interrupt their golf games while they send more weaponry and more troops back into the Middle East again. So we are back in it," Burns concluded.

Posted by:Fred

#6 FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > US MUST "DESTROY" JIHADISTS IN IRAQ, SYRIA: EX-US GENERAL.

GEN. John Allen, USMC (Retired).

AND

* TOPIX > [US JCS Chair] DEMPSEY: DEFEATING ISIS REQUIRES STRIKES IN SYRIA.

* SAME > WEST POISED TO JOIN FORCES WID ASSAD TO FACE "ISLAMIC STATE".

Besides also the UK + France supporting formal alliance wid IRAN agz AL-BAGHDADI'S BOYZ.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-22 23:55

#5 Good luck with that...800 neckbeards occupied northern Iraq in less than a week, chasing away a million men Shia army And Iran has not lifted a finger.
They just proved their impotence and that they dont matter...their "nuclear program" is just bluff, just like Saddam's Weapons of Mass destruction.

Posted by: Hotspur666 2014-08-22 21:33

#4 No, sending in US ground forces to re-occupy Iraq is the absolute last resort for Obama-the-Globalist - his priority for the time being is to empower Shia Iran as the Principal = US- style "Co-Superpower", or one of them, in future OWG Global Fed Union, e.g. Persian Gulf Union, Muslim/Islamic Union, etc.

Setting up the Union(s) both FOR COOPERATION, AS WELL AS COMPETITION, e. g. Vlad = Putinist Russia versus the Bammer + USA.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-22 19:55

#3 Yeah, because the west is chomping at the bit to occupy Iraq again. That doesn't pass the most basic smell test.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-22 14:29

#2 the Israeli pounding of these innocent Paleostinians

Kinda high lights his viewpoint, no?

Amazing how innocent folk keep shooting rockets at kindergartens.

Posted by: AlanC 2014-08-22 08:14

#1 Burns said that the United States "caused disarray" in Iraq by invading the Arab country in 2003 which is now causing the incidents like the beheading of Foley.

Total rubbish! There's a 'cause belli' alright, and it involves any action on the international stage that can be blamed, even remotely on the U.S.

Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-22 03:19

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