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Iraq
Iraq Forces Move to Retake Christian Town on Way to Mosul
2016-10-20
None of this would be needed if Champ had simply worked with the Iraqis to keep some US forces in Iraq in 2010. The blood is, in part, on his hands.
[An Nahar] Iraqi forces prepared to retake the country's largest Christian town from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group on Wednesday, a key milestone in their progress towards the jihadists' main hub of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
News of the move to recapture Qaraqosh sparked jubilation among Christians who had fled the town, with many dancing and singing in the city of Arbil.
Posted by:Fred

#4  My impression was that starting 2006 the Democrats in government and their MSM allies started a full-scale sliming operation on al-Maliki and the Iraqi government. They may be odious but embarrassing someone you want to negotiate agreements with in the future...
Posted by: magpie   2016-10-20 12:09  

#3  Al-Maliki, wasn't it? or was Abadi part of the negotiating team?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-10-20 12:05  

#2  weren't we essentially kicked out of Iraq because we wouldn't sign a very bad (for us) agreement (SOF?) with Abadi?

It was my understanding we left because we refused to negotiate strongly for a better one, Whitch Turkeyneck3879. President Obama kept his promise to bring the boys home.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-10-20 10:08  

#1  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't we essentially kicked out of Iraq because we wouldn't sign a very bad (for us) agreement (SOF?) with Abadi?
Posted by: Whitch Turkeyneck3879   2016-10-20 09:07  

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