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2014-06-16 Iraq

Enhanced U.S. security for Baghdad embassy includes fewer than 100 soldiers

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Sojurs and Marines are icky. No connection made by regime btwn the threat and in-country U.S. personnel or largest embassy in the world.

Benghazi, Khobar Towers, Nairobi redux.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-16 08:32|| 2014-06-16 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 If our embassy is threatened with being over-run by ISIS, I have a serious question whether Champ will or can do anything about it. The time to have done something would have been when these guys were heading south in a column.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-16 09:38|| 2014-06-16 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Having served in three embassies, and with the memory of Iran 1979 in mind, I sincerely doubt that the Marines would be ordered to defend the Baghdad complex against attackers.

Posted by Omolump Thud8081 2014-06-16 11:21|| 2014-06-16 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 I could swear I saw something about the embassy being evacuated, but perhaps they only meant dependents and such. Or was a rumour prematurely passed into publication by the editor.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-16 12:44|| 2014-06-16 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Judging by the size of the complex, it'll take more than the rumored two platoons and the in-place embassy team to defend it.

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-16 12:54|| 2014-06-16 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Not enuff to intimidate ISIS/ISIL or to help the Iraqi Govt.

* TOPIX > [AEI] IRAQ IS BURNING, + THE US IS WATCHING.

Just being good OWG Globalists.

Again, as a reminder POTUS Obama is at the top of the US NatComAuth, i.e. is the US Politician-Leader directly or most responsible for the US' military response to variable International Crises, OR IN THE ALTERN THE LACK OF SAME.

* JAPAN TIMES > [Iraq = ME] CHAOS THREATENS OBAMA'S LEGACY OF ENDING WARS.

Ending wars???

1990's CLINTONISM = POST-9-11 OWG GLOBALISM = OBAMA-ISM > "ENDING WARS" = LIMITED "NOT FIGHTING A WAR", even when JUSTIFIED = NECESSARY???

Pray hard + keep your fingers crossed, as per CHINA-VS-US-N-EAST-ASIA/ASEAN.

* FYI IIUC WORLD MILITARY FORUM > QATAR TV: IRAQI COMMUNIST PARTY ALIGNS ITS MOVEMENT WID PRO-AL-QAEDA MILITANT GROUP ISIS.

Personally I blame the MILF-BIFF-Commie-NPA on MINDANAO.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [BreakingNews.IE] LATEST: MORTAR SHELLS HIT US CONSULATE AT HILLAH [Iraq].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-16 22:24|| 2014-06-16 22:24|| Front Page Top

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