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2014-06-26 Iraq

Report: Kurds offered to help stop ISIS months ago but didnt hear back from the White House

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Until earlier this year the United States had only a skeletal interests section operating in Kurdistan. They finally opened a Consulate and then staffed it with "short timers".

Posted by Muggsy White8658 2014-06-26 08:19|| 2014-06-26 08:19|| Front Page Top

Posted by Speregum Fillmore3332 2014-06-26 09:02|| 2014-06-26 09:02|| Front Page Top

Kurds? No, no, no, the Kurds were not part of the deal. That's the Turkish piece. We'll be announcing the deal soon. Probably on a Friday afternoon.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-26 09:16|| 2014-06-26 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 [Obama's] genesis as a national figure was his opposition to military action in Iraq; hes not going to spend his last two years as president cleaning up a mess he didnt personally make, whatever responsibility his country may have had in making it. Except that he did help make this mess, whether he realizes it or not. Read Peter Beinarts indictment of O for refusing to do anything over the past five years to pressure the Iraqi government to reconcile with the Sunnis and Kurds.

The war was over for Mr. Obama back in 2008; nothing was going to alter that.

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-26 12:15|| 2014-06-26 12:15|| Front Page Top

#5 You, yourself, ought to take your admonition to heart.

Posted by Muggsy White8658 2014-06-26 13:33|| 2014-06-26 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Typical of this administration to ignore things that they can't use for immediate domestic political leverage. Obama is a Chicago ward boss writ large

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-26 20:37|| 2014-06-26 20:37|| Front Page Top

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