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2015-05-21 Iraq

Obama Eyes Sped Up Training, Weapons for Iraqi Tribes after Ramadi Rout

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 Didn't work before the Fall of Ramadi, will not work after the Fall of Ramadi. What a Loser.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-05-21 00:06|| 2015-05-21 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 He wants to get weapons and equipment to ISIS asQuickly as possible and the fastest way is via the Routing Iraqi army.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-21 00:50|| 2015-05-21 00:50|| Front Page Top

#3 the Routing Iraqi army

The di di mao brigade?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-21 01:23|| 2015-05-21 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I volunteer to light Josh's hair on fire when Baghdad falls.

Posted by KBK 2015-05-21 10:45|| 2015-05-21 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Send all of the State Department and IRS to fill the ranks.

That will work better! Trust me!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-21 11:13|| 2015-05-21 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 A setback is when the new window doesn't fit the old space.

These guys just received a city full of bullets and beans. Furthermore, the flat execution of prisoners and that they seem to bring along pre-made IEDs and mines to immediately setup a defense. Also, the propaganda recruiting moral boost to tie in with gains in Syria.

Combine that with a blow to whatever moral the whatever Iraqi government there is with soldiers and refugees streaming out of Ramadi.

And its not Earnest's hair, its his pants, and everybody knows it, which only accomplishes a vote of present.

The better response:

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-21 11:36|| 2015-05-21 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 BO needs to incorporate his Coast Guard speech into the 'training' over there to speed things up, and get to the real problem:
"Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world. Yet ... it's now believed that drought and crop failures and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East."

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2015-05-21 11:39|| 2015-05-21 11:39|| Front Page Top

#8 I am beginning to think the regime in Washington is purposefully handing Iraq to ISIS.

Could the strategy be the creation of an Iraqi 'buffer state' next to Iran, a Saddam-Iran redux? Or am I reading too much into it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-21 11:42|| 2015-05-21 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 "Are we going to light our hair on fire every time that there is a setback in the campaign?"

You mean as in "The Stupid- It Burns!' poster?

Posted by Pappy 2015-05-21 12:18|| 2015-05-21 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Why Arabs Lose Wars

by Norvell B. De Atkine
Middle East Quarterly
December 1999

Posted by trailing wife 2015-05-21 18:47|| 2015-05-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

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