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| Iraq |
| Report: Kurds offered to help stop ISIS months ago — but didn’t hear back from the White House |
| 2014-06-26 |
| "Thoughtfully considering the KurdsÂ’ offer and declining so as not to get sucked back into Iraq would be one thing, but thatÂ’s not what happened according to Barzani. Apparently, we simply didnÂ’t respond." |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #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 |
| #5 You, yourself, ought to take your admonition to heart. |
| Posted by: Muggsy White8658 2014-06-26 13:33 |
| #4 [Obama's] genesis as a national figure was his opposition to military action in Iraq; heÂ’s not going to spend his last two years as president cleaning up a mess he didnÂ’t personally make, whatever responsibility his country may have had in making it. Except that Â… he did help make this mess, whether he realizes it or not. Read Peter BeinartÂ’s 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 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-26 09:16 |
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| Posted by: Speregum Fillmore3332 2014-06-26 09:02 |
| #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 |