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Iraq
Departing US Army chief won't rule out Iraq's partition
2015-08-14
[RUDAW.NET] General Raymond Odierno said Wednesday that the partition of Iraq into separate administrative regions "might be the only solution" to the country's crisis, although the outgoing US Army Chief of Staff was careful to soften his position.

"I think its [reconciliation] is becoming more difficult by the day and I think there might be some alternative solutions that might come sometime in the future, where Iraq might not look like what it did in past," said Odierno, the US Army's 38th Chief of Staff, at his last presser at the Pentagon.

"[Partition] is something that could happen and might be the only solution, but I am not ready to say that," he said.

Odierno will be replaced Friday by General Mark Milley, concluding a 39-year career in the US military.

The general said the United States has trained 16,000 Iraqis, including Sunnis and Kurds, as a part of coalition efforts to enable local forces to take on 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....
(ISIS).

"As of this morning when I was briefed, about 16,000 [Iraqi forces] have been trained by US forces in Iraq since the beginning of the year," said Odierno.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Iff the US-Allies fail to defeat or destroy the ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, "Iraq" or even so-called "SyrAQ" [Syria-Iraq] won't be the only Nation(s) facing partition + incorporation into any ISIS-desired Caliphate.

* SPUTNIK NEWS > US WOULD TREAT THE ISLAMIC STATE AS AN ALLY IFF IT WERE FIGHTING RUSSIA [China?].

Again, IMO there is little to no evidence the Secular-loving Lefties + aligned Marxists-Globalists, etal. can control, let alone stop or destroy, the Soon-to-Be-Nukulaar Hard Boyz + their Global Jihad.

IFF AS THE ARTIC SUGGESTS THE US INTENDS TO KEEP THE ISIS/ISIL + ALIGNED, SIMILAR "ALIVE" AS A COVERT MILPOL "HEDGE" AGZ RISING RUSSIAN STATE, GEOPOL POWER [Chinese? India? Other?], IT MAY BE SOWING THE SEEDS OF ITS OWN DESTRUCTION.

* US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE US IS HELPING ITS POTENTIAL MILPOL OR GEOPOL ENEMIES, RIVALS, OR WANNABES BECOME STRONGER RELATIVE TO THE US ITSELF.

THE US-N-ONLY-THE US IS THE PROVERBIAL TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR IN SETTING UP ANTI-US OWG-NWO, AS WELL AS THE TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR IN MAKING SURE ITS FUTURE OWG GLOBALIST "CO-SUPERPOWERS" ARE AS MILITARILY, ECON, + POLITICALLY STRONG = "PAR" [albeit "rough"
, not "perfect"] WID THE US ITSELF.

Again, the US has to accomplish the above while somehow NOT being EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED BY SAME, ALA THE NEVER-ENDING, OWG OR NO OWG, TAKE-NO-PRISONERS "GREAT GAME".

Machiavelli, Mahan, Sun Tzu, ... ... and all that.

* WORLD NEWS > [Fox News] PURPORTED ISIS MILITANTS [Cyberhacking] POST [Hit] LIST OF 1400 "TARGETS".

American, British, + Australian.

MESSAGE REPOR DENOTES THAT THE "ISIS + ISLAM WILL ENTER/COME TO YOUR LANDS, YOU WILL BE BEHEADED".

As I've said or inferred times before, IFF THE OWG GLOBIES MISCALCULATE, THE PRICE/COST TO PAY WILL LITERALLY BE THE HEADS OF THE US + WEST = ENTIRE NON-MUSLIM/ISLAMIC WORLD.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-08-14 23:00  

#1  Should have considered the option ages ago. Even as an idle threat it would have value.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-08-14 14:43  

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