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The arrogance of this grifter is stunning, but consider his association with the Grifter in Chief and his brain, ValJar, and he seems small potatoes. With Obama, we have entered the Imperial phase of our decline. From Caesar to Caligula in a generation.
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Al Capone, America’s “favorite” gangster, went to prison because he failed to pay $215,000 in taxes from his gambling profits. Al Sharpton, on the other hand, is still romping around screaming about racism despite the fact that he owes roughly $4 million to Federal and State revenuers. I guess the IRS is just too busy harassing conservatives to care about some uppity liberal who’s a few million dollars behind on his taxes.
The gaffable (is that a word?) Al Sharpton personally faces Federal tax liens for more than $3 million in back taxes. He has over $770,000 in state tax liens. Two of his for-profit businesses owe anywhere from $700,000 to $800,00 in back taxes, and Sharpton’s National Action Network owed roughly $813,000 in Federal taxes as of 2012…
[RUDAW.NET] US senator and possible 2016 presidential candidate Rand Paul called for direct arms supplies to Iraqi Kurds fighting 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) and said the Kurds should have their own homeland. Go ahead, pick any or all of the potential 'homelands' as depicted on the map. They're yours at no charge.
"The arms are going through Baghdad to get to the Kurds and they're being siphoned off and they're not getting what they need," Paul said in an interview with Breitbart News. "I think any arms coming from us or coming from any European countries ought to go directly to the Kurds."
The United States and several European countries are supplying arms to the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, but nearly all of the weapons are routed through the central government in Baghdad.
Kurdish officials have repeatedly complained about Baghdad's reluctance to deliver arms sent by coalition forces for their Peshmerga forces.The central government fears that any strengthening of the Peshmerga would fuel ambitions of independence among the Kurds.
The US State Department reiterated last month that arms for Peshmerga forces will continue to be routed through the central government in Baghdad.
Paul said it was about time the Kurds were given their own homeland.
Suggesting a change in US policy, which has been staunchly opposed to Kurdish independence, he said: "I would draw new lines for Kurdistan and I would promise them a country."
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Well what do you know... and from a Libertarian of all people?
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"The arms are going through Baghdad to get to the Kurds and they're being siphoned off and they're not getting what they need,
Why not fly arms directly into Erbil International Airport? Bypass Baghdad.
Like the Frankenstein monster, Iraq was one of those made up states in the early part of the 1900s. Originally, it was set up as a Sunni-dominant state. The Kurds having their own state would make as much sense as the hodge podge that is Iraq now.
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Interesting idea, JohnQC. But we don't have to bypass the central government. Just use the Erbil airport and let the Kurds truck the weapons to Baghdad. Think of all the jet fuel we'd save! And create more local jobs for truck drivers!
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Folks, you know I am the biggest booster of a free and independent Kurdistan. It would be the greatest thing to happen to probably the best Muslim subgroup in the middle east. But it screws with so many people, and bangs up the power politics in the region so badly that even if we try to force it, powers there will strangle the new nation in its cradle. Here's the problem: they are landlocked, and nobody around them wants Kurdistan to exist. Until that is addressed other than an air bridge, its going to be a show stopper.
Still, Ive been among the Kurds and I still think its worth taking the chance, eventually, to secure them a nation somehow. Maybe piss off the world, and let them ally with Jordan, the only Arab nation there that's even half way inclined toward a little liberty. Or better yet, ally them with Israel (heads explode all over the region including Israel and Kurdistan)
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