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2014-06-15 Iraq

US warships with Tomahawk missiles move into Persian Gulf

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Oh, btw, wasn't Iran recently creating propaganda about them sinking a US CVN?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-15 00:02|| 2014-06-15 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 "We're not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which, while we're there we're keeping a lid on things, and after enormous sacrifices by us, after we're not there, people start acting in ways that are not conducive to the long-term stability and prosperity of the country," Obama said.

Apparently he was not reading off the teleprompter.

Posted by Bobby 2014-06-15 06:40|| 2014-06-15 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling in London Friday, urged Iraq's neighbors to also understand the gravity of the situation.

"Everybody in the region, every country that understands the importance of stability in the Middle East, needs to be concerned about what is happening with ISIL in Iraq today," Kerry said.

Also without 'prompter. That Yale education shining through.

Posted by Bobby 2014-06-15 06:44|| 2014-06-15 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 For the first time in his presidency he's making a right decision.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-15 07:30|| 2014-06-15 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 "Everybody in the region, every country that understands the importance of stability in the Middle East, needs to be concerned about what is happening with ISIL in Iraq today," Kerry said.

It seems Iran is. First Putin makes our community leader look like a fool, now it's Hassan Rouhani and his Iranian counsels turn.

Posted by bbrewer126 2014-06-15 09:01|| 2014-06-15 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ...I think they refer to those kinds of people as 'handlers'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-15 09:12|| 2014-06-15 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Why have we expended billions of dollars on airbases in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia? Are they and our drone bases from Saudi Arabia through Turkey to Azerbaijan just for show?

Posted by Omolump Thud8081 2014-06-15 09:25|| 2014-06-15 09:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Mark my words, Champ will bomb the Kurds and declare another victory.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-15 11:54|| 2014-06-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Muslims are slaughtering Muslims. We need to supply more arms and ammunition to both sides, and encourage a mutual battle of annihilation.

Islam is an unholy pestilence upon the earth, and an existential threat to human civilization. We should do everything in our power to assist Muslims to self-destroy one another.

I believe that Islam will dominate the world by 2050. The few non-Muslim survivors of that future time will look back at the early years of the 21st Century, and mutter to themselves "What were those f%@$ing idiots thinking, 45 years ago, to have allowed the Islamic menace to grow, unimpeded by the civilized nations that could have contained the menace."

Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-06-15 13:05|| 2014-06-15 13:05|| Front Page Top

#10 "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
~ Napoleon

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-15 13:24|| 2014-06-15 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Are they there to stall those who don't trust his motives, or is he actually doing the right thing?

Posted by gorb 2014-06-15 14:59|| 2014-06-15 14:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Every tomahawk shot at isil helps iran.

Posted by irishrageboy 2014-06-15 16:09|| 2014-06-15 16:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Remind me again where ValJar was born ?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2014-06-15 17:23|| 2014-06-15 17:23|| Front Page Top

#14 A battle of annihilation is whats going on now - the ISIL basically is destroying everything Shiite they can get their hands on, including mosques and holy sites. These guys are trying to make the Khymer Rouge look like pikers in areas where they are fighting.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-15 18:59|| 2014-06-15 18:59|| Front Page Top

#15 OS,
Agreed. If ISIS/ISIL can get the Shea to siphon off manpower to protect shrines (that are otherwise not strategic) then that will leave fewer resources available to al-Maliki to defend Baghdad. If ISIS/ISIL decides to attack non-strategic targets like shrines than they deserve the fate of the Nazi 6th army that perished at Stalingrad (another non-strategic target).

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-15 19:12|| 2014-06-15 19:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Direct from an Iraqi friend of min in Baghdad - they have over 300,000 volunteers, including local armed militias (Like Tater's groups) headed up to fight the ISIS and, in his words "send them screaming to hell". He says they are not afraid of ISIS, because they (and again I quote) "aren't as well armed as you Americans were".

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-15 20:13|| 2014-06-15 20:13|| Front Page Top

#17 OldSpook, I apologize for what I wrote yesterday. I should not have been so harsh.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-15 20:35|| 2014-06-15 20:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Iff Libya thru the Ukra8ine-Crimea Crisis is any meaure, the Bammer-the-Globalist will do + say all the right things before the Medias + Voters while simul knowing it will never be used or allowed to interfere wid the geopol expansion of Globalist-desired future OWG Co-Superpowers Iran, Russia, + China, etc.

More popularly known as "Going thru the Motions".

* CNN, CNBC this AM > PERTS PANELs = ...
> Iran is for all practical purposes establishing a new PERSIAN EMPIRE.
> IRAQ CRISIS + ANY ISIS CAPTURE OF BAGHDAD = iff you didn't know or recognize it yet wid the fall of Mosul, 'tis an Inter-Muslim "Clash of Civilizations" + a struggle to be #1 in World Islam.
> DE FACTO FORCED PARTITIONING OF IRAQ + POSSIBLY THE KURDISH KAR TAKING PLACE.
MORE< WORSE TROUBLES OR CRISES STILL TO COME???

* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > [Reuters] US PREPARING DIRECT DIALOGUE WID IRAN ON IRAQ SECURITY.

D *** NG IT, I DON'T SEE ANY OBAMA/US-SUPPORTED OWG CO-SUPERPOWER, DO YOU!?

[SGT "I SEE NOTHING, ETC." SCHULTZ here].

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Independent.UK] ROBERT FISK: THE OLD PARTITION OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS DEAD, I
DREAD TO THINK WHAT WILL FOLLOW.

Next thing you know an angry disappointed US Elite Soldier will in convert to Islam in the future - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!

* WORLD NEWS > [Washing Times] OBAMA IGNORED GENERALS' PLEAS TO KEEP US TROOPS IN IRAQ.

* SAME ROMNEY: ALL THE US FOUGHT FOR IN IRAQ COULD VANISH. Labels Obama FP a "monumental failure".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-15 22:44|| 2014-06-15 22:44|| Front Page Top

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