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2014-06-10 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2014-06-10 09:06|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Thank you Obama for stabbing the only democratic Arab nation in the back and allowing radical terrorists to take over.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-10 09:19|| 2014-06-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

Always was a nasty place, that Mosul. Saddam's sons held out there until they met their end.... Allan be praised.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-10 09:30|| 2014-06-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Have a feeling a great deal of the "Security Forces" suddenly donned masks, turning into "Militants". I don't see any way this happened on such a large scale without a mass desertion being planned for years. We've seen this type of thing recently with Boko-Haram.

Posted by Charles 2014-06-10 10:16|| 2014-06-10 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The western bank is the Arab part of the city (the part where Saddam evicted the Kurds and gave the empty homes to Sunni Arabs). Unfortunately that includes the homes of many Christian Arabs.

The east bank is still in Kurdish hands. I suspect the battle between the Kurds and the Arabs is the real reason the west bank fell so easily.

Al

Posted by frozen al 2014-06-10 11:33|| 2014-06-10 11:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Desertion by the Iraqi Army conscripts in the region. Its a shame they didn't have the opportunity of building a solid, professional military with a solid professional secular cadre. Wait... they did. Until Obama bailed out way too soon and too fast for "Peace in our time" progressive's political gains.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-10 12:49|| 2014-06-10 12:49|| Front Page Top

#6 That being said, time to put money and support behind the Kurds, and eventually an independent Kurdistan (screw the racist Turks).

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-10 12:51|| 2014-06-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I second #6. The Kurds are muslim but they are not arabs.

Posted by irishrageboy 2014-06-10 16:29|| 2014-06-10 16:29|| Front Page Top

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