Iraq is such an epic disaster

[boutons_deux]

Of course Americans are helping Kurds with oil, we know more about extracting and processing oil far better than any other country. We have a huge number of people that know oil.

critical thinker butthurt pgardn KNOWING USA is helping Kurds for ANY REASON other than to make a buck.

Oil companies are charities, humanitarians selflessly helping Kurds suck oil?

I nominate the US Oil Sector for the Nobel Peace Prize!

[pgardn]

critical thinker butthurt pgardn KNOWING USA is helping Kurds for ANY REASON other than to make a buck.

Oil companies are charities, humanitarians selflessly helping Kurds suck oil?

I nominate the US Oil Sector for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I have a brother in law who independently advises on boosting oil production in foreign countries. Thought he was CIA.
He is hired by foreign oil to advise. You don't think this exists and is lucrative. Willing to go abroad while oil is booming here? He is in Fkn demand. Get it? It's that World Market stuff you hate. There are many people in the US that go abroad for jobs because other countries lack experts in so many areas, and it pays huge.

[boutons_deux]

US pre-emptive defense of US oil-companies working!

20,000 Yazidi Iraqis targeted by ISIS escape from mountain after US air strikes

At least 20,000 Iraqi civilians who were besieged by jihadists on a mountain have managed to flee after US air raids on Islamic State (Isis) forces, officials have said.

Shawkat Barbahari, an official from the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, said 30,000 people had escaped to Syria and then been escorted back into Iraqi Kurdistan by Kurdish forces. A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Iraq said officials had been reporting to the UN that 15,000 to 20,000 people had escaped the siege. Fears had been growing for the civilians, mostly Kurds of the Yazidi faith, trapped on Mount Sinjar in north-west Iraq in the searing summer heat with little to eat or drink.

The breakthrough coincided with US air raids on Isis fighters in the Sinjar area on Saturday.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/1...e+Raw+Story%29

[pgardn]

US pre-emptive defense of US oil-companies working!

20,000 Yazidi Iraqis targeted by ISIS escape from mountain after US air strikes

At least 20,000 Iraqi civilians who were besieged by jihadists on a mountain have managed to flee after US air raids on Islamic State (Isis) forces, officials have said.

Shawkat Barbahari, an official from the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, said 30,000 people had escaped to Syria and then been escorted back into Iraqi Kurdistan by Kurdish forces. A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Iraq said officials had been reporting to the UN that 15,000 to 20,000 people had escaped the siege. Fears had been growing for the civilians, mostly Kurds of the Yazidi faith, trapped on Mount Sinjar in north-west Iraq in the searing summer heat with little to eat or drink.

The breakthrough coincided with US air raids on Isis fighters in the Sinjar area on Saturday.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/1...e+Raw+Story%29

What are we doing wasting bombs just to save people trapped on a mountain.
I mean this country sucks, we don't really care, right?


You watch when things are not as strikingly successful.
We will be asked what the are we doing.
Oh yeah, where are the Euro forces?
Where are the Chinese? Russians?

Oh sorry, I forgot, the British just dropped some water for the trapped group.
Thanks for the help.

[mercos]

It almost appears as if the strategy since 9/11 has been to destabilize the Middle East and keep them fighting themselves rather than attack us. We always seem to apply half measures wherever we go (Iraq, Libya, Syria) and leave the problem to fester. While the idea is repulsive on a humanitarian level, it has arguably been fairly successful and kept the extremist groups busy and away from us.

[pgardn]

It almost appears as if the strategy since 9/11 has been to destabilize the Middle East and keep them fighting themselves rather than attack us. We always seem to apply half measures wherever we go (Iraq, Libya, Syria) and leave the problem to fester. While the idea is repulsive on a humanitarian level, it has arguably been fairly successful and kept the extremist groups busy and away from us.

Very Valid point.
Although they are really a bigger problem for the Euros.
And the Russians, long term. Proximity of large Islamic countries.

It is rather ironic US citizens have actually joined the Islamic State army, few as they may be.

[boutons_deux]

Even this evil fraud of a finally figured out her side is ed, and ed up badly
Laura Ingraham’s epiphany: “Iraq is worse than before we went in”

The hard-right pundit reluctantly grants that the U.S. invasion in 2003 did Iraq more harm than good


Already flirting with danger by offering a qualified defense of the president, Ingraham next completely broke ranks from her fellow Republicans and implicitly rejected the popular conservative talking point that the Iraq war was “won” before Obama “lost” it by withdrawing U.S. troops from the country too soon.

“We tried to do all these things in Iraq, now Iraq is worse off!” Ingraham said, with obvious exasperation. “I mean, I hate to say that, but Iraq is worse than before we went in to Iraq. Christians are gone, there’s no sense of order at all. Saddam Hussein is gone. That’s a good thing, but what’s left? A more embolden Islamic state.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/10/laura_ingrahams_epiphany_iraq_is_worse_than_before _we_went_in/



All y'all rednecks, bubbas, tea baggers, Bible-thumpers, Repugnants, again pile up a rat turd pile all your self-deluding fantasies that you "think" are Repug positive contributions to America over the last 40 years, and they would overwhelmed by Repug misgovernance, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc.

[spurraider21]

Obama: Pulling All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Was Not ‘My Decision'

http://m.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/obama-pulling-all-us-troops-out-iraq-was-not-my-decision

[Venti Quattro]

Not even nuking the entire country can solve the deep-rooted problems of Iraq. It's a lost cause and it's people are petulant and prideful. Simple values

[cheguevara]

Very Valid point.
Although they are really a bigger problem for the Euros.
And the Russians, long term. Proximity of large Islamic countries.

It is rather ironic US citizens have actually joined the Islamic State army, few as they may be.

this is not a new strategy. It was been employed by Colonial Britain centuries ago. It was Britain who originally carved up the Middle East like a birthday cake in order to weaken the Arab/Persian worlds and turn the tribes against each other.

The US is just following in their daddy's footsteps tbh. wrecking havock wherever they go. Actually US is a lot more brutal and violent than the British Empire IMO. British actually brought many civilized features to these "savage" countries. US brought nothing but tears and chaos.

[pgardn]

this is not a new strategy. It was been employed by Colonial Britain centuries ago. It was Britain who originally carved up the Middle East like a birthday cake in order to weaken the Arab/Persian worlds and turn the tribes against each other.

The US is just following in their daddy's footsteps tbh. wrecking havock wherever they go. Actually US is a lot more brutal and violent than the British Empire IMO. British actually brought many civilized features to these "savage" countries. US brought nothing but tears and chaos.

Who who said it was?


Yes we have screwed up.
Yes we will screw up again.

Moving on...

Let me know next time Russia tries to take on the AIDS epidemic in Africa, or the Chinese are responsible for tracking Ebola. Do that, will ya?

[boutons_deux]

Obama: Pulling All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Was Not ‘My Decision'

http://m.cnsnews.com/news/article/te...ot-my-decision

Obama implemented the REPUG withdrawal agreement.

He could not get an extension to the American occupation of Iraq-for-oil, and like the Repugs, he refused to withdraw immunity for American military criminals and American murderous mercenaries. So he implemented the REPUG withdrawal plan.

[Winehole23]

The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, senior U.S. officials said Monday.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101910319

[Jacob1983]

I thought Obama was against the war in Iraq? Oh wait,that was candidate Obama.

[pgardn]

I thought Obama was against the war in Iraq? Oh wait,that was candidate Obama.

So Obama is going to hunt down those WMD's?
He thinks he's found em...

[ElNono]

The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, senior U.S. officials said Monday.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101910319

Fast & Furious 8, tbh

[boutons_deux]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101910319

Kurds will eventually use those weapons and ammo to kick Iraqis out, and keep them out, of the Kurdish region, to establish a Kurdish state, control "their" oil.

The Kurds will give their lives for that, but Iraqis, after $100Bs of US investment, training, weapons over 10+ years, won't fight for Iraq.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Kurds will eventually use those weapons and ammo to kick Iraqis out, and keep them out, of the Kurdish region, to establish a Kurdish state, control "their" oil.

The Kurds will give their lives for that, but Iraqis, after $100Bs of US investment, training, weapons over 10+ years, won't fight for Iraq.

All the guys I know that fought in Iraq said the Kurds are good people and about the only people there that really don't hate us and were in fact happy to have us there. We abandoned the Kurds before, got to help them now. Problem is once they fend of ISIS do they use these weapons and go after Turkey? The Middle East is so ed, should have never meddled and continued on meddling. We will just have to keep arming the next "good guys" only to arm the following good guy group to take care of the out of control previous good guy group.

[Winehole23]

Fast & Furious 8, tbh

four consecutive US Presidents have attacked Iraq; the commitment of US strategic force is ongoing.

[cheguevara]

All the guys I know that fought in Iraq said the Kurds are good people and about the only people there that really don't hate us and were in fact happy to have us there.

that's what Americans said of Osama Bin Laden and his peeps when they were helping them to fight Russia in Afghanistan

Osama was even invited to US military bases as guest of honor

[cheguevara]

Btw lets not forget just a few months ago US was going to be the ISIS's air force.

Lets not forget it was Russia who was sounding the alarms about the Islamic Militants. Meanwhile most in US government were ready to arm and fight next to the ISIS. they armed and funded them for months.

lets not forget ISIS had already massacred thkusands of Kurd women and children in Syria while the US was funding and arming them.

lets not forget the truth

[cheguevara]

Obama and Kerry are possibly as stupid as W Jr and Rummy. Its really close.

Obama and Kerry need to send Putin and Lavrov thank you presents for saving their legacies and country tbh. Can u imagine if US had gone to war for ISIS and Assad was toppled??? would make W's Iraq war blunder a minor mistake



Remember when Kerry and Obama were calling the ISIS militants "freedom fighters"??????

[ElNono]

So the US is back to distributing weapons, seeding the next war, which keeps the MIC rolling... sounds like business as usual to me, tbh...

[ezau]

Displaced Iraqis walking to the Syrian border.

[Wild Cobra]

Obama and Kerry are possibly as stupid as W Jr and Rummy. Its really close.

Obama and Kerry need to send Putin and Lavrov thank you presents for saving their legacies and country tbh. Can u imagine if US had gone to war for ISIS and Assad was toppled??? would make W's Iraq war blunder a minor mistake



Remember when Kerry and Obama were calling the ISIS militants "freedom fighters"??????

Oh...

There is no comparison. Kerry and Obama are so much more stupid.