Iraq unravels!

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

I have read that Iraqi Sunni's who are moderates are opposed to an ISIS governed Islamic state. So it is still in a state of flux.

I think that this applies to some. Others are fighting alongside ISIS because they dislike Maliki more than ISIS.

[bobabode]

Here's an idea.



"President Barack Obama is sending 300 American advisors to Iraq to see if they can help stop an army of Islamic fanatics from undoing everything the United States military accomplished in nearly nine years of warfare. We’ll see how that goes, but it might be even more effective to send just one guy to give advice to the Sunni militants: Dick Cheney.
I’m not suggesting the former vice president would actually wish to advise the vicious horde who call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – he’s too red, white and true blue for that – but if he could steer them in the same self-destructive direction that he steered the USA, he’d finally be doing his country a favor.


As we well know, Cheney was one of the key architects of the Iraq war, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his assistant Paul Wolfowitz. Those three – backed by a supporting cast of chicken hawks in the media, in the Bush administration and in various right-of-center think tanks -- fulfilled a neo-conservative dream by concocting excuses to invade Iraq, depose Saddam Hussein and thereby kick off a rush toward democracy throughout the Middle East.
The result was a brief blush of tyrant toppling and elections followed by anarchy, chaos, instability, terrorism and sectarian bloodletting, from Libya to Syria. It seems the U.S. spent $2 trillion and wore out an army trying to defy reality by peddling the American Way to people who would rather settle ancient scores and kill each other." LATimes
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topof...625-story.html

[Dondilion]

Russia delivers fighter jets to Iraq and Iraq complains about slow response
from America re F-16.

http://rt.com/news/169144-iraq-russian-jets-arrive/

[Tom Joad]

I predict the Kurds will come out of this smelling like a rose.

Or maybe I should say smelling like oil. (Kirkuk).

http://www.businessinsider.com/peshm...uipment-2014-6

[VanishingPoi]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I predict the Kurds will come out of this smelling like a rose.

Or maybe I should say smelling like oil. (Kirkuk).

http://www.businessinsider.com/peshm...uipment-2014-6

You got that right. The Kurd s have always had it going on.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by VanishingPoi

You got that right. The Kurd s have always had it going on.

ISIS appears to have the Kurds on the run.

Now the President is being forced to re engaged after sitting it out and watching ISIS getting bigger and bigger.

ISIS surround and isolate some Christians and minorities on a mountain in Iraq.

The key word here is Christians. This could be PR/election disaster for the
President if the US does not get involved.

This evening the news channels are going full blast on the issue: The need
the save the Christians starving on the mountain from the bloodthirsty
Moslems.

[bobabode]

Drop food and water, not bombs.

[Oerets]

Ahhhh maybe a few B52's, 500lbs'rs @ 30K'+ solution is coming up.


Let's face it the oil countries to the south and east want the US to do some old fashion Cowboy Shock N Awe!



Barney

[JBS...]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Drop food and water, not bombs.

Big sloooooooow moving objects do the drop's, not F16's

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by JBS...

Big sloooooooow moving objects do the drop's, not F16's

As long as the droppings are lethal or guided.