Just watched the prez press conference. We're going to sit and watch what happens. This is a wholesale disaster in the making. First we enter Iraq on what turns out to be the bogus threat of WMD's. Then we make the REAL mistake and stay. HUGE mistake. Years later we finally leave and anyone with half a brain knows the place goes up for grabs when we're gone. Sure enough here we are. Now there is a legitimate threat, a real reason to go in, and we won't. An understandably war weary nation has no more appetite for this fight, and a clueless Obama administration hasn't the brains or the balls to do what needs doing. That being, take on this terrorist threat head on, right here, right now. Gloves come off and we kill everything in sight. Ain't gonna' happen for the reasons already stated. Stick a fork in Iraq. It's done. The result is an enormous terrorist nation has just sprung to the forefront in the geopolitical game. A dangerous and complicated world just took an exponential leap for the worse.
In perhaps a sign of just how serious the threat is, al-Maliki took to the airwaves to urge all men to volunteer to fight, promising to provide weapons and equipment. The Prime Minister also urged parliament to declare a state of emergency as part of an effort " to confront this ferocious attack that harms all Iraqis." "We can't beat them. We can't. They are well-trained in street fighting, and we're not," one officer, whose identity was withheld, told Reuters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pretty sad man.
Grandpa signed up to defend Baghdad. <img src='http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/12/article-2655977-1EB2AAE300000578-328_964x577.jpg'> Thousands of men turned up today at an army recruiting center in the city to volunteer for military service in a bid to stop Baghdad falling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Obama wouldn't send in a freaking drone or even let a fighter buzz the attackers in Benghazi, yet we are going to go in to bail out a bunch of Iran-proxies in Iraq? I say hell no. We never even retaliated against the Benghazi attackers. Don't tell me we don't know who they are. We were monitoring cell phone traffic the night of the attack. We could have targeted the phones and send a missle right down their ear hole but not this president. Now he wants to get into a street fight between two groups of radical muslims? Sorry but I don't see it. Saudi Arabai, Kuwait, the Emirates, they all have substantial military assets and can help out if it is so dire. Oh I forgot, they are sunni and probably are financing these guys, along with the qataris. Gosh, I wonder if oil going sky high would help them? Middel eastern politics are complicated and frequently opaque to outsiders. Consider that these ISIS terrorists are basically the same side Obama wanted to intervene to assist in Syria. Wacky, huh? I can only draw one conclusion. This is the kind of shit that happens when the smartest woman in the history of the planet and the greatest Secretary of State ever steps down. Hillary, please, tell us what to do.
haha that is fucking sad. I guess you were right the other day about them running when they outnumbered isis 30:1. I don't care how good your opposition is, if you can't beat 4 guys with your 120, yer doing it wrong bros. isis lunatics are hardcore though, they just don't care about dying. They supposedly get high on this stuff called captagon which i guess is like speed and makes you euphoric and numb to pain, to make them more aggressive. They are not just arabs, but also chechen veterans from as far back as the soviet/afghanistan war. Some of these animals have probably been fighting in wars since they could hold a gun. chechen rebels are also in syria and even ukraine. It seems like if there's a war going on, they're in it. chechnya is where that tsarnaev traitor went and learned how to make the bombs that he and his brother set off at the Boston marathon.
That kind of scene must leaving Obama shaking. They ar ejust handing out assault weapons like they were condoms. No background checks, no waiting period, 30 roun dmags, my gosh, what are they thinking? Obama is probably on the phone right now with Diane Feinstein, Chuckie Schumer and Mikey Bloomberg to get Malaki's priorities in order. He had to do the same damn thing with that homophobe Putin at the olympics, and we can see how well that worked out.
ISIS just stole $425 million, Iraqi governor says Of the many stunning revelations to emerge out of the wreckage of Mosul on Wednesday â the one that may have the most lasting impact as Iraq descends into a possible civil war is that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria just got extremely rich. As insurgents rolled past the largest city in northern Iraq, an oil hub at the vital intersection of Syria, Iraq and Turkey, and into Tikrit, several gunmen stopped at Mosulâs central bank. An incredible amount of cash was reportedly on hand, and the group made off with 500 billion Iraqi dinars â $425 million. The provincial governor of Nineveh, Atheel al-Nujaifi, said that the radical Islamists had lifted additional millions from numerous banks across Mosul, as well as a âlarge quantity of gold bullion,â according to the International Business Times, which called ISIS the âWorldâs Richest Terror Force.â It will âbuy a whole lot of Jihad,â regional analyst Brown Moses wrote on Twitter. âFor example, with $425 million, ISIS could pay 60,000 fighters around $600 a month for a year.â http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nd-became-the-worlds-richest-terrorist-group/
I'm not liking the airstrikes option. These bastards don't care about civilian life so you know they're going to hide behind civilians.
I've not been here in a while. Serious death in the family... Anyhow, I really don't know what else to say. My guys who died in Iraq, me being shot on second tour, all the things we did to help... I just don't know what else to say besides I'm extremely angry.