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U.S. "Allies" Are Funding the ISIS Barbarians That Are Leaving Iraq Awash in Blood

Discussion in 'Latest US & World News' started by longknife, Jun 16, 2014.

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  1. Draco

    Draco Well-Known Member

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    Winner
     
    Draco, Jun 17, 2014
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    One thing is for sure. In almost every "major" intervention we make the situation worse.
     
    Giftedone, Jun 17, 2014
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    You forgot Bill Clinton bombing a pharma company in Sudan who offered cheap drugs to thousands of poor people all because of bad intel that Bin Laden owned it and hid weapons there.

    Thousands died cause they now couldn't afford the drugs.

    This made Bin Laden furious. You know the rest.
     
    Cdnpoli, Jun 17, 2014
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    ISIS are from our western countries. If they come back it sure as hell is going to be our problem.
     
    Cdnpoli, Jun 17, 2014
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  5. Draco

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    Bigger threat to Iran, let them clean it up without using us.
     
    Draco, Jun 17, 2014
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    Beautifully and concisely stated.
     
    snakestretcher, Jun 17, 2014
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  7. snakestretcher

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    Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran–Iraq_war

    That would be the Americans, again. Administration after administration prove themselves to be blundering imbeciles, desperate for hegemony at any cost-including the inevitable blowback like 9-11 which caused such outrage! I mean, how dare they fight back? That isn't in the playbook...
     
    snakestretcher, Jun 17, 2014
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    And this is supposed to be shocking or disturbing why?
     
    AndrewEB, Jun 18, 2014
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    Aren't you disturbed by the fact that the lunatics appear to have taken control of the asylum?
     
    trout mask replica, Jun 18, 2014
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    Why? After all; it was pretty clear that Iraq was essentially a ticking time-bomb post-Hussein, and since Prime Minister Al-Malaki basically destroyed everything America worked so hard on to stabilize Iraq by not try to do broad power-sharing, he reneged on all the deals that had been made, stopped paying the Sunni tribes and militias, and started persecuting key Sunni officials. He also purged the Iraqi army of some of its most capable leaders; and he was basically being adamant that there should be no US troops of any kind in Iraq by 2011, since his government is known to be close allies with Iran.
     
    AndrewEB, Jun 18, 2014
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    The belief system of the Sunnis is that Shias are heretics, and must always hold a lower position than the Sunnis, so could it be that the Maliki government began to feel threatened and was trying to protect the Shia majority and their rights? If I recall correctly, the great instigator and known trouble maker Devotoglu, who is Turkey's foreign minister, had been reprimanded by Hillary Clinton a few years back for going to Iraq and arousing the Sunni population against the Shias.
     
    Jeannette, Jun 18, 2014
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    Should you blame everything wrong on this planet on Turkey? The fighters you mention were not ISIS. In fact ISIS bastards are kidnapping (for ransom) or slaughtering Turks in region, especially in Iraq.
     
    Breath, Jul 8, 2014
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    If you think we have any "Allies" left after this presidents PoV on foreign policy, you are sadly mistaken.
     
    Capitalism, Jul 8, 2014
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    Well the USA are doing the same supporting so called "opposition" in Syria.
     
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    What part of the plot is not obvious?
    1. The ISIS has control of Iraqi SCUD missiles.
    2. German and Dutch PATRIOT anti missile units on the Turkish border will be sent home within the next few months (already announced).
    3. After the ISIS has fired a SCUD on Turkey the "NATO defense case" will apply, all NATO contract partners will be obliged to fight Iraq, no matter if ISIS having fired on Turkey or the government not having been able to prevent it.
     
    MaxxMurxx, Jul 8, 2014
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    Who are being engulfed and surrendering to ISIS as we speak, so ISIS is getting all those weapons we sent over there, so indirectly we are supporting them...

    ISIS seems to be for real, they stormed through Iraq so far. Iraq has to be far more war weary than we are, and they aren't really united. I could see some factions going for a separate peace or joining them instead of fighting them...
     
    Dispondent, Jul 11, 2014
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    Oh we'll be joining ISIS in the end, we have to because in Washington's minds they're the 'winners', and the others losers.

    The human heart eating ones who we consider moderates, and gave five hundred million in support will be no more. We have now ISIS the super moderates, who is a much more worthy and reliable partner. :roll:
     
    Jeannette, Jul 12, 2014
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