New Iraq Crisis Vol. Inevitable International Incident

wballz said:
I guess this what Ron Paul said about blowbacks when interfering with other countries.

A question to everyone, if you were president, would you stay in Iraq to clean up the mess that the United States made, or just leave Iraq alone ?
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It's called protecting US assets.

FYI there are American diplomats, contractors, and more important the US Consulate in the city of Erbil. 30 miles south, ISIS are launching rockets into the city as we speak.

http://erbil.usconsulate.gov/

You really think the POTUS isn't going to protect US citizens abroad especially after Benghazi?
 
F what I said earlier. After looking at those graphic images 
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 every single one needs to be hunted down and killed. What is it about the people over there? I just don't get it. They are * decapitating children for their sick, twisted view of Islam. God doesn't condone senseless murder. May they all rot in hell.
 
AZwildcats said:
Makes you wonder if maybe Saddam was necessary after all. Iraq and its many different religious and ethnic groups might need a dictator to function
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ppl have been saying that he was necessary since 2003 and before then...
 
debs 168 said:
AZwildcats said:
Makes you wonder if maybe Saddam was necessary after all. Iraq and its many different religious and ethnic groups might need a dictator to function
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ppl have been saying that he was necessary since 2003 and before then...
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http://www.pjvoice.com/v20/20001safer.aspx

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/vie...7/03/Does-Iraq-need-a-Saddam-Hussein-II-.html

Doesn't even matter what Saddam did while in power.. he clearly held Iraq together for years before we started the fake war.
 
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no different than what the christians used to do. my how we're coming full circle.

peace and love everyone.
 
Islam is the only religion that to this day has a healthy population of followers who believe slaughtering "infidels" is okay. Its a shame that this recent form of Islam has taken hold.
 
oneilmatt said:
Islam is the only religion that to this day has a healthy population of followers who believe slaughtering "infidels" is okay. Its a shame that this recent form of Islam has taken hold.
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It's the "newest" religion out of the main ones around the world. The two bigger brothers have caused destruction, now it's little brothers turn. The family next door (Hinduism/Buddhism) also have had killings/slaughterings against each other (don't know much about this, it was brought up earlier in this thread). Nothing new here. Can't just say only islam. 
 
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Jab Step said:
oneilmatt said:
Islam is the only religion that to this day has a healthy population of followers who believe slaughtering "infidels" is okay. Its a shame that this recent form of Islam has taken hold.
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It's the "newest" religion out of the main ones around the world. The two bigger brothers have caused destruction, now it's little brothers turn. The family next door (Hinduism/Buddhism) also have had killings/slaughterings against each other (don't know much about this, it was brought up earlier in this thread). Nothing new here. Can't just say only islam. 
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Yeah, but we (humans) have had hundreds of years of evolution and advancement. To engage in such base behavior in the 21st century is tragic and just lame.

That said, the argument can be made (and has been made) that each culture/religion/ethnicity has to go through a period like this before they discover their way. Europe went through the dark ages before they realized that science and art may be worthy pursuits. Maybe these radicals and their supporters will realize that all their violence and idiocy does not build roads and it does not discover medicines or grow crops.
 
Religions are like opinions, everyone has one. Doesn't make them any less evil and used as a tool to stock soldiers for what may come.

Granted, pepperjack posted a couple of religions with no history of violence they may be the exception, not the rule.

You have these extremists telling their followers you're gonna have 42 virgins when you die....sounds like a great after life.

If you judge one religion, judge all religions. Doesn't matter if the Crusades happened 500 plus years ago. It happened. History repeats itself and persecution still happens today under the guise of homophobia, racism, etc.
 
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[/h1][h1]UK deploys special forces in Iraq to strike at Islamic militants [/h1]
09 August 2014

The UK has deployed special forces in Iraq to strike at ISIS militants who have swept through swaths of the country and are shelling the Kurdish capital, Erbil.

US President Barack Obama on Thursday authorised ''targeted'' airstrikes on invading Islamic militants in northern Iraq to protect Americans and help Iraqi security forces to protect civilians under siege, threatening to revive US military involvement in the country's long sectarian war (See: US enters ''limited'' war in Iraq with ''targeted'' air strikes).

UK newspaper Daily Mirror reported plans for the deployment of British special forces in northern Iraq had been in the works for some weeks but they had only recently been sent.

Teams of special forces had been deployed to Iraq to help rescue refugees fleeing by the thousands to escape the murderous onslaught of Islamic State fighters.

Crack SAS and Special Boat Service operatives were helping locate non-Sunni Muslims who had escaped ISIS militants hell-bent on eliminating other muslim denominations.

US forces swung into action on Friday launching air strikes against IS positions - the first US air attacks on Iraq since the 2011 pull out.

Over 250,000 Kurds escaped to the top of a Kurdish mountain, in a bid to stay ahead IS forces who had already murdered thousands.

Following the news of the fresh militant atrocities, demands were made for the recall of British Parliament and the announcement that the UK military would be involved again in Iraq.

The UK's Department for International Development pledged £8million towards the air drops and for addressing the plight of the refugees.

The Daily Mirror quoted a military source as saying, the IS threat looked terrifying in all the video nasties and it might seem like they were taking over the whole of the Middle East.

Meanwhile UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, said yesterday that UK air operations to provide humanitarian help to the Yazidi community sheltering from extremists in northern Iraq would not extend to joining US air strikes against Islamic State (Isis) military positions, The Guardian  reported.

However, he added the UK might provide technical assistance to US warplanes, including refuelling and surveillance, leaving the precise limits of UK military involvement open to question. There had been suggestions that the UK might provide bases for US aircraft.

Following a meeting of the cabinet's emergency Cobra committee, Fallon said UK welcomed what the Americans were doing to bring humanitarian relief, and to prevent any further suffering.

He added the UK government's focus was on assisting that humanitarian mission and using its military in support of the Americans in terms of refuelling and surveillance to underpin their mission and to add to it with food drops of its own.

He added, the government's focus was on assisting the Americans in this humanitarian effort, and that was what he reviewed with the prime minister this morning, and that was what he had asked to take decisions on at the emergency meeting this morning.

- See more at: http://www.domain-b.com/defence/general/20140809_militants.html#sthash.VbzUKTrr.dpuf
 
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Troops Loyal to Iraqi PM Reported Surrounding President's Home

VOA News

August 10, 2014 8:06 PM

Iraqi news reports says troops loyal to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have surrounded the home of President Fouad Massoum.

Details were sketchy early Monday, as reports circulated of government troop deployments around Baghdad's so-called Green Zone - the highly protected district that houses Iraq's key institutions.

The deployment came as Maliki - under growing pressure to end his bid for a third term - announced on national television that he is taking legal action against the president for what he called "a clear constitutional violation."

Maliki, whose coalition won the most seats in April elections, claims the president violated the charter by failing to name a new prime minister from the country's largest parliamentary bloc by a Sunday deadline.  He accused the president of non-action "for the sake of political goals."

Late Sunday, the State Department voiced full U.S. support for Massoum, who was elected president by parliament late last month.

U.S. officials and many Western analysts say Prime Minister Maliki, a Shi'ite, has failed to unify the divided country since taking office in 2006.  They describe him as increasingly unacceptable to Iraq's Sunni Muslims, to Kurds and to many of his fellow Shi'ites.

http://www.voanews.com/content/troo...rted-surrounding-presidents-home/2409149.html

welp...
 
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