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  1. 06-14-2014, 05:17 PM #1
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    Iranian military forces are fighting ISIS in Iraq.

    "President Barack Obama is close to a decision on a number of US military steps for thwarting the march of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, now halted at Samarra 70 km short of Baghdad. In a comment Thursday night, June 12, he said: “We do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria, for that matter.” He added that he was thinking of “short-term military things.”
    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has been appealing to the White House for months for Apache helicopters and Hellfire air-ground rockets to fight terrorists. These Obama may now release, as well as considering token US drone attacks on ISIS targets in Iraq, for which he is most reluctant..
    Thursday afternoon, Iran’s most powerful gun, the Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani, arrived in Baghdad to take over the push against ISIS, in the same way as he has managed Bashar Assad’s war in Syria, and pull together the demoralized and scattered Iraqi army."
    http://app.debka.com/p/article/23994...send-Iraq-arms



    US airstrikes to support Iranian Revolutionary Guard's offensive in Iraq?
    "Iran deployed its Revolutionary Guard to help Iraq battle insurgents from a group inspired by Al-Qaeda, according to a recent report. In the meantime, the US is mulling airstrikes to support the Iraqi government.

    On Wednesday, Al-Qaeda affiliate insurgents from the armed group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) conquered former dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, marking the second major loss for the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Earlier this week, insurgents captured Mosul, the second-largest city in the country. With jihadists threatening Baghdad and security forces unable resist the Sunni Islamists' assault, Maliki turned to foreign powers for help, getting responses from two unlikely allies, Iran and the US.

    Two battalions of the Quds Forces, which is the overseas branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, moved to Iraq on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. There they worked jointly with Iraqi troops to retake control of 85 percent of Tikrit, security forces from both countries told the Journal. Iranian forces are also helping guard the Iraqi capital of Bagdhad, as well as two Shiite holy cities that the Sunni jihadists are threatening."
    http://rt.com/usa/165612-us-iran-all...aq-insurgency/
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
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  2. 06-14-2014, 07:50 PM #2
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    unleash the Kurds
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    How sort of funny that years after Iran had a war with Iraq, today they are coming to the Iraqi aid. Why? Just look at the ruling sects for the answers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by imanaknut View Post
    How sort of funny that years after Iran had a war with Iraq, today they are coming to the Iraqi aid. Why? Just look at the ruling sects for the answers.
    They help and then take over slowly especially their sect of Islamics. Obama gave it up, power vacuum waiting. Never mind Hussein was a madman, he held the country together with a blood fist, Lefties were whining about mass killings up until we invaded, then it was about our invasion, now it's hear no evil, speak no evil of the ONE.
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    It may be simply major powers fighting proxy wars via their subsidiarys/cut outs. Iran is in bed with China and Russia - fighting 0bamaregim backed interests in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east, Saudis and others are in bed with the 0bamaregim as is Ukraine and Japan and Phillipines, and soon even Viet Nam may be in cahoots with 0bamaregim. This crap has the potential to go global.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
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    And let us all ignore the fact that its the exact same people we're supporting in Syria we're about to start fighting in Iraq

    AND WHO THE FUCK IS GOING TO CALL OUT MCCAIN FOR SAYING WE NEEDED TO ATTACK ASSAD?
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    Quote Originally Posted by raxar View Post
    And let us all ignore the fact that its the exact same people we're supporting in Syria we're about to start fighting in Iraq

    AND WHO THE FUCK IS GOING TO CALL OUT MCCAIN FOR SAYING WE NEEDED TO ATTACK ASSAD?
    And that, good sir, is the real kicker. The ONLY reason these ISIS fucks are streaming across the Syria-Iraq border in the first place is because we've been working hard to destabilize Syria's government, allowing them to gain a foothold.

    All part of our proxy war against Russia.

    We're supporting the Shi'ites in Iraq and the Sunnis in Syria. What could possibly go wrong?

    "That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E
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  8. 06-15-2014, 07:08 PM #8
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    Speaking of hypocrites:

    https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/21547931717
    "That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E
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