Gotta do a little shock and awe before the false flag terror attack by ISIS scheduled for this September, when THEN, FINALLY, the American people will be back on board with the war agenda and under the cozy snug of martial law.
Read it here first, remember that. These guys are desperate because their whole plan is falling apart before they have finished it, and things are not going well for them out there in the world.
"US airstrikes in Iraq ignite debate" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff August 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — The US military Friday launched three rounds of bombing attacks on Sunni militant positions in northern Iraq, killing an undisclosed number of militants and igniting a vigorous debate about how much the United States should reengage militarily nearly three years after the last American troops were withdrawn.
The first strike was errant.
So, INVASION NUMBER THREE on the BOARD, 'eh?
If Kuwait had been Palestine, Iraq and Saddam would still be in possession of it.
Just hours after President Obama said Thursday that he had authorized airstrikes, two Navy fighter jets dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery unit near Erbil, according to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon said late Friday night the US conducted a second airdrop of food and water to Iraqi refugees, according to the Associated Press.
To protect intelligence-gathering bases and agents in Kurdistan, too.
That attack was followed by a drone bombing that struck a mortar position and, several minutes later, another such strike that the Pentagon said “successfully eliminated” a number of Sunni militants. A third airstrike was launched by four Navy fighter jets that twice circled past a convoy of seven ISIS vehicles, dropping a total of eight laser-guided bombs and successfully “neutralizing the mortar and convoy,” the Pentagon said.
All nice, clean, antiseptic. Just the kind of U.S. military action I like seeing.
All of Friday’s missions were aimed at targets near Erbil, where the United States has a consulate and personnel.
The strikes revived memories of the conflict Obama sought to leave behind in 2011 when he withdrew the last of US troops amid hopes that Iraq would gradually resolve its own domestic divisions.
Just another reminder on how many fronts this president has failed and how he will be unable to fix them within two years time after six years in office.
When one reflects back his best chance to do anything was when he allegedly had a filibuster-proof Senate (with Joe Lieberman as gatekeeper?) and Democrat House, and all we got was a lost corporate healthcare plan written by insurance companies (Joe let that pass).
Since then it has been more and more Republican control, to be topped off with a retake of the Senate in November. Add Iraq to the healthcare re-enrollments and immigration issues that will carry the day -- unless the pre$$ tries to divert voters with woman and gays.
But the region has been riven by sectarian violence, with the sudden emergence this year of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a radical movement that seeks to establish a fundamentalist caliphate across the region.
Created, directed, and funded by western intelligence agencies with Sunni Arab foot soldiers!
The administration’s stated reason for Friday’s airstrikes was to protect American personnel in the area and to alleviate pressure on tens of thousands of Iraqis who have been pushed to a barren mountaintop by ISIS militants. US officials have not said how long the strikes might last.
The initial attacks, with their limited scope and rationale, drew broad support in Congress, but debate quickly emerged about overall strategy and mission. Lawmakers expressed concern about returning to a fight in Iraq that many viewed as a quagmire, with a heavy toll in lost US lives, drained resources, and sapped prestige.
But others urged the administration to use the opportunity to fight back against ISIS rebels, who have made startling gains in Iraq and Syria.
Hmmmmmmmm!
I don't like exploiting crises for "opportunity," and people that talk like that are scary and suspicious. Condi Rice called 9/11 an "opportunity."
Members of Congress also insisted that expanding the conflict in new ways would require consultations with lawmakers.
“We’re all concerned about whatever slippery slope these actions might portend,” said Representative Niki Tsongas, a Democrat from Lowell and member of the House Armed Services Committee who said Congress should be asked to vote on the mission if it is expanded. “The need to protect US personnel in Iraq should be very narrowly construed.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, on Friday said she was generally supportive of the “limited, targeted actions” but expressed concern about any prolonged mission.
“It is critical that we not get pulled into a war in Iraq,” she told reporters as she was leaving a meeting at the Massachusetts State House. “It’s a very complicated situation in Iraq. The president now has taken very targeted actions, and those actions will change the mix of what’s happening in Iraq.’’
Blah, blah, blah, and she voted for Israel.
US Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, also urged caution, saying, “What’s needed is an Iraqi political solution, not an American military solution.”
Worthless piece of shit actually put his name to it.
Notice how the Herbalife influence-peddling just faded away?
Markey must know secrets. That's why he was promoted.
But other top Democrats took a more forceful stance, encouraging Obama to deal a crippling blow to ISIS, which is also known as ISIL.
(Having done this for eight years, I've seen this movie more than enough times. F*** you guys!)
“It takes an army to defeat an army, and I believe that we either confront ISIL now or we will be forced to deal with an even stronger enemy in the future,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Inaction is no longer an option.”
The president is still planning to leave Washington on Saturday morning for his annual vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, as well as to hold a fund-raiser on the island Monday, the White House said.
I hope he enjoys the golf game while people are murdered half-a-world away.
What a $phincter!
“The president will be traveling to Massachusetts with an array of communications equipment and national security advisers and others to ensure that he has the capacity to make the kinds of decisions that are required for the commander-in-chief,” Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during a daily briefing Friday. “If there is a need for the president to return to the White House, it’s not a long flight from Martha’s Vineyard back to Washington, D.C.”
Yeah, never mind the damage to the environment and warming of the planet caused by such.
And he wants us to pay carbon taxes.
Pffft!
Obama’s authorization of military strikes marked an escalation of the recent US strategy for dealing with Iraq. In June, Obama began dispatching 700 US troops as the country was gripped in sectarian conflict and ISIS was expanding its reach. The troops were sent to help Iraqi forces as well as to protect US assets and personnel in Baghdad, site of the US Embassy, and Erbil, which houses a consulate.
Obama has continued to maintain that he will not send ground troops back to Iraq.
And if he doesn't call them that.... well, then they are not!
“I know many of you are concerned about any military action in Iraq, even limited strikes like these,” he said late Thursday night in a national address. “I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq.”
Unless....
For weeks, the United States has been hoping Iraqi leaders in Baghdad could develop a coalition and provide a political solution to sectarian divides. But that strategy was beset by the threat of an ISIS incursion into the northern Kurdish region, continued inaction by Baghdad leaders, and calls for humanitarian assistance for groups that have been fleeing ISIS forces.
Great Britain, a reliable ally that joined US forces in the Iraq invasion a decade ago, said Friday it would not join the American military actions, although it would help with humanitarian assistance.
Look, they are TRYING to get the BAND BACK TOGETHER!
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered US commercial airplanes not to fly over Iraqi airspace.
Oh, is there ANOTHER MALAYSIAN JET LYING AROUND to be placed in the desert of Iraq so the West can holler shoot down?
Pope Francis announced he was sending a cardinal to Iraq to provide support to the thousands of Christians fleeing the ISIS threat.
Leaders of ISIS, meanwhile, taunted the United States.
“Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones,” ISIS spokesman Abu Mosa told journalist Medyan Dairieh, who embedded with the group for three weeks to make a documentary for Vice News. “Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq. We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah at the White House.”
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
That is SO FUNNY! That propaganda is SO OVER THE BEND it really is LAUGHABLE at this stage!
Related: Snowden confirms that Al Baghdadi was trained by MOSSAD?
And that ISIS is a British, American, and the Mossad creation!!!
Must be why he was running late and couldn't make this statement.
Republicans were supportive of the military strikes, but they criticized Obama for not acting sooner. Members of the GOP, joined by some Democrats, also expressed concern that the president had not articulated a long-term plan.
Think about that paragraph for a minute. It's all based on self-created and contrived lies.
“I am dismayed by the ongoing absence of a strategy for countering the grave threat ISIS poses to the region,” House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement. “Vital national interests are at stake, yet the White House has remained disengaged despite warnings from Iraqi leaders, Congress, and even members of its own administration. Such parochial thinking only emboldens the enemy and squanders the sacrifices Americans have made.”
Really, is there anything else to say? Btw, why isn't Baghdad under water with ISIS controlling that Kurdish dam? Why has that flowed down the memory hole.
Members of the Massachusetts delegation, which has long had misgivings about military action in Iraq, seemed torn about the president’s decision. They supported the humanitarian effort to assist the tens of thousands of Iraqis who fled to a mountaintop to escape ISIS militants and are now trapped with little food or water, while warning against any expansion of the mission.
Related:
"Adding to the concern is Russia’s proposal in recent days for a humanitarian mission to eastern Ukraine. ‘‘We share the concern that Russia could use the pretext of a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission to send troops into eastern Ukraine,’’ NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said in an e-mailed statement."
Ah, the Power of Hypocrisy!!
“I am concerned that we are already seeing these different missions blur into one in the press and in Congress,” said Representative Jim McGovern, a Worcester Democrat who voted against the war in Iraq and has been a frequent skeptic of military force.
He's mine, that's nice, but it comes to nothing.
Representative Joseph Kennedy III, a Brookline Democrat, said, “Airstrikes are not a long-term strategy to combat ISIL’s horrifying campaign of violence and oppression.’’ He called on Obama to consult with Congress if he envisions long-term involvement.
Representative Richard Neal, a Democrat from Springfield, said that he supported the mission, which “will not put any US boots on the ground in Iraq.”
They are already there, Dick.
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A little worse than a recess appointment, wouldn't you say?
You know who I turn to for answers in these times of trouble?
"Iraq airstrikes: Preventing genocide was the least bad option | August 08, 2014
THE FORMAL withdrawal of American
forces from Iraq never meant that the United States could categorically
disengage from that country.
"We" reserved the right to bomb whenever "we" felt like it.
As fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria advanced toward the previously stable Kurdish-dominated city
of Irbil this week, and as the massacre of thousands of members of the
Yezidi religious group appeared likely, President Obama’s decision to
order US airstrikes against the militant group was the least
objectionable option. It need not — and should not — signal a
re-escalation of a war whose human toll has been horrific.
It's a massacre of Yezidi(?), Yazidi. Gaza is not.
The horrific human toll points to FAILURE, btw.
Even as he announced his decision late Thursday, Obama made it clear
that there were limits to the engagement and that the United States
would not get involved in another land war in Iraq. His evident
reluctance revealed the airstrikes for what they are: a stopgap measure
to keep ISIS in check, while also buying time for a more competent and
inclusive Iraqi government to emerge.
Yeah, this is also about installing another U.S. puppet since Maliki has gotten out of control and told U.S. troops to leave in 2011.
The airstrikes, which have been coupled with humanitarian aid for civilians in danger, meet a narrow set of criteria: They were invited by the relevant governing authority,
namely Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; they helped to prevent
what, some feared, might become a genocide; and they served a strong US
interest — in this case, protecting Iraq’s stable and largely autonomous
Kurdish region from outside attackers. Beyond the threat to the
Yezidis, the recent advance of ISIS fighters threatened to create a
population exodus that would render Irbil and other areas still more
vulnerable to attack — and give ISIS access to oil supplies that the
militant group could use to enrich itself.
Who can argue with the rational built on self-created and promoted illusions and lies
Interesting the OIL is at the BOTTOM of the LIST.
Obama also had reason to be confident that US involvement would help
forestall such an outcome, and at an acceptable cost; during the later
years of Saddam Hussein’s regime, enforcement of the so-called no-fly
zone in northern Iraq prevented major military operations against
Kurdish areas.
Oh, is that the answer again? Another no-fly zone burning up fuel at taxpayer expense and making the world warmer when we have satellites? Why fly military planes over when they are steering civilians away (because Russia threatened the flight routes)?
The president’s decision to order airstrikes now, thereby shoring up a
de facto Kurdish state, contrasts with his more restrained response to
the ISIS advance elsewhere. In the Sunni Arab-dominated areas where it
has gained power, the group, despite its brutality, enjoys some support
from powerful local interests.
Yeah, right, it is winning over the people with brutality.
Indeed, ISIS owes its recent successes in
no small part to Maliki’s increasingly sectarian Shiite-led government,
which has given Sunnis little reason to believe a unified, pluralistic
Iraq is possible.
So it is a Sunni revolt against the U.S. puppet regime that they wanted removed?
Obama has no illusions, either.
Judging by what comes out of his mouth the man is delusional or insane.
If anything, his decision to assist
the Yazidis and the Kurds showed a recognition that Washington’s
influence over Iraq as a whole is limited. The US administration should
do what it can to encourage Maliki to leave office.
But precisely because it can’t dictate the outcome of the current
power struggle, the Obama administration had good reason to react in
real time to an emerging humanitarian threat. And having unleashed the
forces now struggling for control over the country, the United States
has lost any moral justification for looking the other way.
As if the murderous and criminal U.S. regime possessed any morality.
Once again, we are served false premises (illusions, if you will) on which to base decisions.
Haven't we had enough of that from AmeriKa's propaganda pre$$?
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I know I've had more than enough of them.
