I'm going to start with last night's speech that I did not watch and how it was reported and received by some. Then I'm going to link the lead-up to the following articles and subsequent relative items.
Before going further I just wanted it on record that I not only condemn this lying, war-criminal government (Obama only the chief salesman for war) in advance of any airstrikes in Syria (I noticed the sovereign government of Syria has not been asked, and thus last night's speech was a declaration of war) to fight an "enemy" the US and its allies created, but I want the people of the world to know I disown them, every single goddamn one. They are not speaking for me, have not spoken for me, are not listening to me. I don't know what else to do, I've done all the things I was told to do. Letters to powerful and media, calls to public $lavents and protests in the street, should do a blog they told me -- and here we are.
So -- and I truly ask for forgiveness if you find profanity offensive, but I find the advancement of a killing and war agenda based on lies much more an affront -- fuck (yeah, I screw the star system just once in my mellowing years; read the stuff I used to write years ago, whoooo!) this government in all its lying, looting forms from the tip of its disease-ridden head to its feet of clay worker bees. I don't want to be associated with a war criminal government any longer, one that has ignored the pleas of not only me but the rest of the good American people across this land. $tate in$titutions seem to $erve only two masters: Wall $treet and Israel.
Okay, on with the speech:
"Obama to extend airstrikes to Syria, send more advisers; Vows no ground combat role against Islamic State" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff September 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday outlined a broad battle plan to defeat the Islamic State, including US airstrikes in war-torn Syria and an expanded American military advisory role in Iraq. But he vowed no US ground troops would be engaged in combat.
His vows have become meaningless, this supreme liar!
Besides, they are already engaged in combat we are just not being told that. The scale of disingenuous from the US executive is epically colossal.
In a prime-time address on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and nearly three years after the withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq, Obama said that the nation faces a grave new threat from the group variously known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL.
Yeah, THANKS to YOU and YOUR CIA and our Sunni allies for helping to CREATE THEM! Thank you very much.
Ever notice ISIS is EVERYWHERE and yet NOWHERE?
“Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy,” Obama said in the White House address.
Did he just quote George W. Bush?
The president delivered a cautionary note, saying it “will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved, especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions.” But he said the effort “will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.”
Ah, PREPARING YOU for another LONG WAR, which is really just a continuation of the last 13 years after that false flag inside job operation.
The president, who was elected to office partly on his vows to end the 2003 US-led war in Iraq, likened the battle against the Islamic State to US operations against other Al Qaeda-like groups in Yemen and Somalia, where a US drone attack killed a terrorist leader this week.
That would be Al-CIA-Duh, and I will be returning to Somalia and Yemen shortly.
“This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years,” Obama said.
????
"Obama started out his speech making all the right statements about stopping ISIS, then stopped short of declaring open war. This may be his realizing that more wars will work against incumbents in November with Democrats taking the brunt of the public outrage. Obama may be thinking of ramping up the war for real after the election. But those who wanted the wars to start now are enraged and much of the corporate media is lambasting Obama for not going far enough. Some commenters are going as far as to try to re-write Obama's speech after the fact, reporting what they wanted him to say or trying to pout their own interpretations on it. Obama's "solution" to the crisis is to repeat the mistakes of Yemen and Somalia, maintain air strikes, and rely on others to send in the boots on the ground. None of this will work, and Yemen and Somalia are hardly successes to be emulated. Still, I am relieved that for at least one more day we are not catapulted into a global conflagration which the US ultimately will lose. Right now my main worry is that those who wanted the wars to crank up for real today will, in their frustration, find some means to provoke the situation, even without Obama's consent." --whatreallyhappened.com/
That's his take; I'm sorry I'm so pissed that any action was taken at all because of the whole fraudulent nature of this self-created scenario for war. The goddamn US and its allies created and protect ISIS, ISIL, or whatever SILLI name they come up with next.
Obama said he has the authority as commander in chief to order the military action but he said he would welcome congressional approval. He also reiterated his call for Congress to approve assistance for moderate Syrian rebels.
Which has been provided since the start and moved in through Turkey, etc. I mean, this half-truth, distorted garbage is really enough now.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said he backs the strategy of limited airstrikes to help local forces confront the group and the wider diplomatic effort. “The president made it clear that he can take decisive action to destroy ISIS through the use of airstrikes,” Reid said in a statement, but he also called for a vote in Congress authorizing an expansion of military force.
House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, issued a statement that was both stinging and supportive. He criticized Obama for waiting too long to acknowledge the threat, adding that “while the president presented a compelling case for action, many questions remain about the way in which the president intends to act.”
Still, there remain skeptical members in both parties who fear a wider war and insist that Congress must have a full debate about the threat and the scope of the US response and want the mission put to a vote.
Representative Richard Neal, a Springfield Democrat who voted against authorizing the Iraq war in 2002, said he worries about the potential consequences of a new military campaign. But he asserted there was little choice but to take aggressive action.
“Simply put, ISIS is the most dangerous terrorist group in the world today,” Neal said in a statement. “ISIS is now a threat to international security and that’s why political, diplomatic, and military steps need to be taken by the United States and our allies to destroy their capabilities.”
Sigh. And that's the peace guy.
In a White House briefing earlier Wednesday, senior officials said other nations would join a coalition against the Islamic State.
Oh, another "coalition."
The most important partner, officials said, will be Iraq and its new Shi’ite Muslim-led government, headed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Abadi has pledged to be more inclusive of Iraq’s disparate sects and ethnic groups, which is seen as critical to weakening the ISIS’s hold on majority Sunni Muslim areas of the country. Abadi’s predecessor, Nouri al-Maliki, was accused of stoking divisions and in the process empowering the Sunni militants.
The U.S. didn't like him because he wouldn't sign an agreement letting US troops stay, then he won election when they were hoping he wouldn't, and now they had to resort to actual removal.
Without US combat troops, Iraq’s security forces — along with the Kurdish peshmerga militia in northern Iraq — are seen as critical to rolling back the group’s territorial gains and ensuring that the American airstrikes are effective.
I was already told a week ago they have been roiled back so WTF?
Obama said the Islamic State poses a threat to the region and beyond and must be confronted aggressively, both militarily and through a diplomatic offensive to weaken the group’s support among Sunni Muslims.
WAR!!
The Islamic State has waged a brutal campaign of beheadings and sectarian killings and implemented of a strict form of Islamic law in the territory it controls.
But somehow have garnered tremendous support.
It has roots in the US-led Iraq war that lasted from 2003 to 2011.
Yeah, the U.S. brought Al-CIA-Duh to Iraq and look at what is happening now.
The group has drawn Sunni militants from neighboring nations, along with several hundred Europeans and Americans, US intelligence officials say, raising fears that its sanctuary in the heart of the Middle East could pose a direct terrorist threat to the West.
Yup, uh-huh.
Until now US air attacks against the group, which began in early August, have largely focused on protecting American personnel in Iraq. The United States and its allies have also provided humanitarian aid to some of the group’s victims.
That mission will now expand both inside Iraq and, for the first time, across the border in Syria, administration officials told reporters Wednesday.
It's the BACK DOOR to INVADING SYRIA like what they wanted to do last year when their ISIS terrorists were caught using chemical weapons and the propaganda pre$$ put out a bunch of fake videos of kids being gassed.
This is getting SICK!
“If there is an ISIL target we need to hit in Iraq we will hit it,” said a senior administration official, in a briefing the White House scheduled before the speech under the condition the participants not be identified by name. As for Syria, the official said, “We will not be constrained by that border.”
Then it is a VIOLATION of INTERNATIONAL LAW!
The Syrian front is particularly complicated given that the Islamic State has also been fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad, who the United States considers a war criminal for allegedly overseeing the killing of thousands of Syrians.
Try next door in Israel and that scum Netanyahu for that, U.S. government. Good God!
“We are not going to work with the Assad regime,” said a senior administration official.
Related: Obama’s foreign policy needs conviction of leadership
That's from the guy who has been advocating invasion of Syria since last year.
Similarly, officials said US forces would not coordinate with forces from Iran, which are supporting Iraqi militias.
And if they are, they aren't going to tell you about it!
Launching a broader US military operation in the region could prove to be particularly unpalatable since American forces fought an eight-year war in Iraq that killed nearly 4,500 American soldiers.
Yeah, that's where I'm coming from and I'm not alone!!
While Obama said there would be no US combat troops, he does plan to dispatch 475 more military advisers to assist Iraqi forces, on top of nearly 1,100 advisers and security personnel that have arrived in Iraq in recent weeks.
So, we HAVE COMBAT TROOPS ON THE GROUND NOW despite all the wonderfully employed euphemisms!!
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who has advocated for strong military action, arrived in Baghdad earlier Wednesday to meet with Abadi. On Thursday, Kerry is scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia to meet leaders of Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
You know, the ones who HELPED CREATE and SUPPORT ISIS these last three years as they waged war on Assad's government.
US officials are also counting on the Saudis to play a more aggressive role.
That's why the 9/11 report held back the Bush-Saudi connections to the official 9/11 piece of crap coverup. It was a blackmail piece.
Obama spoke with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz by phone on Wednesday, the White House said, urging him to step up the training and arming of the moderate elements of the Syrian opposition, in the hopes of further weakening the Islamic State’s hold on parts of Syria.
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Related: Saudi Arabia to help train Sunni fighters
The Saudis, who have grave concerns that the Islamic State might present a threat to the stability of the kingdom, are emerging as a key member of the anti-Islamic State coalition the Obama administration is trying to form because of their financial resources and Islamic regional credentials. The meeting in Jiddah is just one stop in which Kerry has sought to rally international efforts against the Islamic State.
It's surreal reading the stuff when you know the truth and that the propaganda pre$$ is pushing flat-out war lies again and again and again.
Now for the buildup:
ISIS Changes Name to SILLI
Dam SILLI
SILLI Inside the United States
Occupation Iraq: ISIS Be Dammed
And continuing....
"Obama outlines strategy against Islamic State; 9 allies join plan that echoes Bush war on terrorism" by Helene Cooper | New York Times September 06, 2014
NEWPORT, Wales — President Obama escalated the US response to the marauding Islamic State on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines of a coordinated military strategy that echoes the war on terror first developed by President George W. Bush more than a decade ago.
(When blog editor read that he slumped on his sofa. F*** Obummer)
Related: U.S. Says Syria Still Has Chemical Weapons
Yeah, they actually thought that would work again!
In his most expansive comments to date about how the United States and its friends could defeat the Islamic State — a once-obscure group of Sunni militants that has upended the Middle East and overshadowed Al Qaeda — Obama said the effort would rely on US airstrikes against its leaders and positions, on strengthening the moderate Syrian rebel groups to reclaim ground lost to the Islamic State, and on enlisting other friendly governments in the region to join the fight.
This way to instability and overthrow, damn Gulf monarchies.
While the president’s aides maintained that he has not yet decided to authorize airstrikes in Syria — which he has done on a limited basis in Iraq — Obama likened his developing strategy to the US effort against Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal regions, which has relied heavily on airstrikes.
Related: Pakistan airstrikes hit Taliban hideouts, kill 65
Also see: Pakistan Coup in Progress
Then the Globe's coverage just froze.
Obama has been under enormous pressure to articulate a way to counter Islamic State, which has proclaimed itself an Islamic caliphate that knows no borders and has behaved ruthlessly toward its enemies, including the videotaped beheadings of two Americans.
Those were incredibly bad fakes for anyone who has seen them.
Incubators, nukes, wmd, the lies never end when it comes to Iraq and my Zionist War Pre$$.
After creating a political tempest by saying last week that his administration lacked a strategy, Obama sought Friday to portray himself as spearheading the effort.
But in so doing, the president risks further entangling the US military in exactly the type of costly foreign conflict he has long sought to escape.
Right.
And his administration has been unable to explain how he can vanquish the Islamic State without indirectly aiding President Bashar Assad of Syria, regarded by the administration as an odious leader who must resign.
I consider that true of Obama, and incredibly I despise him more than I did Bush after six years.
Nonetheless, Obama’s comments, made at the conclusion of a NATO summit here, were in effect a significant expansion of his own earlier assessments of the threat — simply by offering a direct comparison to the strategy against Al Qaeda militants.
Related: September is a Wonderful Time For a World War
You can $mell it in the air!
“You initially push them back, you systematically degrade their capabilities, you narrow their scope of action, you slowly shrink the space, the territory that they may control, you take out their leadership,” Obama said at a news conference here. “And over time, they are not able to conduct the same kinds of terrorist attacks as they once could.”
I was told ISIS is coming if not already here!
He said that “we are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL, the same way that we have gone after Al Qaeda,” using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State. He drew the analogy to Pakistan as an example of how the United States can go to war against militants while limiting the number of US ground combat troops.
Obama spoke after aides had unveiled what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called the “core coalition” to fight the Islamic State militants, the outcome of a hastily organized meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit talks. Diplomats and defense officials from the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland, and Denmark huddled to devise a two-pronged strategy: strengthening allies on the ground in Iraq and Syria, while bombing Sunni militants from the air.
“There is no containment policy for ISIL,” Secretary of State John Kerry said at the start of the meeting. “They’re an ambitious, avowed, genocidal, territorial-grabbing, caliphate-desiring quasi state with an irregular army, and leaving them in some capacity intact anywhere would leave a cancer in place that will ultimately come back to haunt us.”
They do it all the time. They never destroy their creations because they need them out there to try and fool us all. No longer working, sorry John.
But he and other officials made clear that at the moment, any ground combat troops would come from either Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters in Iraq, or the moderate Syrian rebels opposed to Assad in Syria. “Obviously I think that’s a red line for everybody here: no boots on the ground,” Kerry said.
ALREADY ARE!
An administration official said the reasons for assembling a coalition went beyond any political cover that such an alliance may provide with a war-weary American public.
Our opinions and feelings don't seem to matter much to this representative democracy that is nothing but dictatorship now.
The official said certain countries bring expertise, like Britain and Australia in special operations, Jordan in intelligence and Saudi Arabia in financing.
“Sure, the American military can handle airstrikes,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “But it’s always nice to have help from your friends.”
US officials are hoping to expand the coalition to many countries, particularly in the region. Obama administration officials said privately that in addition to the participants at the meeting Friday, the United States was hoping to get quiet intelligence help about the Sunni militants from Jordan. Its leader, King Abdullah II, was attending the Wales summit.
US officials said they also expected Saudi Arabia to contribute to funding moderate Syrian rebel groups. In addition, Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States, said in a statement this week that the Emirates stood ready to join the fight against the Islamic State. “No one has more at stake than the UAE and other moderate countries in the region that have rejected the regressive Islamist creed and embraced a different, forward-looking path,” the ambassador said.
Enlisting support from Sunni populations in Syria and Iraq is crucial, experts said, because airstrikes alone will not suffice.
!!!!!!! Told already rolled back from the dams!
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"Obama sets stage for intense action on Islamic State" by Eric Schmitt and Michael R. Gordon | New York Times September 08, 2014
That's so odd because my printed byline is by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, although does it really matter what JYT criminal byline accompanies their pos propaganda?
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to carry out a campaign against the Islamic State that may take three years to complete — requiring a sustained effort that could last until after President Obama has left office, according to senior administration officials.
Nothing like HANDCUFFING the NEXT PRESIDENT like you were, huh?
What a SPHINCTER!
The first phase, an air campaign with nearly 145 airstrikes in the past month, is already underway to protect ethnic and religious minorities and US diplomatic, intelligence, and military personnel, and their facilities, as well as to begin rolling back Islamic State gains in northern and western Iraq.
The next phase, which would begin sometime after Iraq forms a more inclusive government, scheduled this week, is expected to involve an intensified effort to train, advise, or equip the Iraqi military, Kurdish fighters, and possibly members of Sunni tribes.
So ISIS can steal them back again, and HOW MUCH IS ALL THIS GOING TO COST?!!!!!
The final, toughest, and most politically controversial phase of the operation — destroying the terrorist army in its sanctuary inside Syria — might not be completed until the next administration. Indeed, some Pentagon planners envision a military campaign lasting at least 36 months.
That, my dear American citizens, is a WAR even if they don't want to call it that!!
Obama will use a speech to the nation Wednesday to make his case for launching a US-led offensive against Sunni militants gaining ground in the Middle East, seeking to rally support for a broad military mission while reassuring the public he is not plunging US forces into another Iraq War.
Then HE FAILED MISERABLY!!!!
“What I want people to understand,” Obama said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that was broadcast Sunday, “is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum” of the militants. “We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities; we’re going to shrink the territory that they control; and, ultimately, we’re going to defeat them,” he added.
Oh, I UNDERSTAND, sphincter!
The military campaign Obama is preparing has no obvious precedent. Unlike US counterterrorism operations in Yemen and Pakistan, it is not expected to be limited to drone strikes against militant leaders. Unlike the war in Afghanistan, it will not include the use of ground troops, which Obama has ruled out.
Even though they are already there.
Unlike the Kosovo war that President Clinton and NATO nations waged in 1999, it will not be compressed into an intensive 78-day tactical and strategic air campaign. And unlike the air campaign that toppled the Libyan leader, Moammar Khadafy, in 2011, the Obama administration is no longer “leading from behind,” but plans to play the central role in building a coalition to counter the Islamic State.
“We have the ability to destroy ISIL,” Secretary of State John Kerry said last week at the NATO summit meeting in Wales, using an alternative name for the militant group. “It may take a year, it may take two years, it may take three years. But we’re determined it has to happen.”
So HOW LONG DID IT TAKE to CREATE THEM!?!
Antony Blinken, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, has suggested that the United States is undertaking a prolonged mission. “It’s going to take time, and it will probably go beyond even this administration to get to the point of defeat,” Blinken said last week on CNN.
Kerry is scheduled to head for the Middle East soon to solidify the anti-Islamic State coalition. And Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is traveling to Ankara, Turkey, on Monday to woo another potential ally in the fight against the Sunni militant group.
This is absolutely disgusting when ISIS was/is being trained in Jordan and Turkey.
Although details of how the emerging coalition would counter the Islamic State remain undecided, several US officials said that they believe the list of allies so far includes Jordan, offering intelligence help, and Saudi Arabia, which has influence with Sunni tribes in Iraq and Syria and which has been funding moderate Syrian rebels.
Oh, right, all the good, mentioned in my propaganda pre$$ rebel freedom fighters are moderates. This is so played its embarrassing.
The United Arab Emirates, officials said, has also indicated a willingness to consider airstrikes in Iraq.
Like they did in Libya?
Germany has said it would send arms to peshmerga fighters in Kurdistan. And rising concern over foreign fighters returning home from Syria and Iraq may also have spurred Britain, Australia, France and Denmark to join the alliance.
Administration officials acknowledged, however, that getting those same countries to agree to airstrikes in Syria was proving harder.
“Everybody is on board Iraq,” an administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the policy is still being developed.
“But when it comes to Syria, there’s more concern” about where airstrikes could lead, the official said.
The official nonetheless expressed confidence that the countries would eventually come around to taking the fight into Syria, in part, he said, because “there’s really no other alternative.”
Related:
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
This is the end game, folks. It's the final piece of the plan even as those parts already assembled crumble around them.
The United States launched a new series of airstrikes against Sunni fighters in Iraq late Saturday in what Defense Department officials described as a mission to stop the militants from seizing the Haditha Dam on the Euphrates River and prevent the possibility of floodwaters being unleashed toward the capital, Baghdad.
The attacks were aimed at militant fighters of the Islamic State as they were moving toward the dam, officials said. The operation represented another expansion of the limited goals that Obama set out when he announced last month that he had authorized airstrikes in Iraq.
Think about that. An expansion of the limited. Talk about Orwellian!
Administration officials nonetheless stressed that the strikes around the dam — about 175 miles from Baghdad, in Anbar province — were within the constraints of what Obama initially characterized as a limited campaign against the militants.
Yeah, so don't get all hot and bothered about this like me.
The goal of the initial US campaign was to break the Islamic State siege of the minority Yazidi population stranded on Mount Sinjar, as well as to protect US citizens, official personnel, and facilities in Erbil, the Kurdish capital, and Baghdad.
That turns out was a complete lie and overblown, ISIS be Dammed!
The US warplanes struck what were described as Islamic State positions in the towns of Rawa and Ana, as well as in Barwana, which is about 9 miles from the dam. The strikes on Rawa and Ana, towns near a highway leading into Syria, could disrupt Islamic State supply lines in Iraq.
Soldiers fighting there said the US planes struck again on Sunday, hitting what they described as houses where militant fighters were gathering.
This is reading more and more like a true Sunni insurgency, probably backed by the former Iraqi Army. This is them wanting nothing more to do with Baghdad's US puppets. It smells like the same coverage were are presented in Taliban Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Obama’s planned speech suggests that he may be moving closer to a decision on many remaining questions, including whether and at what point the White House might widen the air campaign to include targets across the border in Syria, possibly to include Islamic State leadership, and its equipment, supply depots and command centers.
He's going to ASK THEM, right?
The time of the speech Wednesday has not been announced.
Senior officials have repeatedly ruled out sending ground combat troops, a vow Obama reaffirmed in his appearance on “Meet the Press.”
“This is not going to be an announcement about US ground troops,” he said. “This is not the equivalent of the Iraq War.”
Only because the liar-and-thief says so.
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"WASHINGTON — President Obama will use a speech to the nation on Wednesday to make his case for launching a United States-led offensive against Sunni militants gaining ground in the Middle East, seeking to rally support for a broad military mission while reassuring the public he is not plunging American forces into another Iraq war.
“I’m preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, Mr. Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
I just wish you hadn't helped create that threat, jerk.
“What I want people to understand,” he said, “is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum” of the militants. “We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities; we’re going to shrink the territory that they control; and, ultimately, we’re going to defeat them,” he added.
The planned speech suggests that the president may be moving closer to a decision on whether to expand the month-old air campaign against ISIS in Iraq into Syria, and it is Mr. Obama’s latest attempt to answer critics who charge that he lacks a viable plan or the fortitude to go after the group.
The president was adamant that he had no intention of sending American combat troops to go after ISIS, repeating no fewer than three times during the interview that he would not do so, and calling the idea of putting United States boots on the ground “a profound mistake.”
He already has, they are calling them advisers, we have seen all this before, who does he think he is fooling?
“This is not going to be an announcement about U.S. ground troops,” Mr. Obama said. “This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war.”
"In launching a fresh series of airstrikes against Sunni fighters in Iraq over the weekend, the Defense Department described a mission to stop militants from seizing an important dam on the Euphrates River and prevent them from unleashing floodwaters toward the capital, Baghdad.
They kept the dam and oil fields running before they disappeared again, and what is with this regurgitated, warmed-over shit being offered forth as a narrative after week's worth of reporting otherwise? WTF?
American warplanes pounded ISIS armored vehicles and antiaircraft artillery late Saturday and early Sunday while Iraqi ground troops attacked villages held by ISIS fighters. It was exactly the kind of operation that President Obama described at a news conference in Wales on Friday when he talked about how the United States and its allies could fight ISIS: Use American warplanes to drop bombs while coordinating with local ground troops to reclaim and hold territory.
Obama administration officials continued to insist, even after American warplanes bombed ISIS positions near several villages close to Haditha, that the United States had not expanded the mission beyond the limited goals set out by the president a month ago when he authorized airstrikes.
If you are still with me you already know I discussed the limited expansion bit above, and the fact that a bald-faced lie is now returned to me later. Good Lord, NYT!!
At the time, Mr. Obama characterized the Iraq campaign as a limited one to break the ISIS siege of the minority Yazidi population stranded on Mount Sinjar in the north, and to protect American citizens, official personnel and facilities in Erbil, the Kurdish capital, and in Baghdad.
Didn't make print or the web version:
A newly released field report by a private firm that investigates arms trafficking documented small arms and rockets captured from ISIS that appeared to have been provided to other combatants by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Wow, big surprise.
The findings by the firm, Conflict Armament Research in England, provided a new level of detail of ISIS’ apparent capture and diversion of military equipment sent into the region by foreign governments, which have often found the irregular forces and local government troops they have sponsored to be unreliable and prone to corruption, defection or defeat.
Among the former ISIS weapons that the firm examined were M16 and M4 rifles stamped “Property of U.S. Govt.” Such weapons are also common in the hands of irregular Shiite forces in Iraq, where the United States provided hundreds of thousands of small arms to local and state forces during its long occupation.
Oh, GREAT! At the same time, they were
The weapons were often provided hastily or with scant accountability. Many of Iraq’s military and police forces have since been defeated by ISIS or have abandoned their bases and posts, yielding equipment provided by American taxpayers and exposing weaknesses in the Pentagon’s once-heralded force-building measures...."
This stuff has reached the point of being laughable were it not so deadly fatal.
The president’s plans for a major address came just days after he returned from a NATO summit meeting in Wales, where he and top members of his administration worked on the sidelines to rally international support for a coalition to confront ISIS in Iraq and Syria. And the “Meet the Press” interview was broadcast hours after American warplanes carried out a new round of attacks on ISIS targets near a major hydroelectric dam in Iraq.
The speech is set for the day before the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which touched off a broad military campaign to defeat the terrorist group Al Qaeda and, ultimately, to protracted American-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Opposition to those wars and a vow to end them responsibly helped propel Mr. Obama to the White House.
It's the mind-manipulating imagery and illusion operating at full throttle.
The president said he planned to meet with congressional leaders on Tuesday to outline his strategy, but suggested he did not need a vote to move forward with his campaign against ISIS, saying he was “confident” that he has the authorization he needs. Still, Mr. Obama hinted that he might ask for more money for the mission, saying, “It’s going to require some resources, I suspect, above what we are currently doing in the region.”
Related: Obama Signs $8.7 Billion Food Stamp Cut Into Law
And it's all smiles!
Such a request would trigger a congressional debate and vote, and could hinder another of Mr. Obama’s vows: to cut the Pentagon budget.
Don't worry, after all these years we never took any of that seriously, and besides, part of the budget deal last years was to replenish all the Pentagon cuts and more.
White House officials have said that Mr. Obama is operating under his constitutional powers as commander in chief in striking ISIS in Iraq, where the central government in Baghdad and Kurdish regional officials based in Erbil have requested United States assistance in battling the group. When the president announced what he described as a limited bombing campaign against ISIS, he said the goal was to protect Iraqi minorities besieged by ISIS and to safeguard American citizens and United States facilities in Iraq.
The president has been sending notifications to Congress on the airstrikes under the War Powers Act, which bars American troops from engaging in military action for more than 60 days without congressional authorization. But recent presidents have ignored that requirement. And some lawmakers in both parties are increasingly uncomfortable ceding the debate over military action in Iraq, and potentially Syria, to the president.
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, said Mr. Obama must explain to Congress how any additional authority he might seek to strike ISIS would protect Americans. He said training and equipping the militaries of partner nations to counter ISIS, as the president has done in Iraq and is proposing to do in Syria, “is not tenable and will not generate sufficient combat power to protect America.”
If the president is prepared to engage Congress “with a strategic plan” to protect the United States and its allies from ISIS, Mr. McConnell said in a statement on Saturday, “I believe he will have significant congressional support.” The ISIS threat, he added, “is real and it’s growing. And it is time for President Obama to exercise some leadership in launching a response.”
In the interview on Sunday, Mr. Obama said he envisioned the Free Syrian Army’s providing the ground presence needed to confront ISIS in Syria.
That adjunct got it's butt whipped by Assad, thus forcing the Al-Nusra and ISIS operation by the US and allies.
He said that until a moderate Sunni opposition emerged, there was no real hope of ousting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. But the opposition has been fractured, and the moderate militias are viewed as far less capable than ISIS.
“Our attitude towards Assad continues to be that through his actions, through using chemical weapons on his own people, dropping barrel bombs that killed innocent children, that he has foregone legitimacy,” Mr. Obama said. “But when it comes to our policy and the coalition that we’re putting together, our focus specifically is on ISIL.” (ISIL is the name used by administration officials for the militant group.)
Where print ended, and I can't believe he cited that chem wrap set-up fraud and hoax. What a sphincter.
It is a mark of how much things have changed since just one year ago, when Mr. Obama was weighing airstrikes to punish Mr. Assad for his use of chemical weapons.
I don't feel like things have changed at all. Here we are again, and this time the people and Congre$$ have failed to stop it.
Faced with a new array of international crises in recent months, the president said he was “energized” by the challenges facing him. But he also showed signs of strain during the interview, admitting that the demands of his position — including dealing with Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, the rise of ISIS and to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa — were taking a toll.
Oh, poor little drone-missile dropping, air-strike ordering, war-mongering, insurgency-fomenting, lying war criminal. His own making is taking a toll on him, oooooh!
“There are days where I’m not getting enough sleep, because we’ve got a lot on our plate,” he said.
Then RESIGN NOW!!
Mr. Obama also suggested that he regretted his decision last month to go golfing immediately after responding publicly to the ISIS release of a video showing the beheading of the American journalist James Foley.
“I should’ve anticipated the optics,” the president said, adding that the “theater” of his job was “not something that always comes naturally to me.
“But it matters. And I’m mindful of that.”
It is one of the pitfalls of any presidential vacation, Mr. Obama said in the interview. “What I’d love,” the president added, “is a vacation from the press.”
I'm thinning about it.
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"Strategy in Iraq shifting; concerns steadfast; As Obama talks, legislators say they fear ground war" by Bryan Bender and Jessica Meyers | Globe Staff September 10, 2014
WASHINGTON — Until now, the Obama administration has insisted that the US military response to the Islamic State, primarily in the form of airstrikes in northern Iraq, would be limited “in nature, duration, and scope” and not involve ground combat.
But as President Obama prepares to address the nation at 9 p.m. Wednesday to unveil his overall strategy — possibly including expanding airstrikes into Syria — he will have to convince a wary public and Congress that victory can be accomplished without re-inserting significant numbers of American ground troops.
Oh, now it has gone from NO GROUND TROOPS to NOT SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS!!!
Arrrrrrrgggggggghhhh!
Of course, GROUND TROOPS are ALREADY THERE!
While there appears to be support across the political spectrum to use military force to confront the group — from Senators Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, to John McCain, the Arizona Republican — there remains deep concern that the United States will get drawn into another open-ended ground war in the Middle East.
I'd say Bernie should be ashamed of himself, but jwho know....
“People say we are not putting boots on the ground,” said Representative James McGovern, a Worcester Democrat. “We do have boots on the ground. We have gotten more deeply involved.”
He's mine, and in the Democrat primary I voted for other and wrote in NOTA (same with Markey).
Over the past month, as US aircraft have launched more than 150 strikes against the brutal group, the number of US military advisers and security personnel dispatched to Iraq has also grown to nearly 1,000.
Insignificant until one is killed in combat (we will be lied to like always about the circumstances).
Throughout the crisis, Obama has maintained that he has the power to act alone and does not need congressional approval to take military action, writing to Congress on Monday that his actions “are pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct US foreign relations and as commander-in-chief.”
That's okay. We will know who to disembowel in the pit of hell.
But he is facing growing demands from members of both parties to seek a debate about the threat and a formal vote on the scope of the American response.
Before they approve it all.
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, has said Obama has “no choice” but to seek congressional authorization.
Similar concerns are likely in the House. In July, by a vote of 370 to 40, a nonbinding resolution cosponsored by McGovern was approved that prohibits Obama from “deploying or maintaining US armed forces in a sustained combat role in Iraq” without a formal congressional vote.
Representative Adam Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said in a statement Tuesday he believes the threat posed by the group “is very real and must be confronted.”
“However, if the president intends to prolong the military campaign in Iraq or extend it into Syria, he needs to make the case directly to the American people and secure authorization from Congress.”
He didn't, says he doesn't.
Laying the groundwork for his speech to the public, Obama met with congressional leaders at the White House Tuesday.
Some experts assert that a successful campaign might require not just significantly more air power but more US troops on the ground — especially if the Iraqi government and other allies are not up to the task of taking the fight to the militants.
“The question is — and will continue to be — what is the mix that we need in terms of forces?” said Walter D. Givhan, a retired Air Force major general and fighter pilot. “How much do you need on the ground? Or can it be a small footprint, aiding and advising the Iraqi forces as they bring pressure to bear and helping them with the targeting of air power?’’
I don't want a goddamn toe in there, and wait until the deployment orders start going out. Back to fucking Iraq! Say goodbye to the Senate.
Givhan, who oversaw the building of the new Afghan air force and is now a senior vice chancellor at Troy University, said that US air power “may not be a comprehensive and complete solution to the problem.”
Yup, we need ground troops! Good thing those illegal kids are here to fill your jobs while you are gone!
A leading national security think tank, the Center for a New American Security, also urged Obama on Tuesday not to mislead the public on what might be required, saying he should assert that while “extensive deployments of uniformed combat personnel is not something that he is considering,” more US military personnel on the ground may be required.
You know, the Globe really makes you think.
Others said it is uncertain whether sustained ground combat will be required to accomplish the administration’s goal.
“Can we win in Iraq and Syria without US ground troops? No one knows for sure,” said Wesley K. Clark, a former Army general who oversaw the NATO air war in Kosovo in 1999. “If you have special forces, good intelligence collection, and responsive allies, I think you can do a lot.”
Clark said he expects the US military involvement to be enduring. “This is not three months and out,” said Clark, a distinguished fellow at the Burkle Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. “This is a long-term strategy of engagement.”
He knows what is going on.
It is for that reason that Obama will be under pressure to seek congressional approval in the coming days for his new military strategy.
Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, said he believes “it’s lacking in judgment not to come to Congress on anything that could last this long.”
McCain, a leading hawk who believes US troops should never had been withdrawn from Iraq in 2011, said, “I would love to see a vote. We should be debating right now what to do about” the Islamic State.
“This is not the king’s army,” said Representative Scott Rigell, a Virginia Republican whose district has a large military population.
He said he believes the public has become “desensitized” to the use of force to the dangerous point that sending Americans to war has become almost “theoretical.”
“People want to know what the hell we are getting into,” McGovern said. “To basically say we shouldn’t have a debate because we don’t know how the vote will turn out or because it’s politically inconvenient. . . that’s shrinking from our responsibilities.”
You guys do it all the time so what is the big deal?
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We know what we are getting into, too. That is why I am so vociferously opposed to all of this!
We know what we are getting into, too. That is why I am so vociferously opposed to all of this!
"Arab League chief issues apparent call to arms against Islamic State" by Sarah El Deeb and Sameer N. Yacoub | Associated Press September 07, 2014
CAIRO — The head of the Arab League urged its members Sunday to confront Islamic State extremists ‘‘militarily and politically,’’ issuing an apparent call to arms as President Barack Obama prepares to go to lawmakers and the American public with his own plan to stop the militants.
Backing from the 22-country Arab League could provide crucial support across the Middle East for Obama’s effort to assemble an international coalition against the Islamic State, the marauding group that has conquered a swath of territory in Iraq and Syria and committed beheadings and mass killings to sow fear.
And, I'm told, gain ma$$ive support.
Already, NATO forces have agreed to take on the extremists.
Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said that what is needed from Arab countries is a ‘‘clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation’’ with ‘‘cancerous and terrorist’’ groups. The Arab League includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
I'll bet all those nations are wishing they had not helped train, fund, and man those groups.
Obama will meet with congressional leaders on Tuesday and then outline his plan to the war-weary American public Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Just wanted to remind you of that truth.
‘‘I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we’re going to deal with it and to have confidence that we’ll be able to deal with it,’’ Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s ‘‘Meet the Press.’’
I have absolutely no confidence in you and nothing will change that the rest of your term, damn betrayer.
In new airstrikes Sunday, the U.S. targeted Islamic State fighters in Iraq’s long-contested Anbar province for the first time.
It wasn’t immediately clear what steps the Arab League would take in supporting the West’s campaign against the Islamic State.
An Arab diplomat speaking to Egypt’s official MENA news agency said a resolution backing cooperation with the U.S. would go before members Sunday. He did not elaborate.
But a draft resolution obtained by The Associated Press offered only routine condemnation of terrorist groups operating in the region. It also called on member states to improve information-sharing and legal expertise in combating terrorism, and to prevent the paying of ransom to militants.
Elaraby himself noted that the Arab League’s member states have failed to help each other in the past when facing local armed groups, often because of disagreements and fear of being accused of meddling in one another’s affairs. Those challenges include Iraq as well as the militia violence now tearing Libya apart and other conflicts.
A decades-old joint Arab defense agreement states that member countries can act alone or collectively to ward off attack and restore peace by all means, including force.
Paging George Orwell.
Elaraby, a longtime Egyptian diplomat, said an agreement to activate that clause in the 1950 agreement is needed.
Before the Arab League meeting, Elaraby spoke by telephone to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the Islamic State insurgents.
A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the private diplomatic conversation, said Kerry updated Elaraby on efforts to combat the insurgents.
Where print stopped.
‘‘They discussed the need for the Arab League and its members to take a strong position in the coalition that is developing ... and the importance of decisive action’’ to stop the flow of foreign fighters, disrupt the Islamic State’s financing and combat incitement, the official said.
Kerry said the military aspect is only one part of the effort, and more comprehensive coordination with Arab countries — combining law enforcement, intelligence, economic and diplomatic tools — is required, the official said.
The "war on terror" PNAC agenda just took a HUGE LEAP FORWARD!
Meanwhile, the U.S. said it launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq. U.S. officials said the offensive was an effort to beat back the militants from the dam, which remained under Iraqi control.
In was told they already had last week, dammit!
The militants could have opened or damaged the dam, flooding wide areas as far as Baghdad’s international airport, where hundreds of U.S. personnel are stationed, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
And they DID NOT?
Oh, man, what a GIVEAWAY regarding the CIA-created GHOST ISIS!
What terrorists worth their salt didn't flood the US troops and infidel Shi'ites?
PFFFFFFFFTTT!
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, traveling in Georgia, said the Iraqi government had asked the U.S. to launch the airstrikes.
Yeah, Maliki asked months ago and we ignored him until ISIS came back to Iraq after being driven out of Syria.
C'MON!!!!!!!!!
Amid the fighting, the province’s governor and the mayor of Haditha were wounded by a roadside bomb, said Faleh al-Issawi, a member of Anbar’s provincial council. Gov. Gov. Ahmed al-Dulaimi later tweeted that he was not seriously hurt.
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Too bad they kicked Syria out of the Arab League:
"Syrian strikes on Islamic State stronghold kill 29" by Diaa Hadid | Associated Press September 07, 2014
BEIRUT — Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group on Saturday, killing at least 29 people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said.
The eight airstrikes smashed parts of buildings, set cars on fire, and crushed people under rubble in the northeastern city of Raqqa, which is ruled by the extremist group, according to video of the aftermath uploaded to social media networks.
HA-HA-HA-HA!
Yup, propaganda war pre$$ citing social media.
HA-HA-HA-HA!
Yup, Syrian airstrikes against ISIS terrorists bad!
Un-f***ing-believable!
At least 20 civilians were killed, alongside nine Islamic State fighters, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Hey, happens all the time when AmeriKa does it so stop whining!
Expect a LOT MORE of THAT going forward as Obummer begins bombing Syria.
Most of the civilians were killed after at least one strike hit the Andalous bakery on a busy street, and the death toll was likely to rise, said the Observatory, which obtains its information from a network of activists on the ground.
See that trash can over there?
The airstrikes were also reported by an activist who uses the name Abu Ibrahim and is a member of a media collective called ‘‘Raqqa is being silently slaughtered.’’ He fled Syria fearing for his safety and asked that his current place of residence remain anonymous.
Another f***ing psyop propaganda shitter being cited by the war pre$$ Puh-leeZe!!
Remember the Syrian lesbian who turned out to be a guy blogging from London?
Another group, the Raqqa Media Center, uploaded video of the aftermath, which appeared to be genuine and was consistent with AP reporting of the event.
That confirms it. Must be a fake!
Abu Ibrahim said the local morgue was filled with burned bodies, making identification difficult. He and the Observatory said at least eight members of one family were killed.
A family killed? GAZA!
Other strikes hit a government finance building that the Islamic State used as its headquarters and another building used as a jail, Abu Ibrahim said.
It has been virtually impossible for journalists to visit Raqqa, a city of some 500,000 people on the banks of the Euphrates River, since the town fell to the Islamic State group earlier this year. The group routinely abducts reporters and recently beheaded two American journalists in response to US airstrikes against the militants in Iraq.
Like I would believe anything they report, and those fake videos never took.
The Syrian government strikes were part of an uptick of military action against the Islamic State group since it swept into neighboring Iraq, seizing northern and western swaths of that country and declaring a proto-state straddling the border.
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government has also suffered heavy losses against the Islamic State group, which killed hundreds of soldiers and progovernment fighters in recent months as it overran oil fields and military bases. There was no immediate government comment on the airstrikes.
In a separate incident, a Syrian military helicopter dropped a barrel bomb on a bus station in a rebel-held neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, killing at least 15 people, according to the Observatory and Aleppo-based activist Zein al-Rifai.
Rifai and the Observatory said residents were still pulling out bodies from under the rubble on Saturday.
Yeah, Syrian airstrikes bad.
Un-fucking-believable Zionist War Propaganda, and I'm f***ing sick of it.
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"Bombing kills head, leaders of Syrian rebel group" Associated Press September 10, 2014
BEIRUT — The leader of an ultraconservative Islamic rebel group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a suicide bombing along with other top officials, its allies said, weakening the ranks of the country’s already shaky armed opposition.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack that killed Hassan Aboud and other leading members of Ahrar al-Sham, part of the strongest front that challenged the Islamic State group, which holds territory in Iraq and Syria. But given that forces loyal to President Bashar Assad’s government do not typically use suicide bombers, it appeared likely that forces in the murky mix of opposition fighters in Syria’s three-year-old civil war were involved.
Oh, the murky job of covering up covert operation by the US government! Good gracious!
The attack struck a high-level meeting of Ahrar al-Sham held in the northwestern town of Ram Hamdan in the Syrian province of Idlib, one of its strongholds. A statement from the group said the blast killed Aboud, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al-Hamwi, along with 11 other top leaders.
‘‘They were martyred . . . in an explosion inside their meeting headquarters,’’ said a statement on the Twitter feed of the Islamic Front, the rebel coalition to which it belonged.
The Edlib News Network said more than 40 people were killed in the blast. The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists in Syria for its reports, said ‘‘tens’’ of people were killed.
Differing casualty figures are routine immediately after attacks in Syria.
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"Syrian rebel group names new leaders after blast" Associated Press September 11, 2014
BEIRUT — A Syrian rebel group named a new leader and military chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after an explosion killed a dozen of its senior figures in a devastating blow to one of the most powerful factions in the country’s armed opposition.
The group, Ahrar al-Sham, has been among the steadiest and most effective forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad in Syria’s civil war. It has also been on the front lines of a now nine-month battle in northern Syria against the extremist Islamic State group.
The deaths of so many of its leaders throws Ahrar al-Sham’s future into question, while also laying bare the tangled dynamics of Syria’s broader anti-Assad scene just as the United States is considering injecting itself into the conflict by going after the Islamic State. Washington’s efforts could include ramping up support for Syria’s rebels.
The United States has long looked askance at Ahrar al-Sham, considering the group too radical for Washington’s tastes and too cozy with the Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. For that reason, the limited support Washington has provided so far to rebels was not directed Ahrar al-Sham’s way.
CIA-Duh linked, huh?
But the group fused its ultraconservative religious views with a more practical political position, allowing it to act as a bridge of sorts between more moderate Western-backed rebel groups and hard-line factions. Ahrar al-Sham has been a fierce enemy of the Islamic State, and has lost thousands of men fighting.
OMG, the enemy of our self-created enemy is not our friend!
He was a BRIDGE to MODERATES, huh?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
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Where they were trained:
"US, Jordan in counterterrorism talks" by Ken Dilanian | Associated Press September 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — Worried that Jordan could be vulnerable to the Islamic State militant group, the United States is stepping up its intelligence cooperation with one of its most stalwart Middle East allies.
OMG, THAT is where they were TRAINED!
Why doesn't ISIS get rid of that king, anyway?
The CIA has approached a retired former agency official with close ties to King Abdullah II about setting up a special task force to help Jordan deal with the threat from the Islamic State, according to two former agency officials who would not be quoted by name discussing a secret mission.
That's rich! CREATE the THREAT and then need to OCCUPY to HELP!
The retiree, Robert Richer, a former Marine who was chief of CIA’s Near East division, became close with King Abdullah when he was Amman station chief in 1999. Richer is now a consultant with clients in Jordan, according to his LinkedIn page. He declined to comment.
While the prospect of the Islamic State prevailing over the well-equipped Jordanian military seems remote, Jordan is vulnerable to both terrorist attacks and internal strife.
Its economy is weak, its unofficial unemployment rate is 30 percent, and 1.5 million Syrian refugees are consuming scarce resources and services, US officials and experts on the region say.
Thank the U.S. for those refugees.
‘‘You couldn’t imagine a worse scenario’’ than the collapse of the Jordanian government, said David Schenker, a former senior Pentagon official who directs the Washington Institute’s program on Arab politics. ‘‘Everybody agrees that . . . Jordan is a linchpin of stability in the region. We’re looking at a total meltdown if Jordan goes.’’
That would be the Zionist think tank WINEP or... ??
Jordan is among the countries directly threatened by the Islamic State’s recent surge, White House counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco told reporters last week.
Secretary of State John Kerry will depart Tuesday on a trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia as he tries to formally enlist those countries in a US and European coalition against the Islamic State.
Kerry said Monday that Washington will need help from all its allies in the region to counter the threat.
Whatever he does publicly, Abdullah — who graduated from Deerfield Academy, a Western Massachusetts prep school, and once appeared on an episode of ‘‘Star Trek: Voyager”— has consistently supported America behind the scenes.
It is just down the road and I wouldn't be proud.
Btw, fuck celebrity in the newspaper, too.
The CIA has long had close ties to Jordan’s intelligence service, and the countries work closely together against Al Qaeda and other extremist groups.
(Blog editor just shaking his head at such shit)
The United States is providing Jordan about a $1 billion this year in economic and military aid, according to the Congressional Research Service, a sum that does not include classified funding through the CIA.
UN-FLIPPING-ARRRRRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!
Jordan’s information minister, Mohammad al-Momani, said in an interview that his country faces both a terrorism danger and an internal security risk from the Islamic State, and is cooperating with its allies to counter that threat.
In April, Jordan adopted a new antiterrorism law that makes it illegal to speak in support of extremist groups.
Another U.S. ally that opposes free speech!
"Iraqi lawmakers OK power-sharing government; 2 posts left open could stretch out querulous debate" by Kareem Fahim and Azam Ahmed | New York Times September 09, 2014
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers approved a new power-sharing government led by the Shi’ite prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, on Monday. But they left the two most divisive security posts unfilled, potentially extending a contentious debate even as US officials prepared a new campaign of military support for Iraq.
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Early Monday, Islamic State forces attacked Sunni tribal fighters north of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people. Using an explosive-laden Humvee, apparently captured from the Iraqi army, the militants assaulted an entrance to the town of Dhuluiya, according to local tribal leaders.
Some of the district’s most prominent Sunni tribes, including the Jabour, have been openly fighting the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State for the past two months.
During the weekend, Sunni tribal fighters in Anbar province joined Iraqi army troops in attacking the Islamic State fighters in towns near the Haditha Dam as US warplanes bombed the militants.
US military officials said the airstrikes, on Sunday and Monday, killed at least 70 Islamic State fighters and destroyed several armored vehicles.
No bakery or civilians killed, huh?
No bakery or civilians killed, huh?
President Obama has said an Iraqi unity government is a crucial prerequisite for a new and extended American military offensive against the Islamic State, which he is expected to detail in a speech Wednesday.
What bullshit! A failed government will mean more involvement!
What bullshit! A failed government will mean more involvement!
But even as Parliament took at least a partial step in that direction, there was deep skepticism among Iraqis, especially Sunni Arabs, about a genuine power sharing. Sunnis felt abused by the previous government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who will remain part of the government as one of Iraq’s three ceremonial vice presidents.
Maliki to get a paid position while Iraqis exist in squalor? No wonder he resigned!
As Iraqi cities fell to the Islamic State this summer and the Iraqi military crumbled, some Sunnis chose to support the militants rather than fight for a government they loathed.
“We were hoping we would see a technocrat government where we would be listened to, but it did not happen,” said Sheikh Mohammad al-Bajari, whose fighters in Fallujah have allied themselves with the Islamic State. “These decisions will take us into the wilderness.”
Now, with the advent of a new administration, all eyes will be on Abadi as he tries to answer those voices of skepticism, urging Sunni Arabs to turn against the Islamic State and trying to keep Kurds in the north from declaring their own country rather than staying involved with the Baghdad government.
At the same time, the Islamic State has focused its efforts on punishing Sunni tribes that resist the group’s rule.
The 22-nation Arab League has called on its members to use both military and political means to stop the Islamic State's advance across Iraq and Syria.
The Arab League has not explicitly backed an expanded American military operation targeting the group, but has left open the option of supporting whatever approach Obama lays out during his speech Wednesday on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Feckless Arab leaders.
No wonder their populations hate them.
No wonder their populations hate them.
Obama is to brief congressional leaders Tuesday ahead of his televised address. Both Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are expected to visit the Middle East this week to gather support for whatever action Obama unveils.
The League’s resolution on the Islamic State, issued Sunday as a separate statement from a comprehensive one dealing with Arab affairs, reflected a new sense of urgency among the 22-member states to challenge the militant group. The Arab League’s chief has called the group an existential threat to Arab countries that should be dealt with firmly.
Uh-oh! Whenever the word urgent is trotted out hit the brakes!
Uh-oh! Whenever the word urgent is trotted out hit the brakes!
The resolution called for immediate measures to combat the group on the political, defense, security, and legal levels. It also said the group’s finances and recruitment grounds should be dried up, without elaborating on any of the points.
All they have to do is stop funding them then!
All they have to do is stop funding them then!
The measure also backed the United Nations resolution issued last month that imposed sanctions on a number of the Islamic State’s fighters and called on countries to adopt measures to combat terrorism. The council resolution was adopted under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, meaning it can be militarily enforced.
Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region have been critical of the US reluctance to enter the Syrian civil war.
They won't have to wait much longer.
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Related:
"The unity government will likely muddle through for the months or years it will take to defeat ISIS, because that’s what the United States requires, but Iraq appears to be heading toward the federalism that that Vice President Joe Biden has been advocating all along. Letting Iraq divide further into separate ethnic and religious enclaves has its risks. But, ironically, it may be the only way to bring about the intersectarian cooperation needed to keep ISIS from overrunning more of Iraq."
"The unity government will likely muddle through for the months or years it will take to defeat ISIS, because that’s what the United States requires, but Iraq appears to be heading toward the federalism that that Vice President Joe Biden has been advocating all along. Letting Iraq divide further into separate ethnic and religious enclaves has its risks. But, ironically, it may be the only way to bring about the intersectarian cooperation needed to keep ISIS from overrunning more of Iraq."
The PNAC PLAN to a T!
WAKE UP and SMELL the COFFEE, world!!!
WAKE UP and SMELL the COFFEE, world!!!
"Attacks kill 30 people in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad" Associated Press September 11, 2014
BAGHDAD — A series of attacks, mainly car bombings targeting security forces and markets, killed at least 30 people on Wednesday in Iraq’s capital, authorities said.
The deadliest attack took place when twin car bombs hit a police checkpoint near a pet market, killing at least 19 people, officials said.
Police said the attack began when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint manned by traffic police in the southeastern neighborhood of New Baghdad, killing five policemen and wounding nine.
Seconds later, a car bomb explosion near the market killed 14 people and wounded 35, police said. Security forces sealed off all the roads leading to the attack site.
Wednesday night, police said a suicide car bomb hit a police post in Ghadeer district in southeastern Baghdad, killing six police officers and two civilians. A bomb attached to a mini-bus also exploded in southeastern Baghdad, killing three passengers, police said.
Medical officials confirmed the casualties from all attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
The attacks came amid the Islamic State group’s capture of large swaths of territory in western and northern Iraq, which has plunged the country into its worst crisis since US troops left.
And now they are BACK!
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As ISIS has ARRIVED on THESE SHORES!
"Walsh says ISIS threat calls for citizen vigilance; Mayor sees peril in loner extremists" by Jenna Russell | Globe Staff September 07, 2014
Mayor Martin J. Walsh of Boston said in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning that the threat posed by Islamic State and other terrorist groups requires constant vigilance in the nation’s cities — but that urban leaders and citizens alike must also be on guard against violent extremists who may be working alone, as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are alleged to have done in the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Oh, oh, oh! The attempt to tie that staged and scripted crisis to to 9/11 to further the police state is so wrong!
“I need to make sure people stay engaged and keep an eye on the community,” Walsh said during a live round table discussion with Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Mayor Kevin Faulconer of San Diego, and CNN host Candy Crowley. “I think the city is safer [than before 9/11], but that doesn’t mean we can’t change something every day . . . There has to be constant communication, constant diligence, and we’re going to continue to do that.”
Yeah, see something say something!
Vigilance can’t be limited to groups currently in the spotlight, he said.
“Police don’t have the luxury of looking at one group,” Walsh said. “An attack could come from any area.”
Oh, the FEAR!
The ONLY SOLUTION is to NEVER EVEN RISK going NEAR BO$TON!!!
Just STAY FAR, FAR AWAY from Bo$ton, Massachusetts!
The three mayors agreed that their cities are safer than in 2001, with Nutter citing “a new norm in America.”
It's the acceptance and embrace of tyranny based on abominable lies!
Walsh pointed to the Boston Regional Anti-Terrorism Center, an antiterrorism unit, and the city’s Office of Emergency Management as examples of local agencies monitoring tips and sharing information.
And yet 12 years after 9/11 they failed in Boston despite the FBI being warned by Russia, blah, blah, blah!
In addition, he said, “people in the neighborhoods are a little more engaged” since 9/11 and, more recently, the Marathon bombing. “We can never put our guard down,” said Walsh.
Right, even after government has with the damn southern border wide open. Shut up, Wal$h.
Two-thirds of respondents in a new Pew Research Center poll regard ISIS as a major threat, said Crowley.
Asked by the CNN host what keeps him up at night, Boston’s mayor said another attack on the city tops the list.
Like I said STAY FAR, FAR AWAY form Bo$ton and NEVER GO THERE, EVER!!!
“Certainly a terrorist attack is one of those calls I hope I never receive,” he said.
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The "terrorist" amongst us:
"Colorado woman pleads guilty in terror case" Associated Press September 11, 2014
DENVER — A 19-year-old woman who federal authorities say intended to wage jihad despite their repeated attempts to stop her pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State militant group in Syria under a plea deal that requires her to help authorities investigating others with the same intentions.
OMG, she was a GOVERNMENT AGENT from the START!
Shannon Conley entered her plea to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
The agreement says she must cooperate with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and provide information about people in Colorado and elsewhere looking to help terrorists abroad.
Meaning if she doesn't like you or if they want a name.... GOOD CHRIST!
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How SILLI!
Also see:
USIS Security Check Missed ISIS Terrorists Entering US
SILLI ISIS Has DMV IDs From S.C.
SILLI ISIS Has Invaded Southern California
National Guard Told to Stand Down on 9/11
They must be Vigilant Guardians, and it is no laughing matter.
UPDATES:
Obama Declares Open-Ended Middle East War
"Yes, the US did create ISIS
By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | September 11, 2014
The New York Times has one of its typically racist articles making fun of Iranians for their “conspiracy theories” — this time about who created ISIS.
The irony is that this is the same NY Times that helped promote the US lie about “WMDs in Iraq”
Meanwhile I am reminded of NeoCon Michael Ledeen’s rant about how “creative destruction” is our middle name.
Things are getting pretty “creative”, huh Michael? “Faster please” indeed.
The Iranians and the Iraqis and most of the rest of the world think that the Saudis (as US allies) created ISIS and for good reason.
During the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the FBI had an informant named Emad Salem among the bombers, who offered to substitute a harmless substance for the bomb material but this was rejected by his FBI handlers.
Was this an “Iranian conspiracy theory too? No, it was reported even by the NY Times.
So what makes you just assume that the US and her allies aren’t behind ISIS?
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"President Obama’s ISIS™ Crisis Speech – Shamelessly Pandering to the Vile Maxim
Today is the 13th anniversary of the “Mother of the Big Lie“. Therefore it is only right and fitting that President Obama™ (“President Peace Prize” or ” P³™ ” for short) went before the general public last night and presented a litany of lies as his case for renewed combat action in Iraq (and everywhere else apparently) in order to stave off the threat of the newest manufactured evil, ISIS™ .
Yesterday I attempted to carefully explain the role that ISIS™ plays ( Psychological Operations ) on the Grand Chessboard in current US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) terminology as it pertains to Iraq ( Foreign Internal Defense ) and Syria ( Unconventional warfare ) .
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia” Orwell
Suffice too say, P³™ laid out pretty much every lie he could in support of the master’s of the universe’s Great Game and PNAC’s “New American Century“.
He announced that he would do his part and you must do yours, in support of their failing “free markets” New World Order plan currently being run out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s operations center located at MacDill Air Force Base.
However, in pledging his support militarily, financially and politically of murders, despots and dictators of the highest order across the “free markets” globe, what he’s doing is no different that what generations of presidents have done over the course of this nation’s history: supporting the worst kinds of human monsters because they share our “national interests” (i.e. corporate profit margins). And it is certainly par for the course that he himself has been shooting since his first days in office.
Remember, this is the same guy who, at the beginning of his regime’s reign, authorized an airstrike in Yemen back in Dec. of 2009 which killed 23 children in support of one of the world’s most brutal dictators of the time, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
And this is the same guy who, just recently, dutifully turned his back on the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza for 50 days as our “friends” in Israel indiscriminately bombed the civilian population killing over 2,000 people, 516 of whom were children.
Barack Obama does this because like so many leaders today in this country and others, on the pretend left and the right, he has no moral center. He is soulless. He was born and raised that way. Spiritually retarded if you will.
In a world where everything is monetized, folks like President Obama are a valuable commodity and therefore are sought out by the masters of the universe and groomed for higher office for just that particular trait.
He is the personification of the vile maxim and therefore nothing he ever says or does should strike anyone as surprising or disappointing anymore. In short, he’s the worst piece of shit president this country has the dishonor of producing on the world stage for quite sometime and unfortunately his speech last night was nothing more than a groveling pledge to the masters of the universe that he would kill more children, bomb more civilians and create more brutal death squads in pursuit of their interests anywhere they deem it necessary for him to do so.
President Obama is effectively the Steven character from Django Unchained. Hence the image.
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The "terrorist" amongst us:
"Colorado woman pleads guilty in terror case" Associated Press September 11, 2014
DENVER — A 19-year-old woman who federal authorities say intended to wage jihad despite their repeated attempts to stop her pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State militant group in Syria under a plea deal that requires her to help authorities investigating others with the same intentions.
OMG, she was a GOVERNMENT AGENT from the START!
Shannon Conley entered her plea to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
The agreement says she must cooperate with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and provide information about people in Colorado and elsewhere looking to help terrorists abroad.
Meaning if she doesn't like you or if they want a name.... GOOD CHRIST!
--more--"
How SILLI!
Also see:
USIS Security Check Missed ISIS Terrorists Entering US
SILLI ISIS Has DMV IDs From S.C.
SILLI ISIS Has Invaded Southern California
National Guard Told to Stand Down on 9/11
They must be Vigilant Guardians, and it is no laughing matter.
UPDATES:
Obama Declares Open-Ended Middle East War
"Yes, the US did create ISIS
By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | September 11, 2014
The New York Times has one of its typically racist articles making fun of Iranians for their “conspiracy theories” — this time about who created ISIS.
The irony is that this is the same NY Times that helped promote the US lie about “WMDs in Iraq”
Meanwhile I am reminded of NeoCon Michael Ledeen’s rant about how “creative destruction” is our middle name.
Things are getting pretty “creative”, huh Michael? “Faster please” indeed.
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The Iranians and the Iraqis and most of the rest of the world think that the Saudis (as US allies) created ISIS and for good reason.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-saudi-arabia-iraq-syria-bandar/373181/And lets remember a point:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-saudi-arabia-helped-isis-take-over-the-north-of-the-country-9602312.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/06/16/the_saudis_helped_create_a_monster_they_can_t_control_in_iraq.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/saudi-arabia-rejects-iraqi-accusations-isis-support
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Wesley-Clark-Saudi-Qatar-ISIS/2014/08/25/id/590833/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/how-us-helped-isis-grow-monster-iraq-syria-assad
http://www.vice.com/read/america-helped-make-the-islamic-state-812
During the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the FBI had an informant named Emad Salem among the bombers, who offered to substitute a harmless substance for the bomb material but this was rejected by his FBI handlers.
Was this an “Iranian conspiracy theory too? No, it was reported even by the NY Times.
So what makes you just assume that the US and her allies aren’t behind ISIS?
--MORE--"
"President Obama’s ISIS™ Crisis Speech – Shamelessly Pandering to the Vile Maxim
September 11, 2014 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
Today is the 13th anniversary of the “Mother of the Big Lie“. Therefore it is only right and fitting that President Obama™ (“President Peace Prize” or ” P³™ ” for short) went before the general public last night and presented a litany of lies as his case for renewed combat action in Iraq (and everywhere else apparently) in order to stave off the threat of the newest manufactured evil, ISIS™ .
Yesterday I attempted to carefully explain the role that ISIS™ plays ( Psychological Operations ) on the Grand Chessboard in current US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) terminology as it pertains to Iraq ( Foreign Internal Defense ) and Syria ( Unconventional warfare ) .
Psychological Operations: “Operations that provide “truthful information” (subjective -“truthful” to whom?) to foreign audiences that influence behavior in support of U.S. military operations” – the ISIS™ Crisis
Unconventional warfare: “ (regime change) Operations conducted by, through and with surrogate forces (destabilization campaign terrorists) that are organized, trained, equipped, supported and directed by external forces” – Syria
Foreign Internal Defense: “Providing training and other assistance to foreign governments (our puppet dictators) and their militaries (death squads) to enable the foreign government to provide for “it’s country’s’ (read as “our national interest’s) national security” – IraqThe article went over like a lead balloon so I will attempt to explain ISIS™ in a slightly different way this morning and by doing so shed a little light on President peace Prize’s vile maxim speech from last night.
ISIS™ is a shadow puppet that we wave over any and all popular uprisings against our undemocratic and dictatorial “free market” NWO acquisitions.
- The people resist our cruel dictatorship in Yemen? They are ISIS™!
- The people resist our brutal regime in Somalia? They are ISIS™!
- Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt resists al-Sisi? Political ISIS™!
- The African National Congress resists apartheid? Historical ISIS™!
- Rebels in eastern Ukraine? White Trash ISIS™!
- Pissed off out of work folks in Malaysia? Slightly Shorter ISIS™!
- Scotland? South Sudan? Mexico? Detroit? ISIS™! , ISIS™!, ISIS™! and self radicalized Black ISIS™!
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia” Orwell
” At this moment, the greatest threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical groups exploit grievances for their own gain... And it (bombings and death squads) is consistent with the approach I outlined earlier this year: to use force against anyone who threatens America’s core interests ” P³™
Later, I will decode all of P³™‘s ridiculous ISIS™ Crisis speech. The text of which you can read, here. Honestly, as I started writing this article, that was my intention. However, it’s painfully clear that doing so would be like shooting quadriplegic kittens in a barrel with a sawed-off shotgun. Just way too easy to be any fun.Suffice too say, P³™ laid out pretty much every lie he could in support of the master’s of the universe’s Great Game and PNAC’s “New American Century“.
He announced that he would do his part and you must do yours, in support of their failing “free markets” New World Order plan currently being run out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s operations center located at MacDill Air Force Base.
However, in pledging his support militarily, financially and politically of murders, despots and dictators of the highest order across the “free markets” globe, what he’s doing is no different that what generations of presidents have done over the course of this nation’s history: supporting the worst kinds of human monsters because they share our “national interests” (i.e. corporate profit margins). And it is certainly par for the course that he himself has been shooting since his first days in office.
Remember, this is the same guy who, at the beginning of his regime’s reign, authorized an airstrike in Yemen back in Dec. of 2009 which killed 23 children in support of one of the world’s most brutal dictators of the time, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
And this is the same guy who, just recently, dutifully turned his back on the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza for 50 days as our “friends” in Israel indiscriminately bombed the civilian population killing over 2,000 people, 516 of whom were children.
Barack Obama does this because like so many leaders today in this country and others, on the pretend left and the right, he has no moral center. He is soulless. He was born and raised that way. Spiritually retarded if you will.
In a world where everything is monetized, folks like President Obama are a valuable commodity and therefore are sought out by the masters of the universe and groomed for higher office for just that particular trait.
He is the personification of the vile maxim and therefore nothing he ever says or does should strike anyone as surprising or disappointing anymore. In short, he’s the worst piece of shit president this country has the dishonor of producing on the world stage for quite sometime and unfortunately his speech last night was nothing more than a groveling pledge to the masters of the universe that he would kill more children, bomb more civilians and create more brutal death squads in pursuit of their interests anywhere they deem it necessary for him to do so.
President Obama is effectively the Steven character from Django Unchained. Hence the image.
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