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Iraq Update: Kurds Take Kirkuk, Al Qaeda Surges Toward Baghdad
Now that 25 year old math PhD HFT programmers have finally figured out what this thing called Iraq is, and why headlines around it should factor into algo trading signals - especially those of crude oil - here, for their benefit is a summary of the latest events in Iraq, and also for everyone else confused why crude is back to levels not seen since last summer.
In broader terms (via RanSquawk):
- The situation in Northern Iraq continues to deteriorate as the extremist ISIS/ISIL group took control of Mosul and then moved into Tirkit, which was later recaptured, in the north of Iraq which is near the Ceyhan-Kirkuk pipeline, which carries 1.6mln bbls per day. ISIS/ISIL forces then seized the Baiji refinery, the main refinery in Iraq, from Iraqi forces. (BBG/RTRS)
- Iraqi forces and militants have now clashed in Ramadi, 100km from Baghdad, as ISIL extremist forces push towards the Iraqi capital. (BBG)
- However Iraqi Oil Minister Luaibi said US planes may bomb North Iraq and denied ISIL took Baiji refinery in the North. The oil Minister also said Iraq average crude exports 2.6mln bbl/d, Iraq crude production 3.166mln bbl/d, Kirkuk production 167,000 bbl/d and Iraq has stored oil products and won't increase imports. (BBG/RTRS)
- Washington has vowed to boost aid to Iraq and is mulling done strikes amid fears that Iraqi forces are crumbling in the face of militant attacks. (RTRS)
And in detail:
As the WSJ reports, after hard core Al Qaeda spin off ISIS (no relation to Sterling Archer) took over Saddam's home town of Tikrit yesterday, Iraq edged closer to all-out sectarian conflict on Thursday as Kurdish forces took control of a provincial capital in the oil-rich north and Sunni militants vowed to march on two cities revered by Shiite Muslims. Kurdish militia known as peshmerga said they had taken up positions in key government installations in Kirkuk, as forces of the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki abandoned their posts and fled in fear of advancing Sunni militants, an official in the office of the provincial governor said.
Reuters adds that "The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of peshmerga," citing Jabbar Yawar. "No Iraqi army remains in Kirkuk now."
This in turn has put the output of the key Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, with a 1.6MM bbls/day capacity, at risk.
The militia were operating out of the headquarters of the Iraqi army's 2nd Division. The official said western parts of Kirkuk province were still under the control of fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, an al Qaeda offshoot.
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, a spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, said the al Qaeda-inspired group would advance on Karbala and Najaf, as well as the capital Baghdad, the Associated Press reported, citing an audio statement.
However, as we showed yesterday, the final ISIS target is none other than the city of Baghdad, and the overthrow of the Iraq government entirely.
In Tikrit, militants have set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said.
“They came in hundreds to my town and said they are not here for blood or revenge but they seek reforms and to impose justice. They picked a retired general to run the town,” said a tribal figure from the town of Alam, north of Tikrit.
“'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there,' that’s what their leader of the militants group kept repeating," the tribal figure said.
The powerful Shiite leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, urged his followers on Wednesday to form military units to defend the two cities, which along with Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia are considered sacred by Shiites.
Before he suspended its operations in 2008, Mr. Sadr's Mahdi Army, once estimated to have nearly 60,000 members, played a major role in the country's Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict.
His call for military mobilization came after Mr. Maliki said the government would arm citizens who volunteer to fight militants, after the fall of Mosul on Tuesday.
Security was stepped up in Baghdad to prevent the Sunni militants from reaching the capital, which is itself divided into Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhoods and saw ferocious sectarian street fighting in 2006-2007 under U.S. occupation.
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The Kurdish capture of Kirkuk instantly overturns the fragile balance of power that has held Iraq together as a state since Saddam's fall.
Iraq's Kurds have done well since 2003, running their own affairs while being given a fixed percentage of the country's overall oil revenue. But with full control of Kirkuk - and the vast oil deposits beneath it - they could earn more on their own, eliminating the incentive to remain part of a failing Iraq.
Maliki's army already lost control of much of the Euphrates valley west of the capital to ISIL last year, and with the evaporation of the army in the Tigris valley to the north this week, the government could be left in control only of Baghdad and areas south.
The surge also potentially leaves the long desert frontier between Iraq and Syria effectively in ISIL hands, advancing its stated goal of erasing the border altogether and creating a single state ruled according to mediaeval Islamic principles.
Maliki described the fall of Mosul as a "conspiracy" and said the security forces who had abandoned their posts would be punished. He also said Iraqis were volunteering in several provinces to join army brigades to fight ISIL.
In a statement on its Twitter account, ISIL said it had taken Mosul as part of a plan "to conquer the entire state and cleanse it from the apostates", referring to the province of Nineveh of which the city is the capital.
Militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.
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And while all of the above explains oil's spike today, now that the world has yet another geopolitical hotzone to follow, following the China-Japan naval conflict, the China-Vietnam escalation, the Thailand martial law, the Ukraine civil war and now the Iraq collapse, expect the USDJPY rigging crew to ignite enough momentum to send the S&P 500 to fresh all time highs.
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the golden spurs from Rumsfield weren't enough apparently.
Rumsfeld - even George Jr.'s Dad hated him. He came from Monsanto land and is probably a genetically modified human. Ever seen those witness statements from 911. Within a couple of hours (after they found him) he started asking people to figure out "how to connect this to Iraq. He's sort of Harry Reid meets neocons on the island of living death. Completely nuts..and a murderer
are these the good al-quida or bad al-quida?
Beats me. I'm still trying to separate the good Bin Ladens from the bad Bin Ladens.
Its like any other investing, its a matter of when you look as to if it was a good deal. When the value of anything is entirely dependent upon perception, power is held by those driving the perception. Saddam is our Man!, Saddam is our Devil! Buts its not like we are being manipulated.
There are no bad 'IN or 'IC Ladens. MIC Laden is good so was Osama BIN Laden
MIC BIN its all in the BIG BIN of CIA operations.
It's not the lolipop guild. ...
Did you mean al-squida?
'Is that the good Hodgkins or the bad Hodgkins?' - Larry David
Kirkuk is Kurdistan.
I was wondering, could not find Kurdistan on map, thanks.
amerikan trained and super $ equipped troops (and advisors) drop everything and run? again?
Probably just the adoption of the "French" defense posture.
idiot
I disagree.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html
Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam. Ouahhh! impressive.
@CuttingEdge
This should be renamed "Distorted History's site"
For instance : "Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic… "
In fact, 22 years after Jeanne d’Arc death, the last major battle of the Hundred Years War, the battle of Castillon cost the English around 4,000 killed, and saw all English territory on the Continent reduced to the Pale of Calais.
For those who know next to 0 about this country, and have an obvious aversion to History, here is what explains how the French, surrounded by the Germans, English, Dutch, Italians and Spaniards (among others), succeeded to won and guard the largest country in the very heart of Europe... by the sword.
Since 387 BC, France has fought 168 major wars against such badasses as the Roman Empire, the British Army and the Turkish forces. Their track record isn't too shabby, either: They've won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10 times.
This makes France the most successful military power in European history - in terms of number of fought and won …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_France
Yet another American military invasion, er, I mean, intervention gone horribly awry...
http://olduvai.ca
300 guys in pickups overrun Iraq.
hohoho.
The USSA should deploy the MOBD along the perimeter of Baghdad....
MOBD= Michelle Obama Blowup Doll....Her gorrilla face and fat arse can stop a man in his tracks, and cause deep PTSD to anyone.....
Gorilla face? Why are you gossiping about Michelle Obama? What does she have to do with this? Racist pig. Post a pic of your fat wife.
YesWeCan
Obama face fuck threw away 20 years of Russian Cooportation and now 10 years of Iraq war
Are you sure it wasn't Cheney?
Another foreign policy disater by the con man in the white house. Get this clown the hell out!
And replace him with? Wake up. They're all working for the same people.
Pffft. The guys of this story are heroes. Instead of serving someone else, they want to make a country of their own. They are a great role model and you should tell their story to your children when it's bedtime.
TPTB here have to have someone else to blame for rising crude prices engendered by Fed printing.
One can compare Wall Street to the fall of Saigon...
Cue the helicopters in Baghdad.......
Why ? To pick up Blackwater, Let them burn.
Eagle Pull II???
I remember the fall of Saigon.....before we had a color tv.....I don't get the analogy to Wall St?........Should I?
p.s. Your in Hong Kong?
What's going on with the damn defense dept? u.s. public opinion over ukraine went sour and failed to gain traction, so the war planners decided to go with plan B - let insurgents take Iraq and we do the whole shebang all over again? MADNESS. NO fucking excuses can justify years of hard work and over a trillion down the tubes because this administration let them waltz right back in.
All part of the plan to get the world out of this hellish financial mess.
I am sure these guys are planning on selling THEIR oil in dollars.
Futures slightly green for now.
And an hour later,
it's down.
Onward, through the fog (of war) !
Well this is inconvenient.........score another move for Mr Putin.
Chiang Kai Shek couldn't finish off that country boy living in a cave in Yannan; America was led to believe we had won. All the while he was packing up the forbidden city goods and crates of USD and getting ready to haul ass to Formosa. The West was in shock when Mao overran Shanghai. Forgotten history.
In those days the West thought they had conquered the world. Then Mao came to Shanghai and the Soviets tested the bomb.
The horror!
Coming to a Kingdom near you. Yo, SA!
Got VIX?
In other news,
Ukraine ups stakes in Russian gas standoff
Analysts said Ukraine had enough gas in storage to last through early autumn and would only suffer shocks to its economy -- already expected to contract by at least five percent this year -- if Russia abandoned negotiations and allowed the case to drag through a European arbitration court.
"Ukraine is ready to see its gas cut off," said independent Kiev energy analyst Valentyn Zemlyanskiy.
"The situation is not critical. It would have been a lot worse if this all happened in the winter."
Fascinating. To quote Boris
The winter is follow spring in Russia.
Oh Vlad,
You are a rascal, aren't you?
Good thing NSA was watching CNN and now are on top of things.
Clapper: Dammit Mr. President! We couldn't have known...We were busy reading Brat's E-mails.
Yeah, the PhD HFT progs thought Irack was a holder for your Ipad, Iphone, etc.
Way to go USA!
Moar exceptional Hope and Change
For sheeple everywhere!
To hell with the Queens.
Couldn't a few drones take them out? That's what our government would do to Americans trying to over take DC...... just sayin'
ISIL is not CIA. It could be the only non CIA terrorist organization right now. Notice this coincidence. When the USA became friend with IRAN a few months ago, Saudi Arabia got furious with Obama and RIGHT THEN all this shit started happening in Iraq. ISIL is the payback from S.A. king for not bombing Iran.
Seriously.
Makes as much sense as anything else. A kingdom for a hobnail.
The U.S. is worried that their heroin trafficking operations that fly the dope into airforce bases in Turkey from Afghanistan might become threatened now.That's because another wing of this movement is about to take over again in America's longest lost war region.And Americans believe a bunch of guys living in caves were responsible for 911 and there was no third tower brought down?
Those pegging this on Obama are missing the forest for the trees again. Don't get me wrong. Obama is incompetent. But he is only the latest in a series of incompetents in the position.
It's so simple that my kids understand it perfectly. When a population sees no moral difference between two parties fighting over their land, they will tolerate the more familiar party over the more foreign. End of story. We on this board are not alone in seeing the moral decay of the US power structure. It's out in plain sight for the entire world to witness. In the end, the strength of the US was that the rest of the world perceived us (correctly or not doesn't matter, the perception is what counted) as being stronger because our system was fairer (not fair, they weren't stupid, but fairER) than the systems we were removing. That perception has now been completely obliterated, as the true moral rot at the center of the power structure is exposed daily. Thus, we are now nothing more than another illegitimate foreign occupier in their lands. A foreign occupier will never last if the population does not see genuine and obvious advantages to the arrangement. We are giving zero advantages, and leaving a trail of bodies behind us that would make Jeffrey Dahmer blush.
Today Iraq goes back to the local psychos (psychos as well, but at least relatively familiar ones), and tomorrow so goes Afghanistan. The battle for hearts and minds (the only one that actually matters) was lost long ago. As such, the war is already lost, though the morons at the top are incapable of recognizing this. The empire is crumbling. Just a matter of time before the domestic effects overwhelm their efforts to hide them.
We need trampolines to get our astronauts into space now, yeah the empire is crumbling.
if you listen to radio 5 live in the uk nightime uk time 1am onwards.
you get an endless stream of chatham house position.
chatham house statements are rothschild law.
they stated last week that iraq is a failed state and will be broken in 3.
the kurds always do what they are mi6 and cia mossad told.
this is a rush because hezbollah are training iraqis like they did in syria.
hezbollah kill al ciada and will kill new fake langley bogeymen the isis.
5000 cia rapists trained in centcom jordan and nato turkey a rushed new pivot cos of a serious syrian kicking.
this is really a poor show all that training all that money,special forces from israel,london,usa even fucking norway
and they still fuck up.
no diss cia mossad saudis and london but your soldiers seem to only be able to kill woman and kids.
what a rotten satanic shower
Covert activity aside tony boy, bottom line is its obvious tptb want conflict again because they're practically rollin out the red carpet for those camel humping pests of humanity. Who nonchalantly leaves half a billion plus tons in gold bullion sitting in mosul banks without a moments concern for huge dust clouds forming miles away signaling that the jihad are a comin? I'm reduced to eating instant noodles and payin high taxes just to find out that adolescent gamers playing call of duty would do a better job of securing u.s. interests in the area? Basterds are rich, they scored! Let US in on that raid, mother fuckers.
Its very fishy wilson, the whole thing stinks like nudelmans snatch. Someone stateside is on the take.
That's the question that I'd like to find a definite answer to: Who is behind ISIS? They are well armed and well trained. They did not emerge from nowhere. Someone is backing them. Who is it? The Saudis? Qatar? Or the same old sick fucked twisted psychopaths in wdc?
God made the world very interesting didn't he by putting all the oil in such a tinderbox of an area.
No matter where god put the oil,,, human greed turned the area into a tinderbox. No one would be fighting over the area if not for the oil.
God? Lol!
Is the US consulate staff still in place in Bagdad???
Can't find any news stories that even mention the US consulate.
Also, read where Malaki asked US to fire on ISIS in airstrikes but was refused.
Guess they can expect meals on wheels.
The great chess game continues (at the expense of human lives of course.) You can see how 9/11 was a crucial part of the plan.
A few hundred thousand dead Iraqis and a few thousand dead Americans and a trillion dollars down the drain. Time to start shorting King Halliburton.
What a clusterfuck and a complete waste of life and treasure.
Mission accomplished. USA! USA! USA!
Vietnam all over again...this is what peace with honour looks like. Next up... raging inflation caused by the money printing to pay the profiteers. Got gold?
I'd think you would want to go long on Halliburton since it is an oil field service industry and their services would be in demand in a scramble to find and develop replacement oil fields and in efforts to squeeze more out of existing ones. Heads you lose, tails they win and don't even think about trying to increase their taxes they have more votes than you do.
...a scramble to find and develop replacement oil fields ...
Dream on, toad ... there are no replacements to be found.
Ya see now if they outlawed gunz over there then there would be no problems. What dum-phucks they are, hugh?
The sales pitch has sold us down the river. Political pontifications and digital constructs do not trump hard assets. The single most important hard asset is oil. The stuff we can afford is declining at a rate of four to six percent a year. We are up against Liebig’s Law of the Minimum. Time to circle the wagons. Every year there will be less not more.
Shouldn't the headline read:
Iraq Update: CIA Surges Toward Baghdad.
Fuck Patton and his remorseless drive to get rid of fascists, which did nothing but ended up killing young American men for some imagined gain, and real gains by the bankster cabal.
He was a bankster's best friend who ordered tanks to roll in on the Bonus Army of WWI veterans that marched on Washington in 1933.
It was Patton and MacArthur, and a young aide of MacArthur's named Eisenhower, who ordered a cavalry charge on WWI vets who wanted what they were promised by the government.
Heroes my ass.
You must be European because they don't teach that in the USA.
I think I I learned that I via link on zh about 5 years ago.
Sure does change one's perspective!
Thanks for dusting off that little nugget.
Of course noone aill believe you.
I meet a gent in Hong Kong last week who was speaking at a conference. He had represented the reinsurer of the World Trade Center.
I said "So you are the one who gave Silverstein 9 billion dollars to pay off his insurance policy? He said, proudly, " We settled for 4.5 billion!". I asked " did Silverstein doubled down immediately before the attack ?". He said that Silverstein closed on the sale AFTER THE ATTACK.
Silverstein didn't even have the keys yet and he still got paid 4.5 billion dollars.
The gent (lawyer) said " Oh....your one of those conpiracy theory people?". I said "Who mentioned anything about conspiracy? You said conspiracy....not me!".
That was the end of that topic.
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD EVER GET THE CHANCE TO TALK TO THAT GUY.
Coincidence?........I think not!
I was not aware of Patton's involvement in that mass execution of vets.
Will this affect NFLX expansion plans? That's all that matters.
This is freaking mind boggling to say the least. America should be considered brain dead if this doesn't wake the Nation up to the stupidity of the Obama regime and the dumb ass's that make up our House and Senate. Think about it. We spent 10 years, TRILLIONS of dollars and close to 5,000 deaths and close to 70,000 injuries to sit here and witness a rag tag bunch of thugs conquering a Country before our very eyes. Cantor is just the beginning! Every last one of these crony dip wits need to go. wits
Am I wrong in thinking that thus far this same rag tag bunch is moving through Iraq a helluva lot faster than our allied mob did during Desert Storm?
What a sorry assed defenceless state our fuckwits-in-chief left that country in.
Blame Obama if you will, but if you delude yourself and get into a game you can't win... this is what you get.
I prefer to thank the Bush Neo-Cons for this mess.
What is Obama supposed to do.......... pony up another trillion to stay?
Jeez if we had only elected McCain.......... we could move some troops in from Syria/Turkey/Ukraine to fix this pronto.
Obummer is a puppet they keep out on the golf course.
However, had the US not been fucking around in Syria (arming the ragheads now in Iraq), stirring up the shit in Ukraine, and trying to prod Putin with a twig, they wouldn't look so incompetent now.
Methinks your average US taxpayer who actually gives a fuck (not many of them, I concede) should be mighty pissed off around now. Along with anyone who lost or had family or friends killed and maimed, of course. What a fucking waste that was.
Way late for a "beginning" (Cantor defeat).
I blame the Crusades. /sarc*
* required for idiots such as OP
This time next year it will be deja vu in Afghanistan. I predicted this before BushCo sent the first trooper.
I told you so. So you wingers that called me a traitor can go fuck yourselves.
Iraq and Afghanistan couldn't be more different geopolitically. Let's just say that sending tens of thousands to Afghan. was nothing but a craven political calculation covered in American deaths and limbs blown off. AND, that fcking pig in human skin, Obama, refused to negotiate a final status of forces agreement with the Iraqi gov't so every single unit per the already in place agreement circa 2008 was withdrawn by the Il Duce' Obama. And to think, Obama actually claims to have ended combat operations and the withdrawal of forces. Filthy fucking liar, with his filthy fucking Fifth Column Media. Take them out first when the time comes....
The Grand Chessboard,
And we are all pawns upon it.
Thanks Zbig.
But el presidente zero tells us the world is less violent than it has ever been:
Obama: "The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/06/11/obama_the_world_is_les...
I'm sure he was talking about the interpersonal relationships of the Kartrashians which is the extent of his world view.
and again
" Iraqi Oil Minister Luaibi said US planes may bomb North Iraq ...."
The jingoist and brutal answer of the US empire to everything:
bombs away, "wipe Mosul off the map".
What next? Baghdad?
Oh wait, be careful not to hit the gigantic multi-billion dollar fortress US embassy that runs, err "advises" the puppet, err "independent" Iraq government.
Obama recently claimed the US did not take over Iraq, or its resources.
Both claims are, of course, completely false.
From Disaster Capitalism to PSAs
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/iraq-the-biggest-petroleum-heist-...
Iraq: the Biggest Petroleum Heist in History?
by MIKE WHITNEY
“Prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, US and other western oil companies were all but completely shut out of Iraq’s oil market. But thanks to the invasion and occupation, the companies are now back inside Iraq and producing oil there for the first time since being forced out of the country in 1973.”
– Antonia Juhasz, oil industry analyst, Al Jazeera.
These are the ‘best of times’ for the oil giants in Iraq. Production is up, profits are soaring, and big oil is rolling in dough. Here’s the story from the Wall Street Journal:
“Iraq’s oil production surged to its highest level in over 30 years last month, surprising skeptics of the country’s efforts to restore its oil industry after decades of war and neglect.” (Wall Street Journal)
Mission accomplished?
You bet. But for those who still cling to the idea that the US was serious about promoting democracy or removing a vicious dictator or eliminating WMD or any of the other kooky excuses, consider what we’ve learned in the last couple weeks..."
' They may take back their Oils but we shall Never never surrender OUR Algos '.
Floyd Blackstain
Who in their right mind didn't see this coming as soon as we bailed on Iraq. Same thing will happen in Afghanistan.
Let's recap current events (leaving out China, for now).
Ukraine - fucked
Iraq - fucked
Syria - syriously fucked
Turkey - bent over, ready to be fucked
Poland - waiting to be fucked
Rest of Europe - wondering what a good fucking will cost in Euros
USA, USA, USA! - surprised that while doing most of the fucking, somebody has stepped up behind and is sthuping.
Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia - doing most of the fucking
Israel - Oddly quiet, sitting in a corner masturbating.
US media - told to STFU and doing so.
Safe places are anywhere outside of war zones, potential war zones, the petrodollar system. Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia are looking pretty good, for now.
Correction:
Who in their right mind didn't see this coming as soon as we INVADED Iraq.
Well, just yesterday, missiles were fired from Gaza and Syria into Israel.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-of-us-imperialism-and-the-fall-of-mosul-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-the-levant/5386742?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crimes-of-us-imperialism-and-the-fall-of-mosul-to-the-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-the-levant
Global research article
Crimes of US Imperialism and the Fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and the LevantOver half a million people have fled the fighting in Mosul, described by one aid agency as “one of the largest and swiftest mass movements of people in the world in recent memory.”
Thanks, this is very good. It helps to understand a little more what's going on.
I love waking up every morning and reading about another nail in the coffin of this once great country. Long gardening.
Got seeds, soil, tools and WATER. Gotta have watta.
Nothing grows without it, except debt.
rain barrel and a river, bro
Map+Geopolitics=Que Buono? as in, so who's backing these cats and who benefits from their success?
They are Wahibbiites... a form of Muslim fundamentalism developed in the Arabian peninsula. Who benefits? Saudi Arabia, et al. Who´s backing them? Same answer. This is the problem with the neo-con imperial coalition; it is falling apart. You just can´t have pro-Israeli Jewish bankers and pro-Muslim oil men in the same governing coalition for long: especially with bungling front-men like Obama and Hillary trying to hold U.S. policy together, and little Brzezenskiites running around, still fighting the Cold War, trying to disembowel a Soviet Union that died 25 years ago by destablizing allies in Syria, Iraq, etc... . This is why U.S. foreign policy is such a disaster. It all works at cross-purposes.
The purpose is chaos, fear, despair. It is all by design.
One of my personal favorite Quotes:
"All done by design, all done by Agenda."
- Miggy.
+10 Aurorus Borealus. Well said!
cui bono? the neocains if it leads to a load of US warplanes in Iraq which can be redirected against Assad.
After Obozo officially leaves Afghanistan the Taliban will retake it.
A waste of lives and money.
Wow! Another Helicopter Moment awaits us!
I can't wait!
<-----Ignore Iraq and let the EU sort it out
<-----Nuke Iraq and start over
Tell me again why did we go to Iraq?
oh that's right...
TO ENRICH THE MIC, SHAVE OFF SOME BLOOD AND TREASURE....AND TO THEN FUCK THINGS UP SO BADLY THAT THIS SHIT IS GOING ON...
5,000 years of history would indicate that the issue is not fixable but who wants to be labelled a quitter???
It's war a go go, throw down your books and pick a up a gun, we're gonna have a whole lotta fun. Wall Street's big chance at last. Got to bomb the shit out of Iraq, twice even.
Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi Prime Minister under Saddam, was raised Catholic. Saddam was not a religious nut, he was secular in his beliefs.
The neocons just didn't give a shit, they wanted a big war with lots of bombing and widespread chaos, and that's what they've got now, whether they wanted it or not, it's here. Let them eat shit and bark at the moon.
Sow the wind, reap a whirlwind.
And it's One, Two, Three
What are we fighting for. Don't give a Damn, ...
You know the rest ... it ends with
Whoopee, we're all gonna die !
+10 for the ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDXIB6lrB30
to all Iraq vets, hold your heads up, most of you did your duty as you saw it, your leadership failed you, your honor is intact. You are my brothers in arms, and I and my family hold you as better than so many who did not serve when called..from a viet nam vet, who served for corrupt nwo leaders who much like you , leaders that hid true objectives and agendas of an international elite cabal. god bless. (war is a racket)
Bullshit. An all-volunteer force implies culpability on the part of soldiers. I hold in high honor those who refused to serve. If you thinknthe us armed forces exist for defence you are stunningly naive.
and when the last helicopter leaves the embassy roof with the enemy just miles away, and you are greeted at home, by people who see that you lost this war, and it wasn't worth fighting, (while they supported it enthusiastically in the beginning) and you go to the VA for treatment and there are long lines or no lines (just take a number and we'll call you) and you see all your fellow fighters living on the street. everyone will want to forget this war too, and then in a few years some sharp eyed politician will see a chance to prove that american military force can be decisive and he or she will put boots on the ground once more, with an open ended commmittment, or no commettment or mission at all. then you too can shed a small tear for the next generation of duty bound individuals.
people who believe in doing the right thing led by people who don't.
The clusterfuck that was the first Iraq war, was when I started to wake up. I was Air Force recon back then, and when I started asking "How does this "war" (and my participation in it) support and defend the Constitution (my oath)? Nobody could give me an answer then, and nobody can answer that same question today. I got out a few years later and I predicted then that it was going to a clusterfuck for many years to come. All my comrades said I was crazy.
Since I am a vet, many young people ask me about going into the Air Force, and I try to tell them the truth about how the MIC and .gov will just chew them up and spit them out. Some get it, but most do not. And while I still have a strong connection to the warriors in our midst, I agree with those posting above me that this all "volunteer" force is part of the problem when they continue to be suckered into these meat grinders for the MIC, the politicians and the bankers.
Interesting days lie ahead...
Trillion+ $$$ going right down the shitter. Can we get refunds from Haliburton, et al?
Mission Accomplished - so long as the oil flows in dollars and the gas pipelines are protected
"Today, my newest EO, # 32,987,345, nationalizes all US companies including Halliburton."
That is all.
Just a little thought from the ancients... who were there.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16222-out-of-every-one-hundred-men-ten-s...
I hope we finally breakup the faled state of Iraq once and for all. Tired of fighting ove artificial borders drawn up by t'he French and British after WW 1.
We shoud do nothing and send nothing.
Maliki should go ask his friends in Iran for help.
Guess the Kurd's should finally get there own country.
the Kurds want their own state. after the Iraq war, (Bush showed us pictures of gassed Kurdish villagers to encite our rage) he declared the Kurds are the enemy. then Turkey and Iran fought a joint war against the former freedom loving people. part of the new Kurdish state would be cut out of Turkey. its the most oil rich part of Iraq. US airpower is pretty ineffective (like Libya) when there are no lines, no troops in uniform, and one side is taking equipment from the other. but we can do what we always do, just shoot everybody. meanwhile we can wait with anticipation until the new very expensive and huge embassy in Baghdad is looted and turned into a warehouse.
This is all part of the "New Middle East" roadmap set up by DIckC and CondyR. Order from Chaos pretty much.
Here's an excellent referenced article that explains it, it also shows the New Middle East map thats been cirulating since 2006.
http://sreaves32.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle...
Sounds like an Iraq problem. My EBT card still works, right? Hollahhh!!!
it is coming can you smell it yet
not vics or victory
smell it no
good thing
general electric rothschild depleted uranium is one hell of a drug.
call it a jewish decongestant nasal spray gift that is guaranteed kosher and will last forever.
streaming consciousness
It's the usual psychopathic ethno-Oligarch supremacist crew and their linchpin play in Iraq
http://zfacts.com/node/297
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
Is this Obama's war yet?
ah one can palpably sense the fall of Saigon moment is at hand
So, Shotgun Joe was right after all.
Divide I-Rock into ethnic provinces, like before WW1.
US Historical First.
Prosecute Joe Biden like Spiro Agnew.
Force B-Raq to choose new VP someone with military experience.
Force B-Raq to abdicate and wait? We don't have Military leaders in Congress any more except for the Israeli-phile McCain. So that would just leave former CIA people.
Crap
The PHONY WAR IS OVER.
I will admit even stupid COCKFAG Zionist Tylers have at least reported on something.
Perhaps a status update on US force dispositions in the Iraqi Capital are in order. Clearly they're going to be attacked.
What forces numbnuts? Embassy personnel in Baghdad?
Who is really running "Al-Qaeda"? Seems like it's some country's secret army.
nobody knows especially the news media. the only safe thing you can say is that they are not fundamentalists, since they are fighting against countries which still adhere to Shia law, this new group ISIS or ISIL represents Shiite interests, against the coalition government of Iraq. Iraq and Iran fought a ten year war, millions were killed. the Maliki government is in the middle between Shiite fighters from Al Qaeda, and Sunnis who are the fundmentalist party, linked to Iran, with Syria on the other side, from the same party. in the mix are the Kurds who want their own independent state. they are probably mostly Shiite, this little tiny bit is still twice was the news media will feed you.
Meanwhile Russia moves tanks and APC into Ukraine.
And American President says that the world has never been less violent.
Poll:
Is POTUS
He's probably watching Car-toons.
I'm wholeheartedly pulling for the Kurds. Their independence would be the one unintended consequence of a positive note in an otherwise incrediblely avoidable defeat of the entire Western world. Jihad, whether Sunni or Shia is on the march. Of course our NATO ally Turkey will never stand for the Kurds gaining independence. The Turks, Iran, and Syria will go in there and destroy the Kurds.
for two decades now i have always thought the kurds were quite capable folks and the only one's really able to take care of themselves. but always getting the shaft...
The Kurds are the Jews of the Muslim world...their own history, culture, and language. And they just want a sliver of their own land. Neither Turk, nor Persian or certainly not Arab will stand for it. The Turks will pour over the border and massacre them. Our filthy MuslimBrotherhood President and his filthy media organ will ignore the calamity. The Goiter Ole Party will as always play their Tory Loyalist part.
The Kursish state is *not* an unintended consequence, here is the map dawn out in 2006 based on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice et al June 2006 in Tel Aviv
http://www.globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-pro...
Ms. Rice isn't in office, and although that may have been a desire, there was no international support for such an outcome. The Kurdish populations of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran have been truly oppressed for decades by the Arab and Persian artifically created states.
The bane of empire is keenly reflected in our foreign policy regarding the Kurds. The entanglements that we have acquired, whether by hook or crook, has so corrupted any moral standing of the US, that we just could not support the Kurds, not even in public statements. How would that sit with our Turkish ally? Even though their history....as a people, is drenched in blood that they still refuse to even acknowledge vis a vis the Armenians, and during the past 50 years or so specifically with the Kurds. Did the US ever take action regarding the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, it's bifurcation, and the costs to the people of that island? No, placating a special case NATO ally was more important.
Bush killed Al Qaida terrorists by the the thousands, while Obama arms them with Stinger missiles...."both parties are the same"?????? WTF
RexRex
Do overlook the Bush family-Saudi-CIA-AlQaida connections,
and the fact there was NO AlQaida in Iraq before the US invaded
under illegal fabricated excuses...
The two political parties may not be identical,
but they are equally evil and self-serving.
Instead of playing a word-game about what the meaning of "same" is,
try to understand they are the same in all the important ways that matter:
from global militarism and endless wars, to handouts to their TBTF sponsors,
to the establishment of an unConstitutional police state.
And Bush done the killing with his bare hands too. "Mission accomplished"
it's a puppet show for the public. the real stuff is oil and money and bilionaire oligarchs who fund both parties.
Trillions of dollars spent. Thousands of American soldiers lives lost. Things sure end up great when you have such excellent national political leadership. Obaba in the USA and OMuckiliup in Iraq, both inspirational leaders prompting "we will die for you" loyalty among the military and populace. Truly, there must be a thousand villages stripped of their village idiots to staff this Administration. Obaba even makes that idiot Carter look good. And makes me yearn for the idiot Bush to come back.
What's to yearn for? Most of the sick traitors in congress who got us into this mess by continuing to fund the war machine are still there. Fuck Bush and Obozo a couple empty suits.....
The absence of drone strikes against ISIS tells you all you need to know. Maliki is betrayed.
What now for the Kurds?
You appear to be correct.
US POTUS declined Maliki's requests to do so, in spite, or perphaps because, of the fact that he [POTUS] armed ISIS and ISIL.
Any news on our embassy staff in Bagdad???
US embassy is preparing for evacuation.
What will become of that glorious building, I wonder?
It will be put to the same use as:
But considering that Obama already provided ISIS/ISIL with all the weapons its needed, it's just a cherry on top.