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Obama Responds To Iraq Request For "Kinetic Support", Says Ready To Take Military Action

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As we reported yesterday, Iraq, realizing it has neither the capacity nor the willingness to engage Al Qaeda's ISIS "spin off" did what every other oil-rich regime in such a situation does: asked Obama for "kinetic support." Moments ago Obama gave his response:

  • OBAMA SAYS "I DON'T RULE OUT ANYTHING" WHEN IT COMES TO HELPING IRAQ DEAL WITH INSURGENTS
  • OBAMA SAYS US HAS AN INTEREST IN MAKING SURE JIHADISTS DON'T GAIN A FOOTHOLD IN IRAQ
  • OBAMA SAYS THERE WILL BE SHORT-TERM IMMEDIATE ACTIONS THAT NEED TO BE DONE MILITARILY IN IRAQ, US OFFICIALS LOOKING AT ALL OPTIONS

And here is why, as we predicted yesterday when faced with not only but two brand new scandals, the VA farce and the Berghdal "extraction" fiasco, the most likely outcome is war:

  • OBAMA SAYS IRAQ `CLEARLY IS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION'
  • OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SAID NOT CONSIDERING GROUND TROOPS IN IRAQ
  • OBAMA SAYS US IS PREPARED TO TAKE MILITARY ACTION WHEN ITS NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS ARE THREATENED

So the US is about to unleash hell against the same Al Qaeda extremists it was arming across the border in Syria? Score one more for US foreign policy. Meanwhile, the one person who benefits the most from rising crude prices, that would be Putin for those who still don't get it, is laughing all the way to the bank.

Update: good news - the US won't be fighting Iraq's war alone. Here comes.... France:

  • 'FRANCE'S FABIUS SAYS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST DEAL WITH IRAQ SITUATION URGENTLY
  • FRANCE'S FABIUS SAYS JIHADIST SURGE PUTS TERRITORIAL UNITY OF IRAQ IN DOUBT AND IS MAJOR RISK FOR REGIONAL STABILITY
  • FRANCE'S FABIUS SAYS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST DEAL WITH IRAQ SITUATION URGENTLY

Funny how France is so generous when pledging the aid of the international community and not, for example, that of France.

 

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Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:33 | 4851271 yellowsub
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This is the price we pay to fight under the guise of "freeing" the Iraqi people...

 

 

 

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 18:58 | 4850654 esum
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now is the time for israel to strike.... obama will then be frozen like a deer in the headlights.... al queda controls half of libya, alqueda/taliban is rising threatening pakistan (nukes), fortunately the military got the muzbrohood out of egypt, this isis group will proceed and have already announced intentions to take jordan and massacre the "royal" family there... EXCITING TIMES and more than the obumbler knows how to deal with... His advisors are totally INCOMPETENT so watch for a FUBAR CLUSTERFUCK... but obama will only know what he reads in the newspapers... who he tells what to print... READ THE DAILY BRIEFING YOU USELESS POS... and get rid of meathead Brennan, another yes man who is totally incompetent, never did an op and like Morell (who was an ass kissing analyst and never did an op) is purely a political player despised by the organization he heads because of putting politics ahead of the TRUTH.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 19:10 | 4850689 esum
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look.....  forget troops send in Academi or Greystone ..... no holds barrred, no rules of engagement, no prisoners, no witnesses, no problem..... VIOLENCE SOLVES PROBLEMS

how do you feel as AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN BAGHDAD ... remember benghazi cause dude youre on your own... suggest you get the fuk out of dodge... unless you want to be tortured, sodomized and hung from a bridge and set on fire while youre still alive.... or held in exchange for the blind sheik and KSM combo package... or filmed in front of the black flag being decapitated... 

By the way.... who trained and armed isis.... oh nevemind.. the iraqis were trained for 10 years and ran ... this group around for 4 years takes em on and beats them... using highly sophisticated large scale military operations... 

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 19:29 | 4850711 Dre4dwolf
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Embassy in Baghdad being evacuated from looks of it, its a complete loss, its like the war never even happened from the "Terrorist" point of View, USA officially just lost the war in Iraq. And we lost because we armed the resurgence. . . again.

 

Another symbol of how weak the USA has become.

 

If they are indeed evacuating and abandoning the Fortress that is the Embassy in Baghdad  . . . . that thing is pretty much the castle on the hill, if its evacuated , you pretty much lost the game. . . .

 

At this point, BUSH did a better job than Obama, which I didn't even think was possible....

 

Judging from the Presidents actions over the past year or two, its pretty much a certainty at this point that we have an islamist jihadist as president..... the evidence pretty much speaks for itself, he is either the WORST president in the history of presidents, or he is a domestic enemy plant.

 

 

There is only one solution :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/B-52H_static_display_...

Non-stop runs till we use up almost all left over WWII supplies of munitions, leave nothing standing.

If we dont, we will look weak in the eyes of the world and no one will respect us.

 

You can't let your enemy run around free taking over your fortresses robbing banks of tons of gold and 400+million $$$ that they can use to get WMD'S WHILE YOUR BORDER IS WIDE OPEN BEING FLOODED BY ILLEGALS.

 

Its MADNESS!

 

At this point I would vote PUTIN in for president over Obama I trust that guy more than I do Obama, we need a new JFK kind of president someone with a spine and a brain at the top of that spine.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 20:18 | 4850897 BruntFCA
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Evacuated from the look of it? No source, this is just speculation.

To get to the green zone, ISIS has to pass through Sadr city, a Shiite stronhold of fanatics. These fanatics tend to fight better than the secular Iraqi army types. Iran has said it would get involved if holy Shia shrines are threatened.

ISIS now have to worry about the Kurds (who have 160,000 militia) moving behind them if they move on Bagdad.

The situation is bad, but why drama queen it.

 

Postscript: I had a friend in the Royal Marines, he loved making fun of US forces. Evac! Evac! Run to the chopper! I need Evac! You are making the US sound bad just by typing in rumours, hearsay and craps.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:12 | 4851056 bbq on whitehou...
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Ask your friend to go party sometime with a few US Rangers. Seems like he would have fun. Me i think they are all bat-shit crazy but then ive only known a few.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 19:24 | 4850734 steve2241
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Flashback: Iraq War - Regime of Saddam Hussein sets its oilfields ablaze!

http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/iraq-oil-fires...

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 19:24 | 4850746 Karaio
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I read somewhere that the Seals love the guys who train there five years prepare an ambush and all die happy fat pension for leaving their women and food at home.
hehe.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 19:37 | 4850775 surf0766
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Overwhelm the system with so much shit it collapses.. Yes   that is what O'and his team is doing.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 19:56 | 4850832 Fíréan
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Without a serious definition as to whom the title "Al Qaeda" refers the rest of this news is as bull as the main tream media.  Who, except the westermn media, uses the term "Al Qaeda", and who uses the title or calls themselves  Al Qaeda ? ? ? ?

Like a cover-all title for the easy use of the western media so they do not have to use complicated unpronouncable  names of the various entities, and to relieve the media from the need to explain in detail who are the various and differing factions , the relationships and intertactivity ( if any) ; just one easy title, they're ALL  "Al Qaeda". Bunkum, condescending crap which belittles the intelligence of the average rearders who well have the ability to understand the fuller detail ( or do they, have i got it wrong ? )  Or treat the citizens stupid and they'll become stupid and then they'll except any crap information which they're fed ?

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 04:03 | 4851803 Aussiekiwi
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Yeah, but ISIS sounds all evil like, always a good start to give the enemy an evil sounding name, Al Qaeda sounds like a type of pizza.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 20:07 | 4850866 Chaos_Theory
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ISIS has one fundamenal flaw..no diversity!!!! Where are th LGBTs?  Why are women missing in positions of leadership and combat roles?  Don't even get me started on overt religious symbols and proselytizing.  Clearly it is time for the biggest weapon in the BHO arsenal...a series of campaign speeches followed by, wait for it, economic sanctions.   Oh shit, it just got real ISIS! 

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 20:13 | 4850883 IridiumRebel
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I thought we could stave collapse until 2015, but I think we may be just about there. There's a whole lotta shit going down.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 20:48 | 4850972 RichardENixon
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Harry Reid needs to organize another letter writing campaign to force The Washington Redskins to change that racist nickname, and pronto. Otherwise things could start to get ugly.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:19 | 4851087 IridiumRebel
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Harry Reid needs to get fucked.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 20:49 | 4850974 BruntFCA
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Looks like Iran is going to have to finish off what the US started. Iranian revolutionary guard already took back Tikrit. There's no way ISIS clowns are gonna get Bagdad.

 

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iran-deploys-military-fight-sunni-isil...

Obama may as well just go back to the golf course.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:27 | 4851115 I Write Code
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Pinky bet. 

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:44 | 4851153 Wahooo
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Why doeasn't Iran just take out the Saudis for us.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:07 | 4851039 Chaos_Theory
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Just send those 120,000 vets waiting for VA appointments into the fight!  Promise (pinky swear) that this time, we're serious aboout getting them care.  If they go and fight, then come back and cross the Southern border, they'll get the same benefits as the "undocumented workers" piling up at Border Patrol locations (free advice, avoid the burritos).  And within 6-weeks they'll be assured of meeting their primary care manager...the Physician Assistant that couldn't get picked up by even a free clinic.  And then, maybe, just maybe, they'll get the golden referral to see a specialist who finished med school (the 14 year plan) in Mumbai or Karachi. 

Who will schedule you for your appendectomy in another month.  And amputate both legs below the knees because the surgical team need to hurry up and check Facebook rather than check the patient's chart.

 

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:19 | 4851084 Karaio
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Israel is unfortunately one morally bankrupt state.
There are a lot of Jewish Americans who believe in the westward march deploying more and more colonies as insects.
Which brings us dollars (U.S. $) to build houses without paying the ground is a great deal!
One day the house falls!
hehe.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 21:29 | 4851121 I Write Code
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Get Obama mad enough, he'll draw another red line!

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:03 | 4851193 cobra1650
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fucker is goin full drone after a ridiculous 10 year military failure

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:17 | 4851227 Iriestx
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The Middle East is the asshole of the planet.  Can we please just nuke the whole fucking place, Israel included, and focus on more important things?

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 06:13 | 4851876 Wahooo
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How about we just pull out. Let the cards fall where they might. We can still buy some of their oil, and better to enter a long term arrangement with Russia for that anyway. The Jews you say? Let Israel take care of itself. They chose to concentrate their race in a tiny unstable region, their fate not ours. Staying in the Middle East has become too costly.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:18 | 4851231 Joebloinvestor
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I can't wait to see the list of pork attached to any new war funding.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:20 | 4851235 falconflight
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#ISIS don't eat pork@ JihadiEatShit#

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:21 | 4851238 Iriestx
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Fun fact:  This re-invasion of Iraq will produce more carbon emissions than every coal fired power plant in the US will, over the next 50 years, combined.

 

--HOPE and CHANGE!

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 22:57 | 4851345 Tachyon5321
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The old thing going right for Obama is his golf game.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 23:01 | 4851361 deerhunter
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wonder if 9mm and 40 S&W and 45 cal ammo is going to dissappear again?  Can't find 22 ammo for the life of me,,,,, stock up folks,,,, going to be real

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 23:01 | 4851366 americanspirit
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Barack - nobody believes you when you bluster. Its clear to everyone that you are a coward and an idiot. Please just resign - you are already condemned by history as the worst mistake this county has ever made -and after George Bush that is really, really saying something.

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 03:58 | 4851801 Aussiekiwi
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He is not a coward and he is not an idiot, however in many ways he is a product of all the advisors in the back ground constantly telling him bullshit, you only know what you know. He has learn't some valuable lessons though, such as setting red lines just guarantees they will be broken by the side that has the most to profit from them, that replacing democratically elected governments with Neo Nazi's may have some undesirable side effects and that you can't control terrorist groups for your own means, such as in Syria, and Russia is not some thrid world country you can push around. Thats without even touching the domestic situation.

Unfortunately now he has learn't these lessons and could actually be of some use he will be out.

 

 

 

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 23:08 | 4851382 telefunken
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xbox one has Kinetic Support-works pretty good. Harrison j. bounell not so much....

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 23:45 | 4851481 TabakLover
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I'm all for "boots on the ground".  Slap a pair of boots on Paul Wolfowitz and drop his ass in there.

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 00:25 | 4851565 boeing747
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Like I said before, something big has to happen in mideast to push oil price high, thus induce hyperinflation. We are thru 80% of bubble and ready to enter remaining (20%) bubble high.

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 00:31 | 4851572 gellero
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Not as simple as Dear Leader thought........

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 00:54 | 4851604 xavi1951
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For those of you that do NOT know, this is ISIS, which is (according to the lying President, a more extreme offshoot of AQ.  BS!  They are all extreme by civilized standards.  They all want to kill the infidel and the Satan.  Trying to rate them according to how much they HATE, is a waste of time.  The fact that they HATE is all I need to know.  You cannot bargain, persuade, cojole,or trade with any of them.  They will come back at you for showing weakness and cut youR THROAT.  TAQIYYA !  When will THIS aDMINISTRATION LEARN?

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 03:34 | 4851682 TomGa
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"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"

Yep, Once again.  Just when you thought it was safe to declare victory....

Congrats Barry.

/sarc off

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 02:48 | 4851743 Obamanism
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Mr Obama can see another Nobel Peace Prize....... for starting and supporting conflict and war.

Just a Question, How many in the ISIS are Iraqi? Fighting to free their country from the great Satan.

The Syrian Rebels are losing against Assad ( Russian backed). These Rebels trained and well armed from US/NATO run bases in Jordan with Libyan rebel weapons and supply lines from Turkey(NATO). And now inside Iraq

Be prepared for a Genocide bigger than what happened in Rwanda

In Some of the fotos you see the troops being transported in Brand New SUV (Off white like UN colors), all the rebels have Brand new out of the box weapons, and wearing Couture Black uniforms. Not bad for a rag tag force.

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 04:45 | 4851834 dumbStruck
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iraq = tar-baby

 

Fri, 06/13/2014 - 06:16 | 4851877 Lumberjack
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Brent climbs toward $115, hits nine-month high on Iraq crisis

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/06/13/markets-oil-idINKBN0EO09O20140613

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