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Obama Asks For $500 Million To Equip Syrian Rebels As The ISIS Juggernaut In Iraq Spreads

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It is going from bad to worse for the Iraqi government, whose armed forces according to at least one unconfirmed media report, have suffered major losses.

Perhaps confirming this, is the report from Reuters that overnight ISIS continued it southern creep toward Baghdad, and has now reached a town that is just an hour from Baghdad which is home to four natural gas fields on Thursday, "another gain by Sunni insurgents who have swiftly taken large areas to the north and west of the Iraqi capital."

The overnight offensive included Mansouriyat al-Jabal, home to the gas fields where foreign companies operate, security forces said. The fighting threatens to rupture the country two and a half years after the end of U.S. occupation.

Meanwhile, the Jihadists continue to consolidate their territories not only in the middle of the country but key transit points to Syria where as we reported yesterday, al-Qaeda forces in the two countries merged after ISIS forces and troops from the al Nusra front combined in at least one city. ISIS now control several border posts with Syria and have stolen U.S.-made weapons from Iraqi forces.

Iraq, however, has not been completely paralyzed in light of the oncoming juggernaut and overnight Iraqi forces launched an airborne assault on rebel-held Tikrit on Thursday, landing three helicopters with commandos in a stadium for what appeared to be their boldest counter-attack yet against Sunni insurgents who have rampaged through the north.

Eyewitnesses said battles were raging in the city, hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein, which fell to Sunni Islamist fighters two weeks ago on the third day of a lightning offensive that has given them control of most majority Sunni regions.

 

The helicopters were shot at as they flew low over the city and landed in a stadium at the city's university, a security source at the scene said. The government did not immediately respond to requests for comment and by evening the assault was still not being reported on state media.

 

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said fierce clashes ensued, centered around the university compound.

 

Ahmed al-Jubbour, professor at the university's college of agriculture, described clashes taking place inside the colleges of agriculture and sports education.

 

"I saw one of the helicopters land opposite the university with my own eyes and I saw clashes between dozens of militants and government forces," he said.

Perhaps the reason why the air force merely used helicopters and not airplanes is because as we also reported previously, the Iraqi air force "has only two modified Cessna aircraft."

Regardless, for now Baghdad appears to be safe unless of course ISIS manages to run over the Haditha Dam, which as we explained yesterday, is the second largest in Iraq and a critical source of drinking water for the capital. Should the Jihadists hold it hostage, or worse, release the contained water, the flood, or merely the lack of bearable living conditions in Baghdad, will promptly force the local population to evacuate thus opening up the path to the critical energ-rich areas in the south.

We will cross that bridge once we get to it. For now the far bigger focus appears to be on Syria whose eastern portions, as the following AFP map shows, is effectively ISIS territory with the al Qaeda group now controlling all the key border crossings on the Iraqi side.

Which perhaps explains why, literally seconds ago, and likely attempting to pivot from the disastrous events in Iraq, Obama is once again focusing on Syria. According to AP, President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition.

The military training program would deepen the Obama administration's involvement in the more than four-year conflict between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. If approved by Congress, the program would supplement a covert train-and-assistance program run by U.S. intelligence agencies.The Senate Armed Services Committee has already approved a version of the sweeping defense policy bill authorizing the Defense Department to provide "equipment, supplies, training and defense services" to elements of the Syrian opposition that have been screened. The Senate could act on the bill before the August recess.

 

The president hinted at the increased support for the opposition forces during a commencement address at West Point last month.

 

"In helping those who fight for the right of all Syrians to choose their own future, we also push back against the growing number of extremists who find safe haven in the chaos," Obama told the graduating cadets.

But wait, didn't Obama do just this a year ago only to find that the arms were going into the hands of Al Qaeda extremists - essentially the same ones the US will be waging war against any minute in Iraq?  Well yes. But this time Obama has a fail safe plan.

  • U.S. FUNDS FOR MODERATE SYRIAN REBELS REQUESTED FROM CONGRESS

Oh, it's just the "moderate" terrorists Obama will be arming. Not the more radical types. But how Obama will make the distinction? Well, that's what polling is all about. To wit: "Excuse me, would you describe yourself as a moderate or extreme al-Qaeda jihadist. Answering affirmatively to the former assures you your own US-made Humvee and a few thousand bullets to shoot at US soldiers across the border in Iraq."

While we wish we were joking, this sadly describes the current all too real state of US diplomacy in the middle east.

 

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Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:11 | 4899459 Canadian Dirtlump
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How you defend inocent syrians from ISIS is to support the SAA and the recently elected government of Dr. Assad.

 

FACT is much of the former FSA has been granted amnesty by Dr. Assad and are fighting along side of the SAA.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:20 | 4899515 quasimodo
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Backed by a transparent what?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We can verify?!?!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you made my day with that gem right there!

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:46 | 4899637 Meat Hammer
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Aww, how cute!  

*Pats Zirpedge's head*

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:59 | 4899682 gatorengineer
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Well Trolled......

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 18:14 | 4899977 Whatchamacallit
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Well then, if $500M is just a drop in the bucket, that's not going to defend innocent Syrians, will it? 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:51 | 4899343 Jackagain
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Note to Obummer: The Syrian Rebels ARE ISIS. Of course he knows this already....I'm sure the CIA is keeping imformed between golf outings.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:57 | 4899382 SmallerGovNow2
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This is to refuel ISIS for the final push to the Saudi border...

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:11 | 4899465 Citxmech
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Sometimes I wonder if the last two presidents' proclivities toward golf was because all those "briefings" were mainly meetings where the POTUS was informed what orders/legislation the robo-signing machine had signed-off on as ordered by folks who actually call the shots.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 21:40 | 4900687 PrintemDano
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Bush stopped golfing shortly after the Iraq war started......

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:04 | 4899706 gatorengineer
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Jack your behind the times again.  The name this week is ISIL....... The name ISIS was found to offend the Egyptians.....

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:51 | 4899345 JustObserving
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His lies did not work.  Maybe $500 million will work.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:21 | 4899517 Jackagain
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Knowingly lied? I'm shocked I tell ya...shocked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDbTaWpwoc

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:27 | 4899792 Cathartes Aura
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can an actor reading teleprompt'd scripts

actually lie?

what reality-realm would that be in?

 

*quick!  behind the curtain*

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:51 | 4899346 L Bean
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So ISIS is broke again? 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:59 | 4899398 pods
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Parades ain't cheap.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:04 | 4899425 Cangaroo.TNT
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It's those damned permit fees.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:58 | 4899680 machineh
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And post-production on the videos ...

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:14 | 4899749 COSMOS
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Burn a lot of gas sitting idling and barely moving in a parade...

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:53 | 4900512 thamnosma
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EPA is making them clean up depleted uranium sites.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:51 | 4899347 davidalan1
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Noble (sp) peace prize....

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:51 | 4899348 ebworthen
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"Mr President, why are you wasting $550 million taxpayer dollars on Al Qaeda rebels in Syria who are the same jihadists taking over the territories in Iraq we lost over 4,000 of our young soldiers taking?"

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:56 | 4899380 in4mayshun
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Because the US must derail the gas pipeline plans of Russia

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:06 | 4899434 homiegot
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Shhhhh, he doesn't know that yet. Valerie Jarret will be filling him in after the fact.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:53 | 4899350 TeamDepends
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Yellen, print us up $500M on the huzzle, MIC needs some new boots!

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:52 | 4899351 madcows
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don't ask me.  ask the FED.  they're the ones that print money.  get it from them.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:52 | 4899357 suteibu
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Back door Syrian gambit (CIA at work again).  Putin's move next.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:08 | 4899443 pods
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I am certain the president has no trouble on signing off on any back door moves.

pods

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:52 | 4899358 El Vaquero
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Oh, it's just the "moderate" terrorists Obama will be arming. Not the more radical types. But how Obama will make the distinction?

The number of Allah Ackbars yelled when blowing something up?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 18:44 | 4900081 Dublinmick
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They will know, US intelligence has been first rate every since meeting with Iraqis handing out roses and chocolate bars.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 21:34 | 4900662 thamnosma
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They are being "vetted", of course.   Wonder who is doing the vetting?   Victoria Nuland, John Kerry, Valerie Jarrett or maybe that new IRS guy....

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:53 | 4899359 TabakLover
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How much are Chaney, Bush, Wolf-o-shitz, Bremer, Rumsfeld, McCain and Lindsey Graham gonna kick in?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:05 | 4899421 SheepDog-One
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Not sure, probably have to ask the neo-lib puppets running the shitshow now.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:53 | 4899361 p00k1e
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Google, "Terrorists Blackout Yemen"

 

Why wasn't THAT mentioned by Rush?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:01 | 4899408 SheepDog-One
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The Canadian band?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:13 | 4899480 Canadian Dirtlump
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IF you play subdivisions backwards it talks about it.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:54 | 4899368 pachanguero
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Really...what does it matter now?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:54 | 4899371 Cannon Fodder
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And yet if I went over as a freelance medic to actually try to help people or as a journalist to actually understand the story there I would get arrested for providing assistance to terrorist.... oh the hyprocracy...

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:07 | 4899439 dumbStruck
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If you went over there as a " free lance medic " your heart would be cut out and eaten and the video of the jihadies munching on it posted on you tube.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:04 | 4900335 lotsoffun
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cannon fodder?  why bother?  i am probably wrong, but this whole 'journalist on the scene thing' and 'concerned citizen' and 'concerned health worker'.  it's all for msm sucker bs.  you get to film and send it back to them so the u.s. t.v. watchers masturbate, they make big bucks, and you get beheaded.  great stuff.  SELLS!!!  SELLS!.

let the buggers figure it out for themselves.  somebody will sell us oil, and considering otherwise they can eat sand and camel dung, it will be at an o.k. price.

can't we ever learn?  this is what capitalism was supposed to be about.  the entire middle east, at this point is built on unsustainable population based on HUGE oil profits being changed into being able to pay huge prices for very basic commodities such as food and water that have to be imported.  egypt has a huge population, based on being the dead bodies for saudi's.

we stop inteferring, those leaders will all figure it out.

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 21:48 | 4900722 PrintemDano
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Arressted?  No, Obungholes ISIS buddies would capture you and saw your head off. use the extra $500,000,000 and put it on Youtube....You might even get your picture is AlQueda's annual report!

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:55 | 4899373 pods
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Oh for cripes sake, put a fork in it, it's done.

Vetting: 

"Have you eaten liver in the last 2 weeks?"

"You did, damn. Well, did you have it with fava beans and a nice Chianti?" (sidebar, Chiantis were historically bottled in a configuration called a fiasco)

"No? Cool.  This guys good."

pods

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:55 | 4899376 pachanguero
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. Should I say " what differacce does it make?

Fri, 06/27/2014 - 04:07 | 4901310 Tall Tom
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Yes. That would have been more appropriate for the snark remark.

 

But both statements were understood as alluding to the attack in Benghazi, by the Secretary of State, Bitch Clinton. That, of course, was a direct result of arming AQ whom killed Ambassador Stevens over in Benghazi....

 

You know??? The "Moderate AQ"???

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:57 | 4899386 SheepDog-One
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No thanks, I'm in no mood to pay for arming up more batshit crazy religious fundamentalist terrorists so that in a year we can hear they're now attacking us, fuck them let them fight with sticks and slings or whatever.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:58 | 4899390 kowalli
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#SaveStreamerVlad

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:58 | 4899393 yellowsub
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I think $500 million is about enough to fill one cart of groceries these days.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:00 | 4899687 machineh
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It all flows back to the U.S. in more sales.

They need parts for our Humvees.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:59 | 4899394 buzzsaw99
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reminds me of the day jimmy carter attacked iran with a few helicopters and a broken down jeep.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:03 | 4899419 homiegot
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It's the sand they didn't account for. Gotta pay attention to the details.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:10 | 4899455 optimator
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They always skip the obvious, like those hedgerows in Normandy that surprised.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 19:57 | 4900313 lotsoffun
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didn't surprise the 'leaders'.  they knew they wouldn't be there.  the rest was 'very loyal citizens' otherwise known as 'cannon fodder'. 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 15:59 | 4899396 yogibear
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Just have Janet Yellen and the Fed print you up a billion. Billions seem small when your talking trillions.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:01 | 4899412 buzzsaw99
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Just ask the GoPro ceo-dude for it.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:00 | 4899404 dbTX
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You can't make this shit up.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:01 | 4899689 machineh
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Whut? I thought this story was from The Onion.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:01 | 4899406 Yen Cross
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     TOTUS is completely off his fucking rocker! I wonder how the Wookie learned to tie his shoelaces in morning?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:01 | 4899413 homiegot
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk yooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:05 | 4899430 tuttisaluti
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Can we sink any lower?     Yes we can

Fri, 06/27/2014 - 06:18 | 4901399 Zwelgje
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There is no Bottom

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:07 | 4899440 Duc888
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Can I vote here?

 

I say we liquidate Bush Senior's assets, Shrubs stuff, Cheney's collection of shit, Rummy,s crap Albright+ Carlucci's stash...and fund this mess with their ill gotten war profiteering

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:27 | 4899535 Dr. Engali
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Don't forget the Clinton's and Kerry's shit.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:28 | 4899560 p00k1e
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You must now listen to Anthrax for 40 days and 40 nights.  (The Band),

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:08 | 4899451 ZeroPoint
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Can we officially call him the leader of Al-Queda now?

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:16 | 4899494 Boeing Boy
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Yes, yes and yes again.

 

Time for Putin to supply some jet fighter bombers, even things up a bit..

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:10 | 4899458 joego1
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He fixes his foreign policy blunders the same way the Fed fixes the economy. Pour more gas on the flames. If he had his way he would be tossing guns into insane asylums and asking the patients to make sure nobody that was crazy got a hold of them and then after everyone was dead he would be saying "see we need more gun control". (See fast and furious)

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:11 | 4899467 Boeing Boy
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So, there is a huge problem with Islamic extremism and Obama/CIA/fuckwit neocons want to replace the secular government of Syria?

 

Cunts.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:56 | 4899884 Whatchamacallit
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Yep, after replacing the secular government of Iraq. Did they not understand the consequences (although see Cheney's 1994 video about Iraq --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I), or is it deliberate?

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:55 | 4900524 gonetogalt
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sadly enough it is deliberate, see G.W.s column in the headline bar today, it's concise enough that I saved it to mail to them that still don't get it...

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:13 | 4899476 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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"It is barely worth it (supplying arms) to support people who not only kill their enemies but open up their bodies and eat their internal organs in front of the public and the cameras," ~Putin

I'm with Putin on this one, but I guess I'm just a Putin-worshipping shill...

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:52 | 4899660 gcjohns1971
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No,

That's not Putin-worship.

That's just plain sense.  Putin may or may not be a corrupt Oligarch himself.  But he knows which tactics work and which don't.

A battle is always a battle between minorities, whatever you may imagine.  The actual combatants will never be a majority of the populaion.  Ultimately, whoever earns the support of the population wins.

FURTHERMORE, fear is temporary.  People simply can't live with it long term.  Over time the same amount of fear-driven adrenaline has less and less effect.

Brutal tactics are repulsive acts intended only to engender fear.  They do not attract love.  They do not attract loyalty.  They do not attract ambition.  There's no upside beyond the initial fear.

So what will ISIS do when people can look on the horrors and feel normal?

Bad tactics.

The Saudi's are behind ISIS.  Always were.  They were behind the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Libya too.

And the US stands behind its allies (even as they commit mass attrocities). 

Just as Russia stands behind her allies (Assad, Iran).

Disgusting.

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:57 | 4899675 COSMOS
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Well Gauius look at the bright side, at least we dont have to give them LUNCH money.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:16 | 4899754 Porous Horace
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I guess we'll have to supply them with fava beans and a nice chianti, too.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:19 | 4899484 Dr. Engali
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I think it's funny how his supporters want to strip guns from relatively peaceful Americans (I'm not talking about the sociopaths in power), but they have no qualms about Zero arming terrorist. Or how they can't put two and two together to figure out that just because the army isn't directly involved, the sycophants are still killing people for oil.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:25 | 4899490 tony wilson
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the problem mr mk ulta presdent is not the money or the material support.

the problem  mr kissinger and bressinki you cunts is man power.

 

you cannot train and resupply the bearded al ciada lemming suicide squads fast enough assad is slaugtering to many of your rapists

way too quickly this is a human resupply logistics issue init.

this  cash is chump change

just helpin out g4s,serco,carlysle group academie and the mossad with some free holiday cash.

if 6 billion of qatars and saudi monies have not finished off assad then 500 million minus corporate  office fees comes out at about 80 million for man power fresh blood so to speak.

not enough by a long shot faggot.

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:26 | 4899543 magpie
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499 mill on a shiny brochure and some high fives in Langley and Doha, 1 mil to recruit scum in Birmingham and London. Wonder if Mi6 uses the same recruitment tactics as Hassan Sabah or whatever his name was.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:50 | 4899654 Yes We Can. But...
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Does Britain pickup the one-way airfare when Brit jihadis depart to join the fight?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:56 | 4899667 magpie
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dole reimbursements for flying to a "wedding" ? Could be.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:16 | 4899496 Davos
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Perfect opportunity for putin to take the lead

Boots on the ground, smashes ISIS, helps out his buddies in Syria.

Walks away the hero, with free access to all that lovely oil

Game, set, match USSR

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:59 | 4899681 COSMOS
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No need for Russian boots on the ground, they are needed to keep NATO at bay in Europe.  However strategic ally Iran has boots much closer to the action, and they can speak the local language also.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:17 | 4899499 Obamanism
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$500 million was broken down into $6 million for non lethal weapons and $494 million on Yoga equipment for all the  ex Gitmo detainees that were released and flew to Turkey, Jordan and Syria

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:58 | 4899507 QQQBall
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Is that in addition to the tanks, Humvees and Blackhawks they already have grabbed?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:36 | 4899537 SpanishGoop
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Hee stupid Americans, stop that shit.

Don't you realize that those "rebels" are operating a lot closer to Europe than America.......

Do you, Do you ?

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:03 | 4899701 Yes We Can. But...
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How does one differentiate Spanish Goop from American Goop?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:26 | 4899790 SpanishGoop
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You don't.

A Goop is a Goop wherever he lives.

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:12 | 4899740 HappyCamper
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Good point.  What's happening in Iraq right now will happen in Europe in about 30 years from now.  Then Europe will become the front line in a Jihadist war.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:32 | 4899578 SmallerGovNow2
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Everyone is getting in on the act, grab the popcorn fellah's...

http://www.infowars.com/king-abdullah-calls-up-saudi-armed-forces-on-high-preparedness/

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:33 | 4899581 HitThatClown
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Why is no one talking about impeachment at this point? This is ridiculous. 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:03 | 4899703 machineh
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They are waiting for 'due process' on Boehner's lawsuit.

Which will run down the clock on the Obumfuck presidency.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:21 | 4899765 overmedicatedun...
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we need, here 5 weeks and already an expert, about sums up the left, now tell us when the seas wash NYC away as the planet warms due to my f150.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:24 | 4899779 Yes We Can. But...
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bad 'optics' on account of oft-played-yet-still-held race card.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:35 | 4899589 Smiley
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Give the job to Holder; that guy knows how to move a lot of weapons in a hurry.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:05 | 4899709 machineh
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Ha ha, yeah, Holder could hire some Zeta dudes that would put the fear of Allah into those ISIS poseurs.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:35 | 4899592 RaiZH
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This is ridiculous, I wonder if Putin would step in? 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:40 | 4899610 kenezen
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Putin and Xi Jinping will have to at some point probably right after we get hit with a Nuke suitcase.  Our president will swear the suitcase was either from Republicans or, we deserved it for being Americans

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:40 | 4899612 optimator
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He's too busy laughing his ass off.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:37 | 4899598 orangegeek
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spend 500M in the media, sell 10B in weapons to both sides

 

another fine day of doing business in the mid east

 

oops, subtract 10M for kickbacks to the locals

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:37 | 4899599 Ariadne
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He's asking? No Obama, you may not have 500 million dollars for this or anything else.

IMPEACH

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:37 | 4899600 Tracerfan
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Further evidence the US is run by murderous fools, destroying entire nations and threatening the rest of the world with annihilation.  A modern day Nazi-type state.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:37 | 4899601 kenezen
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Our president is either Muslin Wahhabi Sunni or an idiot. you pick it.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:41 | 4899615 Jackagain
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Is 'both' an option too?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:32 | 4899710 are we there yet
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Obama is a switch hitter, double speaker, and double dealer.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:37 | 4899602 BullyBearish
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$500 Million now, MORE boots on the ground next, just after the upcoming false flag atrocity

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:39 | 4899607 goldhedge
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long Raytheon.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:41 | 4899616 More_sellers_th...
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Hey Romney... Tag your it

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:47 | 4899622 pakled
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Back in 2003 when the US was invading Iraq I took a 'let's wait and see' approach. My liberal friends urged that the invasion was all about oil. Oil! Oil! Oil! Even when no WMDs were found I still took a 'let's wait and see' approach, on the basis that down the road, if the region stabilized due to America's "involvement", it may have been worth all the blood, sweat, and tears (although I also felt the folks who orchestrated the WMD lie should go to jail, go directly to jail, etc.).

 

Now 'down the road' is here, and I see that my liberal friends were in fact correct. I am now a little sadder but wiser ex-Naivety.

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:41 | 4899838 Whatchamacallit
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Oil and euros: Saddam was ready to accept euros in paiement for oil.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:43 | 4899842 Everybodys All ...
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If Obama had listened to his own military he would have left a sufficient force behind in Iraq much like we did elsewhere in the world to at least insure these crazy radical Islamist would not be overrunning the Iraqi people.  Now it's too late. Way too late to save Iraq and maybe too late to save this country from Obama.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 18:51 | 4900109 SmittyinLA
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your liberal friends voted for war too, they'd rather bomb the shit out of everybody else on the planet than cut spending or limit immigration, the only reason they opposed the war was because they hated Socialist George Bush (liberals hate competition, ask Stalin) not out of any morality, they supported the Egypt war, and Libyan War and the Georgian attempted war and  Ukraine was, they're ready to bomb faster than Al Qaida.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 19:20 | 4900187 pakled
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Uh, not my liberal friends.

 

You may want to have your reflexes checked. ;>

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 19:49 | 4900278 lotsoffun
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pakled  - agreed.  i'm one of your 'liberal' friends actually. those other 'liberals'  vote for hillary and big bad boogie down bambie boy, because they are minorities, and they never got a fair chance (sarc). 

i'm liberal because i  don't simply wave the flag 'america is right, everybody else is wrong, we are a democracy, we drive big cars and have big homes and computers and therefore, we must be smarter than everybody else'.
i try to consider consequences and outcomes before the flag waving.  for all of us, the home team and the other team.

bombing people into 'democracy' might not always be the best solution. 

bombing people because their women can't go to universities might not be the way to convince them that letting women get an education - through showing them how positive the result might be (pelosi, hillary, etc. (sarc)) is not a good solution.

lead by example - lead by showing how happy and productive your society and culture are - not how great coke and mcdonalds and dancing with the stars are.

lead by showing how your culture produces happy families, fulfilled.  and possibly also without having to all be millionaires.

much of the world really is happy to live a decent life, with families, friends,  without all having to have t.v. shows named after them, and titles and endless estates and cars and wealth.

the united states is built on, and remains, classless trash with never ending wants and needs.  enough is never enough.  so - you'll never be satisfied, or stop.

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:15 | 4900357 pakled
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Thanx friend. Well put. 

And the thing with me is, I am not a liberal. Nor a conservative. I was born with a defect that makes me see both sides of a situation. That's not a putdown, I have often been envious of those who can see so clearly the right and the worng of a thing and choose sides. My liberal friends accuse me of being conservative at times, and my conservative friends the reverse. And as I get older there is much more gray than B&W.

 

"the united states is built on, and remains, classless trash with never ending wants and needs.  enough is never enough.  so - you'll never be satisfied, or stop."

You're reminding me of this exchange I love from 'Key Largo', A great Humphrey Bogart film. Bogie is the good guy soldier and Edward G. Robinson is the ganster (of course)

Bogie: He knows what he wants. Don't you, Rocco?

Robinson: Sure!

Bogie: What's that? Tell him, Rocco.

Robinson: Well, l want. . . .

Bogie: He wants more. Don't you, Rocco?

Robinson: That's it! More.

 

The more we have the more we want. The human ego is never satiated. The societies that avoid the more more more syndrome are the ones that have mastered their ego.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:39 | 4900457 lotsoffun
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pakled - it was a long time ago  - i was born before the movie (i think it was by arthur miller and first a play) but i got too see it later as an teen.  'all my sons'.  again edward g. robinson.  NOTHING HAS CHANGED.  the MIC and MSM is killing our future across the entire planet for no reason, except their personal gain.  can we stop this?

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:51 | 4900504 pakled
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"can we stop this?"

 

That may be rhetorical, but in case it's not, it's too important a question not to tackle. In a word, YES.

Check out a book called "The Intention Experiement" by Lynn Taggart. If enough people choose it to be different it will be.

 

There's an old jingle that explains it all:

row row row your boat
gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily merrily
life is but a dream

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:44 | 4899625 Wahooo
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So now the Saudis control most of the oil fields in Iraq.  At some point the Saudi PetroCaliphate and the Russians will have to square off.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:54 | 4899665 Loucleve
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YES!  YES!  YES!

Lets just "double down" on STUPID.

Of course at the same time they want to limit magazine size for guns sold over here.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 18:39 | 4900066 SmittyinLA
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They are squaring oiff right now in Ukraine, the EU is Eurostan  they just don't know it yet.

Ukraine is all about feeding the Muslim mob in the EU (feeding a Muslim mob is expensive) , especially when many of the Muslims refuse to work and live off the retarded infidels too stupid to vote for their own security, all led to slaughter by Jews.

Jews and Muslims go waaay back, their animostty is wildly overrated, last time the Muslims ran the EU the Jews called it the Jewish Golden age. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_in_Spain

 

 

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:51 | 4899655 CoastalCowboy
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How the hell can we vet for so called "good rebels" when it's OK for these jihad liver eaters to lie to any infidels to advance their agenda?

Pissin' gasoline on the fires, yet another talent of he who makes a tingle run down my legs.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 16:52 | 4899662 drunkenlout
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NNNNNOOOOOOO!!  Impeach now.  Dumb, disloyal, and dangerous.  Even the Supreme Narciscist can't expect us to provide arms to shoot at our soldiers.  

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 22:18 | 4900816 lakecity55
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For Backdoor Barry, "our" soldiers are The Enemy.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:01 | 4899692 are we there yet
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Rapists could be controlled if we just funded the ones who are moderately raping.

Bat crazy muslem cults can be controlled if we fund only the moderatly bat crazy cult sects.

Our political goals are irrational.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:01 | 4899694 SantaClaws
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Since Obama is giving away all those U.S. vehicles to the terrorists for free, pehaps he could send a Humvee my way.  My car's water pump or head gasket has failed, and no one knows how to fix it.  I could also use the machine gun; lotsa crime here too.

I notice that ISIS and Al Queda have lotsa Toyota pickups.  Some Toyota dealership over there is doing well.  Are we giving away U.S. vehicles for free in the ME so Obama and the UAW can claim we're beating Toyota somewhere in the world?  Does Toyota sell tanks?

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:35 | 4899821 Yes We Can. But...
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Those aren't actually Toyotas, they are surplus Gubmint Motors vehicles with Toyota decals.  This whole things is a ruse to move surplus vehicles and to feed the IMC.  That next satellite image showing lots filled with millions o' surplus rigs will tell the tale.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:30 | 4899708 Oldrepublic
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I am glad to see that the Kurds,one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a nation of their own,seems to be on the road to complete independence.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:46 | 4899809 ThisIsBob
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It should also be noted that the Kurds are receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and now Iraq, and with the substantial help of the UN, housing and feeding them.

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 18:28 | 4900027 SmittyinLA
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The Kurds are nutcase Islamo-fascists, their state will create endless problems for Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan and even enclaves in the EU, giving them their state is like giving Al Qaida their own state, an endless disaster.

The Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering has a median IQ score between 82 and 86.

It is noteworthy that between 20 to 50% of marriages in the Middle East are between cousins,

Stupid inbred tribal fascist shouldn't have their own state

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 19:17 | 4900176 Harriet Wanger
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The unitelligible clustering of the further unintelligible clustering of the even further unintelligible clustering apparently has no ability for sustained logical thought.

It is noteworthy that you are full of shit.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 20:49 | 4900493 drunkenlout
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"Stupid inbred tribal fascist shouldn't have their own state"

 

C'mon.  Several of the Southern 48 are in-bred clusters with State flags.


Fri, 06/27/2014 - 01:31 | 4901212 Emergency Ward
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Wow, I guess Washington DC should be glad that it isn't a state.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:05 | 4899711 financialrealist
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think the POTUS is the actual terrorist.  looking to destroy us from within.  He's been a sleeper for 2 decades...he may be the antichrist...prophecies of Nostradamus? He predicted he would emerge and bring about the final war in the middle east...this would be the war to end all wars. 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:25 | 4899786 lakecity55
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There is a 50-50 chance you are right.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 18:18 | 4899991 SmittyinLA
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heh the Jews have taken both sides of that bet 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:06 | 4899713 Perimetr
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Meanwhile, out here in the provinces, in really hot weather, they close the 100 year old elementary school my kids attended because it lacks air conditioners. $500 million would buy quite a few brand new schools, but obviously it is more important to send more borrowed money to blow up people in foreign countries.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:33 | 4899815 Cathartes Aura
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sounds like a community problem, best solved by all parents concerned/involved.  bake sale!

if it's actually warmer now than in the past 100 years that kids have been using that building. . .

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:39 | 4899826 Yes We Can. But...
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Soft, fat kids overheat more readily.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:11 | 4899721 JohninMK
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This a really significant link put up by SmallerGovNow2, if you missed it you have to look at it.

http://www.infowars.com/king-abdullah-calls-up-saudi-armed-forces-on-hig...

In short

The Iranian Army central command could well be already running, as a combined operation, the entire Syria/Iraq front against ISIS.

Saudi/Egypt/Jordan are resupplying and helping ISIS whilst also reinforcing the Saudi border against ISIS.

ISIS are bringing back into service the giant H2 airfield from Saddams days.

Following that. Where the US special forces fit into that is unknown. How much Russian hardware is on the move is another question.

The shit is really about to hit the fan now.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:09 | 4899726 Joebloinvestor
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Syria, the same price as Solyndra?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:10 | 4899727 Fix It Again Timmy
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$500 Million? - HELL NO!.....But, I'm OK with them having a bake sale....

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:11 | 4899729 Porous Horace
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NO!!! Not one dime. For the first time in 200 years, why don't we just mind our own business?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:15 | 4899752 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Speaking of ISIS coincidence or not you people can decide.

https://public.isishq.com/public/SitePages/Home.aspx

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:38 | 4899825 Cathartes Aura
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.

ISIS has demonstrated expertise and success in performing mission-critical tasks at home and abroad. Our personnel have been trained and tested—often decorated—in the fields of combat, security, intelligence and more.

that's a mighty fine link you've shared Dewey.

hope you don't mind it gettin' passed around. . . rather like the military does soldiers, eh.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 19:15 | 4900172 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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That is the point if there is value someone will add to it in subsequent repostings.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 22:13 | 4900712 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Here is a thought to chew on.

https://public.isishq.com/public/clients/default.aspx

Client - Multi National Forces – Iraq

Services - Theatre Wide Security Services

...

Remember them Humvees they wouldn't drone even though they were clear and isolated targets easily identifiable as ISIS from above while the convoys were rolling into Iraq initially then they claimed they couldn't strike for not being clear and isolated targets afterwards.

If you were running an illegal covert op supporting terrorists using mercenaries how would you hide it in plain sight?

And then in typical WH/State Department fashion rub everyone's noses in it afterwards using agitprop like the youtube video as the reason for Benghazi aka Michelle and her bring back our humvees nonsense.

Remember they could have easily taken those humvees out of the equation and off the battlefield with a few well placed missile strikes by drones as they rode into Iraq in the first place but they didn't. That begs the question why?

 

Fri, 06/27/2014 - 12:52 | 4902674 Cathartes Aura
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wasn't in the War Theatre script, hmm.

 

truly sloppy lately, pretty much anyone paying attention should be able to connect those dots now - of course, this acknowledges the individual drop the artificial "sides" and the flag-waving requirements. . .

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 21:48 | 4900723 Dublinmick
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ISIS

When every second counts, a love one is seriously ill and that organ transplant cannot wait another second ..... call ISIS

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:15 | 4899753 trip kitchen
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Might as well earmark another 500 mil for ISIS now too.  We'll prob need them as allies in another few months.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:22 | 4899772 oklaboy
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and I guess the Bamster is going to lead the charge?

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 19:32 | 4900223 lotsoffun
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yes, he will.  yes we can.  on reggies' b*tthole.

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:23 | 4899775 JohninMK
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Just seen that Iraq has just ordered Sukhoi fighters from Russia and Belarus.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28042302

Said it was too 'long winded' to get them from the US!

 

 

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:32 | 4899805 SpanishGoop
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"God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists' dens,"

You can order and get Sukhois delivered in one week ??

Why are we still waiting for years for those F35's we already made a big downpayment for......

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 17:23 | 4899776 lakecity55
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"President asks 500 Mil for ISIL."

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!