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Markets Turmoil As President Obama Authorizes Air Strikes On Iraq "To Prevent Genocide"
In an effort to prevent genocide, President Obama has authorized US military action in Iraq "to protect Americans":
- *OBAMA SAYS HE'S AUTHORIZED TARGETED AIR STRIKES IN IRAQ
- *OBAMA SAYS HE'S AUTHORIZED HUMANITARIAN DROPS FOR REFUGEES
Global equity markets and Treasury yields are tumbling. President Obama concluded: "Today, America Is Coming To Help Iraq"... Again!
Humanitarian aid has begun...
3 US military cargo aircraft dropped food and water for 8,000 people. Food included MRE's - meals-ready-to-eat. Planes escorted by 2 F-18s.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 8, 2014
And the warmongers fully support the decision
Support for Pres Obama's Iraq actions from Senate Armed Svcs Chmn Carl Levin. Says justifications cited by POTUS "are surely sufficient."
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) August 8, 2014
Equity futures are tumbling...
Gold is surging...
and Brent and WTI Crude are jumping...
VIX futures are up around 1 vol at 17.7
The full speech -
“People are starving and children are dying of thirst,” Obama said, adding that ISIS is intent on committing genocide against the isolated Iraqis. “I have said before the United States cannot and should not intervene every time there’s a crisis in the world,” the president said. “So let me be clear about why we must act and act now.” With “innocent people facing violence on a horrific scale,” Obama said America “cannot turn a blind eye.”
“I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home and that’s what we have done,” Obama said. “As commander-in-chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. So even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there’s no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq.”
The president ended by heralding the United States’ “leadership” in the world and stressed that “America has other tools in our arsenal than our military.” He said “we can also lead with the power of our diplomacy, our economy, and our ideals.”
“But when the lives of American citizens are at risk, we will take action. That’s my responsibility as commander-in-chief,” Obama continued. “And when many thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. That is our responsibility as Americans.”
Here is what ISIS controls...
His additional comments:
- *OBAMA SAYS MILITARY ACTION WOULD BE TO PROTECT AMERICANS
- *OBAMA SAYS MILITARY AUTHORIZED TO STRIKE ON ADVANCES ON ERBIL
- *OBAMA SAYS U.S. ACTING TO PREVENT ACT OF GENOCIDE
Adding
“I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq,” he said.
And concludes:
- *OBAMA SAYS `TODAY AMERICA IS COMING TO HELP' IN IRAQ
Again...
10Y Yields are at 2.37% - and it appears the safe haven buying began when the press conference was announced...
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This should do wonders for his approval rating...
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Some thoughts from The National Journal on why he acted:
The World Will Blame President Obama if Iraq Falls
The world will not blame the Iraqi government if the children and women huddled atop Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq die of hunger and exposure. Nor will Pope Francis blame Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki if the Islamic extremists attacking the country slaughter the 40,000 Christians and other minorities who have fled to the mountaintop. The fact is that the world, from the pontiff in the Vatican to the coal miner in West Virginia, will blame President Obama.
That is why the president found himself under such intense pressure to act on Thursday, facing calls from around the world to marshal American might in a way to both rush humanitarian aid to the refugees in Iraq and punish the forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) who are trying to kill them.
It was notable that the pope's plea for help was not directed at Iraq's putative government. "His Holiness addresses an urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs of the many who have been forced to flee and who depend on the solidarity of others," said the statement issued by the Vatican on Thursday.
While the president was huddled with his military advisers in Washington assessing his options before making his decision, he could not help but feel the pressure. And perhaps no one could better understand that pressure than a man who routinely attended such meetings under three presidents and famously codified the "Pottery Barn Rule" prior to the launch of the Iraq War in 2003. According to author Bob Woodward, Colin Powell told President George W. Bush: "You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You'll own it all." He distilled the rule as "You break it, you own it."
A decade later and after millions of American dollars, thousands of casualties, and seemingly hundreds of different policies, Iraq is very much broken. Even though he has boasted of "ending" the U.S. role in the war and even though he didn't create the situation, Obama very much owns the mess. And he finds himself on a timetable not of his choosing and very much at odds with his policy.
That policy has been clear ever since ISIS started gobbling up Iraqi territory and terrorizing the Iraqi people, meeting only ineffective response from the Iraqi military supposedly trained by the United States: First, force Maliki to reform his government, broaden his sectarian appeal, and send a signal to all of Iraq that Baghdad could represent and protect them all. Only then could military help come from the United States.
But this situation, which the White House concedes is an immediate humanitarian catastrophe with lives hanging in the balance, cannot wait for Maliki to get his politics together. As reporters repeatedly reminded press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday, these people are already dying.
That forced Obama to square his aversion to using military force abroad with his humanitarian urges. After the United States stood idly by in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, President Clinton promised the world that "never again" would the United States be blind to genocide. Obama's instincts were to keep that promise. But those instincts seemed to be at war with his desire to stay out of foreign wars. That brought renewed attention to the conditions the president laid out in 2011 to justify involvement in Libya's civil war.
In an address to the nation from the East Room on March 18, 2011, the president said he was impelled to act by a situation similar in many respects to the current crisis in Iraq. "Here is why this matters to us," he said then. Without international action, he said, there would be "atrocities against his people." He added, "Many thousands could die. A humanitarian crisis would ensue. The entire region could be destabilized, endangering many of our allies and partners. The calls of the Libyan people would go unanswered. The democratic values that we stand for would be overrun. Moreover, the words of the international community would be rendered hollow." He concluded, "And that's why the United States has worked with our allies and partners to shape a strong international response at the United Nations."
That speech is as close as it gets to outlining an Obama Doctrine for humanitarian situations. It is another reason why the pressure on the White House is so intense. The world knows that the United States "broke" Iraq and "owns" the mess, and is waiting to see if the Obama Doctrine that applied in 2011 still applies today.
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We await Ron Paul's comments...
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And on a lighter note...
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Obama will save us!
Forward !
into the abyss,
SATOSHI WE LOVE YOU TO BITS!!!!
Putin will use this same logic to go into East Ukraine.... and what happens then??
how ironic ... Hussein came on right in the middle of "Big Brother"
Unleash the Kinetic Humanitarian Aid !
How many times are they going to destroy Iraq in order to save it?
As a staunch liberal, I was against all military actions under Bush.
Under Obama, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for WW3.
Give the President another Nobel Peace prize!
I'm Liberal because we're the party of global wars, using weapons of mass destruction, fire bombing civilians and interment camps !
WWI - Wilson (D)
WWII - Roosevelt (D)
Korea - Trumman (D)
Vietnam - Johnson (D)
It's ALL okay as long as they're democrats.
bout fcking time fonestar... or I mean obummer got some balls.
No getting away from American Imperialism.
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/08/david-stockman-the-collapse-of-the...
Zerohedge.... can we ban fonestar AKA ghoatrider again... life was so much better without this douche.
You can't let 40,000 people starve on the side of a mountain. I don't know what ISIS is thinking. They had the whole country for the taking. Then they do this? Bitchez.
the manchurian president cant save them.
Lets HOPE they dont accidently CHANGE the bomb cargo for the aid cargo. Though of course results are irrelevant in a pantomime like this.
ISIL Leader A Mossad Agent: French Report
Hi Ho, Hi Ho,
It's off to war we go.
With some killing here
Some maiming there
Hi Ho, Hi Ho Hi Ho
The President seems confused. ISIL is a spinoff of Al Qaeda, American-funded, American-armed, American-trained. So now America is preparing to bomb this same bunch? Why don't we stop militarizing the place and turning people against each other, and instead take constructive steps to help the locals develop their economy, thus starving the basis for radicalizatoin and conflict at its source? People are starting to get the impression that America is only interested in making money for banksters and military contractors.
What is the real interest in this mountaintop? After 3.5 million people dead either directly or indirectly from sanctions, the Prez surely couldn't care less about another 40,000 here or there. Is there a hidden cache of Iraqi gold that they missed ten years ago? Is there a valley suitable for a natural gas pipeline? Did somebody spot Bin Laden again?
The President says American troops will serve as "advisors." THEY'VE BEEN GIVING "ADVICE" FOR TEN YEARS. Are we looking at ANOTHER TEN YEARS?
Why is the USD up on this news? Doesn't this feed the movement toward "De-Dollarization?"
Milo Mindbender selling chocolate cotton or buying eggs for 3 cents and selling them for 18 cents a dozen at a profit would have his mind bent trying to keep up with Obummer's twisted policy of arming ISIS in Jordan and Turkey and bombing them over the border in Iraq. Catch-22 was supposed to be a work of fiction ... wasn't it?
The IS crowd is getting out of hand.Not as malleable as expected.And not achieving the right thing in Syria.And besides - this makes the president look presidential...bombing terrorists.Let´s just try to keep a lid on the fact that we created and supported these guys. And this is also good fot the economy.A Keynesian shot in the arm.An aspect the rag-heads in middle Iraq never will understand.
It´s not like this hasn´t been seen before.This is a leaf out of the playbook from the time before Westphalian peace accord that ended the 30-yrs war in Europe.Back then any warlord could go into business with his merry band of psychopaths until he got wiped out by a bigger player. Then this sorry Westphalia thing came along where entire states were made responsible.No more private contractors. What a bummer.Guess they got tired of never-edning war back in those days.
Or did they?
Ghoatrider is a bitcoin injected suicide machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqzJkl1vV7I
they will be "targeted" airstrikes I'm sure, only a few innocent civilians will be killed
Again..."the Devil is in the details." So Israel does a broad based shelling of Gaza earning (predictable) universal condemnation...so then suddenly the USA finds itself engaged in "targeted strikes."
These wars seems VERY well run from a media perspective....almost like a "for sale sign" for certain aspects of the military/money complex.
How "social media" is "running" these conflicts is an area of interest I think the President and Congress need to get to work on "post haste" here.
"If looks could kill they probably (probabalisticly?) will"
You are no Million Dollar Bonus. You can't stay in character for nothing! Not that you have to...
If you really aspire to do it, roll up another one and try again. But I think it leaves to filthy a taste in your mouth.
Stackers,
You history is very distorted. Check this list out. You will appreciate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjWQtzB9jE8
Chumpsky can suck a big greasy goat kebab
Gatekeepin fuck
Interesting that people down-vote the Chomsky excerpt. Can they explain what they find disagreeable without swearing mindlessly?
Because he is a sanctimonious academic hack?
I was going to add more, but I think I covered it.
Sometimes less is more.
No offense, but if you can't provide justified criticism of specific points, then you have no credibility. Propagandists DEPEND on lazy people not to think carefully and argue logically.
Chomsky's job, like Amy G., even Howard Zinn I'm sad to say, is to wave you away from 9/11.
...and they're also there to never say anything bad about the federal reserve bank.
Did you mean, bank-notes?
conscious being.
Your nonsense and delusion never cease to amuse us here, at Zero Hedge.
I promise to be mindful while swearing.
The comment was mildly disagreeable. It was half-cocked, argumentative, and most of all, the fallacy of appeal to authority/accomplishment - whether by Escrava or Choomsky himself - is so played out. It reeks of despair.
A mind is a terrible thing to hedge, bitchez.
All_Your_Base,
You got:
A-Plus for not swearing
And D- Minus for content
Roger that.
Cardinal Fang,
Go back watch your stupid movies.
chomsky is a socialist degenerate who defends the fed, thats why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBQU8aaW90o
Thanks for posting that. Chomsky deserves credit for flagging the problem of "Manufactured Consent," but his economics are surprisingly naive. Trotting out the "Clinton Surplus" myth is a low point. I like his analogy of the "Battering Ram," though. What is PNAC if not a "Battering Ram?" Rgds
What happen to H C Res 105, No Auth for war in Irag, this guy just told the Congress to go f'k themselves one week later !
He obeys no law. Neither did Chaney or his coke head Bushy Boy slave, but I mean what a slap in the face.
Now I know Congress is limp noodle. I wonder what is worse Pres or Congress
Dems go for long wars, lots of Govt. spending on weapons upfront to get votes.
Reps go for plasma torches to melt people for drugs - Panama Deception, or strike slightly in the night via the CIA and assasination.
They all criminals and gangsters the same.
ThirteenthFloor, Save_America1st,
There are two America, guys! This is how our "Founding Lawyers" set it up.
Read your history, it's all there!
What do you do for a living Escrava?
MsCreant,
You and I know that question, and asking for how long a person has being a member of Zero Hedge, not that you did that, are both irrelevant.
What is the topic? And what is its history?
“I am a cop. All I want are the facts. Just the facts, ma’am” -- Dragnet, 1949
That's what I care.
I am a university professor. Machoman below us posting is a lawyer. There are biologists on here, financial advisors, nuclear engineers, carpenters, MDs, gardeners, preppers, I listen to everybody, but each one is contextualized.
You can answer this question in a vague way, like I do.
Your posts are only about a very limited range of topics and you say the same things about the same themes over and over.
You are selling something, that much is clear.
Again, the facts. Just the facts, ma’am.
yeah, and you notice the "educators" or gooberment don't ever talk about Eisenhower...A Conservative and a war hero???? And Kennedy was a Democrat (when D's were actually good people but before and as they were being infiltrated by Marxist, treasonous, scum), and he wanted to go back to a sound monetary system so they blew his head off.
It's just a game, "Folks". The "2 sides" aren't really that anymore...haven't been since Reagan, and oh yeah, by the way, they tried to kill his ass too! And those were supposedly his own fucking people!!!
Now it's just theater of the obsurd and the treasonous. It's a mafia. They're playing a game against the sheeple, like the WWF, Coke and Pepsi, McDonalds and Burger King, Ford and Chevy or whatever...etc., etc., etc.
You all know this, and I'm just preaching to the choir. But for the newbies who have finally found Fight Club, I hope they are learning and their eyes are finally opening like Neo's eyes in the Matrix.
Because this is the reality of the true world.
It's all a fucking game being played on us by the elitist, globalist, scum who control it all and have no alliance or allegiance to any country or anything else. It's a big fucking game and to them we are just ants to be stepped on.
The Right vs. Left paradigm has now been transformed into a multi-media, propagandist, Fascist, Statist, Corporatist, mafia, scam to exponential factors. Same with the monetary system...a fake game where they always when and we always lose.
Let's fucking fight it out, "Folks"!!! They're not going to stop. Does anyone really think they're going to stop??? At this point they can't ever afford to stop. And why would sociopaths and psychopaths ever stop??? That's like thinking that cancer would just stop on it's own. It doesn't!!! And neither will they. They're a rot...a scourge...a plague...a virus...a filth...a cancer...they are death.
Don't belive that? Well, fuck....they tell us that willfully on their own. They're eugenicists and they dream night and day 24/7 of depopulating the world of at least 90% of the human population...excluding themselves of course, because due to their psychosis they see themselves as superior to everyone else on the planet.
Like Zbignew Brzezinski said (or more appropriately "lamented" to his group of global elitists: "It's infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.") True fucking story!!! http://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=3m31s wait for it at the end, but listen to it all from 3:35 onward. He's speaking to an auditorium full of sociopath, elitist, NWO wannabe, scumbags who think they're so much better than us and think they have a "seat at the table" after the collapse and think they will be in power and control like some fanatical retards from the Hunger Games movies or some bullshit like that. WTF??? Total out of their minds nut cases!!!
But they're everywhere and they infect everbody from children on up to adults, from kindergarten to university levels, from city councils up to the highest political offices, from low lever security guards to local and state law enforcement, or the criminal, loser, pedophile TSA all the way up to DHS, CIA, NSA, FBI, Secret Service, military, etc.!!!
And I'm not saying that all people in all those areas are nefarious, criminal, scumbags...they aren't...not at all. There are so many who I believe are good and are trying to fight for the survival of our nation and for our Constitutional rights.
But just like bad money drives out good money...bad apples...rotten scum, like those in most of these levels of civil service and government...they rot out the very being of the body politic. They drive out the good. They force good people out so that they can bring bad people in just like themselves. And it manifests and grows and becomes a leviathan of evil that destroys everything in it's path.
But only if we let it...and only to a certain extent, and then it too collapses under it's own corruption. And they know it. Obviously they know how sick they are or else they wouldn't try so fucking hard to do what they do!
If it was easy then they wouldn't have to go through all the nefarious lies and deception and wouldn't have to prey on the weak, uneducated, poor, and the children, etc. If what they preached and wanted was so fucking great it would just come naturally, right? Like a free market comes naturally.
But their cult of ideology doesn't come naturally, which is why they have to try so hard and which is why it has taken hundreds if not thousands of years to get this far without yet bringing the free world down...but now they are close. Have you ever seen the shield of the Fabian Socialists from England? Those scumbags who were a secret Socialist society hell bent on destroying the world? Their shield was that of a fucking wolf in sheep's clothing for fuck's sake!!! That was from the fucking 1800's...those sociopathic scumbags knew how fucking evil they were. Just like all their buddies and friends know what sick fucking pedophiles they are.
This is a cult of total evil we're having a war with, "Follks". It's not black against white or white againt hispanic. It's not straight against gay, abortion against non-abortion, Left vs Right, guns against anti-guns, muslim against Christian (although that seems to be now be the most legitimate real fight going right now), or man against woman, etc. etc.
It's not any of that shit! It's US against THEM. And we're the people of the world who just want to live our fucking lives without big government sitting on our backs fucking with us. THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BANKSTERS WHO CONTROL THEM!!!
It's us against them. The line is clear and it's as fucking far and wide as the Grand Fucking Canyon, "Folks"!!!
That's the deal. We're the masses and in general we're good and want good. Bad is bad and it happens like shit happens. We can deal with that.
But it's nearly impossible to deal with the malignant cancerous tumor of banksters and the mafia world governments who are fucking up the entire world for their own political and monetary gains while 99.9999% of the people are forced to suffer in so many various ways.
But it's this fucking easy to end it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs
Just keep waking people up. And while you're at it. Keep fucking stacking AG and AU, along with PB and PB delivery systems, food, water, and other essential supplies. Cuz a storm's coming. We've had the earthquake already in 2008...now the Tsunami is on the fucking way and we need to be ready for it and we need to get as many people as we possibly can ready for it also no matter what it takes.
end.
I'm book marking this page just because of this eyes wide shut rant.
Down to the smallest denominator
Thank you. And you're welcome ;-)
Pass it on!
I work graveyard shifts quite often. When driving home before sunrise I think of how little traffic there is and how nice it would've been if there were that many people at all times. That many cars. But then again, I just think about it. I don't wish 90% of the world to vanish just so that I'd have an easier commute.
Now, there are people out there, who not only have the desire, but the capability to exterminate 9/10 of us, as well as the arrogance to say which ones us (or them) are worthy of sticking around a little while longer. And they'll get their wish if we don't stop them.
I have not decided if the conspiracy runs that deep, or not. I keep an open mind. What those fucks need to get a grip on is their conduct is forcing many people to come to this conclusion, guilty or innocent. Making me wonder at something that on the face of it is batshit(ebola) crazy. They are acting so poorly, they are so dishonest in obvious ways that I don't need to conjecture about, don't need to "connect the dots" and write a story in the middle, that when this stuff comes up, I gotta go "Well, if the treasury could sell bonds to the Fed through indirect dealers, if the HFTers control the markets, if they print when they feel like it, when the president uses executive orders instead of passing stuff through congress, what won't they do?"
Law does not exist. This is the profound thing that all need to absorb. This is the baseline fundamental starting point. Law does not exist. Only power and coercion. If that is the case why wouldn't they do this? Nothing would stop them. I am forced to entertain the absurd. I hate it. I hate fruit loop paranoid tin hat shit.
Well said. We are law-less. Legal, but law-less.
Froot Loop batshit absurdity is believing that "official" "authorities" "protect" our "freedom."
"Well, if the treasury could sell bonds to the Fed through indirect dealers, if the HFTers control the markets, if they print when they feel like it, when the president uses executive orders instead of passing stuff through congress, what won't they do?"
9-11. Anyone who can conceive of and plan sickness like that is true evil, and there is NOTHING they won't do. In the past few days, I have been thinking for the first time seriously that Ebola and nuclear holocaust are possible, because these pricks, like the proverbial dog with the bone, are completely incapable of reason - even at the level of self-preservation - when it comes to playing their 'power games'. And that thought process scares me more than any specific psycho plan they come up with. Simply that they genuinely can't stop. They are addicted to destructive behavior, until one of them finally dares another one right over the cliff's edge.
@ MsCreant
We have competition. People don't look at our concrete sky-rises like the african plains, but they're no different. The legal system is created from this competition and, ultimately, only curtails the actions of a small subset of society (particular personalities). The vast majority of the legal system is simply a trap for the unweary, where the entrenched come to feast.
I believe that most of the acts that appear to be concerted are actually just correlated due to similar wiring of the actors. You have a lot of people all trying to do the same thing, independently, as a simple matter of social competition. Sometimes, there are bonafide conspiracies (on incredibly large events), but I don't think there need to be conspiracies to explain our present status, nor how we got here.
This is also why our economic models always fail to accurately predict much of anything and, further, why the concept of economic systems never seem to actually fit the society attempting to be described thereby. We have competition and this competition manifests itself in ways we have been unable to accurately predict. Welcome to the jungle.
I generally think you are right. Common behaviors in concert with common interests shaping the structure to their benefit. Meanwhile the Ponzi scam structure society has taken on is stunning in all its collapsible magnitude.
I would add that in that competition you speak of, small lotteries are won here and there that help with the illusion that there can be justice.
+1000 Rant of the day, excellent. Snipped to my quote file & bookmarked as well.
You've been here how long?
Need I remind you that "All wars are banksters' wars"?
Your right on the first three - only the democrats have the balls to win wars.
DDE first entered Vienam and gets credit for starting, though I'm sure had he any idea what was to happen, he wouldn't have.
You do demonstrate typical GOP interpretation of the facts, you must be a good foot soldier for them on the runup to primary election day.
Actually, if you studied US military history like you think you have (but obviously have not), you would know that Truman and his bastardization of going to war without declaring it and then declaring victory even though there wasn't (see Norht Korea today along with the permanent basing of troops) is the reason we had Vietnam, and all these bullshit partial wars since. This type of shit was forewarned at the time. And it unfortunately has come to pass.
Thank your local Democrat for these easy-bake wars. You sound like a good foot soldier for them come election time.
ISRAEL - The only "Democracy" in the region since 1947/48 to now
Just sayin...
Is Demonocracy a viable concept?
Could, would Israel be able to perform as a 'democracy' if not for the utterly rigged system that has excluded the majority of voters (non-Jews), that could theoretically vote Israel out of existance, if there was real democracy? Established and built on terrorism and deception (see: Balfour and Palestine, a legacy of deceit, by Anthony Nutting http://www.balfourproject.org/balfour-and-palestine/ ) and the (obviously effective) lobbying/coercion of political Zionists, without US financial aid it's doubtful that Israel would remain 'viable'. (Though offshore gas my change that temporarily). What democracy exactly?
Hi omniversling,
Thank you for your post.
I was actually being cynical. Israel is an apatheid state created from Terror, ruled by terror and continues to exist due to terror.
Fair intro to the problem is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58njT2oXfE
But this doesn't explain the crazy nature of the Zionists who wish to destroy what we have - using their varied tool-set. See Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen and Co for an example of Zionist destruction by using the FED weapon. On the other hand the Zionist weapon of choice used to steal palestinian land are varied, but usually involve F-16, chemical bombs and so on, mostly against a civiliant population.
good thing we have kerry....he can carry lots of supplies in those mountains with his horsyness abilities....
“People are starving and children are dying of thirst,” Obama said, adding that ISIS/Israel is intent on committing genocide against the isolated Iraqis/Gazans. “I have said before the United States cannot and should not intervene every time there’s a crisis in the world,” the president said. “So let me be clear about why we must act and act now.” With “innocent people facing violence on a horrific scale,” Obama said America “cannot turn a blind eye.”
No job too small for the secretariat of state..
Bet the Iraqis hate us for our democracy now.
@Liberal
On the forum for 7 weeks, ay? Gee...welcome.
TROLL (but at least your honest about it). Or maybe just a spoof like MillionDollarBonus?
This is Fight Club.
Do better.
Do better? I thought his comment about keeping his fingers crossed was funny as hell. And yes, I'm certain his comments are meant to be funny/ sarcastic.
Who fucking cares if you call them a troll?
I care that you post what seems generally a good interpretation of the shit we live in, and then like 95+% of ZH posters, you spew out party line lockstep GOP bullshit.
You actually blame Obama for GOP wars and deficits! I agree ObamaClinton and the rest of those fucking Nazis are the same as CheneyBush. But at least Dems spend the money on Americans and in America.
Anything else is just a vote for pure Neocon banker corporatism.
Anything but the GOP.
5000 tons of bush depleted uranium was not enough
a billion years of cancer deaths is not enough
isis is a more rapid mossad talmudic kill
It's much simpler than that, it's the self-fulfilling prophecy of apocalypse being carried out by the religious nutters... It appears that the common god shared between the muslims, christians and jews left a pretty fucked up impression on the purpose of life... Why is it you don't see buddhists or hindus doing this shit?
Whoa Whoa. Check your history. Wherever there is a congregation of people, you find psychopaths looking to fleece them.
They need to do it RIGHT
"Putin will use this same logic to go into East Ukraine.... and what happens then??"
Then the Royal Canadian Mounties fend off darth Putin.
Send the fucking Canadian's in. Better yet settle it with a hockey match.
Been there done that.
Google '72 Summit Series.
Slap Shot diplomacy.
"Send the fucking Canadian's in.
Commanded by General Alan Thicke?
No, the Russians get to have Canadian Bacon for breakfast.
doesn't anyone in the propaganda media have the balls to ask obola about his feelings on bombing the psycho army of darkness that he has approved to be trained, funded, armed, and given free reign to chop the heads off of thousands of Christians in a reign of terror and massacre across Syria and Iraq?
Hmmmm....any answers there, Mr. "I'm really good at killing people with drones", but can only hit one jump-shot out of 22 without any defenders in your FACE, like a little bitch??????
Go to 1:15 to watch the ultimate layup brick of all time history! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjDqm-JHrA
But Israel is bad for defending themselves and America's good for NOT defending our sourthern border from diseased, illegal invaders (and future Demonrat voters), RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTT??????????????
This whole world is being played against itself from one end to the other by these sociopath, psychopath, politi-scum, MIC, bankster crook, mafia, criminal, FUCKS!!!!
War is coming, "Folks"...it's already WWIV now...and it's going to escalate.
It's the only way they can extricate themselves from their literal QUADRILLIONS of phony, fiat, paper, vapor, counterfiet debt bullshit, while at the same time re-drawing the world lines, wiping out liberty and freedom, enslaving the entire world, and reigning in totaly global tyranny and full-spectrum dominance.
IF they can pull it off. They CAN'T pull it off if we continue to resist, fight back, wake more sheeple up, arm ourselves, and be brave.
Apathy is death.
Speaking of "kinetic aid" in the form of releasing a human from his or her mortal coil it appears Israel has been testing out a new toy on the people of Gaza as a preamble to their "blue helmet" project in Ukraine. Certainly explains the unseen injuries that the Palestinian doctors have been witnessing with their patients during the siege.
I'm sure Putin has some wonderful toys of his own lined up when the time is right!
Needless to say besides "choco Jew" I wouldn't want to be an Ashkanazi Kike anywhere in Eastern Europe now or in the very near future!...
http://www.intellihub.com/israel-deploys-new-weapons-system-gaza/
"The hell that is Iraq?" (Saddam Hussein at the gallows) The context was that Iraq would descend into a tribal hell, which it has.
People are starving and children are dying of thirst,” Obama said.
Wait, is this the West's blockade of Iraq where 500,000 Iraquis starved, or the brutal starvation of the Germans after they had surrendered? It's Soooo hard to figure out when butchering children is cool - and when it is not.
It's very simple, the word "genocide" is a hall pass in the international community for unilateral military action and imposing your military will in the neighborhood (and bypassing the UNSC where other parties have a veto). So any time an imperialist can do under the guise of "genocide" what they would do naturally - they jump at the opportunity...
http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/REISMAN_MICHAEL_LECTURE
My thoughts as well. The same logic applied to the Russian and East Ukraine situation would give Putin just the reason to start bombing Kiev's army on the outskirts of Donetsk, a city which is about to be assualted by massed rocket, missile and artillery batteries. The death toll will be huge.
I suppose Putin would easily use a version of this. However, unless the Ukrainians are crucifying, beheading and have ethnic Russians rounded up for extermination I, for one will not buy it, especially given Russian/USSR history.
I was actually thinking that the neocons would be using this to hone their propaganda skills for going all-in on Ukraine.
“Muslim People are starving and muslim children are dying of thirst,” Obama said, adding that ISIS is intent on committing genocide against the isolated muslim Iraqis. “I have said before the United States cannot and should not intervene every time there’s a crisis in the world,” the president said. “So let me be clear about why we must act and act now.” With “innocent muslim people facing violence on a horrific scale,” Obama said America “cannot turn a blind eye"
Of course, when hundreds of Christians are killed for their faith in Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Kenya, Angola, CAR & Niger......that doesn't really matter.
So, now we're air-dropping cookies in Iraq?!
how ironic...Hussein came on right in the middle of "Big Brother"
And ironic that Obummer would go to such lengths to support the gold price.
Weird.
iraqis threaten to sue topus
Who is Sue Topus?
Who is John Galt ?
Is that your catchphrase or what?
“People are starving and children are dying of thirst,” .....“So let me be clear about why we must act and act now.” With “innocent people facing violence on a horrific scale,” Obama said America “cannot turn a blind eye.” Unless it's toward Israel destruction of Gaza...
I'm having a hard time understanding why all this isn't bullish.
It is tough when the buck stops with you. Few men are up to the task. This clown walks off Marine One, snaps a half ass salute to a real man, then struts to the door like he really owns the job.
Shit, this poor sap is not not equipped with the skill set to pull off a shift change at McDonalds. It is sad and pathetic to watch.
And I'm being really, and I do mean really, polite.
Such BS, it will all be done with drones,why act like such a big deal.
He never looked at the camera....he knows we hate him
stratfor update!!
He looks more whipped than Bush did in year 6, and that's saying something.
He's pissed his masters told him to get out there and destroy Iraq in order to save it. Again.
But he does what he's told like a good puppet.
It might also be because he's getting this feeling that this is just Ver 1.0 and that Ver 2.0 will be used in Ukraine (and what NONE of them know/could accept is that that'll be the LAST version [for obvious reasons]).
Because it's starting to sink in, it's no joke being in charge. Even he sees now what inaction does. You can't run and hide. Right or wrong, make a decision. And the things he does decide on, are all political. Designed to further the Party.
Dad used to say; being Captain means you may one day find yourself on a 20 man lifeboat, with 30 men. It's up to the Captain to decide which 20 live, or to kill all 30. There is no easy way out. And few men deserve the position.
A lesson to all. Let's vet the president. See military rank and leadership profiles. Or a Governor with a track record. Or at the very least, managed a 7-11 for a profit. Community organizer with the right skin tone. My ass.Oh, " and he speaks well" I guess that means we don't need subtitles while he's reading the TelePrompTer.
Let's play a word cloud game.
Downing st. memos, WMDS, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Regime change, National debt, hypocrisy, natural resources, Military Industrial Complex, Civil war, money printing, banksters, theft, amnesty from prosecution, lies...
and finally
CLUSTER FUCK.
PS
Pope Francis calls for action as Iraqi Christians forced to fleeHAHAHAHAH!
We must build a statue to his Magnificence and throw EBT cards at it!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, BITCHEZ.
<Dog of War
<Piss Prize
If you are a terrorist he wants to give you a gun.
If you are a citizen he wants take away your gun.
Strange place the USA.
Rome, meet Nero
Arming both sides. Keynes would be proud.
Let's play the next round of kneejerk reactions and unintended consequences.
Rothschilds play book
FORWARD !
By Jean Shaoul30 July 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is made up of forces variously estimated at between 3,000 and 10,000 fighters. It has taken over much of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq, as well as the Trabil crossing on the Jordan–Iraq border. Its territory now extends to within 76 miles (122 kilometres) of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The group has declared its intention of establishing a caliphate in the region, eliminating all the borders established in the Middle East by Britain and France after World War I along the lines of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1915.
Last month, working with armed tribal leaders and former members of Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath Party, it captured the northern city of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, took control of its military and commercial resources, and continued expanding south along the Tigris River, taking the city of Tikrit.
Over the last two weeks, ISIS forces have expelled the Christian community from Mosul, which has been home to Christians for more than 1,600 years, demanding that they either convert, flee or face execution. Over 1,000 Christians have reportedly fled the city.
Crucially as far as the major powers are concerned, ISIS has captured much of the region’s strategic oil industry. It is also seizing large amounts of US weaponry abandoned in the country after the withdrawal from Iraq three years ago, including 1,500 Humvees, 4,000 PKC machineguns, and 52 M198 155-millimeter howitzers. This heavy artillery gives them the capability to bombard Iraqi cities, including potentially Baghdad, threatening Western commercial interests.
The fact remains, however, that the US, the major European powers, and their regional allies all previously lent financial, military and political support to ISIS and similar groups, which have “Made in the USA” stamped all over them. They have, until now, played a significant part in Washington’s efforts to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as part of a broader effort to gain control of the region’s vast energy resources and transit routes.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
I'm all for a caliphate in the region. These people have been living within arbitrarily defined borders created by psychopathic warring nations for too many decades now. How well has that been working?
I don't give a shit if these people worship Jesus, Fonzie or a goddamn flying spaghetti monster just SELL ME S'MORE O DAT SWEET SWEET CRUDE YOU ARAB BASTARDS
Once they establish a caliphate and start their own government we can send in our bankers and take control once and forever!
well, at least something is still "Made in America"
The quality is gone, however.
Um, seems like they're getting the job done that the previous "quality" folks weren't able to get done.
something is still "Made in America"
Yes, death and destruction. The droner-in-chief must be so proud as he demonizes Putin as a mass murderer.
I wouldn't be surprised if we 'accidentally' blow Mosul dam, or if ISIS gets pissed (...or gets their 'orders') and does it themselves over this. Everyone in Baghdad better take care...
you know he didn't want to protect any of the Christians there (he's ignored this crisis since it's onset) but maybe the Pope shamed him in to it.
It's got nothing to do with wanting to save Christians.
There are US troops in Erbil. (These are conveniently called 'advisors' by Barry.)
Word is that US troops were being surrounded by ISIS and there was going to be a massacre (of US troops)
Last thing Barry wants is video of dead US soldiers being touted by ISIS.
This is why action was so swift.
Barry gets to claim he was 'protecting Christians'.
I didn't see anyone mention this outside of The Saker.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Agust 5th Iraq SITREP by Mindfriedo: Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
5th Aug: IMPORTANT/ATTENTION: Gunmen dressed as US Commandoes storm a Daash prison in Saadia, Diyala. The “US Troops” are armed with silenced weapons and kill four guards and injure another three that are guarding the prison and destroy two Daash vehicles. They free 17 prisoners believed to be important security personnel, government officials, and their families.
It sounds as if actions are already underway, and not airdrops or airstrikes.
well phuck me, here we go helping again....democracy or else bitches..
Ya..it's all fun and games until the pandemic becomes the great equalizer.
Bitchez..
We genocided some folks...
I'm sure this will turn out well, just like everything else Obumma has touched.
...bbut .. Barry said Iraq was a " dumb war "
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99591469
It's progressed from "dumb" to "slap-happy stoopid!"
Yee Haw we're coming to save ya! Hold on tight Icrackies we're gonna bomb you into democracy!
Woo Hoo! Where's that Syria country we gonna chase doz bad guys right in there & get em!
Dropping bombs to PREVENT war?
War really is Peace!
Thank you dear president, now I understand Orwell's blueprint to a happier tomorrow even better!
You forget that the US uses smart bombs that will only kill or maim evildoers.
Hey now... they might have been "evildoers" from 2001-2009 but nowadays I believe they prefer to just be called "folks."
The strategy of labeling anyone killed by US bombs a terrorist has ensured that US bombs only kill terrorists
But no boots on the ground, correct. I wouldn't want him to be called a liar.
Absolutely not, well apart from advisers etc, instead boots at 20,000 feet dropping bombs indiscriminately on Iraq, no problem with that,lets get those freedom hating Iraqi's.
Oh there's boots on the ground over there, with the feet still in them...and arms, legs, torso's, heads without bodies. Oil is a black oozing fucking curse for the people that have the misfortune of living over it and natural gas is vapor that smells of a rotting carcass.
Are you suggesting he no longer gets credit for "ending" the war in Iraq ?
(His explanation is that by criminally devasting their country, we gave them a chance to be like us. Now we have an exceptional right to bomb them because we still do not like them.)
obama---genocide---gaza. where are you??
Wake me up when bad news makes the 10 year yield go up.
Looks like you'll be resting for a long time!
Humor, where is Code Pink and the other liberals during the Afghanistan and Iraq war?
Crickets
Locked up?
Here I sit so broken hearted, looking at the OVERBOUGHT "usdx" and waiting to take a giant massive explosive OBergreenyellen/
If you look at that chart, it headfaked on the last move up, and then retraced almost 50%. Wave #5 on the 5 hour chart looks spent!
My guess, is that bitch blows off over the next 3-5 trading days. FWIW