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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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E/J breakdown through that support finally. There's deffo disturbance in the farce. DXY bouncing along, you could well be right YenC. Stay nimble amigo.
Thanks my friend/ ;-)
For the first time in 2 years, the S&P500 is painting two consecutive red candles on weekly TF. It will be interesting if this risk-off sentiment will play out with USDX buying; see if dollar is still safe-haven.
Obama/USSA here to help = Oxymoron
We're ah, gonna get some uh humanitarian aid to some of those suffering Iraqi folks.
HEY TRIGGER-PULLERS: Exactly how much evidence do you need that you are being commanded by usurpers?
Your commanders are traitorous puppets, or foreigners explicitly.
JUST WALK AWAY. They lied about your pension. It doesn't exist.
TELL THEM "NO MORE."
I smell another Obama Peace Prize in the making! Bombs Away Motherfuckers.
We doubleplus peaced some folks.
We have to destroy Iraq (again) to save it (from us).
Who is this Chas Caldwell bloke on MarketWatch?
A real spammer.
short bonds they said
interest rates will rise they said
its free money they said
.....thanks Janet, you took me down again.
If Obama hadn't armed ISIS to begin with, he wouldn't now be having this problem. We have never before had a president that was this damned stupid, and this damned determined to kill everybody, including those of us living here.
And included in those weapons giveaways, and what was captured - are US made anti aircraft weapons!
If Obama hadn't armed ISIS to begin with,
come on now buddy it is a plan.
head of isis al bagdadi : )
his real name is eliot shimon a mossad tool 100% kosher
talmudix blood ritual specialist and live organ trader.
All this blundering can be traced back to the US's funding the Mujahadeen(sp?) back in the 80s. Hell, could also be as far back as the 50s with the overthrow of Mosaddegh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat).
That's funny....WAR is usually BULLISH!!!
Or is is BULLSHIT?
The nuances...
Usually war is bullish unless war leads to 1/2 the planets's population getting vaporized.
That is not possible. Accidents only happen every 3.7 billion years. Just look at Fukushima. Best thing since sliced bread.
He needs the Nobel Bookends.
The Prince of Peace forgot his mea culpa.
We have to bomb them because they hate peace.
See, this is why Obama is president. Who knew that the only way to save lives in Iraq was to kill people.
freedom's just another word for nothing left to bomb
*Remember, that without healthy fruit intake this hectic schedule would not be possible.
Hollyweird must strike up a hunger fasting. Those neoconservative's are in charge again.
/ lol
No, Hollywood is too busy blacklisting anyone not kissing Israels hairy ass.
His name was Mel Gibson.
Barry's gonna liberate Iraq! Again!!
"This will not be another Vietnam." George H.W. Bush 1990
And it wasn't on his watch and to much criticism from his detractors and the hawks in his own party. Your point?
Oh, touch a nerve for the Party Pussy?
Because even the great ex-CIA director cum POTUS was WRONG. If you think it was "finished" under his watch they you're an idiot. The sanctions, and please note that sanctions are an act of war (yes, the war never ended), was all set up to continue the overthrow, which, interestingly enough, was accomplished by his Seed.
The one good thing is that HW was smart enough to know when to pull out (well, except for, um, never mind).
someone needs to liberate the nikkei
Someone needs to recognize the damage Japan is doing to the rest of the world with it's unregulated yen printing.
Japan used it's (Ass-hole-Be) massive printing scheme to purchase offshore assets/companies to offset the costs of doing business at home. Japan tried to diversify in a slowing global economy> Mistake #1
Japan under-estimated the resolve of China, and the weak U.S. leadership! (critical) #2
The United States chose to stick it's nose in the "briar patch" of Eastern Europe... #3
I don't believe the narrative that infinite yet is destroying the world economy. Sophisticated investors are getting a fair, voluntary trade when they buy or sell their yen. The only value being destroyed is the collective wealth of the Japanese people. The yen's value will run into the ground and the Japs will be economically discarded, like a waylaid bandit on the side of the road in the ditch. The Japanese people are getting raped by the globalists.
Eventually, Japs will work for African wages and will be on the other side of the phone when you dial a call-center.
2.38 ten year. I don't think the BernankenYellenStein will be raising rates soon. This could lead to an untaper.
We will meet in some dimly lit 'roadside' grill Doc. ;-)
Nothing prevents genocide better than BOMBS! /s for the mouth-breathers
They are 'humanitarian' bombs from the Nobel Peace prize President, so it's totally different. /sarc off
Now, Putin authorizes targeted air strikes in Kiev, to prevent genocide and to target select Nazi hide outs. Putin authorizes ISKANDER Surface to Surface missile strikes on select Ukrainian army artillery and rocket concentrations outside Donetsk in order to prevent the shelling of civilians and another 750 killed civilians by Kiev's Nazi government backed by Obama.
Nazis were extreme socialists; the government in Kiev is a front for Western Facists. Russians and Putin are socialists. Central Banks == Facism in its purist form. Obama is a Facist in Socialist clothing. People totally miss this point.
Fascism was an extreme form of democracy. Read your Plato and de Tocqueville, what we're witnessing today is the progressive contradiction of democracy.
What in the world are you smoking? Fascism is a supreme state allowing some pseudo-free but still well monitored markets. It is a form of socialism with an authoritarian state.
You have to try to remove your American binary blinders.
Fascism follows on a continuum and that line runs right down the middle of main street Democracy/A Republic.
You are watching the USA transition into Fascism at this moment. UK, Australia, Canada, too.
It is subtle, slow, it takes time, but it is inexorable and always ends up one way.
Reads like a description of the USA under Obama, to my eyes. Anyone else agree?
It would be nice -- and honorable. But Putin doesn't give a shit about the separatists. He will sacrifice a bishop if it keeps his queen from getting exposed. There are many instances of this in the past, such as the Russian apartment bombings.
Russia has enough land and doesn't need any more if it means disrupting trade and int'l relations.
wow, 10 year at 2.38, hasnt been the low in a long time.
but dont worry, the economy is doing great
that ought to put some life in refi's
The one and only ever goal..same as it ever was...
Smash that 10Year.. Crush that Crude below 100..market only 4% Off of ALL TIME HIGHS..need that yield low..keep the ponzi going..
All until....the BRICS pull that reserve currency card which is coming and poof.
I said in 2008 to the fools who thought we were leaving the Arabian Peninsula..the U.S. Is NEVER leaving that place..they will move the troops around..makes excuses..(Libya, Syria, Egypt, Afhganistan)...they ain't going fucking anywhere...now back to Iraq.
and gold drops on re-entry to Iraq war....wtf!
Because, you know, a sophisticated investor with enough testicular fortitude to amass a fortune of 7 billion in gold will just liquidate it at market im the middle of the night because he is, you know, relieved that there will be bombs dropping on brown people. This would be obvious to you if you had a BsD in economic theory.
http://cdn.grumpyelder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/George-W-Bush-Miss...
because that mental midget would improve a god damned thing?
Not sure why stocks would selloff over a few bombs. After all the other bs they havn't taken notice of who cares if we make some more craters a kill a few more thousand? As long as wallstreet can hit those precious numbers is all that matters. We were told so remember?
What worries Obama is not that ISIS is bringing chaos to the region. Chaos is the actual foreign policy of the United States. What bothers him is that ISIS is rapidly bringing structure. They have military, engineers, media people.
Have you seen the video with them driving around, seeking and executing US collaborators? They do it with a laptop in hand - a database of all the people on their own "no-fly" list. They're coordinated and resembling a government, ie. competition in the region.
If all ISIS did was drive around and shoot peopel at random, Obama would've been perfectly fine with it.
Also, Saudi's are putting pressure on him to do something about their rivals getting too close to the border. They say "jump" and Oobie jumps.
What I'm curious is whether ISIS has enough gear, equipment and intel to do something in retaliation. We're used to simply going in, pressing buttons and leaving relatively unharmed. I'm curious when one of these primitive factions we fight gets their hands on an inter-continental rocket, or something worse. We're used to seeing no retaliation. Just reading about things blowing up half the way across the world.
I haven't heard much about the US embassy. Did it get evacuated / taken over or what? If the US targets ISIS who's until now had been operating with our blessing, won't they try going after that piece of infrastructure?
It is also a bit unusual that we're willing to go on a bombing raid without giving the enemy a face first. That's what we typically do - pick a pawn and make him the devil. With ISIS we've been silent. No identifiable boogey-man. So not US-like.
What's up with that?!
The alphabet cannibal arab division of the US Army has gone in business for itself.
JuliaS,
You asked: "What's up with that?!"
Consider this:
“When I asked Pentagon officials about the nature of war in the twenty-first century, the answer I frequently got was: Read Martin van Creveld of Hebrew University in Jerusalem…, Not because these top brass are enamored of this historian or not because his writing justify their existence but, rather, the opposite: Van Creveld warns them that huge state military machines like Pentagon’s are dinosaurs about to go extinct, and that something far more terrible awaits us” -- Robert Kaplan
stocks being down is just an excuse to fucking pump it 5 percent when this shit is resolved shortly.
there are many more reasons why stocks should be down rather than a few bombs dropping in iraq
CNN has been pissing it's pants all day calling for air strikes in Iraq. CNN has been pissing it's pants all day over fears that Russia would strike the Ukrainian army about to invade Donetsk city.
ISIS has been watching CNN all day.
I would say ISIS guys know upfront what CNN is going to air.
That's weird, I totally missed how congress voted for the airstrikes in Iraq.
They actually do not have to. Obama could use any number of the authorizations of force in existence from the Bush years. This will be considered some sort of police action in any case.
You might notice no declarations of war since 1941, as well.
Articel 1 section 8. Read it. Be it.
Gold will react, looking for a break out above $1320, consider that a buy line with a November call of $1425
How about we just give them 20 million of debt shares to make them believe they are Nigger Rich.
/sarc
Pentagon simply went ahead with the air strikes and food supplies.
Obama just learned the news on TV.
I don't think Pentagon cares about Obama any longer. As a matter of fact, nobody does.
Pentagon simply went ahead with the air strikes and food supplies.
Obama just learned the news on TV.
Does that mean 'ekm' that Netanyahu is not only a dual citizen but a "dual President"?
If indeed that ever were true... And it might just be given this announcement earlier this year along with everything else we already knew, I hope Russia destroys every U.S. Navy ship, air force and army base in the U.S. with his RSM-56s!
We would have it coming given that the U.S. military is not in the business of making unilateral decisions which would be nothing less than mutiny!
An Israeli in charge of American nucllear weapons? I am not surprised, their take over now is near total. You name it and America has an Israeli in charge of it. This man is no American, he is incapable of being anything but a chosen person, thus Israeli.
You might be surprised what the big guy has in store for us and who YOU are.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977693480
And yes I know it's a recurring story and theme, many worlds like our zuni say.
So why is the California National Guard going to Ukraine and not to Iraq ?
what?
Obama reminds me of this song from Nickelback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kPQoLHXJtQ
he might be a 'communist organizer' but certainly no 'leader of men'
reading this was a nice cherry topping to thursday's happy hour
How about 500 American hostages held by ISIS? That's where this is headed.
Look at you....all optimistic and shit
:)
You a funny potato.
genocide huh ?
he DOES know that Iraq and Israel are different countries....right?
I see another Nobel Peace Prize! Isn't this the same politician who decried the Iraqi war as one without merit since there were no weapons of mass destruction or direct threats to Murika. Oh sure, Iraqi citizens were being destroyed,but hey, not reason enough to use the military might of the USSA. Now its changed. So, for all you who are calling for military intervention now and decrtied it then - a hearty fuck you and your mother. You for being such a duplicitous ass. Your mother for not exercising her God-given right to abort a useless fetus. Wow, I feel better.
and you voted for?
I'm tired of this tit for tat amateur shit, beheading folks that no one gives a shit about, then a retalitory US strike blowing up a fucking Iraqi outhouse. I want to see some SAMS, maybe an ICBM launch or something to make this entertaining. After you've seen The Expendables 3, well, this is just plain boring. Just love seeing all those GM and Dodge Ram Trucks with missle launchers and the rest of our equipment loaded up with the goat fucking assholes going from town to town wreaking havoc. Time to go to the next level folks.
We will be deep in WWIII before this fucker is done.
Good. Maybe that will keep the NWO off of our backs for a while.
I see Washington is doing it's "war is peace" thing again.
Orwell must be rolling in his grave and wishing he had never seen a typewriter...
perhaps this is what Putin was waiting for? all he has to do now is copy and paste the TOTUS speech change Iraq to Ukraine and ISIS to Kiev government forces and the commence to peace keeping in the eastern Ukraine and Washington wouldn't have shit to say without looking immensely, comically hypocritical.
I can just see Kerry trying to explain the difference and why it's "good" for the US to bomb a country thousands of miles away, while it's "bad" for Russia to get involved in a crises right in their own back yard...
now that will be a popcorn and vodka moment.
The sheeple of Idiocracy USA will react however the State asks them to react. They will not look behind the curtain, they will consume more blue pills, they will accept the pronouncement that war is peace.
right... especially if those blue pills come with a bonus ebola vaccine.
phalanx anyone?
The sheep are following CNN's lead. I had it out with an old friend and later with a family member over their comments about Russian evil doing while America is innocent and needs to help the poor Kiev people. I finally just said "fuck it" and I went after them with both barrels. Talk about surprised looks. When they begged to differ, I challanged them to a battle of evidence. This they declined when I started pulling up dozens of sources on the internet. I first went to dead bodies littered all over Donetsk, and they ran away at the first 2 pictures, unable to believe CNN could ever lie to them. I just am sick of CNN zombies! Even if they are friends and family.
Good for you. I'm sick of it too. SuCkNN zombies trying to seem "up to date" when they can't do the bare minimum of research and critical thinking...just sit there and accept State Dept cock like a Fluffer on a gay porn set. I'm doing the same now too. People wanna step and try to act knowledgeable, rock them with the truth.
I could only give you 1 greenie! ++++++++++++++1000!
Superb!
Thanks 'm'
Sadly, our state department has no problem coming off as immensely and comically hypocritical. Just watch any Jen Psaki or Marie Harf press conference.
Well. So much for Lance Link "secret chimp's" good will gesture towards the people of Gaza to get the Zionist "pit-bull" to stop the genocide.
If you look ever so closely at Ol' Glory you may be startled to notice some "refinements" to her that you may not have been aware of before... Next time you look at the stars in the field of blue they are "six-sided" now.
And it's your job to ensure you turn them all back to "five-sided" before it's too late!
I see whut you done there...
G Washington apparently favoured 6 pointed stars, and early coins appeared with that:
American flag from six-pointed to five-pointed stars, why?
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=155521
What did the first "Stars & Stripes" flag look like ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153301/posts Flag Day
But I think you mean this:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=picture+of+american+flag+israeli+stars...
Not all genocides are created equally, apparently?
Have you notice the close of the VIX?
16.66
Evil is here? We will se tomorrow...
Things have deteriorated to the point that Americans are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and is rapidly morphing into a failed State. It is often unwise to take your eyes off a problem for long because when you look back you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.
The lyrics from a song "slip sliding away" come to mind as a way to describe the massive investment made in Iraq by America. Recently a group called ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....
Please stop using ZH to pimp your blog. We all know where it is already.
This shit is abolutely amazing to grasp mentally! WTF, kinda mental-midgets are running our foreign policy?
First the Kurd's tell Maliki to get fuck'd, and next the Sunni's in the West give an open invite into the 'Land-of-Is', thinking their 'Sharia Law' will indivisibly cloak their secretarian Husseinian Caliphatism from harms way!
Well think again assholes! As far as 'IS'... is concerned, your all tainted-- Shiite, Sunni, Kurd, Christian, and Jew... all must be Hitlerized!!!
Where's 'BandarBush'? The Sheikh in wolfs clothing, sucking on King Saud 'DicK", or having tea with al-qaeda Doctor Death?!?
If, I were Maliki, I'd tell the USSA to fuck off and get Russian help-- we all know that this is just another regime change to get the Kurdish regions separatist in the north of Turkey/ Syria, Iraq, and Iran to form a parrallel buffer zone for... What?
(please fill in ..... reason)
kiss
jmo thankyou Tyler
If Ebola wants to prevent genocide, he needs some massive targeting in Tel Aviv.
We had to destroy the village to save it!
Forward!
Went to CNN to see what was being telegraphed re ISIS and found this breaking news:
Israel Defense Forces: 'Terrorists have violated the cease-fire'
"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"...
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 (with laser guided two thousand pound bombs for "dessert").
Mark Jewller reporting
Fixed it!
obongo has spraken
we must kill the children to save the children.
they must be depleted uranium bombed again
so we can deliver the bill gates ebola emergency food packs
It is commonly said/believed that Afghanistan is the Empire's longest running war, but this is incorrect because the Washington Empire and its satraps (NATO including client governments far from the North Atlantic) has been at contuous war with Iraq for 33 years, since 1991 - sporadic bombing continued through to 2003, plus no fly zones and vicious economic sanctions.
Obomber obfuscates: mercenaries and drones will mask the continuation of the invasion and occupation, and ISIS will continue to be funded as it carries out, de facto, the Zionist/Israeli ambition of Greater Israel - leibenraum for the fake non-Semite 'jews' from the Nile to the Euphrates. ISIS storm troopers are dong a 'good' blitzkreig job eh!
Just when i was worried the world was running out of terrrrists, here comes Chief Obamabola with the brilliant idea to bomb some ethic sand weddings and recruit new ones.
Drone strikes are a subtle sign that the Empire is too broke to fund any more sustained military expeditions. BRICS smell blood.
Everyone appears to be going full retard getting their all out wars on at the same time. Obama did not want to be left out, he gonna go get some.
Looking Trifecta.
Russia-->Ukraine
US-->Iraq
Ebola-->World
Place your bets on ordering, they are each tipping points, but if all 3 occur it is RESET with 99.999% probability.
speaking of ebola, there are tree possible cases now in India and according to a translation from a Mexican news source one confirmed case in Mexico city.
not that it matters much now but maybe they should have taken the whole border security thing a little more seriously when they had the chance.
so I'm thinking the order doesn't matter much anymore cause it's starting to look like it's all going to happen at once.
Back to the classics...
Couldn't start war in Syria, no balls for Ukraine...so keep the military ordinance coming off the presses.
So now we are fighting the people we funded in Syria with weapons who crossed the border to Iraq and parts of Lebanon...only bonus is Russia cannot interfere..lets make dollars then for the military industrial complex..
Boost that GDP..Internet is making this the most transparent playbook in history.
Let justin raimondo try:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/07/sneaking-back-into-iraq/
Now the War Party is trying the same stunt again, this time in – of all places! – Iraq. And it looks like they’ve succeeded, at least for the moment. Or maybe not: the fog of war is already spreading and obscuring our view of facts on the ground. What we do know, however, is that the mysterious group known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria), having invaded Iraq and taken great swathes of the country under its control, is now threatening the Yazidis, an obscure religious sect in the northern provinces that practices an exotic mix of Islam, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism.
Yes, folks, it’s another "humanitarian disaster" staring us in the face – and, we’re being told, we have little choice but to go in and save the day. Whether or not President Obama – who was reported to be "considering" air strikes – decides to go all in, we’ve already sent in hundreds of Special Forces to "advise" the nearly nonexistent Iraqi army we spent billions arming and training. The military infrastructure is there, ready and waiting.
Isis - a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Where did they come from? How did they overrun Iraq so quickly? Who funds them? Who is running their social media campaign?
So many questions ...
ex-baathist armed forces (saddam's old army) and some home brew offshoots of al qaeda in iraq.
which makes one wonder...
if putin would want to make obama look like the emperor with no clothers, then he would unveil the connection between ISIS and the US with hard evidence.
unless there is no connection?
What I hope is that ISIS us a team of international soldiers positioning themselves via a creating Hollywood-like scenes on film, and broadcasting it as actually taking place so to advance toward the enemy. (Propaganda being use to obscurate the advancing Calvary, or techniques such as photoshopped, actual acting, green screens). The target? Ground Zero of all the world's woes.
I bet if he did some air strikes on Israel he'd stop some real genocide rather than preventing some anticipated genocide in Iraq.
My screens point to LOTS MORE TURMOIL tomorrow, or soon, in equity and debt markets - like DOWN 2% plus in broad averages, as the disastrous view across the investment and political valley starts to come into clearer focus to the hypnotized BTFD crowd.
Someone throw a shoe already!
so let me see if I have this straight..
Washington is bombing Iraq...again... to save 10,000 or so Iraqi's under siege by these ISIS militants.
while
many more tens of thousands of Syrians are suffering under these very same militants and Washington trains, arms and otherwise supports those fighting against the Syrian Government which is desperately trying to save the country from these very same terrorist thugs.
Washington is way out of control and the sad part is they are going to drag us all down with them before this is over.
der ceas de fire leveled gaza , da shovel bragade?
mean while cruz da misles in da bannkster hamptons ans subprim sqigness asrap da kids/
Since when do we PREVENT genocide?
Think of our terrorist, errr rebel, errr "freedom fighter" friends from Syria that have joined ISIS and are now attacking Iraq. Burdened by all those weapons and ammunition we gave them, tracking through the wastes of the Iraqi desert... Surely we cannot abandon them! We must help them by dropping food and water!
So we're dropping water pistols and cream pies, that should fix things.
If only... +100
McCain and his gang have come out to attack Obama for lack of courage, they are demanding an all out airwar against the former US allies in ISIS. It seems since they could not defeat Assad, but can defeat Iraq, McCain's favorite terrorists are now on his shit list.
Love Obama.
Keep it coming brotha.
The hits never eva stop.
Airstrikes almost always lead to boots on the ground.
Obama's lying. Again.
No troops, only 20 to 30,000 advisers.
20K....?? I'd say closer to 30....Michelle usually has more than 20k in her Vaca entourage. I'm sure Obozo can find 30K "advisors" among his choom buddies who would love the work.
Never let the worlds largest embassy/compound/green zone go to wast.
The US Lies About Satellite Photos To Justify War
http://marketdailynews.com/2014/08/06/the-us-lies-about-satellite-photos...
That's one tired lil munkee, the only one found on Martha's Vineyard.
“As commander-in-chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq"
Hell no! they have a war in the Ukraine to prepare for.
Okay, I have to say this even at risk of down-votes:
Maybe we can get it right the 3rd time? The Iraqis are lost. I think we should help. I know it sounds crazy.
I hate to say it, but you may be right, looks crappy either way though.
Did you hit up your nearest recruiting station to offer your mind and body? Otherwise FUCK THE FUCK OFF!
Seriously fuck yourself.
No O-fence Sgt. (gunny) That kid could use your guidance?
none taken, but I've had enough friends blown to smithereens. I don't need any more. Especially those that won't GTFO for their families or their own self preservation. I've had enough loss. I don't want any more people in the shadows sending my boys off to war. I'm fucking sick of it, and I'm tired of being tired of it. It needs to stop now!
I am wondering if it is so much worse than anyone has conjectured here. Obama is a narcissist. I wonder if Obama, seeing other leaders being decisive, Netty, Putin, and him getting all this bad press, I wonder if he asked his advisers if there was something he could do and win militarily. Given all these crises, what could he focus on and get er done? Improve his ratings.
And that friend, is why your friends are going to get blown up, or scarred with the memories of blowing up others? Basic, basic, basic.
Ranting and raving just plays into their hands shafty, it makes you look unbalanced.
lol, Brilliant argument, obviously the brains in the family...seriously.
You break it you pay for it. One way or another. The US went into Iraq under false pretenses (Downing Street memo and Colin Powell at the UN - fun times) and removed a despotic dictator (whose biggest sin according to the US was proposing Iraq oil be sold for Euros).
Downvoted you, and here is why. The US is requiring the Iraqi's to form a multi-sectarian government before they turn the stabilizing spigots back on, including american G.I.s and contractors spending lots of taxpayer money locally like they do in Japan, Germany, the Philippines, or any other major "leave behind" force the U.S.A. operates around the world.
The Neo-Cons want another dictator/monarch in place. The Valery Jarrett crew wants the multi-sectarian system already mentioned. Meaning mandatory Kurdish, Sunni,Shiite and minority representation, proportioned by rules, not elections.
The reason the U.S.A. can never get this right (and my down vote for you) is because it takes longer than two presidential terms to nation build in situations like this. The entire region was set up 70 years ago by a government that had a hereditary rule form of government and omnipotent aristocracy to provide the consistent policy. perhaps we should let "them" have a crack at it again. All the U.S.A. bullets and/or foriegn aid can not solve this problem. He said as much in the speech tonight.
Report to your nearest recruiting office stat!! Tell them you want 11 Bravo and deployment to the hottest combat zone NOW! If that fails, go to your nearest Triple Canopy, Blackwater, Xei, or whatever they're called these days and demand to go to Iraq for minimum wage!
Wave that flag with all your might!!!! May those holes in your body, the TBI, the PTSD, and the maiming for life rest lightly on your shoulders.
Sure beats the shit out of getting fucking killed like a bunch of friends of mine. On second thought. Fuck you, if you're serious. Pick up a fucking rifle and do it yourself.
Thank God for Barry!!
He said he would get us out of Iraq! We didn't need a status of forces agreement, that would look bad for his reelection!
What a douchebag!
Yeah we'd be much better off in 2nd term of warmonger McCain.
Hell Yeah....Popeye would have straightened those fuckers out straight away.
Dropping bombs, dropping food, I guess if your minding your own business in the hills in Iraq and a US plane comes along and drops something its a 50/50 shot as to whether it is dropping a bomb on you or a food parcel. You have a few seconds to decide.
Well, if it's a long round pointed thing with guidance fins on the rear. and dropping without a chute...you might want to duck and cover or kiss your ass goodbye.....if it's square or rectangular with a chute attached....spread the fucking table cloth and gather around - dinner is served.
I think we may have found our swan.
#41
"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.”...
After reading this, really only two options left at this point...
Lynch the President, his cabinet, every member of Congress, DOJ and the leadership in all branches of the DoD, DOS, FBI and the IC. Or?... Put a gun in your own mouth and call it a day!
Think we're reaching closing time at the bar real soon!!!!
misread of article
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Nah! On the contrary.
I know and understand that the piece of shit (a.k.a. his handlers) that uttered those words has completely and more important deliberately decimated our economy and the standing we once had both domestically and internationally is finished -poof gone! That he is off his nutter and carries a "football" to one of the largest arsenals of deadly weapons in the world.
That the members of the other two branches of our government have put a sign on every one of there office doors that reads "On Vacation" when it should say AWOL and they get paid for not doing the job anyway...
And that the American voter still has choices!
Cider?
Just like he stopped that genocide in Gaza.
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