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Military Coup In Iraq: Prime Minister Maliki Refuses To Step Down; Security Forces On Alert, Encircle Presidential Palace

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Just days after the US launched a campaign that implicitly aides the current regime headed by the supposedly outgoing PM, al-Maliki, it appears that latest US intervention has already led to "unexpected" consequences, this time with the prime minister appearing to have just staged a coup overthrowing Iraq's president President Fouad Massoum moments ago.

Reuters reports that the prime minister "indicated that he will not drop his bid for a third term and accused the president of violating the constitution in a tough televised speech likely to deepen political tensions as a Sunni insurgency rages. Maliki, seen as an authoritarian and sectarian leader, has defied calls by Sunnis, Kurds, some fellow Shi'ites and regional power broker Iran to step aside for a less polarising figure who can unite Iraqis against Islamic State militants.

The days of Iraq's president appear numbered:

Bloomberg adds that Maliki says he’s going to federal court to sue President Fouad Masoum for violating the constitution, according to comments made to Iraqi state television. President Masoum in breach when he extended constitutional period for chosing a candidiate to form government and for missing deadline for new period, according to Maliki. Maliki adds that Masoum is in a "coup against the poilitical process” that would lead “Iraq into a dark tunnel.” Maliki warned Presidential council, parliament and federal court about Masoum.

The news has promptly led the WaPo Beirut chief correspondent Liz Sly to ask the question: did Baghdad just have a coup 3 days after the US conducted its fourth military intervention under as many US presidents?

Others are inclined to agree:

And according to less credible sources, the army is already in play:

Odd timing indeed. One thing is certain: the US will not let this crisis go to waste either.

However, what makes this particular development especially interesting is that a very organized ISIS is already doing its best to conquer the Iraq capital. A very disorganized army coup may be all that was needed to facilitate this goal, and to put the Iraq oil trade "in play" once again.

And the worst news of all: Obama two-week vacation on Martha's Vineyard is ruined one day after it started.

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Update: things are not looking good:

Update 2: BAGHDAD GREEN ZONE CLOSED, TANKS DEPLOY IN CAPITAL: AL-MADA - BBG

 

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Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:29 | 5073883 syntaxterror
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White House or NSA HQ?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:28 | 5073872 Bill of Rights
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Democracy building one bullet at a time.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:30 | 5073876 kito
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one needs to have a military to have a military coup....yes????

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:30 | 5073890 syntaxterror
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Seriously. I thought they were all cowering in fear in Saddam's abandoned bunker.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:37 | 5073904 SpanishGoop
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Well, they are trained by Americans so at least they should know how to start a war.

Winning it was part two of the course.

Couldn't come up with the intuition fee after being plundered.

 

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:44 | 5073968 kito
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unbelievable pussies......run from isis, target the president.........

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:29 | 5073878 balz
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Mission accomplished. A stable country is now completely fucked up. I'd like a chart with US intervention and military coup on the same graph. The US really should leave the world alone.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:30 | 5073885 Karaio
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This is the big dog fight. 

Maliki will stay or not. 

Russia (16 + Migs provided Syrians and Iranians pilots), Iran, Syria and China are with Malik. 

Malik Obama against supporting ISIS + Saudi Arabia + hills giving money to Israel. 

Forget the rest, this is the western press as fun. 

hehe.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:31 | 5073895 jacship
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Going Fast Track

Thanks Tyler

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:34 | 5073913 Uchtdorf
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Obama's paying attention. How to stay in for a 3rd term using force.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:37 | 5073926 Suisse
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Obama is really good at destroying countries.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:12 | 5074102 radiobomb
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...  both at home and abroad...

....that's what you get a nobel peace prize for.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:37 | 5074426 Jumbotron
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"Obama is really good at destroying countries."

 

Most Nobel Peace Prize winners are.

In fact...Alfred Nobel....from whence the name of the prize comes from.....was the inventor of dynamite.  T.N.T.

And....in fact.....every Nuclear explosion starts with T.N.T. to start the chain reaction.


Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:40 | 5073942 barbarika
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Why do I get a strange feeling that time might be right for Ebola to make an entry in Baghdad theater.

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:40 | 5073943 tuttisaluti
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Irak is like a hot potato, keep your hands off. 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:45 | 5073949 22winmag
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Sounds like game, set, match for ISIS.

 

After all, the U.S. cannot support a *cunt*ry that is the subject of a coup.

 

I pray for the day that the remaining good guys in the U.S. military do this in Washington!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:50 | 5073989 BeetleBailey
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Yes...the good guys.....owned by the MIC.....and that's our "salvation"....

we ARE...seriously fucked as a nation.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:00 | 5074046 QQQBall
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22winmag - save your prayers. the military has been gutted - the few remaining high-ranking officers left with any balls are women. 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:32 | 5074194 Karaio
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No, they will not do it in Washington (DC). 

They will be more concerned with how to cross oceans - swimming - to return home. 

hehe.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:47 | 5074250 Baby Eating Dingo22
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Maybe O'Damnya can annex Iraq with his presidential powers?

Paging Betsy Ross

Paging Betsy Ross

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:42 | 5073957 Sick
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How will they blame Putin?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:47 | 5073975 luckystars
Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:55 | 5074021 Jumbotron
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Israel doesn't have to do a thing.  These Muzzie animals will destroy themselves in a Muzzie apocalypse.  And then Israel will only have to step in and sweep out the remains.

Easy Peasy.

Leave the Muzzies alone.  They're doing the world's job quite nicely.

GO ISIS !!!!!     LOL !!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:01 | 5074311 where_is the_nuke
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Muzzacalypse.Jewcalypse. Bring it on motherfuckers.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:39 | 5074431 Jumbotron
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Oh...it's coming.   You're just not going to like how it ends for you.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:03 | 5074496 where_is the_nuke
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Knock knock!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:28 | 5074597 Jumbotron
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BOOM.....down goes the Muzzie at the door !!!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 06:06 | 5075387 where_is the_nuke
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Knock Knock!!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:47 | 5073976 ekm1
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Ok, let me analyse the situation here.

 

There is a military coup in the Middle East

 

 

And why is that something new? Is it even worthy of headline?

It's just coup, it happens all the time. It's a hobby there.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:48 | 5073984 Moccasin
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What great news! It is solid proof of good neo-con policy. All that money we spent and the blood we shed was another great American investment. I have full confidence that "we" will be paid back in full, our investment in lives and money was not in vain! ..... ok, ok sarcasm aside, I am sick about it. I want to puke.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:50 | 5073990 CheapBastard
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"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

 

~ Abdul Mohammed Isfahani Akbar Jabar Syed

[I think he stole it from WTS]

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:51 | 5073999 shovelhead
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Is Maliki completely daft?

There's headhunters at the gates and he won't leave?

I'd be busy in Geneva visiting my bank account.

Ol' Shovel won't be anyones pate'

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:03 | 5074305 itstippy
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He cannot leave.  He owes many favors to powerful people in Iran and elsewhere.  He must stay and deliver; if he leaves he is a dead man.

Saddam was a tiger.  Maliki is a stooge.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:51 | 5074000 markar
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 Whose side are we on in Iraq now after spending $1trillion overthrowing Saddam? I'm confused.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:52 | 5074005 Lin S
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How many of our guys lost their arms/legs/lives over there, again?  And for...

...wot?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:56 | 5074018 I am Jobe
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and more to come if this goes on. 

Send more troops. Must protect the oil and the US Interest. What ever that means and sacrifice Amerikans . 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:53 | 5074007 BeetleBailey
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"I say we take off...nuke the entire site from orbit.....it's the only way to be sure"

 

Sigourney.....and she is right today....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:37 | 5074217 Jumbotron
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Ripley for President !!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:55 | 5074017 One And Only
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I really hope they all kill eachother. Islam is like a disgusting virus.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:56 | 5074019 Moccasin
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Saddam Hussein was a petty tyrant compared to the IS nihilists. I think IS is a much more serious existential threat to the USA then the butcher of Baghdad ever was.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:57 | 5074023 maneco
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It looks like Iran is the only country in that part of the world that is stable at present and it also happens to be the only country the US and its allies have not been able to invade or disrupt until now.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:08 | 5074088 Seek_Truth
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Nor does it have a Rothschild Central Bank.

Why?

"The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king" - Revelation 17:11

Persia (Iran) will rise again, and it will shock the world.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:42 | 5074234 Jumbotron
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Perhaps....but only because they will be the last Muzzie standing after the others kill each other and the house of Saud is overrun....especially when their oil fields are proven to be draining away....which is soon if not right now.

But please.....Iran as some powerhouse?  Bring it.  They will only be a powerhouse in as much as they are a proxie of the bigger puppet master behind them.....namely the Russians.

Either way....both get destroyed.  Israel comes out in the end.  And the King returns to his people on Mt. Zion.

But you know that already...don't you truth-denier.   I showed you already. 

Tick Tock.....Judgement Day is coming.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:06 | 5074331 Freddie
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Does the Bible talk about Israel's backed and supported ISIS killing Christians in Syria who were protected by Russia. Syrian Christians and Muslims and Hezbollah?   Where was the USA in protecting these Christians.  F off.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:08 | 5074336 where_is the_nuke
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But but Talmund talks about cutting childrens' dick and sucking the blood. Fuck off Muzzie.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:11 | 5074345 Jumbotron
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Hey Freddie.  Great to see you again.  How did those gay bars in Germany back in the 70's treat ya'

Oh well......WEEEeeeee are the Champions....my friendzzzz......

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:19 | 5074368 where_is the_nuke
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Yo yo yo. Let the Kikes of the world unite to cut children's dick to suck the blood and fuck the country we live in.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:14 | 5074473 Seek_Truth
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Jumbotron = pseudo Christian poser.

But that's abundantly clear already.

You showed me nothing other than that you don't understand what "Israel" is in prophecy. Proud over nothing and Self-important, you have no reading comprehension, and no Holy Spirit.

Foul mouthed, wishing death on his fellow man, ignorant of Scripture, and rejecting Galatians 6:12-21, which makes it clear that there is only one way to salvation for both Jew and Gentile. Anti Christ is what you are.

PS- how is Pope Henry VIII?

PPS- "My opinion of Christian Zionists? They’re scum. But don’t tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now.”---Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:47 | 5074646 Jumbotron
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Seek_Truth......delusional purveyor of Replacement Theology and the Blue Eyed Aryan Jesus.

 

You know....you and Jeremiah Wright have more in common than you might think.  Both of you are Replacement Theologists and Jew haters.

I hope you made at least as much money as he did peddling his hate.  He's sitting cozy now in a 10,000 square foot house outside Chicagoland.

Hate brings in the money.  So does false teaching.  Hope you're getting piece of that.  Won't help you though.  Can't take it with you when your alone and naked before the Judgement Seat.

And BTW.....that's cute of you to bring up my foul mouth.  That's a cross of mine to bear.  Paul stated he had thorns in his side as well.  Complained that he did what he knew he shouldn't do and didn't do what he should.

But brother....take the log out of your own eye first with your Jew hate....before you attempt to take out the splinter of my foul mouth out of my eye.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:11 | 5074700 Seek_Truth
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I've not once espoused hatred toward anyone, liar.

Your hatred is all over the ZH website, wishing for death of people you've never met, on a near daily basis.

Everyone on ZH has seen it, and yet you continue, never asking yourself WWJD.

Your obscene language is another dead giveaway that you are at best an immature, nominal christian.

Jesus said to love your enemies. He said you can judge a tree by its fruit, and yours is rotten to the core.

When have you ever promoted Christian teachings? Never.

When have you answered those you disagree with in a kind and mild spirit? Never.

You have failed the test thus far.

"Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." - Galatians 6:7

You WILL reap what you have sown. Don't act surprised when it happens. Those things you wish upon others will come back upon you and your household.

PS- your lies are many- show me and everyone else where I ever said:
(1)- anything about Aryan, Blue eyed Jesus. You can't because you're are a liar like your father the devil.
(2)- Likewise with Jerry Wright, you delusional liar. Prove it.
(3)- I never said anything about replacement theology, yet you continue to use that incorrect aspersion when I have clearly stated numerous times that Jesus fulfilled the Mosaic Law , which Jesus clearly stated in Matthew 5:7. Again , you are proven the liar.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:14 | 5074752 Jumbotron
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The big difference between me and you, bubba.  I KNOW I am an imperfect Christian.  I put my flaws out on display.  I don't hide behind pious words or put on a front.  Yes, my emotions run high when confronted by such evil, hateful bullshit you profess as "Biblical" proof.  That's my cross to bear.  But I doubt seriously you've had someone call bullshit on your quite the way I have.

Well....tough mister.  You are the worst kind of so called Christian of all.  The kind who is SOOOOoooo totally blinded by Satan you think you're doing God's work.  You and you're "volumes" you claim to have wriiten on the subject.

Well.....let me be like the "Bereans"........point me in the direction of your published works and let me digest them in full and give me a year to fully read, comprehend and then rebut them.  If you indeed have such material published on the web or in print.

I don't believe you do.  You are some anti-Semetic arm chair Replacement Theologian who was taught by some loser father of like beliefs or you got hooked into a church who espouses that kind of bullshit theology.

Or maybe you conflated your own twisted beliefs with some personal tragedy in which part of the way you cope is to blame Jews.

Well.....man up preacher man.  Show me where to find your "volumes" and let me put them to the test.

Tick Tock.....you only have so many heartbeats to go, mister.  Your judgement day is coming.  You had better let me try to rebut your lies.  You need to have the courage to be tested and open minded enough to be proven wrong.

Once again....TICK TOCK.....no matter what you feel about me....no matter how true......my judgement is mine.  Yours is yours.   This may be a moment in which Christ is allowing a fool like me.....to confound the bigger fool in you for your immortal soul.

You up for the challenge, mister.

Otherwise.....I will always be here calling bullshit on your Satanic Replacement Theology.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:41 | 5074797 Seek_Truth
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The fact that you have repeatedly displayed that either you do not read, or that you don't comprehend what you read, or both, does not make you qualified to critique a children's book, let alone intepretation of prophecy. (How many times have you called me a "replacement Theologist", yet Matthew 5:17 shows Jesus(who you clearly disagree with) fulfilled, not replaced, the Mosaic Law covenant with the New Covenant? Jesus disagrees with you!

You are a demonstrable liar, you have no background in Prophetic Interpretation other than what you hear at Pope Henry VIII's "church" on Sunday, that much is obvious.

A spiritual babe is what you are:

"In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!" - Hebrews 5:12

PS- how does it feel knowing that BiBi Netenyahu looks at you as a useful idiot?

PPS- and again I ask how is Pope Henry the eighth and who replaced him as your Pope?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:43 | 5074836 Jumbotron
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Put up or shut up liar.

Show us your 'volumes"

Let your peers review it.

Otherwise......bullshit.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 00:15 | 5075017 Seek_Truth
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You're not my "peer", sonny.

You've shown that you can't drive, so you're not getting the car keys.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 00:39 | 5075061 Jumbotron
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You are a cowardly piece of shit.

You have no "volumes" or books or anything else to back your Replacement Theology lies.  You don't even have the courage to tell the world where they can be enlightened by your wisdom.....your expertise in "Prophetic Interpretation".

If you really believe in Jehovah....then let Jehovah protect you from the likes of me and my "lies".  Why can't you trust that the wisdom of God through your words would change my heart and my understanding?  Don't you want a fellow believer to come to the same understanding as you ?

No?   Why not?   Because I believe you DON'T have the courage that comes from conviction.  All you have is empty hate like your Muslim brothers.  You share the same empty theology.  You have the same father....the father of lies.

One last time.....preacher man.  Put Up......or SHUT UP.  LET'S SEE YOUR THESIS.  LET'S SEE YOUR PROOF.  LET'S SEE THE QUALITY OF YOUR HERMENEUTICS....YOUR EXIGESIS.....YOUR ESCHATOLOGY.

If God be with you.....who can stand against you ?

Surely not me.  But do you have the faith ?

NO.....you don't you lying, piece of jew hating shit.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 00:56 | 5075082 Seek_Truth
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Small minded hate filled spoiled child, you will reap what you sow.

What are you, 12 years old? Your mom is telling you to get off the computer and get to sleep, run along now.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 00:57 | 5075088 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Classic, christian, fighting christian. Saves us atheists the trouble.

Did either of you consider they neither of you are right?

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 07:27 | 5075468 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Two down votes. See, I've brought you together.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:48 | 5074845 Duffy Duck
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You aren't a Christian.

You're a racist, homophobic, obtuse, Zionist cunt.

 

 

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 00:41 | 5075062 Jumbotron
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Duck off.   Or is that too "obtuse" ?

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 03:35 | 5075264 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Let's stop all the vitriole. Dying will be like a dreamless sleep, eternal nothingness. You simply return to the state prior to your birth, non-existence. Don't worry, it's not scary because you are no longer conscious and do not have the infrastructure to be scared with. You coped so well prior to being born, not existing was easy, harmless, peaceful. This is a reasonable state in which to return. Every time you drift to sleep you do not fret that you will never wake. Your last moments alive will be no different to your last moments awake. A slow, gradual dimming of awareness until there is nothing. There's nothing wrong with this, nothing fearful about this, this is just the way of the universe. Werlcome it and embrace it and all this other nonsense just goes away.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:56 | 5074864 gatorboat
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"But please.....Iran as some powerhouse?  Bring it."

Iran by itself no.   But Iran in a Russia / China alliance, with the most advanced thermonuclear missiles on the planet, yes.

Israhell better watch their step. Their bitch America too.

America used to be the world bully.  Israhell was secure.  But not anymore.  The Russia / China / Asia alliance is changing the whole picture.  America's world bully days are numbered, leaving Israhell exposed like never before.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:55 | 5074290 Infinite QE
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And reason #1 why they need nukes. Jumbofag and his cousins have designs on the whole region but hopefully will be turned to glass before they go any further.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:51 | 5074678 Jumbotron
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Not likely.  The Muzzies are the Keystone Cops of the region.

Pakistan has nukes.  Still didn't stop us from infiltrating their country, and killing Osama and his henchmen and getting out with his bullet riddened body.

LOL !!!!!   YEAH.....MUZZIES WITH NUKES......THAT'LL FIX EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE MUZZIE !!!!! 

LOL !!!!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:57 | 5074025 kareninca
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Where is my weekend Schneiderman list article???  I want to read about obese people at McDonalds and read ZHer posts about the the digestive effects of Taco Bell's meat hose products or if no doom list at least an article about who drinks the most beer or has the most tatoos.  Or even an article about bacon prices.  This weekends articles are all news; they are all so real and depressing; it is gruesome.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:58 | 5074026 Duc888
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Hey as long as the Zionist backed Neocons are in charge everything will be just fine.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:58 | 5074027 QQQBall
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Send in Seal Team 6 on a humanitarian rescue mission.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:58 | 5074029 Stumpy4516
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Everything is moving as planned by CIA/Massod.  ISIS is their machine, the ISIS grunts do not know that.  They wanted to break up Iraq into seperate pieces and they are moving along.  However, the Kurds are a problem and hold land they want.  The Kurds better watch out.

Where was Putin the great chess player?  Why not truly bomb ISIS when he had the chance?  Same great chess plan (not always by Putin) as Iraq 1, Iraq 2, Lybia, Syria, E Ukraine ?  Putin's/Russia's friends need to understand that Russia is just the bartender who will listen to their tells of wo, offer some advice but will not put a stop to anything.  Thing is, by the chess strategy of inaction, Russia has allowed the allies to gain ground and influence. 

I think the allies could disrupt Syria and Iran quicker than people think if they decide to strike directly.  Iran would not be treated this way until ISIS softened them up but the propoganda would be difficult to manage (to justify direct action) now that ISIS has been made the new evil.

Hey Kurds, you are in their sights and Putin is not going to do much for you.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:03 | 5074061 Rootin' for Putin
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Putin is smart enough to let the dumb US/UK invite terror attacks at home by getting too involved.   Some planes here, truckloads of ammo there, nice and quiet.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:36 | 5074419 Stumpy4516
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Rootin, Take out Oklahoma City, which some think was piggy backed on by CIA, and what terror attack within the US borders has not been a false flag?

I'm not saying there will not be a terror attack, only that it will committed by CIA as a false flag to further some agenda or to provide a distraction from economic corruption.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:04 | 5074066 Moccasin
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If your assessment is accurate, ISIS is the new proxy army the neo-cons have created to fight Iran. This is not good for anyone imho. The Iranians will understand this and will not roll over easily.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 13:19 | 5077052 tumblemore
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nb Isis taking over a worthless town near the Iranian border.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:29 | 5074175 markar
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Everyone's waiting for Putin's next move, but about China? They've been rather quiet considering the vested interests they have in this part of the world.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 02:02 | 5075179 trader1
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Where was Putin the great chess player?  Why not truly bomb ISIS when he had the chance?  Same great chess plan (not always by Putin) as Iraq 1, Iraq 2, Lybia, Syria, E Ukraine ?  Putin's/Russia's friends need to understand that Russia is just the bartender who will listen to their tells of wo, offer some advice but will not put a stop to anything.  Thing is, by the chess strategy of inaction, Russia has allowed the allies to gain ground and influence. 

 

Putin was too busy having videoconferences with ExxonMobil and Rosneft to assure that the Arctic drilling kicks off in spite of the sanctions.


Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:59 | 5074030 fattail
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Oil futures haven't budged.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 02:03 | 5075180 trader1
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not to fear my dear.

Putin is searching for more oil in the Arctic..

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:58 | 5074032 Duc888
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Moccisin: Saddam Hussein was a petty tyrant compared to the IS nihilists. I think IS is a much more serious existential threat to the USA then the butcher of Baghdad ever was.

 

Now do your homework.  Who funded and trained ISIS?

 


Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:22 | 5074145 Wahooo
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We did?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:03 | 5074318 q99x2
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Banksters and John McCain funded ISIS

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:59 | 5074040 Rootin' for Putin
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FFS people, when i said the useless muslim president had to be overthrown did i really have to explain which president i meant?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 18:59 | 5074043 Duc888
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One and Only: I really hope they all kill eachother. Islam is like a disgusting virus.

 

 

As is Zionism.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 01:02 | 5075091 JR
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It is political madness to split asunder nations of peoples and flaunt the religious beliefs of those who have lived together for centuries in a shared composite culture by arbitrarily re-petitioning their borders.

The absurd and arbitrary division of the Muslim peoples and their cultures by those in power has created the sheer madness the world is facing today. This montrous anti-Muslim attitude is going to sink the West and, principally, the Zionist-controlled US.

The same method used by the British that resulted in the current political mess that divided up a large part of the Muslim world, at the same time putting at its center a created Israeli State whose aggressive war power is funded by a Fed-controlled US superpower, is being used to divide and conquer America’s white European Christian culture.

The plan is a Zionist-controlled one-world socialist state.

“In the aftermath of WWI, the League of Nations (a forerunner to the United Nations) was established. One of its jobs was to divide up the conquered Ottoman lands. It drew up ‘mandates’ for the Arab world. Each mandate was supposed to be ruled by the British or French ‘until such time as they are able to stand alone.’ The League was the one to draw up the borders we see on modern political maps of the Middle East. The borders were drawn without regard for the wishes of the people living there, or along ethnic, geographic, or religious boundaries – they were truly arbitrary. It is important to note that even today, political borders in the Middle East do not indicate different groups of people. The differences between Iraqis, Syrians, Jordanians, etc. were entirely created by the European colonizers as a method of dividing the Arabs against each other. 

“Through the mandate system, the British and the French were able to get the control they wanted over the Middle East. For Sharif Hussein, his sons were allowed to rule over these mandates under British ‘protection’. Prince Faisal was made king of Iraq and Syria and Prince Abdullah was made king of Jordan. In practice, however, the British and French had real authority over these areas.

“For the Zionists, they were allowed by the British government to settle in Palestine, although with limitations. The British did not want to anger the Arabs already living in Palestine, so they tried to limit the number of Jews allowed to migrate to Palestine. This angered the Zionists, who looked for illegal ways to immigrate throughout the 1920s-1940s, as well as the Arabs, who saw the immigration as encroachment on land that had been theirs since Salah al-Din liberated it in 1187.

“The political mess that Britain created in the aftermath of WWI remains today. The competing agreements and the subsequent countries that were created to disunite Muslims from each other led to political instability throughout the Middle East. The rise of Zionism coupled with the disunity of the Muslims in that region has led to corrupt governments and economic decline for the Middle East as a whole. The divisions that the British instituted in the Muslim world remain strong today, despite being wholly created within the past 100 years.” – “How the British Divided Up the Arab World”

http://lostislamichistory.com/how-the-british-divided-up-the-arab-world/

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:00 | 5074049 buzzsaw99
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let the wookie win

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:00 | 5074051 radiobomb
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if the money wasted on the various iraq conflicts was spent on solar-tech advancement [not phoney Solindra, but real science], we wouldnt have to bother with oil at all. 

The same could be said of providing civil engineering projects [water treatment, sanitation, hospitals, schools, etc] & winning 'hearts and minds'  rather than speading out the depleted uranium & friendly-fire....  same budget, same employment, vastly different potential outcome.

Accepting 'war for peace' as a solution is so last century, but still the meme continues.  And the oil companies keep raking it in.  And more money is spent on F1 racing than solar-tech development (allegedly)...  Rigged game .

So much mis-managment, so little time.....

 

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 10:32 | 5076026 JohninMK
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'No need to bother with oil' can't see that ever being said by anyone in power in the US.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:00 | 5074052 Duc888
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Lin S :

How many of our guys lost their arms/legs/lives over there, again?  And for...

...wot?

 

Oil and banksterz.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:02 | 5074056 Duc888
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Markar : Whose side are we on in Iraq now after spending $1trillion overthrowing Saddam? I'm confused.

 

 

MIC wins in the end. 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:03 | 5074062 Tenshin Headache
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Honey badger don't care.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:13 | 5074104 Ginsengbull
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Honey badgers are bad assed animals.

 

Immune to bee stings, scent glands like a skunk.

 

Kills and eats critters twice their size.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:03 | 5074063 Duc888
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Jumbotron: Israel doesn't have to do a thing.

 

Once again, who funded and trained ISIS?

 

Get a clue.

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:21 | 5074144 Infinite QE
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Jumbofag is a pure propagandist for a demonic regime that chopped off part of his penis as a baby and has had him on a lunatic genocidal wavelength ever since. He's a perma-fade.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:46 | 5074252 Jumbotron
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LOL !!

How ya' doing Transgendered Carrot Top in Mountain Man's clothes ?

HEY....LOOK OUT....JOO BEHIND YOU.

ROTFLMAO !!   GOTCHA'  ......should have seen the look on your face, man.  Did you shit yourself.....come on...tell me you didn't shit yourself.

LOL !!!!

Gotta go, Honey Joo Joo Hater.  See ya' around I'm sure.

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:53 | 5074283 Infinite QE
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Speaking of avatars, are you smaller and weaker than Woody Allen? With a bag over your head you can probably function as long as you get your weekly holohoax check from the German government.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:44 | 5074242 Jumbotron
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We did.  White Anglo Saxon Americans.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:44 | 5074248 where_is the_nuke
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Shut up Kike.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:48 | 5074266 Jumbotron
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I'm sure if you took Hitler's dick out of your hand you could fire off a longer retort than you do.

Wouldn't hurt also to take Yassir Arafat's dick out of your ass also.

But necrophiliac joo hater gonna get his freak on no matter what I suppose.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:57 | 5074298 where_is the_nuke
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Talmund Talmund Talmund!!!Torah Torah Torah!!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:08 | 5074326 Infinite QE
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have a wee bit of compassion for Jumbofag. He's been quite bewildered ever since his rabbi sodomized him.

 

Weekly.

 

And still does.

 

And he has come to fully enjoy it.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:14 | 5074358 Jumbotron
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HAHAHAHA !!!  You slay me Transgendered Carrot Top in Mountain Man's Clothes.

You need to take that act on the road.

Like maybe a Muzzie version of the U.S.O.  I bet I.S.I.S. or Hamas would dig your shit, man !  They need some cheering up.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:20 | 5074375 where_is the_nuke
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Shut up Kike.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:47 | 5074447 Jumbotron
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I bet if you took Jeremiah Wright's dick out of your mouth, what your actually saying is.....

" I like dykes"

Well....nuke....what ever floats your boat, man.  Get your freak on, baby.

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:23 | 5074381 Infinite QE
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LOL ISIS goes back to it's mother Israel for hospital care (documented fact) so I'd have no intention in setting foot inside that sinkhole. LOL. But I do enjoy being the court jester pointing out the insanity of your people's actions.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:57 | 5074481 Jumbotron
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Hey Transgendered Carrot Top in Mountain Man's Clothes

Check this link out

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/israel/jerusalem?BHT-3dcccef9-c282...

It's morning in Jerusalem.  Sun's not up yet....but it will be.  Long before it rises over your transgendered head.

And guess what.  It will again tomorrow.

And the day after that....and the day after that....and the day after that...........  LOL !!!!

And another day begins of kicking some Muzzie ass in Gaza.

And the day after that.....and the day after that.....and the day after that.

And there is nothing you lesbian Jew haters can do about it.

But I must say you're rockin' that sheep herder coat......for a man....who's turned into a woman that is.     ROTFLMAO  !!!!!!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:05 | 5074510 where_is the_nuke
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Shut up kike.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:39 | 5074637 Infinite QE
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LOL. You're obviously way down the list of the informed. Even Henry Kissinger has stated that Israel will no longer exist in ten years time.

So tend to your hotdog cart in the Bronx and leave these matters to more informed people.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:53 | 5074691 Jumbotron
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Well....so what. Just proves there are stupid, uninformed members of every race.

And really.....quoting Henry Kissinger.....you can do better.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:53 | 5074688 Infinite QE
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And the man in that sheep herder coat is Putin. A man who could whoop your jew queer ass in micro seconds.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:59 | 5074714 Jumbotron
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OOOOHhhhh.....that's who it is.  You mean the ex-KGB bully with the bitch tits riding his pony for the cameras.

Nothing but another in a long line of Russian bullies.  Smash his nose into his cranium and he would cry like a little Babushka.

Not even the Rooskies will take on the Jews head on.  They've been using the Muzzies from the beginning to harrass the Jews seeing as how the U.S. is aligned with them.

Just Cold War tactics.  But never head on.  They would get their asses kicked and they know it.  We might have a problem nuking Moscow.  The Jews wouldn't bat an eye.  Putin knows this.  That's why he rides his pony in the mountains to prove to his people he's tough.  He's not.  The U.S. is just weak.....there is a difference.

Still.....Putin looks like a Transgendered Carrot Top in Mountain Man's Clothes.  And you're still a hopeless douchebag.   LOL !!!!

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 06:13 | 5075395 where_is the_nuke
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Shut up kike.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:08 | 5074090 Samual Adams
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I spent 14 months in baghdad 2007-2008 as a cavalry scout for the U.S. Army and I have to say I agree with Smedley Butler,  War is a Racket.    And the Racket marches on.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:10 | 5074097 thamnosma
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Glad you made it back.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:16 | 5074113 Samual Adams
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Ya I also work for the VA, and all the IRaq and Afghan veterans are waking up to a stinky smell.   Alas I have to be careful what I say at work.   But trust me, The point is getting across as long as I can help it.   And co workers and friends are recieving ZeroHedge.com shirts for christmas.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:20 | 5074134 orangegeek
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Racket/Racketeering.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:20 | 5074117 GooseShtepping Moron
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What really bothers me are the people who think that in order to have avoided a situation like this we should have doubled down on the neocon strategy (i.e. remain in Iraq "for a hundred years") rather than just not have invaded the country in the first place.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:18 | 5074123 robnume
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No doubt the neoCONS never intended to fracture Mesopotamia into pieces, right? Big daddy Obombya is TCoB, colonial style. Revolution, anyone? I'm ready. "We" need to let TPTB know who "we" really are. And "we" ain't them. Sorry, Obombya, et al, you DON'T know what's best for us, you only know what's best for you, you narcissistic SOB. Stay at Martha's Vineyard, where you're amongst your own kind.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:18 | 5074127 Wahooo
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Send in the jews. They're already mobilized.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:24 | 5074388 Herodotus
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What's missing in Baghdad is a good delicatessen.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:15 | 5074760 tony wilson
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idf only trained to seperate childrens heads from bodies.

isis is israel but they like a good joke

that is why they will get  unkle sam to bleed and pay.

same as it ever was

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

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:19 | 5074128 Tenshin Headache
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I guess this is good for the market, as it resolves some of the uncertainty around Maliki :)

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:21 | 5074143 lolmao500
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So regime change?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:23 | 5074149 DeliciousSteak
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If the goal is to break Iraq into pieces then things are rolling just fine. For anyone wondering why soldiers had to lose their lives fighting a "futile" war, it wasn't futile at all. You just have to accept that they are forging order out of chaos. That order is Israel and the house of Saudi dominating the petty states that will form. But what about Iran... For now it appears relatively strong. However, it wouldn't surprise me if they have some "internal unrest" in their near future.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:44 | 5074247 AdvancingTime
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Iraq should of been allowed to break up years ago. America thought it should remain as one country. It seems someone was wrong!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:44 | 5074656 Duffy Duck
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that is the goal.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:25 | 5074154 yrbmegr
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I don't know about a "coup" here.  Looks like there's a constitutional crisis, you know. to go along with all the other crises.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:17 | 5074364 Jumbotron
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They haven't had a Constitution in their entire history until we forced them to make one.  They don't know what to do with it.

Let them break up into tribes.  That's the Muzzie natural state.  Sunni's with Sunnis.  Shia's with Shia's.  Etc.   Trying to keep Iraq together is like forced bussing here in the states.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:25 | 5074157 luna_man
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Hilarious!...Web they weave

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:27 | 5074164 luckystars
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When asked in 1991 why the US didn't take Saddam out, Dick Cheney said "Because you would see parts of Iraq flying off"

23 yrs of bombing Iraq.

a crime of epic proportions.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:27 | 5074167 jacship
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Maliki says up your ass

Smudge

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:29 | 5074177 Lokking4AnEdge
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I really think Kerry Ketchup should go there...he will fix everything...like he did in Gaza.....

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:34 | 5074210 john milton
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it's the supermoon making people crazy

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:36 | 5074213 EscondidoSurfer
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MIC getting a shot in the arm.  They always luck out.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:39 | 5074227 AdvancingTime
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The saying "if you break it you buy it" can be misleading. It is often unenforceable, in some cases it is not even practical. In the case of foreign policy, accepting such a notion can cause America to be far less likely to step in where needed, or cause us to undertake the costly and unrealistic job of nation building.  In real life such rules often do not hold true, in fact the real Pottery Barn has no such rule.

In fact Pottery Barn is a bit weary of being associated with the remark that is often quoted and attributed to them in newspaper and television reports. "This is very, very far from a policy of ours," said Leigh Oshirak, public relations director for the brand, owned by Williams-Sonoma Inc. of San Francisco. "In the rare instance that something is broken in the store, it's written off as a loss." More on this subject in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/05/you-break-it-you-buy-it.html

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:41 | 5074235 smacker
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Surely, a military coup in Iraq to support the shiite PM al-Maliki can only deepen the crises and give strength to IS jihadists.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 21:12 | 5074538 Flagit
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Jihadist Zionists.

JIZ

ISIS is now known as JIZ.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 14:54 | 5077803 tumblemore
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An imposed US stooge would be no better.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:44 | 5074243 where_is the_nuke
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USA USA USA !!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:48 | 5074264 luckystars
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During the world cup they were doing that in bars. This German guy said to me "It was like a military rally"

sick

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 22:22 | 5074777 Jumbotron
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Obviously that German guy has never been to a British pub when the soccer hooligans are out.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:47 | 5074261 AdvancingTime
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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....

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:48 | 5074269 q99x2
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Takes a muslim with a middle name of Hussein to create a lasting Caliphate.

YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaa.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:49 | 5074270 luckystars
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What about what Obama did to Libya? It had the highest standard of living in Africa.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:54 | 5074285 kchrisc
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Just the CIA installing their guy.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:11 | 5074341 crazzziecanuck
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Not quite.  Maliki isn't exactly Washington's man.  I guess they largely tolerated the guy because to strongarm another into the PM position would never be considered valid.  Even more strange is how Iran wanted him to step down.  I think Maliki (probably correctly) was expecting a CIA operation.  That he was going to be Yanukovitched in a way.

What this seems to look like is more of a preemptive coup by Maliki.  I wouldn't be surprised if Maliki's group received intelligence that there were plots afoot to stage a paper coup.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 02:21 | 5075198 ThroxxOfVron
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IF Maliki resorts to a power grab then he traps himself.   He likely won't be able to leave Iraq without losing control and Bagdad can only be an island for so long without sustained foreign financial and military support.  IF he wasn't just a puppet to begin with he soon would be.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:54 | 5074288 fatlibertarian
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Let it burn.

Stay out.

Let them stew in their own juices.

America took out Saddam and this is the consequences of those actions.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:56 | 5074293 NoWayJose
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Maliki did not want to play ball with the US - the military was probably willing.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:55 | 5074295 Downtoolong
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US intervention has already led to unexpected" consequences,

Sorry, but, I call bullshit. They knew exactly what would happen to the people who got slaughtered and burried alive.

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 19:58 | 5074301 Karaio
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Off-topic - for sensitive people. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqi_YRlxvg 

 

:-)

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 20:25 | 5074391 Spastica Rex
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That was very nice.

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