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ISIS Flees Ramadi, This Is What They Left Behind: Photo Album "From The Devil's Grasp"
Last Tuesday, Iraqi troops made a concerted effort to retake Ramadi, which is around 60 miles west of Baghdad.
The city fell to Islamic State back in May when, according to Ash Carter’s assessment anyway, the army showed no will to fight in the face of the advancing ISIS hordes. Once the army, with the help of Sunni tribal fighters, retook a strategic command center they began to advance on a government complex where, according to sources, some 100 militants were dug in.
Despite sniper fire, suicide bombers, and IEDs the Iraqis were able to capture the government complex, marking the latest in a string of strategic and psychological victories for Baghdad’s much maligned forces.
Ramadi has been “fully liberated,” Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool said on Monday. Here's the statement from the Joint Operations Command:
“Yes, Ramadi city has been liberated and security forces, like the heroes of the counter terrorism forces, flew the Iraqi flag over the government compound building in Anbar. The flag is flying now to write a new history, and with the grace of God, the rest of the cities will be liberated.”
As you can see from the map shown above however, merely retaking the government complex doesn’t mean the city is an “ISIS-free zone” (to use the ridiculous term the US and Turkey made up for the area north of Aleppo and West of the Euphrates in Syria). "Operations continued Monday to clear remaining Islamic State militants from other areas of Ramadi, security officials said, particularly in the eastern suburbs where many of the group’s holdouts had fled the day before as Iraqi forces advanced," WSJ notes.
“Gen. Ismail al-Mahlawi, head of military operations in Anbar, quickly clarified that government forces had only retaken a strategic government complex and that parts of the city remained under IS control,” AP writes, adding that although “IS fighters have retreated from about 70 percent of city, [they] still control the rest and government forces still don't fully control many of the districts from which the IS fighters have retreated.”
Right. And it’s unlikely that they’ll ever regain “full control” of the city where “ever” means sometime in the foreseeable future. There’s been talk of stationing the Sunni tribesmen in captured areas to ensure “the terrorists” don’t come back. Ramadi is Iraq’s Sunni heartland and thus Abadi isn’t keen on enlisting the assistance of Iran’s Shiite militias either to help with the fight or to occupy the city once it finally is fully liberated.
In short, Iraq doesn’t want the city to descend into sectarian violence in the wake of the ISIS withdrawal, but the Sunni fighters are undertrained and ill-equipped which leads one to question how effective they’ll ultimately be when it comes to defending captured ground.
In any event, here are some images which depict the aftermath of the latest fighting and should give you a good idea of what the Iraqis found when they entered the city which The Daily Mail says has been wrenched from the "Devil's grasp":
So there you have it. A smoldering pile of rubble is 70% of the way "liberated." Hallelujah.
Don't forget that the scenes shown above are from a city that is just an hour by car from the capital of a country the US supposedly "saved" from a bleak future under a brutal dictator more than a decade ago. This, we suppose, is what a thriving democracy looks 12 years after a US intervention.
Next on the list is Mosul. In light of the following image which appeared in a piece of ISIS propaganda released earlier this year, we're interested to see what the city actually looks like now that the group has been in control for some 18 months...
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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/28/politics/american-terrorists-poll-winn...
CNN/ORC poll: More Americans say terrorists are winning than ever beforeEMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Monday, December 28 at 6:00 a.m.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/12/25/terrorpoll.pdf
Interviews with 1,018 adult Americans conducted by telephone by ORC International on December 17-21, 2015. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The sample also includes 927 interviews among registered voters (plus or minus 3 percentage points). This sample includes 618 interviews among landline respondents and 400 interviews among cell phone respondents.
Revolutionaries/Progressives are always happy to steamroller over and destroy the traditions and institutions of a culture, but when it comes to the work of building and creating a society, they reveal themselves for the tantruming children they are.
Oberlin graduates will reveal that, Canada is about to learn that with the election of an earnest patronizing progressive Prime Minister/school teacher they just elected.
Bullish for MIC stawks.
Looks just like Libya and Iraq.
I know a guy who is a sailor, for the past years they only deliver
military weapons exculsivly.
He was in Basra Iraq and he said "there are no people there, zero"
After they sailed into Pakistan after Barry fake killed Osama
and the Pakistanis refused to take their ropes. When they
woke up the next morning the ship had been tagged with a giant
"Fuck America" and away they sailed.
kinda a lol
Ramadetroit.
Looks like Vegas circa 2025 after the battle between the Patriot Militia and the FSA
Looks like a Krugman utopia
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Dread Pirate Roberts
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Which is the better nom-de-guerre?
ooooh shit! They rubblized rubble.
Bullish for Caterpillar!
Those pictures look a lot like a sunny day in Detroit, only you can't open-carry an automatic rifle, and Detroit was destroyed by bankers and politicians, not religious fanatics funded by the administration.
Looks like a Krugman utopia
Yeah! Just THINK of all the windows that will need to be replaced! The economy will be BOOMIN'! /s
and if any of these fucking idiots think they can get a gas pipeline built through syria without cutting syria into the deal, thats about as complete as their pipeline will ever be: 70%
they have almost completed the Ramadi Inn
There should be a law that requires all wars must be fought with soldiers that live no more then 100 miles from the battle field. You want to fight in a war? Fight it in, and destroy your own damn neighborhood!
Quite sending young men to fight in foreign lands for causes they have no stake in.
It's a start, but weapons should not be transported more than 100 miles from their manufacture and, most importantly, gov'ts and private individuals cannot finance armies and private militias outside of their home countries.
International sanctions that were widely adhered to in the west worked well enough to bring down the apartheid gov't in South Africa. They would have worked well enough to topple Saddam if the bastard French, Russians and Chinese had not been so keen for Iraqi oil.
Don't forget. Unicorns must be forbidden from interfering with flying pigs.
You talking about the MSM Unicorn and flying pig story about the people of these towns destroying their homes fighting amongst themselves in a "Civil War"?
Even simpler, if you support a war you go to the front no matter your age or sex.
But they do have a stake in it; They own stock in Raytheon \sarc
Chicago or Camden perhaps
I hope not
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God bless the USA for making this all possible. I'm so proud !!
"When they woke up the next morning the ship had been tagged with a giant "Fuck America""
These anti-American incidents go by unnoticed and rarely ever mentioned by the Empire Rulers in Washington and MSM.
It reminds me of a forum comment several years ago by an Indian: "which side of the British postage stamp do you spit on"
This well known slogan appears on the side of a building in Tehran
It reminds me of a forum comment several years ago by an Indian: "which side of the British postage stamp do you spit on"
Interesting - I too now despise my 24kt Maples and Roos with their depiction of the Masonic Witch on them. I can store them face down, but would rather trade them away.
Hear ya - it's too bad about the witch. But the important thing is the 99.99% pure Au. Money. The Real Deal. Known weight, pure. THAT'S the beauty, not the witch!
It is why I buy Philharmonics. They do not have an image of some
inbread dried up cunt.
How could this happen in a country where 35,000 terror schools graduate millions of young boys who have been taught nothing but the Koran and Jihad from the time they are 6? We're not going to make good little Americans out of these people.
If only we could get some rabbis to teach them they are God's Chosen People, and that they live in a 'Holy Land' reserved just for them, and some other Talmudic gems such as how its ok to rip off the non-Chosen via usury... That would be progress, amirite?
Old Jewish joke:
"Why did God invent Goyim? Someone has to pay retail!"
They would choose Saddam Hussein any day. His phsyco sons look like choir boys, now. Apparantly, it takes a firm hand .......
I don't blame them.
Don't ask for US help.
Don't call the fucking police.
Your shit will be destroyed. You'll most likely end up dead, or wish you were.
I'm embarrassed anymore. Fucking politicians and military industrial complex.
I can't believe it has come to this.
are those 30 round high capacity magazines in an assault weapon? They must be registered or confiscated!
/sarc
Yeah, and who's the manufacturer of the guns?
The other thing is note the complete and total abscence of bug bites on these men.
This is the first 'combat zone' (lulz...amateurs) I've ever seen where biting flies, mosquitoes, bot flies, ticks, chiggers, fleas or any number of flying/jumping biters have left everyone's faces completely untouched. It's like half these guys just stepped out of a salon after getting their nails done (twinks). Because anyone that's actually sat down with a Vet, from any country, the one story they all share in common is getting eaten alive by bugs while waiting for operational commands to deploy. These men and their clean, tidy faces complete with a GI JOE hand bags is just about as likely that someone goes fishing and camping over a weekend and doesn't get eaten alive by something.
Plus their boots are far too fucking clean. You can tell a lot about a man and the state of his shoes.
These photos shows the "democracy and freedom" America and Israel have brought to Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries.
American people must be very proud to be led by such great leaders like Bushes and Obama. The permanent state of war will cost enormously to American and EU people and will ruin the Western civilization that brought prosperity to these countries in the last 70 years. Well, after all, people learn nothing!
Considering these guys have been out in the rough for years now...they've got a lot of fat in their cheeks and their hair is dark as pitch. Not a single fleck of grey. I'm surprised snowflakes last that long in a dessert eating cupcakes, having tea parties and duck facing for selfies/vines.
In reality, you are seeing another manifestion of the USSA's policy of Order out of Chaos, straight out from the British Imperial Playbook.
....via Tel-Aviv.
@ Team,
+1,0000. And, did you get a load of all that tax payer Military gear & AR-15. I wonder if ISIS wink, wink, left behind any of those CIA supplied TOW missile's?
The Syrian Arab Army have stonked a large group of Israel's takfiri near the border in the area of Daraa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28GeubnDya0
Daraa: The army and armed forces killed, in special operations, during the past 24 hours gatherings of Takfiri Terrorist Organizations which are affiliated to Israeli enemy.
An army unit destroyed a den and a gathering of Takfiri terrorists with all terrorists inside as well as their equipment and weapons at Nazheen Camp in Daraa Balad.
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/daraa-killed-by-sme/
Some payback for the Syrians murdered by Israel when they took out the Hezbollah leader a few days ago.
The British colonised their Indians, the Americans shot theirs.
Bush and Cheney were revolutionaries and progressives?
they toppled a number of governments in a few years. in a stretch, this counts as "revolutionary"
New word: Progressolutionary
No. Bush and Cheney were/are assholes and fuckheads.
Aren't all Revolutionary Progressive Liberals, assholes and fuckheads?
George Bush and Dick Cheney DOUBLED THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT. That does not fit in well with "Limited Government" mantra, does it?
They were very, very liberal...even MORESO than Bill Clinton. Government growth slowed down substantially under the Clinton Administrations.
Government cannot solve problems because GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM and they are not about to take action to abolish the problems as that would have them take action to abolish themselves.
They are not about to do that. Therefore there is NO POLITICAL SOLUTION.
Correct terminology is very important! Most people don't know that oranges are really a variety of tomatoes. And butterflies are simply snakes with wings. Cats and dogs are the same animal, and of course, they are all revolutionaries.
...butterflies are simply snakes with wings" Made my day bluez, and almost killed my keyboard...almost.
Presidents don't grow government, Con-gress grows government and attaches it to bills the President wants, so the President gets the blame. Remember Regan? He didn't play that game and went on National TV to call them out to the public. No other Presidents have had the balls to do that since.
Government cannot solve problems because GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM and they are not about to take action to abolish the problems as that would have them take action to abolish themselves.
Exactly. Just like any of the alphabet soup agencies like the DHS, CIA, DEA, or the ATF - if they were to actually accomplish their stated goal, they would have no reason for being - so - they are typically at the forefront of creating the "problems" they supposedly "fight" - it's just job security for them. When things start slowing down, they throw a "fund raiser" event to shake more money out of the morons in Con-gress.
"Government growth slowed down substantially under the Clinton Administrations."
The correct statement is "government growth slowed down after the takeover of congress by Newt Grinrich led republicans in 1994. As a result of forced ending of "welfare as we know it" to paraphrase Clinton's words when he signed the republican welfare reform bill which elimanted all cash welfare payments to able bodied adults. Memory loss is just the start of dementia so don't worry too much-you've still got your height and your religious superstitions.
Slower growth is still growth. It's not shrinkage. I think it's actually shrinkage we should be interested in.
I wouldn't have a problem with the steam roller technique if it was employed to get rid of the cronyism rather than the small businesses.
Certain businesses become cronies when they give money to politicians who then take up legislation (often written by the same cronies) that helps to further entrench / solidify the crony relationship. They effectively employ $$ toward politicians to tighten the gate keeping efforts to keep others out.
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Obama's crop. His peeps. Why not have a special on MTV "Terrorists crib" or something like that.
MTV already had that idea, but McCain pulled out at the last minute.
"but McCain pulled out at the last minute."
Too bad the same couldn't have been said about his father......
his father was a banker --- got penalized for early withdrawal
pffff. Not scared.
All that's left is a pile of rubble....and that's a good result?
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/as-events-spiral-ou...
Spamming now with another handle?
Must be anticipatory of account 'MrNosey' to getting banned.
Certainly Americans, being so well informed, bold, resistant to propaganda, and incisively analytical, would be the ones to interview to find out how the terrorists are doing.
I don't fucking think.
Finally !
Sure. That cesspool has strategic American interest written all over it.
now modern women can walk the streets of Ramadi, christian churches can reopen and girls can go to schools..oh wait.
Hey look at what we...I mean isis did to this town!
"Hey look at what we."
Wouldn't be surprised if that bridge has been down since Gulf War 1
Hard to tell from these pictures if thats the bridge over the TharThar canal, but I think it is based on another article I read saying the Iraqis built a ribbon bridge in that area. It had a big hole in it from either Gulf War I or the 2003 invasion. The superstructure of the brige was intact though, and was functional with the help of some military bridging. Just saw an article dated to Jul 2014 that ISIS took out the rest of the bridge with a car bomb. Originally it was a rail bridge but the trains stopped running a long time ago, sometime in Saddams reign. Probably GW I put an end to it.
Well, let's see. In the world of finance, the Fed convinced us that the cure for a debt crisis is more debt, the cure for a housing bubble is a bigger housing bubble, and the cure for overpriced stocks is higher prices. So, it only makes sense that the cure for US imperialistic bullying is yet more imperialistic bullying. Iraq went so well, how about Syria next? And then, who knows...I say we go for broke and do a nice little regime change in Russia. Might as well do China while we are in tha 'hood, yo.
Never get involved with doon koons and sand niggers. That is stay out of the Shia and Sunni religious wars.
These aren't religious wars - they are american wars. The "evil" Saddam" ruled over the most modern and prosperous country in the middle east. Then, for the crime of selling oil in a currency other than the "dollar", the benevolent u.s. came to save Iraq and in the process sent the citizenry back to the stone age - literally. Part of this freedumb and democracy operation was a concerted effort to stoke religious fervor and annimosity amongst and between religious groups in the region. And now, with absolutely NOTHING left to live or work for, the population is either dead, disbanded, or warring. Those are the only 3 choices left to a country that has been liberated by the peace and freedumb loving u.s.
Exceptional.
About sums it up.
One piece is missing:
The Iraqi oil was to be used to pay for the 'liberation'. Pure gangsterism.
Nice country you got there, shame if something ... bad ... was to happen to it. Capiche?
Edit: Tylers, please quit with the autoplay videos. The sound of gunfire doesn't go down too well in a hospital waiting room.
Now they will have to borrow from the cartels central bank to rebuild what the cartels puppets destroyed. Indebting another sovereign nations people to the cartel. The plan works flawlessly,over and over again.
That's the cover story. First thing special forces did when they got into Babylon was to raid the museum basement until they found a certain sarcophagus....
The Luciferians that run the worlds governments desperately needed it for their end-game.
Saddam's grand delusion was that he thought he could flout primal Zio-US interests, by (a) Selling oil in Euros instead of Dollars, and (b) Fund Palestinina suicide bombers.
How retarded and delusional is that? No single country can take such a course of action. It demands the action of a large coalition of countries, and therein lies the problem: You just can not forge such a coalition, w/o word getting back to the NWO Neocons and them taking timely counter-measure.
Even Russian and Iran are having a tough time with it, because China keeps being the element of Drag to slow them down. (China pretends to be 'nice', but it's just a ploy to quietly and easily acquire everything of value in sight, while others are fighting).
Anyone for a swim?
Has there been any chlorine in that pool this decade?
Not enough bikini babes in that pool for my taste. …. Barry Sweat-o might be interested in joining in for a dip.
~ DC
"Ho Ho Ho
Now I have a machine gun"
~ Hans Gruber -
NoVa
I think there's something in the Koran about not pissing in the pool, but you know what those Jihadis are like, breaking all kinds of rules.
So no-thanks to that swim WB.
only the lyttle boyzz will be allowed in the pool with these great muslim warriors....
if you ever wonder why you wont here of obama and the leftists actually doing somethi about ISIS its because they both want to divide up the little boys!
hollow cinder block construction. jesus. if i was building that shit for my house in that area i would fill those cavities up with compressed dirt if I didn't have anything else. not that it would do much good other than maybe deaden the sound of the shell that killed me while I was digging a ten meter deep hole inside.
To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. [/Carl Spackler, Caddyshack]
When does Iraq tell the United Snakes to get the fuck out.
It should be soon.
It's not nice to fool with Mother Empire.
GWB signed an agreement to remove all US troops from Iraq and Obama implemented it.
Obama has much to answer for. War Criminal seems even the least serious of his crimes...
(yes, other presidents also from both parties.)
Wish I could throw this comment a 1000 + up votes.
Obama has done NOTHING. he's a FUCKING PUPPET! Get that into your skulls.
Just a puppet following orders, what, like Goring, Bormann and Hess?
Can't imagine the 'Nuremburg Defence' would go down too well, coming from the POTUS.
logged in to say almost exactly that
No. Not like Goring, Bormann and Hess. Like fucking kermit the frog. He's an entertainer, nothing more.
I hear this all the time. Well then, who exactly is pulling the strings?
Satan
but obama is not puppet, he is not a dead instrument no mind of its own, that must obey every tug on its string made by the puppet master! he is just like the rest of us with a mind and a spirit that has chosen which side he wants to ne on!
I would rather be long dead than to be alive(conscious) and think opposite bad is good and good is evil & be successful in this world.
Isaiah 5:20 King James Version (KJV)“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Cross References Matthew 6:22"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. Matthew 6:23
But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Luke 11:34
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. Luke 11:35
See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
Pray for the world,for the innocents
Peace, happy New Year (2016)
Obummer is just a Shabbos Goy, the Useful Fool, the Useful Tool.
The irony is that he has become to believe* the Koolaid that he's been guzzling. Along with whatever else he's been swallowing.
* If you say a lie often enough, you start to believe it as truth. Ask any highly successful salesman or politician. BTW, all executives are part salesmen and the most successful ones are the best salesmen. Sheeple need to get their heads out of the rear end or their Sunday School worldview.
When Washington's most favored terrorist gangsters, ISIS, seized control of Ramadi, they slaughtered inhabitants who wouldn't surrender to their psychopathic lunacy and then turned the city into rubble.
Poisoning the well comes to mind...
Meanwhile al-Baghdadi says ISIS is not deterred by being bombed by the Russians. Tell that to your dead gangsters and the cowardly ones who fled.
By Iraq forces they mean 99.9% US special forces with an Iraqi translator along for the ride (carrying a weapon).
. . . . and when the ZATO Alliance withdraws the Afghani , Iraqi or Libyan translators get their skip dodge quick visas turned down.
No. By Iraq forces they mean the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
By ISIS they mean 99.9% US special forces with an Iraqi translator along for the ride (carrying a weapon).
Lizzy- Long time no see.
They just change the shoulder patch, to fit whatever narrative they want to present.
the tide is turning against the caliphate jackals it would seem,but the toll will be high;i dobt the region will ever recover from this bloodbath
The great proportion of the fighters are not local. They are mercenaries brought in and fighting for $100-300 a month. I have seen images of people with Chinese appearance, presumably Uhighars?, amongst the dead.
Blackwater earn that amount per hour.
next hell on surface of earth>S.A....
Juicy Reconstruction Contracts ...yum.
Sad that the Russians had to get involved to give the Iraq's some positive back up. Obama refused to do anything to harm his brothers. Once they knew that the Russians weren't going to hold back, they got back into the fight. Obama has destroyed all confidence in America across the planet.
Eh no. America has been fucking up the planet for far longer than Obama's terms in office.
Yup. They stopped Fascism and Communism. Messed everything up...
Oberlin Grads
ISIS
Who would win if we sent in Oberlin grads to retake Mosul?
Amazing that this type of comprehensive analysis is unavailable in so called MSM like BBC and Telegraph, whose reporting is pitiful, skewed and downright misleading in comparison, imo. Amazes me anyway.
So this whole city was overrun by less then 1,000 bad guys, and then held by 300?? Are you fucking kidding me?? Are these guys Spartans?
This is bullshit and proves the peoples of the middle east are pussy's who will let a handful of bullies run their whole lives. ( Or they agree with ISIS) Why should we spend our resources for these goat fuckers who cannot even man up on 900 isis members?
Ramadi is a BIG City of almost 200,000 people.
If these people cannot man up in the middle east, why should we let them become refugees??
Fuck think of the Armies that Hitler, and other REAL threats would bring to bear against a city.... 300 fucking people.
300 terrorists could not take over Poplarville Mississippi.
We do not need more sheep in the USA
300 terrorists could not take over Poplarville Mississippi.
They might if Poplarville is softened up by the USA in retaliation for WTC7 falling down!
Ramadi once had 450,000 people. Almost all of them were Sunni. That ogre Saddam was Sunni. For perspective, there are more Sunni's in the world than Roman Catholics.
yeah but Saddam was secular Sunni, not like the wildmen running around Iraq and eastern Syria.
While military age men flee Iraq and Syria to go on the dole in Europe, the US is gradually sending in its own young people to replace them.Whenever the shooting ends, and it will, the young men needed to rebuild Iraq and Syria will be too caught up in their new lives abroad to return to help rebuild their countries thus perpetuating the poverty cycle in Iraq and Syria.
why is this myth persisting? most people in both Iraq and Syria are tribal. if they would arm and defend themselves, they would do that as a tribe
but in most cases, they can't. literally, all governments and other involved parties including ISIS try to do everything they can to prevent that, with exceptions being freely bombed by practically nearly everybody
so as a father of a 17-year old boy, your choice is to see your son getting forcefully drafted by one of any sides, all... unsavory. or to give him some of your last money, a smartphone and some directions to any place where he might survive this mess and so come back when peace returns
I would do the same. If you would not... then please explain how you would tackle this quandary
Don't jumpt too fast to conclusions.
The new bill to control assault weapons is coming soon to a place near you. Then you will understand how a small group of armed man can control a city of 200,000.
Well, that's how the Maquis got started.
What a fucking shit hole.
A couple of trillion dollars - thousands of dead soldiers....HUNDREDS of thousands of dead to boot....
and this....is "victory"?
Pardon me while I sharpen my boot to stick in any of these politicians and bankers asses for it.
Fuckers....die you cunts
All by a war that was going to pay for itself per Bush and Chaney
And lost by 0bama, just as he lost the entire ME.
Iraq: We are leaving behind a, “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government.” So, it was stable, 0bama removed troops, funded ISIS, and BLAM -> Iraq went down.
Afganistan: Obama: "The real war is in Afganistan." Clue to Obama: Taliban resurging.
Libya: Now an ISIS hotbed
Yemen: Obama: A model of "success". Not so much.
Syria: [Do I really need to say something here?]
Did Bush/Cheney start Iraq war? YES.
Did 0bama lose Iraq war, and destabilize ME thus creating regional Islamist power? YES!
"Libya: Now an ISIS hotbead"
Libya may ask Russia to help cleanse ISIS. Afterwards - maybe another base on the Med? Landing rights for RUssian military aircraft?
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/libya-may-ask-russia-to-carry-out...
Look closely folks, this is what the future holds for America...
You mean like Detroit?
Or Camden, or <insert name here>...
b hussein homobama announced a new jobs program today. connecting detroit & camden via a crack pipeline
ISIS is smart to retreat from a "city" with no people, no utilities, no salvageable buildings...it will sink back into the sand without Uncle Sam coming in with $50b to rebuild for the people. This strategy is a page right out of Sherman's march to the Ocean book. The ISIS goal is to make sure the flow of refugees heading North is non-stop for the next 5 years...this will destroy the remaining economies of Europe and shortly thereafter the world.
Ask yourself this- Would ISIS have rolled Saddam? I don't think so. We took Saddam out because he wanted to walk away from the petro-dollar.
...just more of "Gods work" backed by the international banking cartel.
....what could have been....
Iraq street scenes (Before the invasion)
If you see this video you will notice many women NOT wearing a Burkha or not having their face or head covered. It was a SECULAR state with tolerance to Christians. Sunni's and Shiites lived in the same neighborhood without killing each other.
Now the place is desolate, destroyed, everyone is gone. The Sunni's kill the Shiites and vice versa. Any women around are covered head to toe and Christians are in hiding or long dead or gone.
All because we could not tolerate that some nation was selling THEIR fuckin commodities in a non dollar currency.
Fuck me.
....what could have been....
Iraq street scenes (Before the invasion)
Outside the forces on the ground, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between Ramadi and Detroit and/or Baltimore; all three shitboxes of corruption and incompetence.
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The Late Chalmers Johnson has written a few books (Blowback and Sorrows of Empire, e.g.), on how the Anglo-'Murican Hegemony have pissed on and walked over many a Country on both Macro(Cultural/Political/Economic) and Micro (Personal) Levels.
The damages inflicted on the irreplaceable Cultural/Historical Location and Pieces in IRQ - the "Cradle of Modern Civilization" just had me shaking my head.
With all the Planning, One would expect a Cultured/Educated/Well-traveled/Cosmopolitan Diplomat, Military Officer, Staff Iraqi Liaison, Civil Engineer trained in Anthropology/Archaeology would be present in order to identify/spare/protect Cultural Assets and National Treasures (we did some of it in WWII) during - and especially after the Invasions.
Defacing Monuments while building Burger King and other Fast Food outlets for the Troops. So simple to choose another location.
Add in Depleted Uranium Rounds related Deaths and Birth Defects, you have a Recipe for making many pissed off Survivors.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the American Voting Citizenry should put a massive Monkey Wrench in the Neocon/Nuland/Brzezinski/MIC/PetroDollar Camps' Machinations of Conquest?
Any POTUS/VP Combo of Webb, Ron_Paul, Trump, Ventura, and Sanders might steer the USA out of another set of MIC/PetroDollar/Neocon_Proxy Wars. I wish Webb/Ron_Paul would be a Tix; but since I plan to be abroad, guess I'll just have to send in an Absentee Ballot.
Most Americans have internalized the false left/right dialectic and are running on empty.
I'm afraid this American nightmare drama will have to play out until its bitter end.
How will it end? WW3, or the US will somehow be defeated or exhausted?
Are we in a 45 year Cold War v2? Might it end like the first, but with a US collapse?
"the army showed no will to fight in the face of the advancing ISIS hordes."-ass carter
The IS IS hoardes?? 800 IS IS fighters routed 30,000 regular Iraq Army troups?? The Iraq army was most likely ordered to run and drop their weapons. In doing so they turned over (transfered) over $500 million in weapons/equipment.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/mosul-isis-gunmen-middle-east-states
The Iraqi army at the time in the (Sunni) north was lead by Shiite carpetbaggers from the south, selected for their crony contacts in the Iraqi government not their fighting abilities. When ISIS appeared those "leaders", not wanting to be left to the mercy of the Sunni population in the north got out of there fast, at which point their troops, also mainly Shiites, decided the smart thing was also to hit the road.
It is Iran, whose army has some professionalism, that is now pushing the thrust into the north. So they now occupy a few destroyed buildings. But they are still Shiite invaders in Sunni territory. A long guerilla war is guaranteed.
"So there you have it. A smoldering pile of rubble is 70% of the way "liberated." Hallelujah."
Wait! Wait! Do not overlook that contracts have yet to be awarded to Halliburton (or some other oligarchs') for the rebuilding of ....all of Iraq? The economic benefits will have a ripple up/down affect to contractors world wide. The money that changes hands for bribes, graft, corruption and outright theft will help to rebuild the economies of entire nations. Workers from Greece, Texas, Pakistan, Iraq and the world over will have employment opportunities to better themselves and families back home. It will be a Festivus!
That's Urban Redevelopment... the American way. It's all good. In less than 20 years most American inner cities will look just like that. Hell, some of em are halfway there already.
Porn for Dick Cheney.
This submission is a horrible excuse for journalism.
What the Anglozionazi Empire of Carnage and its I$I$ goons destroyed, will no doubt the Russians and Chinese rebuild for a USSA free Iraq.
To the victor goes the spoils. Truer words never spoken.
What spoils? It's more like ruins. Or gravel.
Last month I saw an interview with a US general, guy said it woud take 10 years and 100B USD to retake Ramadi...I guess now we know why US cant do shit and is bankrupt
George Orwell once wrote that, It’s not a matter of whether the war is not real or if it is Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won it is meant to be continuous.
PAYBACK time: Russian warplanes pound "Daesh Capital"...
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151228/1032412738/syrian-kurds-daesh...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/12/28/russian-warplanes-hit-556-terror...