Posted on 10/30/2013 1:54:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Nearly two years after the U.S. military left the country, Iraq is now asking for more American weapons, training and manpower to fight a bloody resurgence of al-Qaida.
Violence in Iraq has risen in recent months to levels comparable to the darkest days of the nation’s civil war. …
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It is YOUR country so YOU take care of YOUR problems. By the way, before even talking to the US, how about taking some of your oil money and pay some of your debt to us for saving your butts in prior years???????? Ingrates.
Sorry, Charlie. You had your chance.
I am absolutely convinced Hillary screwed this up. It is completely understandable for a country to object to immunity for foreign troops. Japan objects to it. Korea objects to it. But a good diplomat would have smoothed things over and worked out a deal. Hillary did her my-way-or-the-highway act and threw away ten years of effort and four thousand American lives worth of progress.
Dear Iraq:
Please pound the copious amounts of sand that you have.
US Taxpayer
PS. We are busy funding Obamacare, and there just isn’t any more to help you kill each other over Islam.
You will have to use clubs and sticks.
Message to the Iraqi government: Look down. See that sand? Pound it.
Now the ragheads can just blow each other up.
That’s not the plan, of course. Any ploy to soak the “Great Satan” for money has the goal of destroying same eventually.
So Iranian interests there are weakening. That’s interesting.
Aneech nefsek.
Aw go on! What’s another hundred billion dollars or so?
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