Posted on 01/03/2014 5:13:21 PM PST by kristinn
Just over two years since American troops entirely withdrew from Iraq, the black flag of Al Qaeda flies over the city of Fallujah’s government buildings in Iraq’s western Anbar Province. It was there that several American contractors were killed and strung up over a bridge in 2004 and American Marines fought the biggest battle of the Iraq War.
“The capture of Fallujah came amid an explosion of violence across the western desert province of Anbar in which local tribes, the Iraqi security forces and al-Qaeda militants have been fighting one another for days in a confusingly chaotic three-way war,” reads a report in the Washington Post.
From the WaPo article:
...“At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah,” said a local journalist who asked not to be named because he fears for his safety. “The police and the army have abandoned the city, al-Qaeda has taken down all the Iraqi flags and burned them, and it has raised its own flag on all the buildings.”
At Friday prayers, held outdoors and attended by thousands of people, a masked ISIS fighter took the podium and addressed the crowd, declaring the establishment of an “Islamic emirate” in Fallujah and promising to help residents fight the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Iranian allies.
“We don’t want to hurt you. We don’t want to take any of your possessions,” the masked man told the crowd, according to the journalist, who attended the prayers. “We want you to reopen the schools and institutions and return to your normal lives.”..
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“At this point its too late for anything but a strike on Iraq to prevent their going nuclear...”
What?
Sorry I meant Iran
It was always a fools errand to have any intervention. Now we are left with this.
“We want you to reopen the schools and institutions and return to your normal lives.”..
“Relax for now.. enjoy the weekend.. we’ll wait to commence with the beheadings of your wives and children until Monday.”
LOL, okay. I thought I had missed some huge news event.
I agree that things will be interesting over there for the foreseeable future.
My stepson lost an arm and leg at Fallujah, and his younger brother and my son also fought there. November 2004, USMC.
Nothing.
We made a bad situation far worse by toppling the existing power structure. Secular dictatorships are the least worst option for Muslim countries.
Guess we’ll be back.
Good God, I hope not.
I agree.
Another foreign policy success of the Obama administration.
I am sure he went way overboard but some of Saddam’s brutality was probably necessary in that particular country.
Of course they are flying their flag over Iraq, just like it flies over Libya and over Syria. We put them there.
I’m so terribly sorry about your stepson and hope he is (at least relatively) okay. Semper Fi to all your boys.
My brother is now a colonel in the USMC (he was in Afghanistan most of 2002, on top of all the other places/wars).
We bailed after we lost so much blood there.I blame only ONE person. Obama. We won the war, we could have had an ally in the mideast, access to bases and oil and a stand against Iran...all we needed to do was to help them along AFTER we won.
ITS WHAT WE DID IN EUROPE WITH OUR BASES AND THE MARSHALL PLAN.
Yeah, we should have said that to the europeans”Its their turn now.”
I echo your sentiment!!!!!!
thank you for the succinct comment.
Krauthammer said tonite, History will show that bailing on Iraq after we won the war will be seen as Obozo’s first and worst foreign policy mistake..all done for his poll numbers.
thank you for your service!
It is heart breaking and depressing to watch some moron like Obozo trash a hard won victory and set us up for more pain. It is a hard call to know if we had stayed to assist after the alquida was sent running, if things would have turned out different for sure. But for sure, we doomed our chances by just bolting..because of politics. and now I must get ice cream to deal with the pointlessness of it all politically.
It was always their turn. Janeane Garofalo was right. What an incredible waste of blood and money.
>> History will show that bailing on Iraq...
Agreed.
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