Al-Qaeda rebels take Tikrit, force 500,000 to flee Mosul

Hotair ^ | 06/11/2014 | Ed Morrissey

[nascarnation]

Wow has Hillary 2016 sent them a fundraising mailer yet?

[nascarnation]

Agree with your post, I still like GWB but I always felt he was after Saddam because of his plot to blow up GHWB in Kuwait.

[caww]

Islamic terrorists seize Saddam Hussein’s hometown after 500,000 flee unrest in Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul...Here we go again!!!!

[caww]

I agree....that’s why SiSi in Egypt needed to be.

Islam will never bring peace for very long...the fighters love the taste of death.

BTW It can also become an addiction....these fighters get all jacked up on drugs so the combination of that and the adrenaline rush they have when they behead people...these folks are as close to being utterly lost to evil.

[caww]

No doubt it’s on the way..lololol

You know I really don’t care if they take each others lives anymore. Sounds heartless perhaps but I really have seen enough since 9/11 and learned enough of these people that war is in their blood one way or another and they will never really do what they need to do to have peace as Islam is diametrically opposed to that.

So I expect the East to be at war....

[caww]

Here's the guy with the 10 million dollar bounty on his head who is leading this charge throughout Iraq...guy is worse than Benladin it's been reported, so not surprised his followers are beheading people without blinking an eye...that's how he works.

[nascarnation]

I read this book about Afghanistan

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103088.The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King

And it convinced me that these regions will never be anything but perpetual warmongers.

[1010RD]

Obama Hussein intentionally flubbed the status of forces. He hates America and the dupes elected him twice.

[Justa]

ISIL is composed of Sunnis, so Iran cannot be behind them. More like Turkey in perhaps some spoils-of-oil agreement for profit-sharing of the Kirkuk fields and Baiji refinery proceeds.

If the ISIL offensive moves into Shia territory Iran may ultimately get involved if for no other reason than to give cover for their utilizing Basra port and oil facilities to export their own crude, avoiding sanctions. They’re already doing that so they’ll likely just take over the southern fields and run it under the guise of the Iraqi government.

Maliki should be able to bring enough Shia into the fight to make them fight for Baghdad. The reason the IA has folded so far is that they deploy Sunni troops into Sunni areas and Shia into Shia territory.

[1010RD]

Where’s a A10 or AC130 when you need one?

[Elsie]

As many as 500,000 people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul...

Dang!

Who is left behind to RUN the place?

[Elsie]

Who is left behind to RUN the place?

In 1987,
Mosul's population was counted as 664,221 people;
the 2002 population estimate was 1,740,000,
and by 2008 was estimated to be 1,800,000.

Wiki

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#12: OBAMA is not incompetent per se. He has succeeded tremendously in subverting America and freedom around the world.

As he once said, “Yes I did”!

Now the question is, “Who is he working for” or “Who is controlling him”? - The Moslem fundamentalists or the communists, or a combination of both.

[PotatoHeadMick]

The entire conflict in the Middle East is a power struggle between the Sunnis backed by Saudi Arabia and the Shiites backed by Iran.

In Libya Iran is winning as the Saudi backed insurgents are losing, in Iraq Iran is losing as Maliki is a Shiite.

Guess which side the US supports? Yes the Sunnis.

One of the greatest mistakes of western policy was to cosy up to the Saudis and maintain animosity with Iran.

Iran is a much more civilised place than Saudi Arabia, far more tolerant and much more developed. Iran used to be the US’ best friend in the Muslim world. The people of Iran are far better disposed to the Americans than the Saudis who loathe the west and all it stands for.

If Nixon could reach out to China, if Reagan could make peace with Russia, there should have been some way that the US could have reconciled with Iran in the past twenty-five years or so.

We’ve backed the wrong horse with Saudi Arabia, the nation that gave us Osama Bin Laden and 9/11.

[Elsie]

The entire conflict in the Middle East is a power struggle between the Sunnis backed by Saudi Arabia and the Shiites backed by Iran.

That may be true; on the surface.

Underneath, other things are going on..

Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

[Elsie]

When Obama said, "You didn't make this.", America cringed.

And now, on TV sets across America, it is getting tossed back into bhis face!

https://www.google.com/search?q=chrysler+we+made+this+ad&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475&gws_rd=ssl

[hummingbird]

"Not to mention the squandering of all that our soldiers worked and sacrificed for over there."

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Heartbreaking.

[hummingbird]

"It seems to me that one of the devices we should include in weaponry given to other nations is a simple ‘kill switch’. If the weapons fall into the wrong hands or are going to be used against us, we hit a button and the technology gets fried."

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Great idea, jimbug!

Patent it quickly and you'll make a fortune with US military contracts.

Don't forget me after you make your first million!