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Water and Wheat: ISIS Weapons?
Iraq Business News ^ | 06/15/2014 | John Schnittker

Posted on 06/15/2014 11:12:06 PM PDT by Trapper6012

With much of Iraq’s wheat production coming from Northern Iraq and nearly all of Iraq’s water resources flowing through areas under ISIS control, Iraq’s food security may be facing a severe threat. Iraq has about two thirds of this year’s wheat crop harvested, but this will not be adequate without additional imports, aside from the questions and logistical problems that are implicit given the current security and political crisis.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iraq

1 posted on 06/15/2014 11:12:06 PM PDT by Trapper6012
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To: Trapper6012

use our UAV’s for FAC’s and send in strategic bombers ; B-52
and just plow the ground everywhere and anywhere we see ISIS moving . If there’s collateral damage , those people were going to die anyway .

The world needs FEAR AMERICA again .
B-52 strikes do that . Send in the rolling thunder from on high .


2 posted on 06/15/2014 11:23:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Trapper6012

Hmmm, ISIS controls the water now for central and southern Iraq. The Ukraine controls the water that goes to the Crimea. Water wars ahead.


3 posted on 06/15/2014 11:27:19 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Oppressors can tyranize only w/a standing army-enslaved press-disarmed populace)
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To: flaglady47; All

On the other hand much other shipping comes from the south.


4 posted on 06/15/2014 11:47:06 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Trapper6012

They learn well from obama, don’t they?


5 posted on 06/16/2014 5:51:29 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Trapper6012

Not a problem. GMO wheat will save the world.


6 posted on 06/16/2014 7:59:03 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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