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Iraqi capital nervously awaits Isis attack
FT ^ | July 1, 2014 | Borzou Daragahi

Posted on 07/03/2014 8:51:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Edited on 07/03/2014 8:58:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdad; iraqmeltdown; isis
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1 posted on 07/03/2014 8:51:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s coming. It’s definitely coming.


2 posted on 07/03/2014 8:52:33 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder where exactly Baghdadi is


3 posted on 07/03/2014 8:52:58 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

All the blood we spilled now appears to have been in vain.

If you look at the actions of our government you see everywhere the establishment of a militant form of islam with us engaging in actions that allow it, prevent it from being stopped.

Its undeniable.

The old adage of politics stops at the waters edge has apparently gone up in flames. There is definitely politics beyond, and much of what we are doing abroad is wrong.


4 posted on 07/03/2014 8:59:43 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m nervous when I have to go to a function, like a funeral or a wedding or a new job. I

When I’m waiting for radical jihadists to come and destroy everything, gee, I don’t know if I’m using the word ‘nervous’

But, the news does feel the need to make these guys benign


5 posted on 07/03/2014 9:00:03 PM PDT by stanne
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To: GeronL
I say we send in the man that killed bin Laden. some_text
6 posted on 07/03/2014 9:00:22 PM PDT by boycott
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am interested in what China will do. They need the oil, and have contracts with the current government. If their deal goes south, what will they do?


7 posted on 07/03/2014 9:05:29 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: wonkowasright

All the blood we spilled now appears to have been in vain.


I don’t believe we should ever go anywhere again unless we’re willing to blast them to the stone age.

Politicians will never let us win ..... even after we’ve won. If there is nothing left, we don’t have to worry about them being trouble down the road.

I believe some like dragging wars out because it’s good for business. To me, it’s just not worth the loss of American lives.


8 posted on 07/03/2014 9:06:21 PM PDT by boycott
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To: MinorityRepublican

I still want to know who brought about this ISIS gang of thuds who was unknown until a couple weeks ago and who’s paying for it. I highly suspect this admin created it and our tax dollars are supporting it.

As for Iraq being nervous, where the heck is their army? Or are they waiting for us to send a check and more American lives to sacrifice for their pleasure.


9 posted on 07/03/2014 9:09:07 PM PDT by bgill
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... The more and more I have watched events unfold both in America and abroad .... the more and more the following scenario in the video begins to make sense. Years ago I would have passed this off as a mere conspiracy theory ... but now I am left scratching my head. Who is really sitting in the Oval Office?

Click to view video

10 posted on 07/03/2014 9:10:06 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: bgill

When ISIS throws everything they got at the capital, will the Iraqi Army simply melt away?


11 posted on 07/03/2014 9:11:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: R_Kangel

Good video. Thanks.

Obama is pure Evil and we haven’t seen anything yet.


12 posted on 07/03/2014 9:15:07 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

IS can turn off the water...
or blow up the dams

go IS .


13 posted on 07/03/2014 9:17:42 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: laplata
.... We are now living in a very "Alternate America" than our founders could ever have imagined. We have been compromised from within .... AND possibly ... from the top.

.... BTW ... Happy Independence Day.

14 posted on 07/03/2014 9:20:40 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: R_Kangel

Yep, everything is upside down and backwards.

Happy Independence Day to you, too.


15 posted on 07/03/2014 9:23:25 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They may, but the Mahdi Army won’t. The thing is they hate Americans as much as they hate Sunnis, so putting a company of our guys right between the sides at the airport might not go down in history as one of warfare’s most brilliant tactical decisions.


16 posted on 07/03/2014 9:25:47 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: R_Kangel

>Who is really sitting in the Oval Office?<

.
Ask Nancy Pelosi — she vetted him.


17 posted on 07/03/2014 9:32:39 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Vince Ferrer
I am interested in what China will do. They need the oil, and have contracts with the current government. If their deal goes south, what will they do?

China doesn't need to do a thing. ISIS, once it takes over, will happily confirm those contracts. They need to sell oil! And China is a very good customer, with infinite funding and with infinite demand. Why would ISIS cancel the deal?

18 posted on 07/03/2014 9:35:12 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: MinorityRepublican; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; Liz
I was a Bush/Cheney/neocon Koolaid drinker in 2002 and 2003 when they pitched the invasion and all those empty claims,
I even went out on a limb then and told some friends to trust them on this invasion .....

By late 2006 when Bush canned Rummy, and he announced what they been doing was not working (GWB:"Stay the course") and that we really needed a surge in troops and $$$ (asking it from the new Pelosi house),
I then realized what a scam the whole thing was, and how these neocons would bring us Democrats in charge of the US abandoning it all Iraq anyways with all that $$ and those US lives wasted.

Abandon Iraq after all that and we got Obamacare and millions of new illegals anyway, and gay marriage and open homo stuff in military,

Wave the flag ?

19 posted on 07/03/2014 9:38:45 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Greysard
Why would ISIS cancel the deal?

If the fields have been damaged, or if the flow of oil gets disrupted for a long time due to intense fighting over the region. Its probably the one of the few regions the shiites will fight hard for.

20 posted on 07/03/2014 9:39:33 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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