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Military Coup Rocks Iraq
Pundit Press ^ | 8/10/2014 | by Thomas Ferdousi

Posted on 08/10/2014 2:40:05 PM PDT by therightliveswithus

Iraq’s parliament just chose a new President who refused to rename Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki to a third term. Maliki declared the move unconstitutional and his own State of Law Party pulled support from him. Now his forces are seizing government buildings in Iraq, have closed the airport, and are surrounding the Green Zone.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: almaliki; caliphate; charliesierra; clusterhuck; coup; iran; iraq; iraqcoup; iraqipm; maliki; massoum; masum; rop
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To: tet68

“I’m sure Obama will be surprised when he hears this on the news.”
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Yeah, he and Mochelle in Martha’s Vineyard will be so-o-o-o upset, they’ll have only two lobsters each for dinner instead of three each.


121 posted on 08/10/2014 3:24:13 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: blackdog

Bring the hardware home from there and let’s just pretend he never existed, which based on information prior to 2008, he kinda didn’t.


Some speculation that zero had to be forced yesterday to knock down IS to save the 50K stuck on the mountain.

garf I hope they’re still on the job.


122 posted on 08/10/2014 3:25:04 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I’m sure Odumber keeps his cell phone off on the weekend. Valerie is the one on-call you know...


123 posted on 08/10/2014 3:25:11 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Vendome

Not before he had a gas attack.


124 posted on 08/10/2014 3:26:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: moovova

Can we start calling him 0bogie yet?


125 posted on 08/10/2014 3:26:52 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: McGruff

Tweets to #Iraq seem to agree that Maliki has flooded the Green Zone with troops loyal to him and Shia militia. Confused picture elsewhere.


126 posted on 08/10/2014 3:28:24 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Jagdgewehr

“Situation getting worse Official White House response: “Bush’s fault.””

Don’t laugh...
Obama Bots are already tweeting JUST THAT.


127 posted on 08/10/2014 3:28:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: Vince Ferrer

This isn’t a military coup, it is a coup engineered by the PM.


128 posted on 08/10/2014 3:28:38 PM PDT by kabar
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To: tcrlaf

Silly rabbit, don’t ya know..NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is EVER Obama’s fault..he is just an innocent little lamb


129 posted on 08/10/2014 3:29:43 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: kabar
"This isn’t a military coup, it is a coup engineered by the PM."

Leave it to those damn project managers to engineer a coup on the weekend!!

130 posted on 08/10/2014 3:30:39 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: kabar

This isn’t a military coup, it is a coup engineered by the PM.

It’s looking very much like that. Panic.


131 posted on 08/10/2014 3:31:04 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: All

REUTERS

Shi’ite militia forces step up patrols in Baghdad: police sources
by Derek Caney 5:26 PM

Special forces loyal to Maliki are deployed in strategic areas of Baghdad: Police
by Derek Caney 5:09 PM


132 posted on 08/10/2014 3:31:20 PM PDT by maggief
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To: txhurl

CNN saying US is throwing Maliki under the bus.


133 posted on 08/10/2014 3:31:57 PM PDT by McGruff ("We're Leaving Behind a Sovereign, Stable, and Self-Reliant Iraq" - Obama in 2011)
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To: dfwgator

Yep. Toppling Saddam was one of the worst foreign policy blunders orchestrated by the United States that I can think of.


134 posted on 08/10/2014 3:32:36 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: tcrlaf

There is no bounds to their audacious stupidity.


135 posted on 08/10/2014 3:32:49 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: GeronL

“These are the factions of Weimar Germany fighting for positions while the Fascists get more and more powerful.”

Yes, good comparison.


136 posted on 08/10/2014 3:33:16 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Drew68

Then we doubled down on the stupidity by ousting Mubarak and Kadaffy. At least they haven’t succeeded, yet, with Assad.


137 posted on 08/10/2014 3:33:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: McGruff

CNN saying US is throwing Maliki under the bus.


Right along with VJ? How many coups are going on?


138 posted on 08/10/2014 3:34:33 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: kabar; All

TWEET:

As the crisis unfolds in Baghdad, the Obama team has many interns monitoring CNN for any new breaking developments


139 posted on 08/10/2014 3:35:03 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: Olog-hai

To my knowledge, ISIS hasn’t come up against Hezbollah once in Syria. Seems a pretty a strong indication of some understanding between Iran and ISIS.


140 posted on 08/10/2014 3:35:05 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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