Posted on 06/11/2014 3:38:07 PM PDT by kristinn
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is preparing contingency plans to evacuate its employees if necessary now that one of the deadliest Islamic militant groups in the region has taken control of large swaths of Iraq, a U.S. official told TheBlaze.
The State Department also warned U.S. citizens against traveling to Iraq, following several days of bloody clashes between insurgents with the Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi military forces. ISIL has taken control of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah and aims to create an Islamic state across the Iraq-Syria border.
The U.S. official told TheBlaze that the U.S. Embassy, United Nations and other foreign organizations with a presence in Iraq are “preparing contingency plans to evacuate employees.”
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Said very well.
No..wrong!
We set them up..we went, liberated them from Sadaam, got them going and then JUST F..NNG SPLIT!
wE HAD TO STAY IN GERMANY AND JAPAN FOR YEARS!
“they deserve to lose it...” You don’t get it, do you????
IT IS IN OUR security interests to have kept one western ally and not give it up to the “cALIPHATE”!
Thank you for that account and your analysis - not to mention those 4 tours in Iraq. I wish more people could read this.
We HAD no strategic policy ...thanks a..hole obama..! to do the things we could have to keep this area from al Quida..cia, fbi, technology, etc...not boots on ground.
Hey ..REAL BRILLIANT ..we did that in germany and japan!!!
NATION BUILDING FOR YEARS.
Conservative principle? Yeah it was..it kept the commies out of there.
Your simplistic bloods and crips is really ignorant..exactly what the Libs are saying right now on MSM!
We had the same problem in Germany after WWII..the fascists and the commies, yeah, the crips and bloods. But we ENFORCED
the truce long enough to see a democracy. Guess we should have just left after we won.
Big difference between Judeo-Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East.
Uh, duh ...lots of Christians in the mideast...and Iraq was a very sophisticated country, not Afghanistan..with a whole lot of Secularists.
Judeo-christian Europe....Uh, Fascisits and Commies came out of the Judeo Christian Europe.
“He has been giving it all away to these creeps, Libya, Egypt as well.”
Obama (and his cohorts)were probably involved in creating much of this anarchy that they called the Arab Spring. Someone wanted regime change. Americans had better be concerned that the same tact, same operatives and players will inevitably pit Americans against each other as a means to advance their own agenda. Maybe then they’ll take our guns, have troops on our streets, and freedom and rights and other benefits we once had as employed / working Americans gone. I do not trust either Party. We’ve become saps to the open border globalists.
Hey ..REAL BRILLIANT ..we did that in germany and japan!!!
NATION BUILDING FOR YEARS.
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You are right. Different cultures in those countries though.
We did too good of a job. After World War II America had a monopoly on manufacturing and automobiles. It’s pretty easy to win when your Competition in Japan Is a nuclear wasteland. And your competition in Germany is a smoldering pile of rubble. GM had a good run.
70 years later we have to wonder what exactly we dropped on Hiroshima. Fertilizer? Genius pills?
Every other car on the road is a Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in favor of free trade. Here is an interesting stat... No country with a McDonald’s franchise in it has ever attacked the United States.
Lol.
Really! If they wait much longer, Obama will be trading their heads for al Qaeda prisoners at Gitmo.
good idea
good call
level the embassy and leave NOW
If 15,000 work there, how many are American? That is a lot of folks to evacuate at one time.
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