Posted on 06/16/2014 5:00:10 AM PDT by sunmars
The USS Mesa Verde with 550 Marines on board entered the Gulf on Monday to support possible U.S. action to help Iraq's Shi'ite-led government combat a Sunni Islamist insurgency that has overtaken large areas of the country's north, CNN reported. The USS Mesa Verde joins the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, which the Pentagon ordered on Saturday to move into the Gulf. President Barack Obama has said he is considering military action, short of putting U.S. troops in Iraq, to aid that government's efforts to stop the insurgency.
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Obama and Iran are both on the sidelines
The Arabs are in charge of both sides of the fray
Mission accomplished.
Why was Iran trying to create so much unrest in Iraq right after Gulf War II? They’re looking for an opportunity to take over, sort of like how Syria took over Lebanon when there was a power vacuum there.
Breaking : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says U.S. drone strikes “may well be” an option to tackle ‘Isis’ militants in Iraq.
This falls into the no **** sherlock category.
Baghdad isn’t Saigon.
It’s a good 350miles inland.
Even with a battalion off the coast, you’re only talking about 15 minutes of ground power before they run out of ammo.
Provided an adversary lacks the ability to perform a coordinated attack or they are less than about 2000 in number, it isn’t a pretty situation.
The only evacuation possible with the numbers given in the press, is a peaceful evacuation.
Whereby as US forces slowly pull out and empower South Vietnamese forces to fill our vacuum? We saw that crumble like a house of cards.
Well, since 1973 what have we learned? Anybody? Really? Nothing? All those lives & resources, all that debt? OK so Bush tried to create change in the Arab world starting in Afghanistan and in Iraq. It worked for a short period before petering out.
The Arab world was shocked and awed by Bush the “Cowboy”, there was, R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Syria pulled out of Lebanon and America's friends and enemies tipped their hats (or Kaffiyehs).
Now, seeing the President lift barbells? His red lines in the sand, backed up by his now famous grimace? Oh, how pathetic does he (we) look on the world stage? Terror unhinged, unchecked and winning. Oh, I forgot, Obama killed Osama...
Everything i have saw and read that was produced by ISIS had/has one theme.
The taking down of Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
In fact in May not only did Israeli Press bring up this possibility but the Mosque leaders did as well and urged all of Islam to fight the ISIS...mind you that was in May.
Here is a production video from last week by ISIS where they clearly point to Al Aqsa as their goal. Some GRAPHIC scenes.
If that happens, and the republicans had a functioning brain stem(I know...), they would make 0bama OWN this collapse.
The news "blackout" that seems to be in effect will ensure that there are no optics.
No matter what happens, we'll likely never know.
Except this time the Blackhawks full of Iraqis approaching the ships might be Jihadi suicide crews.....
“...It worked for a short period before petering out....”
It worked for a short period before Obama intentionally allowed it to turn to crap.
There... corrected that for ya....
You are wrong, that’s the myth. Vietnamization was working. The DEAL was we would continue to supply them with supplies and air power as needed. If we had kept our part of the deal Saigon would not have fallen. The NVA invaded with more armor then then was at the battle of Kursk. US air power would have completely destroyed it. When we turned our backs that’s when the ARVN was overwhelmed and list.
And how many will be KIA? Wounded, disabled?
This is Saigon all over. Hubby was on the USS Midway when they pulled the Amb out. They pushed old Huey’s over board to make room for a Friendly small plane to land, he would not ditch in ocean as he had his family aboard. That plane hangs in the Pensacola Naval Museum.
Cantor lost because Virginians voted against the GOP-E Leadership: Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy and Ryan.
When Boehner is no longer Speaker the road is then cleared to force Obama to resign, as it is to late for a lengthy Impeachment of Obama.
The longer that We, The People tolerate Boehner as speaker of the House, the longer We, the People are guilty of tolerating Obama as our Taliban Mullah in Chief.
OK...thanks.
booby trap it.
Kursk? Didn’t they say the Tank battles in the Israeli Yom Kippur War (1973) was at the Kursk levels?
Didn’t Obama say “No troops”?
Were these Marines SENT into the theater?
Is Obama a Shiite or a Sunni?
Put on your life preserver vests —
Wonder what BB in Israel is thinking now about Obama’s pledge that “all options are on the table” regarding Iran.
Never mind, BB knew back in 2009 that Obama was a weak-kneed, “yelluh”, spineless, neutered male. He knew it and began drawing up Plan B to hit Iran but...NOW THAT IRAN is extending a hand to “help” the US in Iraq (well planned out by the Iranians) the US will fall for it and lose everything, thus eliminating Israel's ability to strike.
Oh Obama, such a sucker, such a clown...
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