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US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State
Telegraph ^ | 1 Juy 2015 | Con Coughlin

Posted on 07/01/2015 3:31:59 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

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To: Fractal Trader

Go through Baghdad so they can abandon them in the field to ISIS?


21 posted on 07/01/2015 4:02:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: Fractal Trader
According to article, all arms are supposed to go through Baghdad, which only seems capable of losing battles and weaponry.

Sending arms via Baghdad also insures that the Kurds shall get none.

The Iraqi central government doesn't want the Kurds armed, as it will make them independent of Baghdad.

Nor do the Iranians -- who are telling the Shi'ite central government in Baghdad what to do -- want the Kurds to have heavy weapons. They've got their own "Kurd problem" and Barack Boy has no interest in pissing off his Irani "friends".

Accordingly, getting heavy weapons to the Kurds works against the interests of a.) ISIS, b.) the Iraqi central government, c.) Iran and d.) Barack Obama.

Sounds like a winner to me!

22 posted on 07/01/2015 4:10:43 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Fractal Trader

ISIS: Obama’s people..


23 posted on 07/01/2015 4:22:52 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
... Or, maybe he just doesn’t like the Kurds.

The Kurds are too white for his tastes.

24 posted on 07/01/2015 5:18:09 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: faithhopecharity; All

To seek the truth in this you must find out who, or what, benefits from ISIS expansion/solidification, and Iran having a verifiable nuclear capability...

Avoid (for now) trying to figure out a way to stop this, and it makes that discovery easier...


25 posted on 07/01/2015 5:18:21 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Paulie
—Telegraph has learnt—

"An affirmative action journalist?"

British usage.

26 posted on 07/01/2015 5:20:08 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: Paulie

Learnt is the British spelling for learned. Similar for spelt/spelled.


27 posted on 07/01/2015 5:33:53 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
..."maybe he just doesn’t like the Kurds."

Remember that back in the early days Kurds took out newspaper and TV ads to thank America for what we'd done for them and (the former) Iraq.
That alone probably has Mr. Soetero gnawing on his own leg.

28 posted on 07/01/2015 5:43:08 PM PDT by norton
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To: Fractal Trader

You’d almost think Obola wants ISIS to win, wouldn’t you?


29 posted on 07/01/2015 6:43:59 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: colorado tanker

Any heavy equipment we ship to Baghdad will just end up in the hands of the Shiite militia. ..................................... so they can use them later for the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds.


30 posted on 07/01/2015 6:45:14 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: Fractal Trader

The Kurds are the only thing between Iran and Turkey. Looks like Xero wants to give the entire eastern Mediterranean and Persian Gulf to Iran and is suckering Turkey into helping him because of their hatred for the Kurds.


31 posted on 07/01/2015 7:25:42 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by government regulation.)
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To: Fractal Trader
"just one more failure on the strategy front against ISIS."

Bullshit- Obama's strategy is working perfectly according to his plan- ISIS is winning.

32 posted on 07/01/2015 7:39:17 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Malcom X is Obama's baby daddy.)
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To: Fractal Trader
we simply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face.”

That says it in a nutshell.obama is fighting on another side.

33 posted on 07/01/2015 8:34:35 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Fractal Trader

Me thinks Obama doesn’t want to piss off the Turks. Turkey is a muslim nation that is in NATO. sort of a beachhead if you will. Obama likes that.


34 posted on 07/01/2015 9:35:24 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Fractal Trader

You bring up a good point, there was a deal a few weeks ago to give billions of dollars in weapons to the Iraqis, this right after the Iraqi army turned and ran and ISIS got a bunch of those weapons. That could be the only reason. This story, first seeing it, made me very upset.


35 posted on 07/01/2015 10:34:52 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: stevie_d_64

the IslamoNazis will be a lot easier to stop or slow down now than later, after they control even more territory (or terror-tory)... and after they finish their ICBM nuclear bomb arsenal


36 posted on 07/01/2015 11:36:26 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (For in much wisdom is much vexation; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.)
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To: Fractal Trader
If the overall objective of the Chicago regime controlling the US is to create more and more chaos in the mid-east they will keep doing what they are doing.

Starve the peshmerga,diss them, make them not a US ally and you drive a wedge between them and the US and Baghdad. This only creates more chaos and supports the reality that the U.S.Chicago regime--and Baghdad favors the Shiites.they want more help, men and machines from Iran instead of those directly effected by Isis the Kurds. It's all BS and hopefully will end when zero is thrown out of office.

37 posted on 07/02/2015 6:07:32 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepuplic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: faithhopecharity

Well said and exactly what is going on.


38 posted on 07/02/2015 6:08:08 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepuplic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Obama is a jerk. If he’s a Sunni sympathizer, he’s groveling for Erdogan. If he’s a Shiite sympathizer, or just currying short-term favor with the Iranians to complete some ludicrous pretense of a nuke deal, he’s a groveling idiot. Or, maybe he just doesn’t like the Kurds.

My take is Obama is minimally involved. He hates foreign policy. He loves domestic policy which is mostly vote buying, wealth redistribution, and racial agitation. My take is the useless females who run the State Department are calling the shots here which is pure mixed up confusion plus enabling Iran to get the bomb because they hate Israel. Plus brain addled septuagenarian John Kerry who is pure glory seeker with zero principles. FUBARED TO THE MAX!!!

39 posted on 07/02/2015 6:17:28 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

Your take is definitely one of the possibilities—he’s not Machiavelli, he’s a feckless idiot.

My basic view is that most things that could be conspiracy can be explained by accident, error, and incompetence. BUT—and it’s a big BUT—when there is a conspiracy, it often turns out to be worse than could have ever been imagined beforehand.


40 posted on 07/02/2015 6:37:17 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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