Posted on 09/19/2014 7:02:18 AM PDT by McGruff
The influential Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday urged vigilance against Western political interference in Iraqi affairs but stopped short of opposing the American-led military campaign against the Islamic State extremists.
“All political leaders of the country must be aware and awake to prevent the external assistance against the Islamic State from becoming an entrance to breach Iraq’s independence,” Ayatollah Sistani said. “Cooperation with the international effort shall not be taken as a pretext to impose foreign decisions on events in Iraq, especially military events.”
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Think of a snowball (ISIS) starting to roll at the top of the mountain (Iraq).
We live in the valley at the bottom.
Well, because they are so freeking good at defending themselves using all the gear we left and they abandoned in the desert-—and is now being used to kick their sorry asses with?. And because every dammed one of them slept thru class the day we tried to teach them how to defend themselves? Remember these are the same halfasses Saddam was using to guard his retreat into his spider hole. They’re good at hiding behind women and kids. And also remember how easy they gave up Fallujah the second time? Don’t you wonder why it was so important when we wanted to clean it out from dirtbagz? Muzzie dumbasses killing other Mooslim dunderheads works for me and anything we can do to help is OK with me.
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