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maybe, but until that time - and depending on what city - I don't care. we need to fix this place, the roads, schools, jobs. I really don't think anyone over there is going to be thanking the US years from now. We're so glad you came to help us. never heard that, never will.
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with ISIS advancing on several fronts, and bombs going off in baghdad, not enough iraqi MPs turned up today to achieve quorum for a planned vote on giving the government emergency powers. meanwhile kurdish forces in and around kirkuk have moved in more men and said that they will defend the city and other kurdish areas of the province 'to the last drop of blood'.
in other news, the UK has ruled out intervention, while the US is 'considering further assistance to iraq in fighting the militants'. while the iranian president has said that iran will 'combat extremists' in iraq."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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i'm starting to think that this could be the end, not just of maliki and his government, but of iraq itself."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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If T.E. Lawrence hadn't aided the Arab Revolt, this definitely wouldn't have happened. And he was illegitimate, the bastard.Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
Blame France and the British Empire- that way you won't have to think too hard.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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How can Iraq's government be this weak?Comment
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ISIS apparently 2 hours from Baghdad. This is going to get messy.
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Let's hope for a relatively bloodless transfer of power. These ****wits trying to actually govern a country should be an occasion for low comedy, not high tragedy.Comment
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Do you reckon Iran will take the whole thing, or just the non-Kurdish part?Originally posted by C0ckney View PostComment
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Are we in the Danger Zone?Originally posted by kentonio View PostISIS apparently 2 hours from Baghdad. This is going to get messy.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Obama's already said he's not going to allow it to happen. Expect US airstrikes within days if not hours.Originally posted by Elok View PostComment
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Aww, balls. I guess it's too much to just ask to pass the ball to Iran, huh?Originally posted by kentonio View PostComment
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I wonder if this will be similar to previous over the line threats.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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Doubt it. After the press conference he just gave if he allowed ISIS to take over then he may as well just pack up and leave the Oval Office now.Comment
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Why? Did he draw another red line?Originally posted by kentonio View PostI make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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