Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is pressing its military success in northern Iraq, seizing the oil rich city of Mosul and moving eastward toward the Kirkuk Province, overrunning more towns along the way.
Months of fighting in Anbar Province hadn’t gone well, but troops in the north seem even less up to resisting the militants, as many simply dropped their weapons and fled in the face of the offensive.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is calling for an immediate declaration of a state of emergency by parliament, accompanied by an Interior Ministry statement confirm Mosul is entirely outside of government control now.
The situation in Iraq’s Sunni Arab regions had been growing more and more dire for months now, but now seems to be at a tipping point, where AQI is in a position to seize territory wholesale, and Iraq’s military seems to be struggling mightily to do anything about it.
The territory in Iraq is only part of AQI’s holdings now, which also include a broad swath of northern and eastern Syria, giving them a more or less contiguous empire from the outskirts of Aleppo to Fallujah and Mosul.
So what are the Kurds saying? Pretty sure they will not stand seeing some AQI hotshots walk in and take over. Because that would mean no Kurdistan ever.
the scope of this mess boggles the mind.
Cheney: "So?"
Rumsfeld: "Stuff happens!"
Bush: "Wha???"
Obama: "Yay!"
Typo: "accompanied by an Interior Ministry statement confirm Mosul is entirely outside of government control now." — should be "confirming"
What shall it profit the USA to gain the whole world and lose its own soul?
Not to mention losing jobs, infrastructure, education and medicine.
All that damn war for nothing. Thanks Bush and Cheney.
they gave up their soul a long time ago.
Yeah, mission accomplished, Bush?
I've been reading a lot of peoples' comments and articles about Iraq, now that it is collapsing, and I am amazed that nobody seems to have understood that the only Lesson to be learned from Iraq (and Afghanistan, and Libya, and Syria, and Vietnam, and in the near future Ukraine) is EMPIRE!
This current Disguised Global Empire HQed in our former country, like all Empires, is; illegal, illegitimate, immoral, looting, lying, militarist, deceitful, murderous, propagandist, co-opting, spying, elitist, hierarchical, war-mongering, plutocratic, oligarchic, autocratic, authoritarian, totalitarian, "inverted totaliatarianist" [Wolin], destructive of our environment, unsustainable, poisonous, death-spiraling, existential, etc., etc., etc.
But of all the features of all previous and lesser Empires, this first "truly Global Empire" (and last Empire on earth) is most significant in being the only Empire to have so perfectly leveraged its wannabe global power and scope to actually achieve Global Empire in reality — and it has achieved this most clearly by being better at being DISGUISED than any previous Empire ever dreamed!
Best to the 3-5% of the truly informed vanguard of Americans (within the 99%) in this fast expanding 'Pro-democracy Anti-Empire' educational and non-violent revolutionary movement (in the Green Party) against this deceitful and Disguised Global EMPIRE, which is "Occupying" our country and yet can't so easily be identified, by the propagandized and deluded majority, as wearing Red Coats, Red Stars, nor funny looking Nazi helmets —- quite YET!
Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
Over
Violent ('Vichy' disguised fascist)
Empire,
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
Ya know the neo nazis and kkkunts me and other pro Obama African americans debate with make the same kind of statements u just made. The only real difference is they like to throw in the whole zionist controlled government conspiracy bs. The fact u claim to be for democracy yet have beliefs similar to all the Obama hating racist red necks speaks volumes about what kinda person u really r.
It's ok…please continue to drink the kool-aid.
Is this still part of the "mission accomplished" plan?
Can you hear the voices cry out of the ghosts of thousands of American servicemen who died in Iraq?
I do. They speak the words, "What did I die for?"
…for the multi-nationals, of course.
Tony Blair; “Iraq would be better off without Saddam Hussein and I would have invade Iraq even without evidence of WMD and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the public.” How is that for a delusional mooooron.
Well, "al Qaeda" in Iraq has to link up with "al Qaeda" in Syria to create the oil corridor feeding Haifa, Israel that was specified by the major oil companies, Israel, and the City of London (Club of Rome, Committee of 300) many years ago.
Amazing. I think the average Iraqi was better off during the sanction years. God we suck.
They were definitely better off before the US ever cast their jaundiced eyes their way…or said they wanted to help them.