While talking up a new round of humanitarian aid, White House officials said no new military aid would be sent to Iraq at this time, a de facto rejection of Prime Minister Hayder Abadi’s recent calls for more weaponry.
The White House is not presenting it as a rejection, however, denying that Abadi ever specifically brought up the requests for more arms during his White House visit.
Abadi’s calls for more weapons were repeated and loud during his visit to the US, however, and if he didn’t bring it up in the closed door meeting with President Obama, it would only be because he was told beforehand he wouldn’t be getting any.
The US has struggled to justify its repeated influxes of military aid to Iraq, both because of the Iraqi military’s tendency to lose billions of dollars worth of advanced US weapons to ISIS control, and because of Iraq’s increasingly checkered human rights record.
The $200 million in humanitarian aid announced will focus on refugees displaced during the ongoing ISIS war, and is likely to be less controversial, though since it too will flow through the Iraqi government, expect there to be a lot of eyes on the equity of distribution between Sunni Arab, Shi’ite, and Kurdish refugees.
Well, WH is busy sending more weapon to Saudis and GCC whom are engaged in sending more weapons to Isis and Al-Queada and all other Al terrorist they are supporting, so Iraqi although fighting these terrorists, their legitimate demands becomes of no importance because USG, whom ever they might be, looking in every angel to make sure the war in Middle East continued.
Yes, this is yet more evidence that Uncle Sam's policy is "controlled chaos".
Yesterday I heard yet another talking head warning us that it will take "years" to "degrade" ISIS – no mention of kicking them out of Iraq and Syria.
No interviewer ever asks why it should take years or decades to defeat a few thousand irregulars when Uncle Sam, Russia, and UK were able defeat millions of well-equipped Nazi soldiers in just a couple of years.
Is there still something left in Iraq to destroy?
There are so many other countries and continents whee we can "kill at will".
Iraq is number 8 on the list of most corrupt nations, so if the humanitarian aid funds have to flow through Iraq's government there won't be much left for distribution – equitable or not. http://www.wonderslist.com/10-most-corrupt-countr…
Iraq is number 8 on the list of most corrupt nations, so if the humanitarian aid funds have to flow through Iraq's government there won't be much left for distribution – equitable or not. http://www.wonderslist.com/10-most-corrupt-countr…
Joe Hill: One of the reasons for USG not helping Iraqi people arming them is for USG staying in Afghanistan pass the deadline for U.S. military to depart. Iran actually is serounded by U.S. Militarism presence all over the middle east and central Asian nations where U.S. Militarism have long time military contract with, for USG supplying its allies whom are either state sponsored terrorism or supporting their own created terrorist is to keep the U.S. Militarism in the area in one hand and in the other for warmongers in NATO to play the game by scaring European people of Russia invading Ukraine and for U.S. Chicken Hawks to scare the American people of Isis and Iran nuclear which therefore they are against any deal with Iran.
Barack Hussein Obama want for people to think that his policies is about balancing the political power between Iran, Saudis, Israel and GCC family owned and operated governments but not losing U.S. military upper hand; therefore he is playing with everyone with his manipulative politics supporting this or that because he doesn't have a clue nor he ever will understand the facts that people of Middle East and their history fighting for democracy is beyond his imagination and that people of Middle East been fighting for their independent from English colony to modernizeed of American colony is over two hundred years. But he thinks that people in Middle East always been at war with each other for years, which is yet another manipulative politics to degrade history and the people of Middle East struggle for independent and freedom from colonialism. Jews and arab nationals were living together for hundred of years until the British colonialism started the process creating Israel, Iraqi people lived together, the sects married each other and there never was a religious or ethnic problems until Bush neo fascism regime changed all that by using wahabbis-Taliban and Al-Queada sects in Afghanistan to Iraq, then Libya and now Syria and Iraq. Obama is just following the same trend with a different approach, but wait until Hillary Clinton or Jeff bush or that Mafiosi guy from New Jersey or any other alike to get elected, the situation is going to get worse where people of Middle East will suffer more and Isis will be on the agendas of both USG and European neo liberalism to be negotiated with, which is yet another reason for Obama not helping Iraqi people.