Though the administration has been hesitant to confirm its exact military intentions toward the growing war in Iraq, President Obama’s latest pledges that America will “do its part” in the fighting indicate that US involvement is a foregone conclusion.
Obama ruled out the use of ground “combat troops” again, and vowed to make a specific decision on what he’s going to do “in the days ahead,” dubbing the al-Qaeda takeover a “threat to American interests.”
Even the promises of no “combat troops” seems to be leaving open wiggle room, as the US wasn’t considering any of its occupation forces “combat troops,” even when they engaged in combat, during the waning months of the last Iraq War.
Air strikes seemed to be the tactic of choice yesterday, but this evening the idea of using just air strikes seems to be souring among officials, who insist they can’t accomplish all of their military goals with only warplanes.
Actually deploying ground troops would be a huge and unpopular step, and it seems likely the administration will seek to portray that as a “last resort,” even as they try to build up public acquiescence for it.
This is just a fraction of Iraqis cleansing its own country of US puppets – may be some Saudi mercenaries included. If they had wanted a Iraqi secular government that has the power and is willing to follow US wants – they could have taken Saddam instead of killing him.
Obviously USA has lost control over major parts of its former Al CIAda. Will Obama fight against its own Al CIAda-fighters? I always tought the many targeted drone killings in Pakistan etc. were an effective corrective into-the-right-shape-bombing of the Al CIAda-leadership? Obviously the US agents pointing to the men to be killed,´did point the the wrong fraction.
BTW: The fascist US puppet regime in Ukraine is bombing its own citizens with BANNED PHOSPHORUS BOMBS ! Where is the UN/US non-fly zone over Ukraine to protect civilians seeking freedom and independence from bad dictators? Nothing like this ! Also Putin refuses to protect the Russians there- even does not demand protection by UN. Watch these war crimes on a daily base:
its totally CENSORED IN MEDIA OF NATO COUNTRIES!
You stay from Iraq liar. You are a war criminal and have contact with all these CIA trained terrorist YOU claim to 'bomb'. US is funding and giving arm to destroy Islamic countries in the region to expant the interest of Israel and zionist bankers who selected you for gullible people to 'vote'.
As Cartalucci writes: {US, Saudi, and Israeli intentions to create and deploy sectarian extremists region-wide to confront Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hersh would note that these “sectarian extremists” were either tied to Al Qaeda, or Al Qaeda itself. The ISIS army moving toward Baghdad is the final manifestation of this conspiracy, a standing army operating with impunity, threatening to topple the Syrian government, purge pro-Iranian forces in Iraq, and even threatening Iran itself by building a bridge from Al Qaeda’s NATO safe havens in Turkey, across northern Iraq, and up to Iran’s borders directly. Labeled “terrorists” by the West, grants the West plausible deniability in its creation, deployment, and across the broad spectrum of atrocities it is now carrying out.}
The fact is that all these lying by Obama and Kerry to condemn the 'extremists', is nothing but a SHOW. These 'extremists' are constructed, funded and trained by Obama regime to redraw the map of the region for the interest of Israel and zionist bankers who selected him for this mission. As Atzmon writes:
Surely, what’s happening now in Iraq and Syria must serve as a final wakeup call that we have been led into a horrific situation in the Middle East by a powerful Lobby driven by the interests of one tribe and one tribe alone.
Back in 1982, Oded Yinon an Israeli journalist formerly attached to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, published a document titled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties.’ This Israeli commentator suggested that for Israel to maintain its regional superiority, it must fragment its surrounding Arab states into smaller units. The document, later labelled as ‘Yinon Plan’, implied that Arabs and Muslims killing each other in endless sectarian wars was, in effect, Israel’s insurance policy.
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles…
There's a link to the late, great Professor Shahak's translation of and notes on the Oded Yinon essay.
Obviously the plan could not be carried-out by Israel without help from the world superpower. There are striking similarities between this plan and the "Clean Break" proposals and the PNAC plan for the Middle East, although the PNAC plan – being an ostensibly American plan – was not as frank regarding the stoking of sectarian tensions and civil war. As a State with an openly sectarian identity itself, Israel could consider and discuss using religious divisions to destroy neighboring societies with greater honesty than the secular/democratic United States government which prides itself as a tolerant sectarian and ethnic "melting-pot" which tries to promote those values worldwide…supposedly.
Can't seem to grasp the understanding of "American Interests." The term is used basically to drum up support or influence public opinion on subject matters that has absolutely nothing to do in how we live our lives as Americans.
Jason – please couldn't you stop to post those photos of this disgusting war criminal here?
We all know how he looks and is. No need to show this disgusting face.
It's worth remembering that Syria's representatives to last year's Syrian "peace talks" in Geneva wanted to discuss a joint plan for ridding Syria of the most extreme elements among Syrian "rebel" groups, ISIS among them. Kerry refused to discuss anything except the timetable for Assad to step down. Now the USG sees its Frankenstein monster, cobbled together by US allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others, turn on US ally Iraq. Maybe it's time we stopped letting people who are little better than mad scientists develop and execute US foreign policy.
That guy looks like a thug and is one.
US doing its part?
Did that ever occur?
Obama is not going to do anything about Iraq situation, dividing Iraq was a plan presented by Joe Biden during Iraq occupation, Obama plan is to continue with the plan, this has been his promise to Saudis and UAE when he and Hillary Clinton started the Libya war, then it was Syria and now northern part of Syria is occupied by the Saudi barbarians thanks to Turkish Erdogan government where their logistic supports continues as hundreds of brand new Toyota trucks carrying these Turkish, Saudis and UAE foot solders-mercenaries toward Baghdad. Is any one of you been asking yourself this question: where the hell they got all that brand new Toyotas? This is yet another deceptive and manipulative idea set forth by the us Democratic Party, I feel pity for those democrats who think that there is democracy coming out of the us Democratic Party.
A small window opened following Iraq's national elections in 2010 when Ayad Allawi's "Iraqia" ticket picked-up the largest number of seats, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti…
but Allawi – a Shi-ite Arab who received great support from the Sunni Arabs – was not allowed to form a government because neither the US nor Iran wanted to see the Arab consensus re-established in Iraq. Those outside powers twisted arms among the smaller parties to prevent the formation of an Allawi-led governing coalition and after several months enough of the Sadrist and Kurdish parties were bribed into giving Maliki another 4 year term.
USG and EU have ignored every political progress in Iraq to sidekick the results of elections not only in Iraq but everywhere to what their plans are, USG been lying to every man and women in this world for last 60 years to continue with its plans dividing nations , Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Iraq are just in last 8 years.