In addition to the handful of Su-25 warplanes Iraq purchased over the weekend from Russia, several other warplanes are showing up on Iraqi airfields: apparently brought in by Iran.
The planes, shown in Iraqi Defense Ministry videos, have the serial numbers of Su-25 warplanes that are known to be Iranian operated, and some have visible Iranian flags on them.
The Iranian Su-25s, interestingly enough, were obtained from Iraq in the first place, when Iraqi Air Force planes defected to Iran during the First Gulf War. At the time, Iran impounded them and considered them reparations for the Iran-Iraq War.
Iraqi officials have raised the possibility of Iran, now a close ally, returning the planes during the current ISIS fighting, to give Iraq some actual Air Force planes to use. Whether Iran has given the planes to Iraq or is simply deploying them there directly remains unclear.
Even more unclear, and perhaps more interesting, is who is flying those planes. Though Iraq’s Air Force at one point had Su-25s in their fleet, they haven’t in at least 11 years, and it’s unclear if they have any pilots capable of flying them anymore. The speculation is that Iranian troops are flying the planes.
From state department to pentagon, to president to Vice Presidents and etc, been lying about matters where they themselves been creating for the benefit of AIPAC, a sick institute which been feeding on other nations misery, from Henry Kissinger to Carl Rove to Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perl to Bill Clinton to George w. Bush to Barack Hussein Obama government where the state department, the pentagon and elsewhere effected so much by such a institutional sickness that USG as a political institution have lost its meaning and the us Democratic Party as a paralyzed political party they have become AIPAC slaves.
The AIPAC have managed to corrupt the system that no one in this world have any respect for what USG is saying or stands for, not that they should, but the outcome of all this is ISIS, the last resort used by these advisors and senators to turn the time and let the barbarians and savages dictate for people of Iraq and Syria, to let these stone aged cave mans to create yet another stone aged regimes as Saudis, Qatari and Kuwaitis. It is time for the middle eastern nations to unite against these barbarians, it is time for the Iraqi people to unite and fight these western creation once and for all.
The system is so corrupted, Likudnik Sayanim factions within the State Dept, Pentagon and the Democratic Party all they do is keep flinging one stinking pile of bulls*it against the wall after another trying to see what sticks. To a layman, doesn't it all seem stupid and incoherent and counterproductive (not to mention murderous and destructive) until you look at it thru the Israeli-Oil disaster capitalism concerns?
How can they reasonably tell the US public that all the money and lives wasted across that region since 2002 are largely in defense of Israel? Does AIPAC have that much pull that people in the US won't get seriously upset? If only they can use and abuse the US military to destroy ALL of Israel's enemies, near or far, real or imagined, all the while forcing the oil despots and struggling democracies to pay for it with the oil we can suck out of their ground?
Until this vile foreign cancer is removed from our body politic, we will continue to suffer in lost lives, prestige, respect, blood and treasure.
its funny u say that considering me and most other Sunni's Muslim brothas in Africa and Asia support Isis. I really doupt the US created them when it was isis fighters who had the biggest role in killing US soldiers during the iraq war. But u believe whatever ur neo liberal western mind wants to believe.
ISIS is the creation of the west, in the beginning they were fighting us occupation forces in Iraq with a different ideology then they present today, those days most of those who were fighting US- NATO occupation forces were fighting for these forces to leave Iraq and for Iraq to be independent, the USG and EU found these fighters useful as they were planing for Libya and Syria war. That's where Saudis, Qatar's and Kuwait and other tyrants regimes got involved wanting to expend their Sunni Muslims territories, the idea is from Joe Biden, Barack Hussein Obama Vice President, to divide Iraq into Sunni, sheei't and Kurdish states, what is different here is that in the beginning the Iraqi fighters were fighting for democracy and independent Iraq without Saddam Hussein, what ISIS doing is further dividing Iraqi and Syria people where they follow Joe Biden plan, therefore they are the creation of AIPAC, a Jewish anti democracy institution influential in USG foreign policies, an anti countries independent like Iraq, and they don't give a damn about you nor ISIS, they are there to feed from the dead Iraqi and Syrian people like vultures and ISIS doing them a favor. I understand that the word democracy has no meaning to your understanding of the word nor you have the culture or knowledge to understand it, ISIS are the mercenaries created and fed by USG, Saudis, Qatar and Kuwaiti stone aged regime, USG doing exactly that by disregarding democracy, integrity and independent of a nation where ISIS can create caliphate in Iraq turning the time back into 1300.
"A handful" is not correct if you mean five. A second batch just arrived on a Russian military An-124 with another five so that would be ten on Iraqi soil and more to come.
Who would fly those planes? According to Syrper that would be retired Syrian AF pilots: http://www.syrianperspective.com/2014/06/retired-…
As usual the US decided to try and add regime change as a pre requisite to US jets even the ones sold already to Iraq (f16's) totally failing to realize that if they do not get off their derrieres they will have their Regime change to that of Terrorists that even Al Qaeda thinks are over the top! That Iran who most definitely do not want this group next to them, and actually has proper reasons to react and help. Again we are seeing by US in action a country go to the Russians by desperate need! Yes there are advisers on the ground.
Good and so has Russia so that means the U.S. can load up and head back home and let everyone else fight with these terrorist groups. The U.S. has enough problems that need addressed like the tens of thousands of Central American Children crossing through Mexico illegally and entering the United States. What do we do with all these children? Feed them, vaccinate them, wash their clothes, bath them and give them buzz type haircuts and send them back to their own countries. Put the National Guard on our borders with orders. Round up the illegal immigrants without proper documentation and kick them out of the U.S. like all other countries in the World do. When they have proper documentation then they can return legally. If they are caught without proper documentation then they need to be arrested and face prison with hard lobor sentences.
Since a law repugnant to the US Constitution is void (see Madison v. Marbury), and since the US Constitution specifically forbids the US government to regulate immigration, there's no such thing as an "illegal immigrant."
but judicial purview is in the constitution, and the binding of legal precedent whereby immigration is regulated, amounts to the same thing