In the middle of a speech vowing the US wouldn’t be dragged into another war in Iraq, President Obama laid about exactly how the US indeed will be dragged into the ongoing ISIS war in Iraq, revealing that he has authorized airstrikes in northern Iraq and other operations to “prevent genocide” in the region.
Presenting the new US offensive as entirely humanitarian in nature, Obama vowed to see the US save the Yazidi civilians who fled into the mountains, declaring “today, America is coming to help.”
Obama claimed to have a “mandate” for such operations from the Iraqi government, and cited US diplomats and civilians stations in Arbil as part of the justification for the new US military involvement, adding that the troops already sent weeks ago would support the Iraqi and Kurdish military in their ongoing fighting.
The Pentagon denied reports earlier Thursday of US airstrikes against ISIS targets, and recent reports have suggested that Turkish warplanes have carried out bombing strikes against ISIS, and those may have been mistaken for US airstrikes. The US air campaign is coming, but exactly when it will begin is thus far unclear.
Well, by O's logic, given his speech about humanitarian crisis, threat to humanity and blah, blah, blah…
We should be bombing Saudi Arabia, Israel and Western Ukraine…
I hope the world is smart enough to know this is not about any of that…
Is the US going to continue stoking the flames of a regional civil war? If there are airstrikes then ISIS might seek revenge on the US which would really drag the US deep into the conflict.
The question is why USG decide to help people in northern Iraq and not other part of Iraq and Syria? Why Turkish Erdogan government is all of the sudden bombing ISIS position in the north and not their position in northern Syria?
According to Barack Hussein Obama, "the us will only act if ISIS is moving closer to Kurdish cities" which doesn't make any sense, In another word, USG, the Turkish, the French and EU are deep into dividing Iraq if ISIS stays where is designed for them to stay and build their caliphate, if that will solve the problem of the people of Middle East with what is the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria in one hand and Israel fascist regime in the other is another story.
Again manipulative and deceptive politics as usual, which one needs to understand that: whatever is that USG or Turkish Erdogan government or French government are saying is a ultimatum to ISIS, if you don't stay where we have assigned the territory, we are going to bomb you when you move beyond that area. The only question is, ISIS have a plan for Lebanon and see Spain as their lost Islamic territory, that is to say if they are going to give up their main idea of a world Islamic caliphate regime, like Saudi Arabia.
Well, getting some water and food to those people stuck in mounains would be nice. But i do not expect that there will be any damage done to nice shiny hundreds of new Toyotas ISIS got curtesy western taxpayers via Jordan, I am afraid mostly from us.
How would they drive all that Toyota to northern part of Syria when they started their invasion of northern Iraq? Unless it was given to ISIS by the Turkish Erdogan government and paid by either us tax payers or paid by Saudis and Qatari.
“Humanitarian in nature” wish Obama had uttered those words to the people of Gaza who lost 426 children….was it worth it…..? Maybe only Madeleine Albright can answer that question, she slaughtered half a million Iraqi kids.
Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate declaring today,
"America is coming to help.”
I would think by now the people of Iraq had enough
of American so-called 'Operation Iraqi Liberation'
Oh, we're "preventing genocide" in Iraq are we?!
This is on the heels of the "price we think is worth it" deadly sanctions in Iraq & during the Gaza death camp, the arming of ISIS on the Syrian side of the border, and a hundred other major enormities.
We're at total war against the populations of every country from Egypt to Pakistan & beyond… and to whose benefit..?
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So, Obama says he has a "mandate" from the Iraqi government…what about a mandate from the American people? He seems to have neglected to ask what the American people want. And the new packaging of the "Eternal War" as being strictly humanitarian is really old and pretty much transparent – at least to those paying attention.
This shows that the Kurds are zionist and imperalist pawns. Down with imperalism and zionism and their petty servants in North of Iraq. Shame on you all bastards.
In the linked article, Obama is said to have "vowed anew not to put American combat troops back on the ground in Iraq." But watch out for the weasel words, because we also discover "adding that the troops already sent weeks ago would support the Iraqi and Kurdish military."
No new troops will be sent into the fighting, just the ones who are already there! Don't you feel better now?
So why isn't he bombing Israel for its genocide in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis? What a moron this man is. Clearly thinks the world is stupid! http://www.globalresearch.ca/terror-in-iraq-roots…
More Obama lies.
"We are not about to send American boys 9 to 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."–LBJ