Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid Obeidi was harshly critical of the Pentagon today, saying they should not have revealed the timing for a planned Iraqi attack on the ISIS city of Mosul.
Obeidi says any comments on the planned attack were for Iraq to make, not the US, and that Centcom commanders had no business unveiling so many details.
The attack is expected to come in April or May, with about 25,000 Iraqi troops being supported by both US warplanes and an unspecified number of US ground troops. It will be the first major offensive of the US ground forces in the current war.
Some Congressional officials are also highly critical of the Centcom comments, saying the US is “revealing its playbook” to ISIS months before the attack is scheduled to take place.
The White House tried to downplay the revelations, saying they won’t confirm if the publicly announced plans are the real plans or not. It’s hard to imagine that it isn’t, though many doubt Iraq’s ability to actually retake Mosul.
Deliberate, ISIS is still a US tool.
You have to wonder about the USG's commitment to defeating IS.
Is it that PR is more important than 'success' in a military campaign?
Rummy did something similar with 'wmd.' The claim Ray McGovern called him on in person ran "we know where they are," then he told the world 'where' 'they' 'were.' So it was apparently important that we believed 'they' 'were' 'there,' but not so important that 'the enemy' didn't know what we 'knew.'
In any case, that bank I'll be robbing tomorrow will get at least three hours notice now that I know that's the protocol. I'll also be telling them I already know where the vault is…that oughta confuse 'em.
Well. it's obvious that the new version of the Iraq war is going to go really, really smoothly. Perhaps this new penchant for telling the enemy what your battle plans are is the new military strategic planning. Perhaps the military schools and training centers are so bound up by the mindset meme that the US is invincible and that our military might will overcome all challengers – even though actual victories have been few and far, far between if you look at the history books.
It's like a sport team used to being on top: If you believe that you cannot lose then it's a guarantee that you won't see the whooping coming.
ISIL is doing the US' bidding in Syria: carving out kurdistan (remember the PNAC map of the redrawn middle east hanging in cheney's office which was leaked some years back) out of northeast syria and northwest iraq and allowing the US and their allies to pound Assad… the pipeline will run from the northern region of iraq through kurdistan and turkey and to ukraine: this is all about bypassing russia for oil and gas supplies to europe…
Light shines — Darkness gives way
The corporate rich hire most politicians as paid actors, so in the real world we know nothing about nothing.
Also, as the rich own all of mainstream media, publishing and the entertainment industry, to lock us forever in such an isolated world of darkness, fill our minds they do with everything about nothing.
So, by honest logic and clear facts we see that Iraq most likely will never have an Army so corruption free as to win a war, which leads us to believe that the CIA has control of the Islamic State and in five years down the line this could very well be the same.
A sane person cannot but help to believe the USSA military planners are untrustworthy and two-faced. Iraqis suffering from our wonderful "patronage" and holding the title of "ally" (lucky them) are right to be confused and outraged. We've been butt-raping them since 1990 in some form or another (and probably before that) so it's understandable they are upset. It's their people being killed. It's their country being overrun by these monsters. It is these extremists that many think the AmeriKans back, while they also profess to help their lucky Iraqi "ally" in a war of terror that doesn't end; it just gets more and more stupid and violent as time goes on.
Pity poor Iraq and her valiant and questionable AmeriKan "protector". With friends like that, who needs enemies?