Officials say that the Iraqi government has requested US military aid in the form of air strikes against al-Qaeda targets in the country, multiple requests over the last several weeks.
Though the requests began a while ago, al-Qaeda in Iraq’s (AQI’s) recent expansion into Mosul and Tikrit reportedly has the Obama Administration considering some involvement, including drone strikes, in the ongoing war.
US involvement in Iraq has gone extremely poorly in the past. AQI, the force that is now tearing through the Iraqi military, was virtually nonexistent before the 2003 US occupation, and grew primarily to fight the US, before moving on to other targets after the US pullout.
That has the administration reluctant to get too deeply sucked into another Iraq War, so beyond potential air strikes, the US involvement will likely focus on throwing military aid at Iraq.
ISIL/ISIS is not al-Qaeda; AQI is not OBL's al-Qaeda of 2001. The USA does not have the solutions to the war crimes and destabilization we have wrought. If we are to avoid further murderous and counterproductive military adventures, it will require far more informed and responsible journalism than this.
The name is actually an important issue. Many news sources including the NY Times, seem to refuse to call them by their self-given name which is "ISIL", "Islamic State in Iraq and Levant" "Levant" is translated from "Sham" which is the northern area of Arabia including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, & of course "Israel." It's an overt threat to "Israel" and one that is very plausible looking forward a few decades. Definitely important to point this out because Zionists will try desperately to entangle the US in this conflict without it being known that "Israel" is what they're trying to protect.
Shock and awe #2 coming to a theater near you, courtesy of Obama and the war party.
And the global game of Whac-A-Mole known as US foreign policy in the Middle East continues
Well, that didn't take long. Wonder when Johnny Mac and Grahamcrackers and their little poodle Ayotte will scramble to the podium demanding that Obama defend Iraq – and all those brave "heroes" so they didn't "die for nothing"? Have to send the thousands of troops leaving Afghanistan to Baghdad to protect Maliki. Oh, and don't forget to first protect Halliburton and the rest of the oil industry leeches.
The title of the Iraq War video "No End In Sight" proves to be prophetic. Time to begin filming "No End In Sight – Part Deux"
I do not know what is right, but this complete opposite headline and content shows another picture:
*Iraq under attack by US, France, Saudi Arabia *
Extract of the article:
"The Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant is led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on behalf of Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal, the brother of the current Saudi Foreign Minister and of the Saudi ambassador in Washington. He is funded and supervised jointly by U.S., French and Saudi officers. Over the past month, he has received new weapons from Ukraine, where Saudi Arabia has acquired a weapons factory, and via Turkey, which has created a special rail line alongside a military airport to supply the IEIL.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is an Iraqi who joined Al-Qaeda to fight against President Saddam Hussein. "
Source : “Iraq under attack by US, France, Saudi Arabia ”, Voltaire Network, 11 June 2014, http://www.voltairenet.org/article184211.html
Should have never 'broke it' in the first place, now we're on the hook to 'fix it' forever. We are ruled by psychopaths.
Oh if we could only find another Saddam to unite the country and restore calm to the poor people of Iraq with a secular government. Remember Saddam said, "Why America?"
This is starting to remind me a bit of South Vietnam in 1974-75. The USA leaves and the North takes over South Vietnam. Just substitute Iraq for South Vietnam and these AQI's for the Vietcong and the NVA. America never learns.
Shouldn't the head line read "Iraq asking for airstrikes against the Sunnis?"
Looks like we're going back into the Iraq hellhole to cowardly bomb and drone those Islamic fundamentalists who are trying to overthrow Washington's installed puppet Maliki. But aren't these the same killers whom the USG is supporting with weapons and taxpayer money to try to overthrow the secular government of al-Assad, who recently won election with over 80% of the vote? All because King Obama stupidly declared two years ago that "Assad must go." Everywhere the USG sticks its nose in, the death tolls rises. We're truly living in bizarro world.
And if you think that Barack Hussein Obama is going to get involved think again. Fighting these Saudis barbarians are the obligation of Turkish government, the Iranian and the Iraqi government, not the USG nor Anders fog Rasmussen or the Neo fascism government in Brussels for two reasons:
1- We said it from day one, Barack Hussein Obama's wants for Saudis, and UAE to expend their religious territory when EU and USG created these terrorists groups of all kind and been feeding them since, such regimes will work for them then any other governing system, these created "governments" in turn need to deal with either Saudis or western oil companies which all these cooperation, political sidelining, lying and manipulations is about, the Ukraine turned out to be about Ukraine gas, Iraq, Syria is the same situation, Iraq is about the Iraqi natural resources and for Saudis to have a brutal stone aged religious group controlling it. The fact is, creating such regime has been and is the main idea to brake the unity all ready created between Iraq, Iran and Syria .
The EU kings and queens from Sweden to England and etc, the far right regimes, liberal fascism from Sweden to Greece and beyond are, been in bed with Saudis for what is knowing to them the "changing world" so, these tyrant, brutal stone aged regimes have their own agendas demanding it to be implemented which works for EU-USG political and economical interests the Islamization, militarization of entire Middle East. second: if they were interested they wouldn't creat nor they would have let the situation develop to this point, however, this time is about taking over and keeping the Iraqi natural resource, either by these inhuman barbarous nature. what Barack Hussein Obama have said about Iraq is one of his manipulative politics fooling the American people.
One more thing, you fly Emirats, Turkish airline or Etihad or Saudis airlines, or Berlin air you help paying for what is the costs feeding these barbarians.