Monday, August 11, 2014
Obama Ran from Iraq But He Couldn't Hide
US officials told the Washington Post that the United States has been making airdrops of supplies to Christian and Yazidi groups forced to flee to mountains in Iraq in fear of their lives and is striking ISIS units who threaten American interests and are on the match toward the Kurdish capital, Irdil. The US, probably in the form of CIA intervention, is directly supplying the Kurdish peshmerga military with arms. On Sunday, Iraq's human rights minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, told Reuters that militants had killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north. Al-Sudani said the ISIS sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added. "We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the ISIS gangs have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," al-Sudani told Reuters. Sinjar is the ancient home of the Yazidis, one of the towns captured by the Sunni militants who view the community as "devil worshipers." "Some of the victims, including women and children, were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar," al-Sudani said. The Iraq humanitarian crisis is growing, with the recent addition of 200,000 displaced refugees being added to an already displaced 1.5 million refugees caused by the ISIS invasion, whose militants have engaged in extermination, and ethnic and religious cleansing. ~~~~~ Dear Raaders, it was the great Joe Louis who said, "You can run, but you cannot hide." Barack Obama is learning that lesson the hard way in Iraq. And Iraqis and the entire Middle East are paying for Obama's belated education. Mr. Obama can blame George W. Bush and faulty military and civilian intelligence until doomsday. The fact is that if Obama had not holed up in the White House waiting for the world to do his job - to do America's job - as leader and last refuge of the entire world - there would not be Yazidis dying on a mountain in Iraq or 1.5 million Iraqis displaced by ISIS. If Obama had done his job -- if he had found a way to keep US troops in Iraq in 2011, if he had supported the Syrian rebels before they were taken over by ISIS, if he had stood up to al-Assad and his Iranian keepers, if he had maintained and strengthened his Middle East coalition instead of alienating Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Israel -- Iraq and Syria would not be in the current real danger of collapsing into the hands of the ISIS jihadist terrorists. Obama ran from his responsibilities as American President. We can only hope and demand now and at the ballot box in November that he step aside and stay holed up in the White House, thereby allowing Congress and the US military do the job he is incapable of doing.
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Observing Obama for the past nearly 6 years now - “IF" seems to be the best descriptive word for him.
ReplyDeleteIf he had sought advice instead of relying on his own belief that he is smarter than anyone in the world, had he stopped his continuous lying to us and himself, had he admitted his desire to create good press (for himself) by exiting Iraq far to early was stupid, if, if, if.
Obama is unqualified to be president. He was unqualified to be a US Senator; he is most likely unqualified to be a lawyer. He’s a “want-a-be” who never will be.
Obama’s legacy will be ISIS, just as Hitler’s legacy is the Concentration Camps, as Pot’s is the Killing Fields, as Lenin’s & Stalin’s is the Gulag’s forced labor camps.
He and he alone is answerable for all the deaths and displacement of people in Iraq and Syria.
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress"
DeleteAnwar Sadat
The entire Middle East and the United States friendly Kurds have already paid an unimaginable price for the blunders and mistakes of Barrack Obama.
ReplyDeleteThis period of United States and World Hustory will be marked with a footnote in red!
The Christian genocide taking place in the Middle East currently has reached alarming levels. Last week, the jihadist terrorist group ISIS, which means the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – although it is unrecognized as a nation – took over Qaraqosh, the largest Christian town in Iraq, warning Christians to “leave, convert or die.” They are systematically beheading children. It is a part of an unprecedented, recent effort by the ISIS to extinguish Christians from northern Iraq. In 2003, there were about 1.5 million Christians in Iraq. After the Iraq War, that number dropped to as low as 200,000.
DeleteWhere is the United States? Where is the UN? This is all happening because the U.S. and others have backed away. If a Republican had been in the Oval Office instead of Obama, these killings/genocide would have been drastically halted. Obama, who built his career on opposing the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, had long resisted a larger U.S. military role even as Sunni Muslim extremists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) movement raced across the country from war-torn Syria.
Obama has been hiding from the truth of the fact that his Administration has been a complete disgraceful failure.
ReplyDeleteObama's entire administrative staff has been so involved in projects & programs that have nothing to do with their departments responsibilities that the daily functions have been essentially set aside in advancement of the Presidents political/philosophical agenda and entitlement advancement & expansion.
This morning CNBC is reporting that the Obama administration is considering "if moire aide or how much more aide and in what form will be forth coming once the new government in Iraq takes place"
ReplyDeleteIf the past few days of grandiose talk about aide and the terrible demise of the Kurdish religion burden would be, and the miniscule benefit of the few bombing runs ... what was all this for if not just another photo op" for our dear beleaguered president that is drowning in his own created quagmire of lies and deceit?
It's like the women who marries a no account man and announces that not to worry she'll change him. Well the vast majority of the mainstream news keeps telling us how Obama is changing. Changing my foot. A Tiger doesn't change his strips - they are as they are for the life of the Tiger and they represent his origin.
Since President George H.W. Bush in 1990 here is a list (in a timeline arrangement) of the Operations that the US has started and ended with NO real measurable success for the Iraq people:
ReplyDeleteOperation Desert Shield
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Provide Comfort I and II
Operation Southern Watch
Operation Desert Strike
Operation Northern Watch
Operation Desert Fox
Operation Southern Focus
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation New Dawn
Operation [Provide Humanitarian Aid]
The last being Obama seemingly short 2/3 days of selected bombing runs against ISIS which by all military minds will have NO effect against ISIS at all. They simply took cover and waited for the US to end the aide.
For eight years, the U.S. and NATO fought an insurgent war in which almost:
ReplyDelete1) 4,500 Americans lost their lives, and
2) over 32,000 were wounded.
3) conservative estimates of 133,000 Iraqi citizens were killed from 2003-2011, and
4) at least 3.5 million human beings were displaced from their homes.
All this in only Iraq!
As unpleasant as life was for the average Iraqi citizen before our invasion, it cannot compare to the misery under which they’ve suffered since. A similar dynamic continues to play out in Afghanistan. Libya has suffered in a state of near anarchy since our 2011 air campaign. Pakistan, Yemen, and now a growing part of Africa have all seen a continual deterioration in their security corresponding to a rise in the application of U.S. military force and firepower. There are some serious question that need to be asked and answered before another combat venture is fully operational.
When we have a knowledgeable Secretary of State & Defense that know what they are doing – then maybe we can make the correct decision on how to best help countries like Iraq and Syria and people like the Kurds
However ISIS has won ground, it has, through atrocities and beheadings, imposition of Sharia law, and ruthless repression, alienated almost everyone, including al-Qaeda. Should ISIS succeed in holding northern Syria and Western Iraq, who will recognize this caliphate? Who will trade with it? How will it hold the allegiance of peoples upon whom it is even now imposing terrorist rule?
ReplyDeleteIt will eventually be accepted by their brothers in barbarity. But will this create a “tirade” of Us-Them-& That Other in an already uncontrollable Middle East? Can you imagine Western governments seeking peaceful (?) solutions, established governments resisting western solutions, and a bunch of prowling murders roaming the county sides, back and forth across established borders?
John Kerry can’t keep the players straight now!
Michael Knights of the Washington Institute Think Tank believes that the thrown around number of 2-3 Billion dollars held by ISIS may be high. But by his calculations they bring in between 2-4 Million dollars a day.
ReplyDeleteNow that is certainly not “chump change” that is being collected on the street corner of Damascus or wherever! To do this each and every day requires some big time donations to be made. The question that needs to be asked is …”BY WHOM?”
In politics the saying is follow the money trail. Don’t we need to know (if at all possible) if not specific individuals, but at least countries where these sympathizers of ISIS are coming from? How many are in the United States, France, Britain, etc. It’s not all Middle East donations, but where in the Middle East does their fair share come from?