WestVirginiaRebel Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 NY Times: DOHUK, Iraq — American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish areas, Kurdish officials said. Word of the bombings, reported on Kurdish television from the city of Erbil, came as President Obama was preparing to make a statement in Washington. Kurdish officials said the bombings targeted fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. Residents who had fled those areas by car were heard honking their horns in approval. But Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Twitter that the reports of a U.S. airstrike were false. Obama administration officials had said earlier in the day that Mr. Obama was considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 members of religious minorities in Iraq, who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop where they took shelter after death threats from ISIS. ________ More here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Denied by the pentagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 UN Security Council condemns attacks by Iraqi jihadists The United Nations Security Council has condemned attacks by Iraqi jihadists , after hundreds of thousands of people from minority groups fled from militants. (Snip) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply appalled". (Snip) OH OH I.S. is in trouble now!! Stand by for a strongly worded note of protest!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Jewish Group Calls on World Leaders to Protect Persecuted Iraqi Christians August 7, 2014 JNS.org The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging world leaders to step up efforts to protect Iraqi Christians and other minorities who are under threat from the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). ISIS barbarity is now a top threat to security and stability in the Middle East, AJC Executive Director David Harris said. The Christian and Yazidi communities in Iraq are on the run, seeking refuge from ISIS forces who do not hesitate to use brutal violence against anyone who does not succumb to their extremist ideology. ISIS jihadists this week invaded the Iraqi city of Sinjar, home to the Yazidis, an ethno-religious group drawing influences from Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. Considered heretics by ISIS, more than 50,000 Yazidis were driven from their homes. According to the U.N., thousands of Yazidis were killed in the seizure of Sinjar, while the ones driven from their homes have been dying of heat and thirst in the desert. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Tamara Jackson @tamij MT @ThreatWatch1: @tamij @hughhewittIn addition to humanitarian aid...drop "humans" in the form of the 75th Rgr http://1.usa.gov/1soxGnz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 OH BOY! Barry is On The Job! Obama approves mission to drop humanitarian aid in Iraq August 07, 2014 FoxNews.com President Obama has approved a mission to to drop humanitarian aid in Iraq for the 40,000 or so religious minorities stranded on a mountaintop in the country's north after Islamic militants forced them to flee, senior U.S. officials told Fox News Thursday night. However, the officials said the air drops had not yet begun. If all goes well, they said, the mission will be completed following a single pass of U.S. military cargo jets. The officials did not disclose the planes' starting point due to host nation sensitivities. (Snip) They'll die with full stomachs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 US military launches airstrikes on terror targets in Iraq August 08, 2014 FoxNews.com U.S. fighter jets launched a targeted airstrike on Friday against Islamic militants in Iraq, just hours after President Obama authorized military action to protect U.S. personnel and Iraqi civilians. Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Friday that two F/A-18 jets dropped 500-pound bombs on a piece of artillery and the truck towing it. The Pentagon said the military conducted the strike at 6:45 a.m. ET, against terrorists with the Islamic State (IS), the group formerly known as ISIS. (Snip) The strike took place near the city of Irbil, after IS used the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending the city where U.S. personnel are located, the Pentagon said. (Snip) Vid at link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Better late than never I suppose.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 President Does Right Thing, But Still Has No Clue John Hinderaker August 8, 2014 I applaud President Obamas decision to send humanitarian relief and order air strikes against ISIS in Iraq. The strikes are being described as limited, and I am afraid they will turn out to be what John Kerry had in mind when he promised unbelievably small military action in Syria. * But its better than nothing. I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home, and thats what weve done. As Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. Which at this point, no one is calling for. But there is a reason why Obama is giving a press conference on Iraq: it is descending into chaos, ISIS has taken over large swaths of the country and threatened more, Christians are being slaughtered and American security interests are threatened. Until now, Obama has been entirely passive as the crisis has grown. And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because theres no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq. Characteristically, Obama elevates liberal dogmatheres no American military solution over reality........ (Snip) * Is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 jones @ 5OFive @ThreatWatch1 evil looks the same today as it did then. (Photo at link....warning BRUTAL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 US forces bomb Isis militant positions in northern IraqUS warplanes bombed Islamic militants outside the Kurdish capital of Irbil on Friday, pulling the US back into Iraq conflict for the first time since President Obama withdrew ground troops in 2011.The initial strikes were limited to the frontlines around Irbil to relieve intense pressure on US-backed Kurdish fighters, but the White House signalled it could expand its military commitment.That would come only once a more "inclusive" government was formed in Baghdad, giving better representation to Iraq's alienated Sunni minority. However, the Obama administration stressed that sending combat troops back into the country was not an option.(Snip)Comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Iraq official: Hundreds of women refugees taken captive by militants BAGHDAD -- The spokesman for Iraq's human rights ministry says hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by militants from the Islamic State group. Kamil Amin says the women are below the age of 35 and some are being held in schools in Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. He said the ministry learned of the captives from their families. (snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 jones @ 5OFive @ThreatWatch1 evil looks the same today as it did then. (Photo at link....warning BRUTAL) @Valin! It was much different 100 years ago......... http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_3.php 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 @SrWoodchuck Same part of the world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 I'm missing something.... Surely this is Bush's fault? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 US bombs militants in Iraq as crisis worsens US airstrikes in Iraq; humanitarian crisis worsens BY DIAA HAID AND BRAM JANSSEN, Associated Press August 9, 2014 - 3:05 AM RBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women from a religious minority, according to an Iraqi official, while thousands of other civilians fled in fear. Many of America's allies backed the U.S. intervention, pledging urgent steps to assist the legions of refugees and displaced people. Those in jeopardy included thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority whose plight — trapped on a mountaintop by the militants — prompted the U.S. to airdrop crates of food and water to them. American planes conducted a second airdrop of food and water early Saturday for those trapped in the Sinjar mountains, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-bombs-militants-iraq-crisis-worsens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 AUGUST 9, 2014 — JOHN HINDERAKER ARM THE KURDS!ISIS has routed Kurdish forces in their early engagements, mostly because they are better armed. The Associated Press notes: In a bitter irony, the extremists used American armored vehicles and weapons they had seized from the hapless Iraqi military to defeat Kurdish fighters who were blocked from acquiring just such equipment…. Yes, it’s true. The Obama administration has for years been denying the Kurds’ requests to BUY American munitions: For http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/08/arm-the-kurds.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Feinstein: We’re going to need more than a few airstrikes on ISIS POSTED AT 11:31 AM ON AUGUST 9, 2014 BY ED MORRISSEY How has Barack Obama’s reactive strategy to the sweep of the Islamic State across Iraq been received so far in Washington? Not well, as critics arose across the partisan spectrum. “It takes an army to defeat an army,” Senator Dianne Feinstein said yesterday in regard to the threat ISIS now poses to the region — and the US: Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein warned Friday of the risk that the insurgent group ISIL could be preparing fighters to attack American and European targets. “It has become clear that ISIL is recruiting fighters in Western countries, training them to fight its battles in the Middle East and possibly returning them to European and American cities to attack us in our backyard,” the California Democrat said in a statement backing military action authorized by President Barack Obama. “We simply cannot allow this to happen.” http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/09/feinstein-were-going-to-need-more-than-a-few-airstrikes-on-isis/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Feinstein: We’re going to need more than a few airstrikes on ISIS POSTED AT 11:31 AM ON AUGUST 9, 2014 BY ED MORRISSEY Doesn't she know that there is no military solution! Besides someone might get hurt. No No! The real solution is simple....Have the Kurds, Assyrians, Yezidis....etc, line up quietly and wait to be killed, then the crisis misunderstanding would be solved, and Dear Leader could golf in peace without all these distractions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Theyre Not the Jayvees Anymore John Hinderaker August 9, 2014 n January, Barack Obama infamously referred to ISIS as a bunch of jayvees. During White House spokesman Josh Earnests briefing yesterday, Jim Acosta of CNN indulged in a bit of snark: Let me ask you about something [the president] said back in January when he told the New Yorker when assessing the ISIS threat, he said that, the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if the JV team puts on a Lakers uniforms, that doesnt make them Kobe Bryant. Is it safe to say that ISIS are no longer the JVs? Earnest, a deer in the headlights, could only respond with a filibuster: http://youtu.be/6Tseq_t0b10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6lQhe-M6Vs&list=UU5ANI-_qOR6_-Jrz2xJftdg&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxfQUwmRlmI&list=UU5ANI-_qOR6_-Jrz2xJftdg&index=2 The lights are on....but nobodies home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Theyre Not the Jayvees Anymore John Hinderaker August 9, 2014 n January, Barack Obama infamously referred to ISIS as a bunch of jayvees. During White House spokesman Josh Earnests briefing yesterday, Jim Acosta of CNN indulged in a bit of snark: Let me ask you about something [the president] said back in January when he told the New Yorker when assessing the ISIS threat, he said that, the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if the JV team puts on a Lakers uniforms, that doesnt make them Kobe Bryant. Is it safe to say that ISIS are no longer the JVs? Earnest, a deer in the headlights, could only respond with a filibuster: http://youtu.be/6Tseq_t0b10 This is a press secretary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 This is a press secretary? Yup! Ain't he great? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6lQhe-M6Vs&list=UU5ANI-_qOR6_-Jrz2xJftdg&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxfQUwmRlmI&list=UU5ANI-_qOR6_-Jrz2xJftdg&index=2 The lights are on....but nobodies home. And they said President Bush was a bad speaker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 @clearvision Is it possible for this guy to be more clueless? You will notice who he blamed for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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