arming the enemy

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

MOHAMMED AL DULAIMY: "Well, the weapons—we saw in the previous few days the use of American-made weapons like Hellfire missiles, which can be used with great accuracy. The Iraqi military used it to target Fallujah Hospital, Fallujah Teaching Hospital, that hospital that the United States helped building in Fallujah. It is the same hospital that witnessed the increasing numbers of birth defects that is attributed to the use of different kinds of weapons, chemical and all different kinds of weapons that allegedly was used by the United States troops over there. These weapons are now falling into the hands of ISIS. And we saw images of these weapons being transported across the border to Syria. The United States has always worried that sending weapons to the Syrian more liberal opposition might fall into the hands of Islamists. Well, now they are falling into the hands of Islamists." - link

Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I think the Middle East has been Death's favorite
vacation spot for decades now. And the party
isn't slowing down.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

ISIS is a misnomer. They don't just want Syria; they want the whole of the Levant.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

MOHAMMED AL DULAIMY: Yes, it’s an irony to say that the downfall of—occupation of Mosul city ended, actually, al-Qaeda in terms of among jihadists to look up to as their icon. ISIS was an offshoot of al-Qaeda that al-Zawahiri tried to end and limit al-Nusra to Syria and the Islamic State in Iraq to Iraq borders. When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, rejected that order and actually joined the foreign fighters in Syria to his ranks and started fighting al-Nusra, everyone was saying that these jihadists will kill each other, in terms of continuing fighting. But now, with all of these, say, victories that they have achieved, it marks, in my opinion, the downfall of al-Qaeda to be number one in the eyes of the jihadists, and making ISIS more appealing to them, as it will achieve a khilafa in Iraq. And Baghdad carries a symbol. Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic state for hundreds of years. Baghdad is not any city. And them heading towards Baghdad using all that Sunni anger is marking a point and trying to win hearts and minds of all Islamists and probably most of Sunnis all over the world.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/12/iraq_in_crisis_militant_advance_sparks

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Heh, that was actually the main name.

~ ~ ~

The group changed its name (again) in April 2013 to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant when Baghdadi, declared his fighters also were operating in Syria. However, the group is also known as ISIS.

-- NBC News (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/isis-militants-rampage-across-iraq-what-you-need-know-n129436)

I actually kind of like the ISIS name, fancying that it is a play off the ancient Egyptian goddess.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Isis would beat their monkey asses for being so anti-women.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Word.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

In honour of the world cup Falluja is converting more soccer fields (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-11-fallujah-casualties_x.htm) to graveyards.

Quite the tourist destination (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/international/worldspecial/08TOUR.html) Iraq has become in the wake of our liberation.

Welcomed with dates and flowers. Democracy, whiskey, sexy.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Assuming that Obama will soon be bombing the hell
out of the place, I'm sure it will look even prettier before long.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Why not Syria too? We could use a couple more stars on the flag. We already sold them some F16's (http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/iraq-seeks-f-16-fighters-05057/)?

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

We wouldn't want to upset Putin;
he might take the rest of Ukraine.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I await the help from Putin in Iraq that madam_shapo was talking about.

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

When are you going to pay attention? I said "could of"; it's way too late now. The Troyka (Obama, Kerry, Psaki) pissed off Vlad so bad, that he is sending fighters to the coast of California to bring Overload button back.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I am too broke to pay attention. ;-) LOL, we noticed they flew close!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

A Iraqi girl fleeing from the city of Mosul arrives at a Kuridish checkpoint. By Sebastiano Tomada/Getty Images.

-- Sully's Dish (http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/06/13/face-of-the-day-498/)

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

The peshmerga will protect her.

We destroyed the Iraqi military, and then couldn't rebuild it.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Thanks neocons.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Syria, a while ago.

[trog.livejournal.com]

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Bookmarked for review. Thank you.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Twain's best work

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Obama!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

"Withdrawing from Iraq wasn't 'the stupidest thing of all.' Invading Iraq was." http://t.co/EvhKtiwm2L (http://t.co/EvhKtiwm2L) #pjnet (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23pjnet&src=hash) #p2 (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23p2&src=hash) pic.twitter.com/5QFgvQX2d8 (http://t.co/5QFgvQX2d8)

— Blue DuPage (@BlueDuPage) June 14, 2014 (https://twitter.com/BlueDuPage/statuses/477615193783287808)

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Party of personal responsibility ladies and gents. Nation Building R Us.

We had it won? Citation so fucking needed. What a selective and myopic view. Syria was fuck all in 2011.

Send McCain. Send him there. He can be our residual force.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

More than 50 US attack jets stand ready to strike Iraq http://t.co/LNMgcDKFR8 (http://t.co/LNMgcDKFR8) pic.twitter.com/zEYmNoNTzc (http://t.co/zEYmNoNTzc)

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 14, 2014 (https://twitter.com/businessinsider/statuses/477606512811331584)

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Okay, Islamic militants on one side, and civilians on the other, take your places everyone. I mean, what could go wrong with fighting a guerrilla army occupying a city from the air? We'll let the madhi army select our targets.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to expect some collateral damage.
It's not a perfect world.
Broken eggs, omelets;
destroyed villages, saved villages.

It's an old script we've seen a lot of in the last ten years.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

"we had to destroy the village in order to save it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arnett)"

ISIS?!

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Is it worth a view? Or is it western propaganda!? ;-)

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I think you might find some appreciation in it.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I'll check it out. Is it ISIS or ISIL? I'm thinking ISIL more accurate the more I read. The older Al-Aqaeda (Zawahiri) in Iraq types hate em.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I tend to agree with you, but I don't know if some pundits aren't switching it up because of the Archer thing.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

ISIS was being used in Feb, but to Sham:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/02/zawahiris_chief_repr.php#

Re: ISIS?!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

ISIS, ISIL, Al-kyda in Iyraq. Wahabbis. Whatever.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Just like we armed the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. It's impossible that anyone did not foresee this outcome. Therefore, we can conclude that this outcome was intended. Gotta keep the wars going somehow. Think of the poor defense contractors!