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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Badbrains glad you got it all figured out did you enjoy ramodon ?( sorry for the miss-spelling)

    Godfather.
  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Godfather. said:

    Badbrains glad you got it all figured out did you enjoy ramodon ?( sorry for the miss-spelling)

    Godfather.

    See I'm what's called a western Muslim, I dnt fast during RAMADAN. And I mite not have it all figured out but I definitely got you figured out. And not like u care gf, but Ramadan is a whole month not just 1 day. So please excuse me while I go have some breakfast. I'll leave u to drool at your computer screen while u look up more shit about Muslims. I was also waiting for your responses in the Israel threads but realized I shouldn't hold my breath.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,360
    edited July 2014
    300 has become nearly 800 pretty quick hasnt it?
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  • frozenwithsalt
    frozenwithsalt Texas Posts: 765
    edited July 2014

    As humans, our intolerance will be our undoing. Rather than truly work together we look down our noses at others ideas, especially if it comes from 'the other' side - whether that other side be political, geographical or religious.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    mickeyrat said:

    300 has become nearly 800 pretty quick hasnt it?

    There is a lot of advising needed. There seem to quite a few countries out there that want to offer advice as well.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    Islamic State has now captured the damn dam.

    thewire.com/global/2014/08/iraqi-militants-capture-countrys-largest-dam/375710/

    It's not a religious site, so there may be a small chance they don't blow it up.

    Also, not a good sign that the Kurds were not able to defend it. They were supposed to be the bad boys from up north.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    edited August 2014
    In retrospect, the US should have authorized air strikes on the advancing ISIS columns from the start. Politics and feelings aside, it may have prevented these maniacs from attaining quality weaponry that the US provided the Iraq "army" with.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    wsnt walt whitman a racist?
    lets go with thoreau or emerson...or feynman or watson and crick!
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    It appears the White House is about to green light air support.

    WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop after death threats from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, administration officials said on Thursday.

    The president, in meetings with his national security team at the White House on Thursday morning, has been weighing a series of options ranging from dropping humanitarian supplies on Mount Sinjar to military strikes on the fighters from ISIS now at the base of the mountain, a senior administration official said.

    “There could be a humanitarian catastrophe there,” a second administration official said, adding that a decision from Mr. Obama was expected “imminently — this could be a fast-moving train.”

    nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/obama-weighs-military-strikes-to-aid-trapped-iraqis-officials-say.html?_r=0
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    Surprise! The White House is weighing options. They are committed to weighing options ... imminently.

    Meanwhile 40,000 people are trapped on a mountain top without food or water.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    Saw this yesterday. Horrifying.

    http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/friend-flees-horror-isis
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  • unsung
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    How long before we put troops back on the ground?
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,567
    edited August 2014
    Wrong country i thought the article was about Iran damn all this infighting among all the middle eastern countries is hard to keep up with , we need to stay out of all these ....
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    At this point I honestly don't know what we should do.
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Sounds like we are ready to start pushing back against ISIS.Airstrikes seem to be on deck.Id like to see The president show some muscle here,before this group of knuckleheads gain anymore ground.This is one foreign matter I think needs our attention.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    At the very least they should have had AWACS patrolling the area for the last month and providing logistical info to Iraq and Kurdish command at the very least. Sending a couple hundred "advisors" is a laughable offense. The Kurds are battle tested but not used to a trained diligent insurgency.


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  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    Some NSFL stuff in here.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2709433/The-Islamic-State-Killing-Fields-Terror-group-releases-horrifying-video-showing-drive-shootings-suicide-bombings-dozens-victims-rounded-executed.html
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    It's great if America will help. I would like my country to send help as well. This is a horrible situation from what I've read.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,294
    Airstrikes have been authorized. Food drops have been authorized.

    It's a start but it's not going to stop the cancer that has been rapidly spreading for the last several months.
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