Islamists capture Fallujah

[garbon]

Aren't we glad we went to Iraq? Things are a lot better since we cleaned house over there!

Well yes. Languish would be dead if it weren't for that war. And given its ailing state, would be good to have another. Raise morale and what not.

[Phillip V]

On Saturday, according to police officials in Anbar, militants took control of Karma, a town between Falluja and Ramadi, after several hours of clashes.

Police officials and witnesses in Anbar reported that militants had in several cases ambushed convoys of troops and seized heavy weapons. On Friday night, gunmen ambushed an army patrol just north of Falluja, killing four soldiers and making off with eight Humvees, according to a police official.

A heavy firefight also erupted on the main highway linking Baghdad and Anbar, with fighters taking three tanks and other military vehicles, according to police officials.

The fighters, though, apparently did not know how to use the tanks, and put out a call over a mosque's loudspeaker: "If anyone knows how to drive a tank, please come to the mosque."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/world/middleeast/shelling-in-iraqi-city-held-by-qaeda-linked-militants-kills-at-least-8.html

[The Brain]

What a bitch.

[fhdz]

Aren't we glad we went to Iraq? Things are a lot better since we cleaned house over there!

Well yes. Languish would be dead if it weren't for that war. And given its ailing state, would be good to have another. Raise morale and what not.

All things die. Languish, too, shall pass.

[Viking]

Aren't we glad we went to Iraq? Things are a lot better since we cleaned house over there!

Well yes. Languish would be dead if it weren't for that war. And given its ailing state, would be good to have another. Raise morale and what not.

All things die. Languish, too, shall pass.

Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But the good name never dies
Of one who has done well

Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But I know one thing that never dies,
The glory of the great dead

[garbon]

Aren't we glad we went to Iraq? Things are a lot better since we cleaned house over there!

Well yes. Languish would be dead if it weren't for that war. And given its ailing state, would be good to have another. Raise morale and what not.

All things die. Languish, too, shall pass.

We don't need to hurry the old girl along.

[alfred russel]

Aren't we glad we went to Iraq? Things are a lot better since we cleaned house over there!

When Bill Clinton left office, Saddam Hussein was in charge of Fallujah. When W left office, it was an American puppet regime. Obama is in office, and now it is Al Qaeda.

[The Brain]

Obama won't leave office.

[fhdz]

Aren't we glad we went to Iraq? Things are a lot better since we cleaned house over there!

When Bill Clinton left office, Saddam Hussein was in charge of Fallujah. When W left office, it was an American puppet regime. Obama is in office, and now it is Al Qaeda.

Well I hope it's aliens next; at least we have X-COM for that.

[DGuller]

I had no idea that Iraqi government had a such a tenuous grasp on the country.  Then again, I had no idea about anything going on there, it's like the place ceased to exist in the media once we pulled out.  I just kind of assumed it was limping along as one of the many pseudo-democracies in the region.

[Viking]

I had no idea that Iraqi government had a such a tenuous grasp on the country.  Then again, I had no idea about anything going on there, it's like the place ceased to exist in the media once we pulled out.  I just kind of assumed it was limping along as one of the many pseudo-democracies in the region.

Actually the violence and mass murder continued apace, just when the US pulled out it was no longer possible to blame everything on them and it became arabs murdering arabs nobody cared.

[Admiral Yi]

Car bombs are one thing, armed occupation is quite another.

[Siege]

Obama won't leave office.

He will after he gets impeached by the Tea Party's controlled Senate and House.

[Razgovory]

Obama won't leave office.

He will after he gets impeached by the Tea Party's controlled Senate and House.

Oh, please, oh please, oh please!  Do try that.

[KRonn]

After all the effort the US and allies put into Iraq and it's coming to this mess. The US did not handle leaving well at all, too much politics to make sure to leave at nearly any cost. I don't want the US to go back in, but after all the lives, injuries and money put in there had to be a much better plan for leaving Iraq and in better condition. Push and bargain harder for a Status of Forces Agreement, as is done everywhere the US has troops. Iraq certainly needed the US, and had to know it!

Sec State Kerry now says it's Iraq's issue, that the US and the world told them that it was all up to them or some such blather, but come on, that smacks of trying to deflect from the mistake of how the US/allies left and it makes US leaders look foolish and impotent. To top it all off Iran has gained huge influence there.