Posted: Sunday, August 31, 2014 11:36 pm
BAGHDAD — A coalition of Shiite militias, (click here) regular Iraqi army units and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. air power, on Sunday broke a long siege of Amerli, a town in northern Iraq that for weeks had been surrounded by Sunni extremists who threatened to slaughter thousands of Shiite residents.
The U.S. airstrikes on positions held by fighters of the Islamic State near Amerli, about 105 miles north of Baghdad, were carried out Saturday night in conjunction with airdrops of supplies to the town’s thousands of besieged residents. The U.S. operation was supporting a ground offensive led by Shiite militia fighters, many of whom once fought fierce battles against American soldiers.
“ISIS militants have fled as our heroes in the Army and the volunteers are progressing at Amerli,” said Qassim Atta, the Iraqi military spokesman, according to a report on state television Sunday. ISIS is a former abbreviation for the Islamic State.
Security officials said Sunday that Amerli, a cluster of villages whose population is dominated by Shiite Turkmen who are considered infidels by the Islamic State, was not fully liberated but that the combined forces had cleared several villages from the militants. Fierce fighting in the area was continuing Sunday afternoon....
Get used to unusual bedfellows.
...First, the U.S. military sent warplanes and drones to destroy millions of dollars of U.S. equipment that had been abandoned on the battlefield by the Iraqi army and seized by the Islamic State. Now, the United States has provided air support for several Iranian-backed Shiite militias that are leading the fight against the Islamic State in Ameril with the help of Kurdish peshmerga forces and Iraqi army units.
Both the United States and Iran, while not coordinating operations in Iraq, are nevertheless on the same side in the conflict against the Islamic State....
End of discussion.
The USA is needed for support BECAUSE of the nation building for ten long years that resulted in NOTHING but a land of dangerous munitions and hardware. Everyone in Congress must be very proud they caused the deaths of 100s of thousands for the sake of American arrogance.
As far as I and most Americans are concerned it was the obligation of the USA to destroy the war machine we left behind that caused the deaths and entrapment of so many people.
From here on all the USA has to do for the next two generations is continue to apologize for the invasion in the first place.
The words go like this, "The USA apologizes for the arrogance of a former President and will continue to apologize to the people of this region for the rest of it's constitutional existence."
“ISIS militants have fled as our heroes in the Army and the volunteers are progressing at Amerli,” said Qassim Atta, the Iraqi military spokesman, according to a report on state television Sunday. ISIS is a former abbreviation for the Islamic State.
Security officials said Sunday that Amerli, a cluster of villages whose population is dominated by Shiite Turkmen who are considered infidels by the Islamic State, was not fully liberated but that the combined forces had cleared several villages from the militants. Fierce fighting in the area was continuing Sunday afternoon....
Get used to unusual bedfellows.
...First, the U.S. military sent warplanes and drones to destroy millions of dollars of U.S. equipment that had been abandoned on the battlefield by the Iraqi army and seized by the Islamic State. Now, the United States has provided air support for several Iranian-backed Shiite militias that are leading the fight against the Islamic State in Ameril with the help of Kurdish peshmerga forces and Iraqi army units.
Both the United States and Iran, while not coordinating operations in Iraq, are nevertheless on the same side in the conflict against the Islamic State....
End of discussion.
The USA is needed for support BECAUSE of the nation building for ten long years that resulted in NOTHING but a land of dangerous munitions and hardware. Everyone in Congress must be very proud they caused the deaths of 100s of thousands for the sake of American arrogance.
As far as I and most Americans are concerned it was the obligation of the USA to destroy the war machine we left behind that caused the deaths and entrapment of so many people.
From here on all the USA has to do for the next two generations is continue to apologize for the invasion in the first place.
The words go like this, "The USA apologizes for the arrogance of a former President and will continue to apologize to the people of this region for the rest of it's constitutional existence."
