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Post by ywevis on Jun 16, 2014 8:11:23 GMT -5
In two weeks, all the veterans that served and died in Iraq, lost it all in just 2 weeks. This is a shame.
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Post by shadow on Jun 16, 2014 12:26:09 GMT -5
Not sure how credible the source is, but there is a report that marines have boots on the ground to help fight off ISIS while the contractors withdraw
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Post by shadow on Jun 16, 2014 12:26:48 GMT -5
However yes it's still angering that the cities are being walked through by ISIS
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Post by ywevis on Jun 16, 2014 12:30:01 GMT -5
Ya last report I heard, 100 or so guys are on the ground. Not sure about the civilian contractors.
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Post by uregold on Jun 16, 2014 12:59:59 GMT -5
what are yall talking about?
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Post by ywevis on Jun 16, 2014 13:03:24 GMT -5
All the vets that was over in Iraq, the ISIS militia is taking it over. We invested trillions of dollars into Iraq, and someone just is about to take it over.
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Post by shadow on Jun 16, 2014 13:23:40 GMT -5
ISIS= Forces from the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria." Basically Iraq has officially become a jihad state, ISIS is fighting a religious war against any christians/religions that aren't theirs. online.wsj.com/articles/iraqi-military-makes-gains-north-of-baghdad-in-conflict-with-isis-1402765053"What happened in Mosul was a conspiracy and a connivance," the prime minister said, referring to the abrupt fall of Iraq's second city to Islamist militants early on Tuesday morning. Iraqi officers and soldiers reportedly surrendered to the militants WITHOUT putting up almost ANY resistance. Iraqi troops beat back Islamist insurgents in several areas north of Baghdad on Saturday, as the U.S. moved an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf. A battlefield stalemate between Iraqi security forces and their militia opponents persisted into a third straight third day Saturday. Besides some minor advances by Iraq's military, it was largely quiet as Iraq's government worked to rebuild the strength of armed forces left battered and humiliated by a startling series of victories last week by a Sunni militia known as the "Islamist State of Iraq and al-Sham", or ISIS. The government's shift toward recruiting civilians to fight ISIS revealed a lack of confidence in the U.S.-funded-and-trained Iraqi military. But by relying on civilian fighters, Mr. Maliki also risks exacerbating bitter sectarian tensions that could lead the country back toward the kind of religious civil war that nearly broke Iraq apart in 2005 and 2006." |
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Post by shadow on Jun 16, 2014 13:25:05 GMT -5
Mosul remained largely quiet on Saturday as ISIS fighters maintained their grip on the city. On Friday night, Iraqi government airstrikes targeted Iraqi military facilities that ISIS overran during its early morning conquest of the city on Tuesday.
In Tikrit, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's hometown, northern parts of the city remained under ISIS control. ISIS fighters were using Saddam's well-reinforced presidential palaces as bases of operations as they fought with security forces in the southern parts of the city.
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Post by shadow on Jun 16, 2014 13:26:02 GMT -5
Yes you're reading correctly, ISIS have retaken Saddam's palace.
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Post by loki258 on Jun 16, 2014 13:41:53 GMT -5
Well any way you slice it, this pie plain sucks... it isn't going to end well for anyone...
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Post by ywevis on Jun 16, 2014 13:52:40 GMT -5
I am sure they knew before hand it would get to this.. you know with all them phone taps and so forth..
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