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Iraq government's situation is very complicated : Comments

By David Harding, published 16/6/2014

Iraq and the region are a patchwork of factional fiefdoms, and finding a way of keeping them together is difficult once they have started to run.

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Plantagenet: - the AC-130 gunship, a Hercules chock full of bullets and shells, boppy music, http://youtu.be/QBGRhI4WtiA ;

Well snoopy is still around but in advanced versions, but the A10's have been retired, unfortunately. Maybe they'll drag 'em of the Desert floor & refurbish them.

I got supported by Snoopy on night. Put on a great show. Pity they were dropping 50 million Candle Watt flares, 6 at a time, at the time so the light show wasn't as good as it should have been.

Still, the West should stay out of it otherwise the likes of Poirot & the usual Terrorist supporters on here will be accusing the West of killing the innocent civilians that are killing the innocent civilians.

Waiting...... waiting...... ;-)
Posted by Jayb, Monday, 16 June 2014 1:39:07 PM
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Hi Jayb

Getting into this serious boytoy weapons techno-porn biz for us toyboys I'm not sure if all A-10s are actually retired - see http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/473159/father-and-son-share-a-10-legacy.aspx .

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 16 June 2014 1:49:45 PM
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Pete,

I don't think this is a game - terrorists who line up and kill 1700 people in one go are not playing games. I fervently hope that both the Iranians and the US obliterate these reactionaries from Iraq, pursue them into Syria and obliterate them there too. What more do the terrorists need to do to demonstrate that they are very serious about exterminating any who oppose them, that they are eager to use terror itself as a weapon, in order to convert or eliminate ?

Jayb,

I don't think even Poirot would be naïve enough to come out in support of fascists like ISIS.

But you never know - look ! there's Abbott doing something !

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Monday, 16 June 2014 2:10:27 PM
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I still think the West should stay well out of it until there is no one left standing. Then the place could be repopulated with decent people.

Although, why anyone would want to live in a sand pile, I don't know. Even Israel. The Promise Land? The Gods must have been laughing their head off when they did that.

We MUST refuse to take any refugees from the Middle East, with the exceptions of the Christians, only, & maybe some Jews? We don't want them bringing their aggressive overflow here.
Posted by Jayb, Monday, 16 June 2014 2:25:06 PM
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If there is one thing obvious from the armchair general fantasies of the contributors above up to and including JayB at 2.25pm is that relentless ignorance and an inability to grasp even the basics of Middle Eastern history over the past 100 years is alive and well.

Have any of you faux warriers actually read any history? Are you aware of how the seeds of the modern day devastation were laid by British and French imperialists anxious to carve up the Middle East between themselves for the oil and gas riches that lay under the sand?

Have you applied any thought to how the 2003 invasion, based upon lies about weapons of mass destruction, destroyed a civil society with the highest living standard in the Middle east? That more than a million Iraqis were killed between 1991 and 2012 and a quarter of the population displaced.

Have you given any thought to the fact that the US is arming and financing jihadi terrorists in Syria, and claiming they are opposed to the self same groups in Iraq?

No of course you haven't. Instead you fantasise about wreaking more death and destruction to compound the felonies already perpetrated in Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and elsewhere. The only beneficiaries, at least in the short term are the US military industrial complex, Saudi wahabi extremists, and the State of Israel that sees the progressive destruction of all societies in its neighbourhood that might pose a threat to its own expansionist ambitions.
Posted by James O'Neill, Monday, 16 June 2014 4:28:10 PM
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James O'Neill matey

Just because we don't follow your arrogant leftist, West hating, agenda doesn't mean we don't think. I've read a great deal of history cobber.

Including that about Arab tribes and Persians having their own world views, own evil, own war-like spirit and culture separate and long before your racist Western-centric determinism.

People's can be evil and make mistakes without the US or Europe being the cause - or is that impossible in your small ideological world?

Read the history of the Iran-Iraq War* of Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds and of Iran using kids for mine clearance.

How do you explain honour killing of those women who seek to choose who to marry?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#1980:_Iraqi_invasion

The Western media admits the West's sins while your pure Middle Easterners restrict information - supporting your prejudices.

How bout reading this? http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iraq/report-2012

Happy?
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 16 June 2014 5:22:39 PM
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