Majorie glosses over the mass murders committed by Sadam Hussien. One would think that Iraq was a peace loving country before the USA etc toppled Hussien. The simple fact is that the different Muslim groups had been killing each other for centuries. She also fails to acknowledge that the naive Americans allowed many Muslims to escape to the US only to have them trained and then poop on the nation that gave them freedom for the first time in their life.

Majorie writes 'Obama has an unprecedented opportunity to be a real peacemaker in Iraq '. She lives in la la land. Obama appears only interested in a legacy. I doubt whether history will see him as any sort of hero (except the usual leftist revisionist).

One point, the Iranians have said quite categorically that they are not co-operating with the U.S. and would not do so under any circumstances, if they did they'd face a second Islamic revolution, no two ways about it.
There's another widespread misapprehension about the power structure in Washington, the Neocons (Neo Jacobin Left) do control the White House and State Department but they don't control the congress or the military.
This Islamic civil war can't be stopped, the fact that it's been kept at a lower intensity for about 25 years doesn't mean that it ceased or that any of the core issues were addressed, it's going to result in a re drawing of the map of the Middle East and central Asia and the elimination of most of the borders.
As I said in another thread, there's no such thing as an Islamic nation, only an Islamic empire.

runner get the story straight. Saddham Hussein was a US generated dictator who thought he could be greater than the Banking Military Industrial Complex.

Saddham started trading oil in Euros instead of US $ and the big Western oil cartels wanted more ownership of Iraqi oil. It is oil and gas that underpins the US $.

The BMIC currently want to build oil and gas pipelines to Europe thus cutting off the power that Russia has by suppling 40% of Europe's energy. This is all about pipeline politics and making Russia slave to their New World Order of Global Fascism.

Watch carefully, if the ISIS moves into the south and stops the export
of Iraq oil, make no mistake the loss of the 2nd largest oil exporter
will not go unnoticed in this country.
It does not seem that Saudi Arabia can increase its output by the amount lost.

I suspect that the ISIS will not be interested in going into the south.
They might be interested in taking over Baghdad.

Hi Bazz, try Mecca, and the fun is really going to start.

I hope you didn't hand in your semi autos and stocked up on ammo in 1997? With only 72,000 Steyr rifles in Australia and our ammunition being manufactured in China, it looks like the government is going to have to appeal to sporting shooters during wartime again, this time to save the country from the people we have imported.

LOL yeah.

It's ironical that western governments have been invading Iraq at least in part over the strategic importance of oil, while busily - and deliberately - destroying their own energy industries.