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RobertEarl

(13,685 posts) Sun Jul 20, 2014, 08:30 PM Jul 2014

After Iraq tragedy US should shackle its dogs of war

Rather than issue a hollow appeal for a ceasefire in Gaza, Obama could have stopped the conflict in a breath by ordering his proxies to end it.

Whoever pulled the trigger, Obama can’t dodge responsibility for arming Israel.

At the end of the day US “military aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq … is at the root of the ongoing conflict in the region,” .

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After Iraq tragedy US should shackle its dogs of war (Original Post) RobertEarl Jul 2014 OP

Time is running out for Iraq as nation spirals into chaos RobertEarl Jul 2014 #1

Gaza today RobertEarl Jul 2014 #2

What exactly do you mean by "ordering his proxies to end it?" Vattel Jul 2014 #3

yeah! and Putin should take his anti-aircraft missiles and shove them up his ass as well! snooper2 Jul 2014 #4

Why am I thinking of Linus Pauling all of a sudden? nt tblue37 Jul 2014 #5

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)

1. Time is running out for Iraq as nation spirals into chaos

Reply to RobertEarl (Original post)

Sun Jul 20, 2014, 09:04 PM

Jul 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014851371
Source: MSNBC

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Militiamen saunter unchallenged along Baghdad streets with rocket-propelled grenade launchers slung across their shoulders. Neighborhood after neighborhood is being ghettoized and sealed off by checkpoints manned by fighters in civilian clothes carrying machine guns. On Iraqiyya, the state TV channel, the war propaganda is so bizarre that it appears like satire: pictures of heavily-built men dancing in tandem while decked out in military uniforms and body armor, and twirling AK-47s like they’re batons.

“Iraq the state is almost broken.”

It’s old news that Iraq is out of control. But amid the deluge of reports of ISIS atrocities and the security forces’ faltering efforts, the daily effects of the spiraling chaos on ordinary Iraqis are mostly overlooked.

Meanwhile, the capital’s residents face the daily terrors inspired not only by rumors of an impending ISIS onslaught on Baghdad but the more immediate threat posed by government security forces and militias – often, the residents aren’t sure which – who conduct random searches of people’s homes and arrest people without warrants or any apparent legal basis. These violations are just one piece of a big, broken puzzle: a peephole into Iraqis’ tragic, chaotic upside-down world. . .