BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE
A DESPONDENT ROBERT PARRY, HAIR UNKEMPT, CLOTHES STAINED -- IN OTHER WORDS, USUAL APPEARANCE, IS RECEIVING VISITORS AT THE SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NOW THAT HE IS NO LONGER UNDER PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION.
THE FORMER JOURNALIST GRABBED HEADLINES LAST MONTH WITH HIS CLAIM TO BE PREGNANT WITH THE CHILD OF FADED CELEBRITY BARRY O.
THOUGH MANY WHO HAD DISCOVERED THEY HAD AN IMPACTED COLON WOULD BE SHEEPISH, PARRY'S DOUBLING DOWN INSISTING THAT HE WAS PREGNANT AND THAT THE SECRET SERVICE REMOVED THE BABY "AND ARE SERVING BITS AND PIECES IN ONE OF MICHELLE'S PUBLIC SCHOOL LUNCHES!"
THE ORDERLIES CAME IN TO STRAP PARRY DOWN AS HE CONTINUED SCREAMING.
US President Barack Obama appears to have only one answer: Bomb and bomb again.
Alsumaria reports a bomb southeast of Baghdad left two people injured, a central Baghdad roadside bombing left four people injured, a northern Baghdad bombing left 3 people dead and ten more injured, an attack involving 3 Baiji suicide bombers left 7 civilians dead, and a Tarmiya suicide bomber took his own life and the lives of 2 Iraqi soldiers with seventeen more left injured. National Iraqi News Agency reports a Kirkuk roadside bombing killed 1 person and left seven more injured, a roadside bombing near Buhriz left 1 Iraqi soldier dead and two more injured, and 1 corpse was found dumped in eastern Baghdad.
In addition, despite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's September 13th promise to end the military's bombing of residential neighborhoods in Falluja, the bombings continue. NINA notes one family (woman, man, child) were killed in the latest bombings and seventeen more people were injured. Again, this is the Iraqi military doing the bombing -- not the Islamic State.
Falluja is in Anbar Province, it is a Sunni dominant city. Sunnis feel targeted in Iraq -- by their own government. Loveday Morris (Washington Post) notes how this issue is impacing current realities:
In a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, tribal leaders have demanded that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi address problems of missing weapons and lack of support as they hold out against extremists in the face of mass detentions and executions. Hundreds of tribesmen have been summarily executed in the western province of Anbar over the past month, with hundreds more rounded up north of Baghdad.
The slayings have underscored the predicament of Sunni tribes that have resisted Islamic State extremists, often with little help from the central government. The killings threaten to undermine the government strategy of mobilizing the Sunni tribes against the Islamic State in the tribes’ areas — a key pillar in efforts to crush the militants.
“We demand that the government does something,” said Sheik Naim al-Gaoud, a tribal leader with the Albu Nimr. “We feel that we have been abandoned and neglected.”
Sunnis feeling targeted is not paranoia. They are targeted. Even the Associate Press grasps that as they point out today, "The vengeance that Iraq’s Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies."
For those who need visuals and/or specifics, follow these Tweets.
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Alsumaria reports a bomb southeast of Baghdad left two people injured, a central Baghdad roadside bombing left four people injured, a northern Baghdad bombing left 3 people dead and ten more injured, an attack involving 3 Baiji suicide bombers left 7 civilians dead, and a Tarmiya suicide bomber took his own life and the lives of 2 Iraqi soldiers with seventeen more left injured. National Iraqi News Agency reports a Kirkuk roadside bombing killed 1 person and left seven more injured, a roadside bombing near Buhriz left 1 Iraqi soldier dead and two more injured, and 1 corpse was found dumped in eastern Baghdad.
In addition, despite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's September 13th promise to end the military's bombing of residential neighborhoods in Falluja, the bombings continue. NINA notes one family (woman, man, child) were killed in the latest bombings and seventeen more people were injured. Again, this is the Iraqi military doing the bombing -- not the Islamic State.
Falluja is in Anbar Province, it is a Sunni dominant city. Sunnis feel targeted in Iraq -- by their own government. Loveday Morris (Washington Post) notes how this issue is impacing current realities:
In a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, tribal leaders have demanded that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi address problems of missing weapons and lack of support as they hold out against extremists in the face of mass detentions and executions. Hundreds of tribesmen have been summarily executed in the western province of Anbar over the past month, with hundreds more rounded up north of Baghdad.
The slayings have underscored the predicament of Sunni tribes that have resisted Islamic State extremists, often with little help from the central government. The killings threaten to undermine the government strategy of mobilizing the Sunni tribes against the Islamic State in the tribes’ areas — a key pillar in efforts to crush the militants.
“We demand that the government does something,” said Sheik Naim al-Gaoud, a tribal leader with the Albu Nimr. “We feel that we have been abandoned and neglected.”
Sunnis feeling targeted is not paranoia. They are targeted. Even the Associate Press grasps that as they point out today, "The vengeance that Iraq’s Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies."
For those who need visuals and/or specifics, follow these Tweets.
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The refugee crisis and the violence just keeps going and increasing.
Barack's so-called plan hasn't stopped the violence at all.
Today, US Senator John McCain compared Barack's so-called 'plan to "another war we lost, myf riend, and that was the Vietnam War." Meanwhile, Phil Mattingly (Bloomberg News) reviewed "The Phases of Obama's Iraq War" and concluded:
Many of the questions that were raised back in June still sit unanswered: How long will the operations take? How will U.S. troops on the ground to advise and assist stay out of combat operations? Will the Iraq security forces ever be able to carry their own weight? Obama administration officials acknowledge that the strategy is still far from a sure thing, especially the Syria component.
For Obama, it's an evolving strategy, one that has brought the U.S. into deeper engagement each step of the way.
For Obama, it's an evolving strategy, one that has brought the U.S. into deeper engagement each step of the way.
And while Barack clearly has no answers, neither does Iraq's Prime Minister. Reuters notes, "Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he intends to remove concrete barriers from Baghdad, despite little sign of a respite from car bombs they were designed to thwart, and give a greater role to the Interior Ministry in securing the capital." Well, if he actually does it, that will put him ahead of Nouri al-Maliki who, shortly after becoming prime minister (in his first term), announced the walls were coming down (2006) but it would be years before even a few did.
On those walls, I'm surprised the US Congress (among others) aren't suggesting any walls taken down be moved to Camp Hurriya to help protect the Ashraf community.
There is no 'plan.'
But there is plenty of room for failure -- daily and long term. Press TV (link is text and video) reports US professor Stephen Zunes has stated, "Due to the bad reputation US forces had in Iraq during the occupation, US forces may end up creating a backlash that could inadvertently strengthen ISIS. [. . .] It was US policies which helped lead to the rise of ISIS originally so it raises serious questions as to whether a return of US forces will actually make things better."
RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot"
