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Full horror of the Yazidis who didnt escape Mount Sinjar: UN confirms 5,000 men were executed and 7,000 women are now kept as sex slaves
Yazidi refugees were lined up, shot dead, then bulldozed into mass graves
At least ten men at the village of Hardan were beheaded
Jihadists came into villages and selected women at will to make slaves
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2792552/full-horror-yazidis-didn-t-escape-mount-sinjar-confirms-5-000-men-executed-7-000-women-kept-sex-slaves.html
read it for yourself...pretty bad.
heartbreaking
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)But, for shits and giggles, if someone googled my username and any of the relevant terms, like "Sinjar" or "Yazidi" you'd find plenty of stuff.
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)... for commenting on his constant use of cliches.
The jury result included:
Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Sorry, I really dislike Nance Greggs. so I'm going to hide this ... dear Nance: go away.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Nance is always rude to other posters. Hide it!
So much for the jury system hiding posts based on things other than personal likes/dislikes. I've seen that kind of thing more than once, i.e. "I'm voting to hide because I don't like this poster."
Guess neither of us qualify for the cool table in the DU cafeteria.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)Just thought it was interesting that the jury results got hidden.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Both of you belong at the cool table.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Funny how the same people who love the pro Rus-Si-A assholes would be against this. Well, not really funny, predictable-
THE WEST IS EVIL! THE WEST IS EVIL!
LostInAnomie
(14,428 posts)... Saddam "tossing babies out of incubators".
DU amazes me sometimes.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)LostInAnomie
(14,428 posts)... about a certain community's obsession with downplaying ISIS's barbarity. It is right there on the net. They post video of themselves commiting it. They use it as a recruitment tool. But, somehow on DU, these facts don't matter and it's all Obama propaganda, because of the MIC or something.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)to admitting who ISIS is and what it's underlying motivating spiritual beliefs are.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)solution to ISIS, and every solution involves the possible death of innocents and our soldiers. I voted for the President because I knew he was a man of calm, reasoned logic. So I trust his judgment when it comes to things likr this.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Kill the motherfuckers, every last one of them.
The MILITARY solution is what is unclear.
JI7
(89,176 posts)"third way" "dlc" "mic" "The powers that be" etc
it's one thing to oppose what is being done because they don't think it will work or some other reason. but they always have to try to claim there is some big conspiracy behind it all and that what we see is not really the case.
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)... breathing, there are some here who would hold their breath until they dropped dead rather than be seen as agreeing with his position.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)They figure if they wait long enough , the US will send troops.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)I'm not OK with ISIS killing that many people, but what could the US do?
Helo lift? Gonna need some air cover, gonna need some ground troops, gonna need a plan, gonna need a place to take 'em, gonna need logistics up the ass....
This country has set up the military for set-piece battles.. shit, with the Cold War thinking at the Pentagon, quick response is out of the question.
Now... if you want to say that we need to set up a quick-reaction force - and I mean a regimental size quick response, with some heavy weapons.. I'm OK with that.
But a seat-of-the-pants rescue? That's a recipe for an ISIS-comforting clusterfuck.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)by Josh Lederman at the Huffington Post
...Wednesday was a major tipping point. Obama was engrossed in three days of meeting with dozens of African presidents he'd invited to Washington. But roughly 6,000 miles away, the Yazidis were in trouble, having fled to the mountains to escape the extremists.
With Obama at the summit, his team met throughout the day at the White House, where they learned that the Iraqis had tried and failed to resupply the Yazidis, who were in dire need of food and water.
The Kurds, America's closest allies in Iraq, had sought to hold off the extremists. But on Wednesday, the Kurdish militia started falling back, moving precipitously away from Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam as they sought to consolidate their forces to protect Irbil.
Eventually, insurgents took the dam. If fully breached, the dam could flood major swaths of land, endangering the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, joined Obama for the limo ride back to the White House, where Obama said he knew the Yazidis' humanitarian crisis must be addressed. Obama had plans to join the first lady at an Italian restaurant, but the Oval Office meeting dragged on. Dinner would have to wait...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/09/obama-genocide-iraq_n_5664412.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025361592
More here, beware, BOG:
President Obama Addresses the Nation on the ISIL Threat
...ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.
In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110225376
I recall images of Obama looking up at mulitiple overhead screens of what was going on prior to his announcement. His face was determined and keen to retain all that he saw. He was thinking.
Obama has the ability through the infrastructure of the USA government to see what is happening in real time and hear the stories of those thousands of miles away. If he calls it genocide, one should take that seriously.
Now we have some of the numbers. 5,000 executed prisoners. 7,000 women being abuses as Obama said. I find it reassuring that he has never forgotten women and minorities in all matters.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)ISIS is a bunch of murdering sociopaths. In my guts, I'd like to see them all snuffed.
Of course, reality is a whole lot messier. It seems like just dropping bombs on them isn't going to make them disappear, and I suspect they'd love to suck us into a new ground war in the Middle East. I really don't want to see that. But if not us, who?
ISIS looks like a really horrible and intractable problem.
And I don't blame Islam. ISIS just uses it as the outlet for its pathology.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)I thought it would be important to you.
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)It's the worst stuff that gets said that makes such a freedom.
If we have an imperial war machine, then we're going to be the world's police force, and you can't take the bad stuff out and just keep the good stuff.
The current Middle East is a mess. Carved up by outside interests. Propped up by outside interests. Invaded by outside interests.
You think about violence and how it shapes nations. America wouldn't be the same without the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War. It needed that violence to figure out who was going to make the rules. It was never done by simply writing words on paper.
scarystuffyo
(733 posts)a large contingent of ground forces were deployed .
We did what we could giving the circumstances .
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)you may be 100% though.