June 28, 2014

Initial Thoughts On: Armed drones now flying over Iraq, DOD confirms

Armed drones now flying over Iraq, DOD confirms
Source: Politico

It is well beyond time many people in this community get their heads out of the sand and stop putting so much faith in Obama on this Iraq redeployment thing.



Assuming the "commander on the ground" did make this decision what else can he request in the future? Additional grounds troops to protect the soldiers we already have? After all, armed drones provide a false sense of security and cannot always identify targets correctly, especially in combat situations. The road from advisers to outright military intervention with tens of thousands of soldiers (if not more) is far shorter than may in the Democratic Underground community would like to admit.

Additionally, there are more soldiers on the ground than we were told would be there:



Emphasis Add.

But don't worry, before we ratchet it up in Iraq and sacrifice the lives of our own soldiers again the Iraqi forces that are fleeing from the ISIS forces taking over Iraq will have plenty more American weapons to drop when they run away in the future.



The new circumstances in Iraq have imminent American foreign policy disaster written all over them. We are screwed as a country if we cannot even learned the lessons within the last decade or so. Screwed.

June 26, 2014

Buddy Cianci Making Post-Prison Run For Providence, RI Mayor

Source: CBS News

Cianci mounted his first campaign in 1974 and never lost an election. But he was forced to resign in 1984, after he was convicted of using a fireplace log and lit cigarette to assault a man he believed was having an affair with his estranged wife. Six years after that conviction, in 1990, he ran for mayor again and won.

His second stint as mayor, known around town as Buddy II, came to an end in 2002 when he was convicted as part of a federal investigation into corruption in City Hall, called Operation Plunderdome by the FBI. Several other members of his administration were also convicted.

The city’s demographics have changed since Cianci last won election. Its Hispanic population grew nearly one-third between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics represented 38 percent of the population in 2010.

Read more: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/25/buddy-cianci-making-post-prison-run-for-providence-ri-mayor/

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Yup. That's my state.

June 25, 2014

When American "advisers" in Iraq are attacked and/or killed, what do you think will happen?

We are putting targets on the ground, the targeting of which may "force" us to redeploy more troops to the region.

June 21, 2014

You can call them military advisers, but they are simply U.S. soldiers being sent back to Iraq.

The Obama Administration has decided to redeploy American troops to Iraq, and those who think otherwise and want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt are fooling themselves. This is a dangerous decision and one that threatens to pull us back into Iraq.

June 19, 2014

Because sending in military advisers has never ended badly...

Barack Obama: U.S. to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq

What. The. Fuck.

Let the wretches fight it out.

Iraq is not Germany or Japan. It is not a country with any general sense of nationalism, but one fabricated by the British and French, who just drew lines in the sand. It is the fools crawling out of the woodwork now who want endless war and think we can impose democracy in regions with massive ethnic and religious divisions. Saddam was contained - his economy was in shambles and his military crippled - and Iraq was absolutely no threat to the United States. We have already screwed it up enough.

And why are we going into Iraq again? So we can show everyone else how far we can piss.

June 14, 2014

Could you add a Betsy Ross flag to the avatar options?

In the America section, of course.

June 14, 2014

Whose fault is Cantor's loss? Obama's of course, says Boehner.

BOEHNER BLAMES OBAMA FOR CANTOR'S DEFEAT BECAUSE REASONS

"You have to understand, the American people are being squeezed by Obama's policies. The economy is not growing. Incomes aren't growing. We're not creating enough jobs. And two-thirds of America have seen no increase in their wages but their food prices are going up, their gas prices are going up, and their health insurance prices are going up. And so there's a lot of frustration that's out there, and they look to Washington, and wonder why we can't resolve these issues. And they're hard to resolve when you've got a president who won't engage."

What bullshit.