OS 10805432and we're having to do this NOW because Barry sat on his hands while ISIS moved across hundreds of miles of open desert with large groups of men and munitions to attack cities and strategic targets in Iraq.
Except that is not how it happened.
Here is how and why Mosul fell to DAIISH terrorist scum in pickup trucks but it was not across open desert and as if the Maliki govt knew it was coming, as you put out more false propaganda to try to make DAIISH into some fierce well organized army.
The Kurds offered to help defend Mosul but Maliki turned them down. You are a bigger fabricator than Curveball:
On June 6, hundreds of ISIS jihadists on pick-up trucks raced towards Mosul with the somewhat modest goal of seizing control of parts of the city for several hours, thus making a statement that the Baghdad government couldn't ignore.
Instead, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) collapsed, ISIS pushed their advantage, and large swaths of northern Iraq fell under the group's control, according to a special report from Reuters by Ned Parker, Isabel Coles, and Raheem Salman.
As it turns out, one of the main reasons for the fall of Mosul was the Iraqi Security Forces' fatally poor logistics.
. Reuters: The first line of Mosul’s defence was the sixth brigade of the Third Iraqi army division. On paper, the brigade had 2,500 men. The reality was closer to 500. The brigade was also short of weapons and ammunition, according to one non-commissioned officer. Infantry, armor and tanks had been shifted to Anbar, where more than 6,000 soldiers had been killed and another 12,000 had deserted. It left Mosul with virtually no tanks and a shortage of artillery.
This shortage sharply undercut the manpower required to defend Mosul.
The city was meant to have approximately 25,000 soldiers and police defending it in total. In actuality, there was at most 10,000 security personnel in the city at the time of the attack.
And of these 10,000 personnel, many were under-equipped or deployed in a way that left the city badly exposed. One of the main entries into Mosul that ISIS attacked had only 40 men guarding it, according to the report.
Even when there enough personnel in place to put up resistance to the ISIS militants, the soldiers in Mosul found themselves outgunned.
"In my entire battalion we have one machine gun. In each pickup they had one," Dhiyab Ahmed al-Assi al-Obeidi, the colonel of the fourth battalion in Mosul, told Reuters.
Along with this logistical chaos, Reuters discovered that political failings played a decisive role in the fall of Mosul. On June 7, during the second day of the ISIS assault, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani offered to send Peshmerga fighters to aid the ISF in Mosul. Maliki, suspicious of Kurdish intentions, twice declined the Kurds' assistance.
On June 10, Mosul fell to a force of slightly over 2,000 ISIS fighters as the final remnants of the ISF withdrew from the city, at times burning their uniforms in an attempt to blend in with the civilian population.
You can read the full Reuters report here»
Read more: How ISIS Managed To Take Mosul - Business Insider
Take a look at a map of the Middle East and then come back here and tell me that ISIS forces didn't cross miles of open desert on the way to attack Mosul. Those pickup trucks could have EASILY been destroyed by American air power yet Barack Obama wouldn't admit that there was a problem even as ISIS was overrunning places like Mosul and driving right up to the outskirts of the capital of Iraq. Barry was still calling ISIS "the JV" right up until it became impossible to ignore what it was they were doing.