U.S. Sends Arms to Aid Iraq Fight With Extremists

[Sally]

The insurgents can't seem to let Iraq alone. All they seem to know is violence, the same violence they are committing in Syria and other places.

U.S. Sends Arms to Aid Iraq Fight With Extremists

By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON — The United States is quietly rushing dozens of Hellfire missiles and low-tech surveillance drones to Iraq to help government forces combat an explosion of violence by a Qaeda-backed insurgency that is gaining territory in both western Iraq and neighboring Syria.

The move follows an appeal for help in battling the extremist group by the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who met with President Obama in Washington last month.

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[Angry_Vegetable]

It's what happens when you support "democracy" in Syria and let the Saudi royal family give weapons to whoever they want.

 

[Kosh]

Iraq is a staging ground and where they are able to move weapons and people from Iran to Syria.

That was why it was so important to stable Syria and never let it get this far.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Iraq is a staging ground and where they are able to move weapons and people from Iran to Syria.

That was why it was so important to stable Syria and never let it get this far.

Typical neo-con drone propoganda

 

[Kosh]

Iraq is a staging ground and where they are able to move weapons and people from Iran to Syria.

That was why it was so important to stable Syria and never let it get this far.

Typical neo-con drone propoganda

Says the far left Obama drone.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Iraq is a staging ground and where they are able to move weapons and people from Iran to Syria.

That was why it was so important to stable Syria and never let it get this far.

Typical neo-con drone propoganda

Says the far left Obama drone.

More drone-speak from the far right's resident priebus drone

 

[Politico]

Arm the enemy of my enemy so the enemy can come back and haunt me later. America are masters at that.