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#Post#: 14557--------------------------------------------------
And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: July 21, 2014, 8:53 pm
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Christians are fleeing Iraq in droves as the threat of death for
their belief looms. Yet, this world is such a tranquil place!
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> Christian families streamed out of the northern Iraqi city of
Mosul on Saturday after Islamist fighters said they would be
killed if they did not pay a protection tax or convert to Islam.
>
> “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty
of Christians,” Patriarch Louis Sako lamented as hundreds of
families fled ahead of a noon deadline set by Islamic State for
them to submit or leave.
>
> The warning was read out in Mosul’s mosques on Friday
afternoon, and broadcast throughout the city on loudspeakers.
>
> “We offer [Christians] three choices: Islam; the dhimma
contract - involving payment... if they refuse this they will
have nothing but the sword,” the announcement read.
>
> It said Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who the
group has now named Caliph Ibrahim, had ordered Christians who
did not want to stay and live under those terms to “leave the
borders of the Islamic Caliphate”.
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HTML http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10977698/Christians-flee-Iraqs-Mosul-after-Islamists-tell-them-convert-pay-or-die.html
It seems all we hear from those defending Islam in the US is
silence.
#Post#: 14574--------------------------------------------------
Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: rapids_60
Date: July 22, 2014, 3:53 pm
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Brilliant idea, going over there and knocking Saddam out,
wasn't it? Things are about to get very ugly for
non-Muslims,and the Muslim population for the most part says
life was better under Saddam. If we stay out the place goes to
hell. If we go back in we're the infidel enemy.
"greeted as liberators", lol. What a joke. One of the worst
foreign policy miscalculations in history.
#Post#: 14576--------------------------------------------------
Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: July 22, 2014, 4:12 pm
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>
> Brilliant idea, going over there and knocking Saddam out,
wasn't it? Things are about to get very ugly for
non-Muslims,and the Muslim population for the most part says
life was better under Saddam. If we stay out the place goes to
hell. If we go back in we're the infidel enemy.
>
> "greeted as liberators", lol. What a joke. One of the worst
foreign policy miscalculations in history.
>
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It only took three posts. "Bush did it". ;) ;)
Another of those what if arguments. A dozen or so years later
Saddam would most likely be dead, assassinated or just plain
dead of old age. We could also flip the coin and say Obama did
it, bailing on Iraq, why after all, we left Iraq a stable
country, remember? A nonexistent foreign policy has just as
much to do with the current situation and any previous policy.
How's that leading from behind going for ya?
When Obama came into office there was a war in Iraq and a war in
Afghanistan. Seems to me thing have taken an obvious turn for
the worse. But then current administration says, the world is a
more "tranquil" place despite current events. Of course this
administration is from Chicago so maybe it is tranquil, to them.
Despite the what if Bush did it type argument, nothing is being
said, nothing is being done, that in itself is a travesty. But
again, Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run. It seems
the only thing truly dead or on the run is the Obama foreign
policy.
#Post#: 14577--------------------------------------------------
Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: rapids_60
Date: July 22, 2014, 4:28 pm
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> "Bush did it".
>
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He did do it.
He invaded a country with no understanding of it's politics and
culture much less any plan to deal with it once we leave.
He naively thought the Iraqi's would build and protect their
own future once we cleared Saddam out, ignoring repeated
warnings it simply wouldn't work that way.
It may well now be a situation that can never be stabilized
without a permanent military presence.
Remember we were supposed to be in and out, not there through
all of Bush's term, much less into his successors.
#Post#: 14578--------------------------------------------------
Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: July 22, 2014, 4:34 pm
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> He naively thought the Iraqi's would build and protect their
own future once we cleared Saddam out, ignoring repeated
warnings it simply wouldn't work that way.
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Are you talking Bush or Obama? Seems to have been an Obama
talking point as well.
#Post#: 14580--------------------------------------------------
Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: rapids_60
Date: July 22, 2014, 4:38 pm
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--- Quote from: trollslayer link ---
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> Are you talking Bush or Obama? Seems to have been an Obama
talking point as well.
>
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Both are idiots.
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Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: July 22, 2014, 4:42 pm
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--- Quote from: rapids_60 link ---
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> Both are idiots.
>
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LOL!! Yup, no doubt.
#Post#: 14641--------------------------------------------------
Re: And now the news nobody is talking about
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: July 26, 2014, 9:48 am
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The US embassy in Libya is closed due to the increased violence
and instability. Why is it so unstable? Obama did it.
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> The streets of Tripoli have grown chaotic. Clashes between
armed militias have killed and wounded dozens in the last few
weeks. Militias, paid by the government, have been battling to
control the city's airport.
>
> Since the civil war in Libya in 2011 that toppled dictator
Moammar Gadhafi, the country has been unable to form a stable
government. Violence has increased in recent weeks, prompting
the embassy's evacuation.
>
> United Nations and non-governmental aid organizations already
have abandoned Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi. It was
there on Sept. 11, 2012 that militants besieged the U.S.
consulate and nearby CIA annex, killing four Americans,
including ambassador Christopher Stevens.
>
> The fallout from that attack reverberates in Washington today.
The lastet investigation, led by Republicans, is getting under
way on Capitol Hill, and one of the alleged ring leaders of the
attack sits in a federal prison cell in Alexandria, Va.,
awaiting trial.
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HTML http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/26/libyan-embassy-evacuated/13195671/
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