Tag Archives: Iraq

Sen. Lindsey Graham: Obama Need To Act Before ISIS Kills Every American At Home

“The first thing I want to tell American people, from my point of view, it is our fight, it is not just their fight. I will not let this president suggest to the American people we can outsource or security and this is not about our safety. There is no way in hell you can form an army on the …

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McCain Battles With Former White House Spokesman Jay Carney Over ISIS Plan

Mediaite sets the stage: Jay Carney, on his very first night working for CNN, ended up sparring with Senator John McCain over President Obama‘s ISIS speech, in which McCain repeatedly took shots at Carney for not telling the truth, saying at least once that “facts are stubborn things.” The second McCain appeared on CNN, he immediately got combative with Carney. …

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Obama: It’s Time To Get ISIS

Via CNN: It’s time to go after ISIS in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama said Wednesday night in a nationally televised address intended to sell stepped-up military efforts to a war-weary public. Obama said the United States would expand its airstrikes against the Sunni jihadists in Iraq to target them across the border in Syria. “I have made it …

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ISIS Beheads Another American Journalist

Via Reuters: The Islamic State militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven Sotloff, the SITE monitoring service reported on Tuesday. A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off “this evil alliance of America …

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Britain Goes On “Severe” Terror Alert

The United Kingdom today raised its terror alert to “severe” in response to ISIS activity in Iraq and Syria. “What we’re facing in Iraq now with ISIL is a deeper and greater threat to our security than we have known before,” U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said in a news conference from 10 Downing Street, referring to the Islamic State …

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British Rapper Suspected To Be Terrorist Who Beheaded Journalist James Foley

Via the Sydney Morning Herald: British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 have identified the man suspected of the horrific beheading of American journalist James Foley, according to British media reports. The hooded man with an English accent is believed to be 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, known to fellow Islamic State militants as Jihadi John. The former rapper left his family …

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BRITAIN: Comedian Taunts Westboro Baptist To Picket Islamic Extremists In Iraq, Westboro Agrees To Go

Via Gay Star News: The Westboro Baptist Church has accepted comedian Adam Hills’ offer to go to Iraq. Hills, who hosts British TV show The Last Leg, ranted about the ‘God Hates Fags’ church after they claimed Robin Williams was in hell for being a ‘fag enabler’. They also said they would protest at the late actor’s funeral. The threat …

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American Family Association: Obama Is Protecting Satan Worshippers In Iraq

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer is outraged that the U.S. is intervening in Iraq to stop ISIS, who has been attacking Christians and other Muslims throughout the country. Fischer believes that President Obama only intervened to stop the extermination of the Yazidis, who practice an ancient religion yet are considered by ISIS …

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President Obama: US Armed Forces Will Not Be Returning To Combat In Iraq

Via USA Today: President Obama said Thursday he is planning to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help retrain Iraqi security forces as they battle an insurgent invasion. “Armed forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq,” Obama said in a White House announcement. After a meeting with national security advisers, Obama also announced a series …

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Dick Cheney And Liz Cheney Blame President Obama For Civil War In Iraq

From an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal: Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is “ending” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the …

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IRAQ: Suicide Bomb Trainer Accidentally Blows Up Self And Entire Class

Via the New York Times: If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide bombers: Don’t give lessons with live explosives. In what represented a cautionary tale for terrorist teachers, and a cause of dark humor for ordinary Iraqis, a commander at a secluded terrorist training camp …

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Tweet Of The Day – Wall Street Journal

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Quote Of The Day – Desmond Tutu

“The then leaders of the United States [Mr Bush] and Great Britain [Mr Blair] fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us. The question is not whether Saddam Hussein was good …

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Netherlands Grants Asylum To LGBT Iraqis

LGBT Iraqis facing persecution at home are now eligible for asylum in The Netherlands. The situation facing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iraq is so serious that they do now qualify for asylum in the Netherlands, immigration minister Gerd Leers said on Thursday. However, would-be refugees will have to prove they are from Iraq, the minister said in …

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Headline Of The Day II

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Murders Of Gay Iraqis Continue

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REPORT: 40 Gays Killed In Iraq

Via press alert from the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Campaign: The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has today received reports from Iraq of a wave of targeted killings of individuals who are perceived to be gay or lesbian. According to Iraqi human rights activists, in early February 2012, an unidentified group posted death threats against “the …

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Rick Perry: I’d Re-Invade Iraq

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Iraq Bloodbath Follows U.S. Withdrawal

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U.S. Forces Flag Lowered Over Iraq

Mission accomplished, right?

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