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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:09 AM Jun 2014

Bitter Old White Men Want To Take On Iraq, Round 3

If the UK can come back for their third try at Afghanistan, the US should do the same in Iraq.

File this under looney toons.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/15/gop-rep-u-s-cant-just-come-home-after-bombing-jihadist-disneyland-in-iraq/



GOP rep.: U.S. can’t just ‘come home’ after bombing ‘jihadist Disneyland’ in Iraq
By David Edwards
Sunday, June 15, 2014 14:40 EDT

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday called for extended military involvement against Iraq, saying that the U.S. could not “just fire missiles and come home.”

In an interview on Fox News, Rogers slammed President Barack Obama for an “absence of leadership” because he had delayed taking military action against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al Qaeda-related faction that recently moved into Iraq from Syria with the goal of creating an Islamic empire.

“You have an al Qaeda army on the move,” Rogers warned. “This is dangerous as it gets. Why? We have thousands of Westerners and Americans in both eastern Syria and Iraq who have Western passports.”

The Michigan Republican asserted that Westerners had come to “jihadist Disneyland” and were being radicalized to be sent back to the United States for terrorist attacks.

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Bitter Old White Men Want To Take On Iraq, Round 3 (Original Post) unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP
Gotta protect those Koch and Halliburton contractors. gordianot Jun 2014 #1
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