As U.S. Evacuates Personnel From Iraqi Embassy; President Leads Robust Response From the Golf Course
Total collapse.
It’s something this president seems to excel at. Now Iraq has officially joined the roster of Middle Eastern countries that have exploded into violence under Obama’s watch, following Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Algeria, to name but a few.
Unfortunately, in this case of Iraq, we may have to prepare for a replay of the evacuation of the embassy in Saigon.
22.27 The Pentagon has issued a statement about the security boost and evacuation at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Staff will be evacuated using commercial, charter and State Department aircraft. The US military also has “airlift assets at the ready” should they be needed, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said:
The evacuations come as Baghdad itself has come under attack from ISIS forces.
he United States said Sunday it was evacuating some staff from its embassy and beefing up security as deadly explosions rocked the Iraqi capital and advancing militant Islamic insurgents released graphic images appearing to show its fighters massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that an undisclosed number of staffers will be moved to Amman, Jordan, or U.S. consulates elsewhere in Iraq not immediately threatened by the insurgent group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
Yes, it’s another historic Obama “first”!
It is the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that the embassy has drawn down its staffing levels in response to a threat posed by violence, and the redeployment was an indication of the level of concern that the unrest could reach even into the fortress-like Green Zone, where members of the Iraqi government also reside.
Meanwhile, the president is reportedly busy taking care of more urgent priorities:
The restless president, who has compared himself to a caged animal on recent wanderings by declaring the “bear is loose,” took a long Father’s Day weekend away with his wife and older daughter.
The visit to the desert resort area of Palm Springs is one of the ways Obama has been trying to escape during his sixth year cloistered in the White House.
Obama interspersed his four-day weekend with official duties, including Democratic Party fundraising, a speech on climate change and calls to his national security adviser… As his administration announced that some staff were being evacuated from the Baghdad embassy, Obama was on the golf course.
Well, we wouldn’t want a major war breaking out in the Middle East — with thousands of American personnel at risk — to interfere with the President’s golf game.
Can you believe this guy?
Administrator
Author
June 16, 2014 8:04 am
“I think it’s a mistake to put ground troops into Iraq and the main reason is that people need to reason that the people that are taking over large swaths of Iraq are now allied with the people who we were helping in Syria. So in one war, the Syrian war, we’re supporting Sunnis as well as Sunni radicals that are trying to overthrow Shiites. In Iraq, we’re now supporting the Shiites against the same Sunnis that really are fighting on both sides of the border. ISIS is a group that’s been involved in both countries. I think when we go to war, we should go to war as a last resort. We go to war when it’s clear-cut enough that you’re going to tell my son or your son that they know exactly what it is that we’re fighting for. I think it’s confusing to our GIs to ask them to be killing people in one country that they’re aiding in another country.”
Rand Paul
Stucky
June 16, 2014 9:34 am
That embassy cost us taxpayers somewhere around $750 Million fucking Obongo-bucks.
It’s in the Green Zone. Only one thing left to do, natch ….. wait for it ………………….. draw a fucking Red Line around the building.
Steve Hogan
June 16, 2014 10:25 am
US foreign policy, much like our economy, is a complete and utter clusterfuck. The idiots in Washington seem intent on destroying the world.
When are the American people going to grow a pair and tell their masters to go pound sand?
Zarathustra
June 16, 2014 10:31 am
A couple of things to keep in mind…
1) The primary reason we invaded Iraq was to set it back a few notches so it would never be a threat to Israel. Prior to the first gulf war, Iraq was, next to Iran, the most modern and industrialized country in that part of the world. Today it is a basketcase in every sense. Electricity is only available for a few hours a day. Mission accomplished.
2) The reason we are arming and supporting the sunni extremists in Syria is because Assad is not only friendly with the Iranians, but Hizbollah as well. Hizbollah is the only thing that is keeping Israel from invading and occupying southern Lebanon and obtaining the low sodium water from the Litani River. This is why there will be no troops sent to Iraq to fight the ISIS terrorists. ISIS is not our enemy, Hizbollah is. Get it?
The reason our foreign policy is so fucked up is because it is determined in Tel Aviv, not Washington and is guided by the interests of a foreign country, not ours.
As U.S. Evacuates Personnel From Iraqi Embassy; President Leads Robust Response From the Golf Course
Total collapse.
It’s something this president seems to excel at. Now Iraq has officially joined the roster of Middle Eastern countries that have exploded into violence under Obama’s watch, following Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Algeria, to name but a few.
Unfortunately, in this case of Iraq, we may have to prepare for a replay of the evacuation of the embassy in Saigon.
22.27 The Pentagon has issued a statement about the security boost and evacuation at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Staff will be evacuated using commercial, charter and State Department aircraft. The US military also has “airlift assets at the ready” should they be needed, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said:
The evacuations come as Baghdad itself has come under attack from ISIS forces.
he United States said Sunday it was evacuating some staff from its embassy and beefing up security as deadly explosions rocked the Iraqi capital and advancing militant Islamic insurgents released graphic images appearing to show its fighters massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that an undisclosed number of staffers will be moved to Amman, Jordan, or U.S. consulates elsewhere in Iraq not immediately threatened by the insurgent group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
Yes, it’s another historic Obama “first”!
It is the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that the embassy has drawn down its staffing levels in response to a threat posed by violence, and the redeployment was an indication of the level of concern that the unrest could reach even into the fortress-like Green Zone, where members of the Iraqi government also reside.
Meanwhile, the president is reportedly busy taking care of more urgent priorities:
The restless president, who has compared himself to a caged animal on recent wanderings by declaring the “bear is loose,” took a long Father’s Day weekend away with his wife and older daughter.
The visit to the desert resort area of Palm Springs is one of the ways Obama has been trying to escape during his sixth year cloistered in the White House.
Obama interspersed his four-day weekend with official duties, including Democratic Party fundraising, a speech on climate change and calls to his national security adviser… As his administration announced that some staff were being evacuated from the Baghdad embassy, Obama was on the golf course.
Well, we wouldn’t want a major war breaking out in the Middle East — with thousands of American personnel at risk — to interfere with the President’s golf game.
Can you believe this guy?
“I think it’s a mistake to put ground troops into Iraq and the main reason is that people need to reason that the people that are taking over large swaths of Iraq are now allied with the people who we were helping in Syria. So in one war, the Syrian war, we’re supporting Sunnis as well as Sunni radicals that are trying to overthrow Shiites. In Iraq, we’re now supporting the Shiites against the same Sunnis that really are fighting on both sides of the border. ISIS is a group that’s been involved in both countries. I think when we go to war, we should go to war as a last resort. We go to war when it’s clear-cut enough that you’re going to tell my son or your son that they know exactly what it is that we’re fighting for. I think it’s confusing to our GIs to ask them to be killing people in one country that they’re aiding in another country.”
Rand Paul
That embassy cost us taxpayers somewhere around $750 Million fucking Obongo-bucks.
It’s in the Green Zone. Only one thing left to do, natch ….. wait for it ………………….. draw a fucking Red Line around the building.
US foreign policy, much like our economy, is a complete and utter clusterfuck. The idiots in Washington seem intent on destroying the world.
When are the American people going to grow a pair and tell their masters to go pound sand?
A couple of things to keep in mind…
1) The primary reason we invaded Iraq was to set it back a few notches so it would never be a threat to Israel. Prior to the first gulf war, Iraq was, next to Iran, the most modern and industrialized country in that part of the world. Today it is a basketcase in every sense. Electricity is only available for a few hours a day. Mission accomplished.
2) The reason we are arming and supporting the sunni extremists in Syria is because Assad is not only friendly with the Iranians, but Hizbollah as well. Hizbollah is the only thing that is keeping Israel from invading and occupying southern Lebanon and obtaining the low sodium water from the Litani River. This is why there will be no troops sent to Iraq to fight the ISIS terrorists. ISIS is not our enemy, Hizbollah is. Get it?
The reason our foreign policy is so fucked up is because it is determined in Tel Aviv, not Washington and is guided by the interests of a foreign country, not ours.