Americans being evacuated from Iraqi air base as militants advance

Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 10 months ago to News
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The development signals the worsening security environment in the northern part of the country. One senior official told Fox News that the focus for evacuation at this point is on people outside of Baghdad.


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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    On agenda 21, I think you are right.but...he can’t get it done in the time he has left no matter what stunts he pulls.
    Some who post around here are concerned with what they see as a buildup of Fema/military camps nationwide along the routes of the proposed Agenda 21 corridor.. Playing around with possible scenarios, I came up with this instead: perhaps those camps are designed to hold illegal immigrants until they can move them into habitable zones. Why would any person serious about Agenda 21 stop at our borders for their planning if they have the authority of the United States government to work with? Perhaps Obama is allowing illegal immigrants to waltz right into our country to lessen or empty the population of other countries. That 10% percent figure is a world-wide goal, not just areas within our borders.
    I wish we could prove that there are those within this administration that are aiding the coyotes. I strongly suspect it.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is apparently a piece of satire that is being touted as true, but it is not.

    Jan
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  • Posted by ShruginArgentina 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is for me, and I like it here. So do Donald Hess and Doug Casey, but they are involved in high end and highly visible projects in Salta, while I am living a low key and low cost country life near the Atlantic coast in the south of la Provencia de Buenos Aires near Bahia Blanca.

    You can read more about what I am doing here:

    http://goinggaltinargentina.blogspot.com...

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  • Posted by wiggys 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I just read that the price of a barrel of our west texas crude is up 2.13 per barrel. the article further stated that major oil producing countries are pumping at near capacity. maybe I am missing something here, poor countries are buying less oil because they are poor, we in the usa are driving less because we have less people working and they need their monies to buy food. so they drive less since they do not have a job to go to.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 11 years, 10 months ago
    I submit the following as one reason we have so many problems in the Middle East---The piece is by Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post'.

    Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening.

    The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised
    "Meet The Press". From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008 11 : 48 : 04 EST,
    Televised
    "Meet the Press"
    THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
    General Bill Gann' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
    The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code,
    Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
    During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention
    facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least,
    "Stand
    and Face It".

    Senator Obama replied :
    "As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides." "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American
    flag is a symbol of oppression..." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing."

    Obama continued : "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my
    opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East
    Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ....."

    When I Become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the
    nations of Islam, an unfair injustice which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past".

    "Of course now, I have found myself about to become The President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path. My wife and I look
    forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America "

    Yes, you read it right. I for one, am speechless!!!

    Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post


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  • Posted by NealS 11 years, 10 months ago
    As one Iraq War Veteran told some of us Vietnam veterans at the VFW, "Now, I can understand how you felt after the surrender of Saigon".
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  • Posted by NealS 11 years, 10 months ago
    Save this title and the article, we can use it again later and just change the country name to Afghanistan. Actually this might have been the same article I read back in 1975 after I got home from the Nam.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I heard an analyst years ago who said it was clear to him that Obama wanted to undo what the US had done for the last 50 years. Seems to fit with his (Obama) fathers beliefs.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 10 months ago
    BHO's foreign policy is a disaster. Is he and his regime inexperienced, blind, or merely dumb? The Middle East is being consumed by the bad guys as Obama stumbles around contradicting himself in a most embarrassing way. Or perhaps he just wants to show the USA as a nation of weak, over pampered morons.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Vietnam ended with a treaty after we had basically given up."
    WRONG. In 1968, we had accomplished our mission, after the Tet offensive, we'd all but wiped out the Viet Cong. When we left, we had defeated the enemy in the field; we turned it over to ARVN to defend S. Vietnam, with the promise that we would return if the North invaded, and the promise that we would fund ARVN.

    The communist controlled Congress cut funding for ARVN until ARVN soldiers were issued 20 rounds of ammunition and 2 hand grenades, and military surgeons were told to wash and reuse surgical bandages.

    Then the North did invade, with two armored corps, using more men than the Normandy Invasion, and more supply vehicles than Patton's Redball express. And our Congress would not let President Ford keep our promise to return. Our allies, the ARVN, fought bravely, and at Xuan Loc, for example, held off a force twice their size until they ran out of supplies and couldn't fight any more.

    We didn't "basically give up"... we were beaten by our own Congress and news media.

    I have said since I began cheering the tanks rolling back in 2003, it was a brilliant strategy (if only Bush had actually had it as a strategy):
    Invade Afghanistan, conquer it; simultaneously invade Iraq, conquer it. Appoint American governors-general to each, and rule each with an iron fish as you prep them as staging grounds to invade Iran. Then crush Iran between, before swinging west in a sudden hammerblow to destroy Syria. Afterwards we could sit back and give the rest of the middle east an ultimatum. Either start becoming secular, or face conquest and the death of Islam. Total time involved, perhaps 2 years.

    But, we didn't do that, because we have politicians worried about what the anti-American press will say.
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  • Posted by 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good point about the oil dollars. The world probably can't afford to stop buying that oil. Billions are now going to be in the hands of terrorists.
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  • Posted by wiggys 11 years, 10 months ago
    when these guys take over do the then get control of the bank account that oil dollars flow into? if so they then will spend it as they see fit. whose guns will they buy with those funds? the only way to solve the middle east problem is to turn the desert to glass.
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