Courtesy of Mish.
“They will shower us with flowers.”
Anyone recall that idiotic line from disgraced Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld?
Remember any of these lies…
- “Oil will flow freely.”
- “The war will pay for itself.”
- “We know where they [WOMDs] are.”
And with blatant lies and complete ineptitude, the US set about “nation building” in Iraq. It was the neocon’s number one wet dream at the time.
Today the results are in. A few articles will explain how it turned out.
Islamic Militants Take Mosul and Tikrit
Please consider Militants Step Up Iraq Attack.
Militants from an al-Qaeda splinter group stormed the Turkish consulate in Mosul, Iraq’s second city, on Wednesday and took 49 people hostage.
The jihadi group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis), expanded its offensive just 24 hours after taking control of Mosul. The militants pushed south and appeared to have taken over Tikrit, the home town of Iraq’s executed former leader Saddam Hussein.
Turkey called for an emergency Nato meeting while Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, discussed the issue with US Vice President Joe Biden, who told him that Washington was “prepared to support Turkey’s efforts to bring about the safe return of its citizens”, according to a White House summary of the conversation.
Isis’s seizure of Mosul on Tuesday and its continuing offensive underline how Iraq has again been driven to the brink of civil war by political tensions between the country’s Shia, Sunni and Kurdish communities, which have been exacerbated by the sectarian civil war in neighbouring Syria.
Kurds Take Oil City Kirkuk
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