Obama Thinking About Bombing Iraq Some More
No final decision has been made.
President Obama is considering options to assist trapped minorities in Iraq, including possible airstrikes and airdrops of food and medicine, a government official said.
The administration has been mulling options for weeks, but the issue has come to a head with a mounting humanitarian catastrophe in northern Iraq where the Yazidis, a small religious minority, are trapped on a mountain top surrounded by Islamic militants.
The source asked not to be named since he was not authorized to speak about the issue. No final decision has been made.
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Give that man a Nobel!
The more the merrier.
Luckily our Hollywood friends are making sure Obama's pals will remain in office forever:
http://tinyurl.com/llerns4
Well, now that ISIS is oppressing people from other religions, of course he has to intervene.
Let's see. A liberal Democrat who signed into law an enormously costly and bureaucratic piece of social legislation has sent "military advisers" to a foreign land half a world away to support one side in a Civil War occurring there. And he is now considering escalating our involvement to include military action such as bombing the other side's forces.
Why on Earth does this sound so familiar???
Re: Yazidis - Maybe Lucifer will save them or maybe their prayers will be just as useful as appeals to Yahweh.
Why not? The selective elimination of "military combatants" hiding amongst civilians without collateral damage has been so successful for "us" in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It's called "building on success". At least, that's what it's called when you're a blind, thuggish, Statist moron...
-VinnyG