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Might as well not even topple the dictators after all.RaceBannon said:Same song different verse
The Tsar is evil and the Russian people revolt only to have the revolution co opted by communists who make things worse and kill tens of millions of Russians
The Arab dictators suck. The people revolt only to have the revolution taken over by Caliphate fans who makes things worse and would love to kill tens of millions.
At this point our interest is served by having strong men kill the Islamists. That's why Putin won't get rid of Assad now
The Arab Spring turned to winter Thank Allah Egypt's military undid Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood
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We did topple Saddam to the squeals of horror among the left. And we had a country under control with minimal troops just like Europe and Asia.doogsinparadise said:
Might as well not even topple the dictators after all.RaceBannon said:Same song different verse
The Tsar is evil and the Russian people revolt only to have the revolution co opted by communists who make things worse and kill tens of millions of Russians
The Arab dictators suck. The people revolt only to have the revolution taken over by Caliphate fans who makes things worse and would love to kill tens of millions.
At this point our interest is served by having strong men kill the Islamists. That's why Putin won't get rid of Assad now
The Arab Spring turned to winter Thank Allah Egypt's military undid Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood
Something about abundance, not that this bored would know anything about that.
Obama is a moron but you know, whatever man -
Under control? Uh huh.RaceBannon said:
We did topple Saddam to the squeals of horror among the left. And we had a country under control with minimal troops just like Europe and Asia.doogsinparadise said:
Might as well not even topple the dictators after all.RaceBannon said:Same song different verse
The Tsar is evil and the Russian people revolt only to have the revolution co opted by communists who make things worse and kill tens of millions of Russians
The Arab dictators suck. The people revolt only to have the revolution taken over by Caliphate fans who makes things worse and would love to kill tens of millions.
At this point our interest is served by having strong men kill the Islamists. That's why Putin won't get rid of Assad now
The Arab Spring turned to winter Thank Allah Egypt's military undid Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood
Something about abundance, not that this bored would know anything about that.
Obama is a moron but you know, whatever man -
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This article is about the ongoing civil war in Iraq. For previous civil wars in Iraq, see Iraqi Civil War. For other wars in Iraq, see Iraq War (disambiguation).
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
Part of the Arab Winter, the Persian Gulf Conflicts and the Spillover of the Syrian Civil War
Iraq war map.png
A map of the situation in Iraq, as of November 30, 2015. For a map of the current military situation of Iraqi insurgency, see here.
Date Early June 2014[41] – present
(1 year, 6 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location Iraq
Status
ISIL forces seize at least 70% of Anbar province,[42] including the cities of Fallujah,[43][44] Al Qaim,[45] Abu Ghraib[46] and half of Ramadi[47] during the Anbar campaign
Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh province, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive[48][49][50][51]
ISIL captures Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar becomes a contested city in December 2014
ISF expel ISIL from Diyala in February 2015,[52] and recapture Tikrit in April 2015[53]
ISIL fully captures Ramadi in May 2015,[54] leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar[55]
Belligerents
ISIL[1]
Military of ISIL
Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Naqshbandi Army[2]
Logo of the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation.png SCJL[2]
Emblem of the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries.svg MCIR[3][4]
IAILogo.png Islamic Army in Iraq
Free Iraqi Army[5]
Military Council of Anbar's Revolutionaries[6]
Anbar Tribal Council
1920 Revolution Brigade[7]
Rashidin Army[8]
Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance[9]
Iraqi Hamas[10]
Ansar al-Islam
Mujahideen Army
Ansar al-Sunnah
Iraqi government[1]
Security forces
Several militias[11][12]
Iran
Quds Force[13]
Syria[14]
(airstrikes)
CJTF–OIR:[15][16]
Australia[17]
Belgium
Canada[18]
Denmark[19]
France
Morocco
Jordan
Netherlands
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States[20][21]
Military aid:
Russia[22][23]
Albania[24]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[25]
Croatia[26]
Czech Republic[27]
Estonia[28]
Finland[18]
Hungary[29]
Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) logo.jpg al-Hashd al-Shaabi
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Peace Companies
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Shiism arabic blue.svg Mukhtar Army
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Kata'ib al-Imam Ali
Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces
Supported by:
Iran
Hezbollah
Iraqi Kurdistan [1]
Peshmerga
Rojava
YPG[30]
YPJ[30]
PKK[30]
HPG[30]
YJA-STAR[30]
PJAK[31]
YRK[31]
HPJ[31]
Yezidi forces
YBŞ
HPŞ[32]
Assyrian forces
MFS[33]
Nineveh Protection Units Banner.jpeg NPU[34]
Assyrian Flag.png QPC[35]
Logo of the Dwekh Nawsha Militia.jpg Dwekh Nawsha[36]
CJTF–OIR:[15][16]
Australia[17]
Belgium
Canada[18]
Denmark[19]
France
Germany[37]
Jordan
Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States[20][21][38]
Military aid:
Iran[39][40]
Russia
Albania[24]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[25]
Croatia[26]
Czech Republic[27]
Estonia[28]
Finland[18]
Hungary[29]
Commanders and leaders
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL)[56]
Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Head of Military Shura)[57]
Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (Spokesman)[58]
IAILogo.png Ismail Jubouri
Abu Hashim al Ibrahim
KIA:
Abu Ala al-Afri †
(Deputy Leader of ISIL)[59]
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani † (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[60]
Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Former Head of Military Shura)[57]
Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri †
Haider Al-Abadi (2014–present)
Fuad Masum(2014–present)
Nouri al-Maliki(2014–2015)
Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari(2014–2015)
Ahmad Abu Risha(2014–present)
Muqtada al-Sadr
Qais al-Khazali
Akram al-Kabi
Shiism arabic blue.svg Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Wathiq al-Battat (POW)[61]
Massoud Barzani
Strength
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
30,000–100,000 fighters[62][63][64]
Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order: 5,000+[65]
Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007)[66]
SCJL: 10,000+
MCIR: 75,000[67]
Free Iraqi Army: 2,500[5][68]
Iraqi Security Forces
600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police)[69]
Awakening Council militias - 30,000[70]
Contractors ~7,000[71][72]
US Forces 3,550[73]
Canadian Forces 600[74]
Popular Mobilization Forces: 60,000-90,000[75]
Badr Brigade: 10,000[76]
Peshmerga: 200,000[77][78]
Casualties and losses
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL fighters:
11,558+ killed and 5,841 captured
[79][80][81]
Iraqi security forces and militias:
6,291 killed and 7,150 wounded
[79][82][83]
Peshmerga fighters:
1,300+ killed, 6,000+ wounded[84] and 52 missing[85]
CJTF–OIR:
U.S. Military Casualties: 7 non-hostile deaths. 1 wounded in action.[86][87][88][89]
16,364 civilians killed and 25,340 wounded
(Government and UN figures, January 2014 – May 2015)[79][83]
24,102 civilians killed
(Iraq body count figures, January 2014 – June 2015)[90]
Total deaths: 35,513–43,251
(as of June 2015)
The Iraqi Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. In 2014, the Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). This has resulted in the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, airstrikes by the United States, Iran, Syria, and at least a dozen other countries,[91] the participation of Iranian troops[92] and military aid provided to Iraq by Russia.[91]
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This article is about the ongoing civil war in Iraq. For previous civil wars in Iraq, see Iraqi Civil War. For other wars in Iraq, see Iraq War (disambiguation).
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
Part of the Arab Winter, the Persian Gulf Conflicts and the Spillover of the Syrian Civil War
Iraq war map.png
A map of the situation in Iraq, as of November 30, 2015. For a map of the current military situation of Iraqi insurgency, see here.
Date Early June 2014[41] – present
(1 year, 6 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location Iraq
Status
ISIL forces seize at least 70% of Anbar province,[42] including the cities of Fallujah,[43][44] Al Qaim,[45] Abu Ghraib[46] and half of Ramadi[47] during the Anbar campaign
Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh province, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive[48][49][50][51]
ISIL captures Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar becomes a contested city in December 2014
ISF expel ISIL from Diyala in February 2015,[52] and recapture Tikrit in April 2015[53]
ISIL fully captures Ramadi in May 2015,[54] leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar[55]
Belligerents
ISIL[1]
Military of ISIL
Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Naqshbandi Army[2]
Logo of the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation.png SCJL[2]
Emblem of the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries.svg MCIR[3][4]
IAILogo.png Islamic Army in Iraq
Free Iraqi Army[5]
Military Council of Anbar's Revolutionaries[6]
Anbar Tribal Council
1920 Revolution Brigade[7]
Rashidin Army[8]
Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance[9]
Iraqi Hamas[10]
Ansar al-Islam
Mujahideen Army
Ansar al-Sunnah
Iraqi government[1]
Security forces
Several militias[11][12]
Iran
Quds Force[13]
Syria[14]
(airstrikes)
CJTF–OIR:[15][16]
Australia[17]
Belgium
Canada[18]
Denmark[19]
France
Morocco
Jordan
Netherlands
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States[20][21]
Military aid:
Russia[22][23]
Albania[24]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[25]
Croatia[26]
Czech Republic[27]
Estonia[28]
Finland[18]
Hungary[29]
Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) logo.jpg al-Hashd al-Shaabi
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Peace Companies
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Shiism arabic blue.svg Mukhtar Army
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Kata'ib al-Imam Ali
Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces
Supported by:
Iran
Hezbollah
Iraqi Kurdistan [1]
Peshmerga
Rojava
YPG[30]
YPJ[30]
PKK[30]
HPG[30]
YJA-STAR[30]
PJAK[31]
YRK[31]
HPJ[31]
Yezidi forces
YBŞ
HPŞ[32]
Assyrian forces
MFS[33]
Nineveh Protection Units Banner.jpeg NPU[34]
Assyrian Flag.png QPC[35]
Logo of the Dwekh Nawsha Militia.jpg Dwekh Nawsha[36]
CJTF–OIR:[15][16]
Australia[17]
Belgium
Canada[18]
Denmark[19]
France
Germany[37]
Jordan
Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States[20][21][38]
Military aid:
Iran[39][40]
Russia
Albania[24]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[25]
Croatia[26]
Czech Republic[27]
Estonia[28]
Finland[18]
Hungary[29]
Commanders and leaders
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL)[56]
Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Head of Military Shura)[57]
Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (Spokesman)[58]
IAILogo.png Ismail Jubouri
Abu Hashim al Ibrahim
KIA:
Abu Ala al-Afri †
(Deputy Leader of ISIL)[59]
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani † (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[60]
Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Former Head of Military Shura)[57]
Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri †
Haider Al-Abadi (2014–present)
Fuad Masum(2014–present)
Nouri al-Maliki(2014–2015)
Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari(2014–2015)
Ahmad Abu Risha(2014–present)
Muqtada al-Sadr
Qais al-Khazali
Akram al-Kabi
Shiism arabic blue.svg Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Wathiq al-Battat (POW)[61]
Massoud Barzani
Strength
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
30,000–100,000 fighters[62][63][64]
Ba'ath Party Loyalists
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order: 5,000+[65]
Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007)[66]
SCJL: 10,000+
MCIR: 75,000[67]
Free Iraqi Army: 2,500[5][68]
Iraqi Security Forces
600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police)[69]
Awakening Council militias - 30,000[70]
Contractors ~7,000[71][72]
US Forces 3,550[73]
Canadian Forces 600[74]
Popular Mobilization Forces: 60,000-90,000[75]
Badr Brigade: 10,000[76]
Peshmerga: 200,000[77][78]
Casualties and losses
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL fighters:
11,558+ killed and 5,841 captured
[79][80][81]
Iraqi security forces and militias:
6,291 killed and 7,150 wounded
[79][82][83]
Peshmerga fighters:
1,300+ killed, 6,000+ wounded[84] and 52 missing[85]
CJTF–OIR:
U.S. Military Casualties: 7 non-hostile deaths. 1 wounded in action.[86][87][88][89]
16,364 civilians killed and 25,340 wounded
(Government and UN figures, January 2014 – May 2015)[79][83]
24,102 civilians killed
(Iraq body count figures, January 2014 – June 2015)[90]
Total deaths: 35,513–43,251
(as of June 2015)
The Iraqi Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. In 2014, the Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). This has resulted in the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, airstrikes by the United States, Iran, Syria, and at least a dozen other countries,[91] the participation of Iranian troops[92] and military aid provided to Iraq by Russia.[91]
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President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different.
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By Scott Wilson June 19, 2014
President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart. The implication ran counter to a number of claims that Obama has made in the past, most notably during a tight campaign season two years ago, when he suggested that it was his decision to leave Iraq and end an unpopular war.
President Obama speaks about the deteriorating situation in Iraq in the Brady briefing room of the White House on June 19. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
His remarks, coming as an Islamist insurgency seizes territory across northern Iraq and threatens the central government, recalled key moments in his reelection race when he called his opponent hopelessly out of step with Middle East realities for wanting to keep U.S. forces in the still-fragile country America had invaded nearly a decade earlier.
In the 2012 campaign’s stretch, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney met inside the performing arts center of Lynn University for the last of three presidential debates. The race remained close, and in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA-run annex in Benghazi, Libya, the Romney team saw foreign policy as an area of potential vulnerability for the incumbent. The debate focused on the issue.
For much of that election year, Obama had included a line of celebration in his standard stump speech, one that among an electorate exhausted by more than a decade of war always drew a rousing applause: “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”
For Obama, who four years earlier had distinguished himself from Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton through his opposition to the war in Iraq, the fact he had withdrawn all U.S. forces from the country was a problem solved and a political chip to be cashed in come November.
It was also a way to once again draw contrasts with Romney, who criticized Obama for failing to secure a so-called status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. The agreement would have granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution to all U.S. troops in country after 2011. Reaching such a deal -- a political risk for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- would have allowed a contingent of several thousand U.S. troops to remain, largely to help with training and specific counter-terrorism operations.
"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That’s not true," Obama interjected. “Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?” Romney asked as an argument ensued. “No,” Obama said. “What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.” -
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President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different.
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By Scott Wilson June 19, 2014
President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart. The implication ran counter to a number of claims that Obama has made in the past, most notably during a tight campaign season two years ago, when he suggested that it was his decision to leave Iraq and end an unpopular war.
President Obama speaks about the deteriorating situation in Iraq in the Brady briefing room of the White House on June 19. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
His remarks, coming as an Islamist insurgency seizes territory across northern Iraq and threatens the central government, recalled key moments in his reelection race when he called his opponent hopelessly out of step with Middle East realities for wanting to keep U.S. forces in the still-fragile country America had invaded nearly a decade earlier.
In the 2012 campaign’s stretch, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney met inside the performing arts center of Lynn University for the last of three presidential debates. The race remained close, and in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA-run annex in Benghazi, Libya, the Romney team saw foreign policy as an area of potential vulnerability for the incumbent. The debate focused on the issue.
For much of that election year, Obama had included a line of celebration in his standard stump speech, one that among an electorate exhausted by more than a decade of war always drew a rousing applause: “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”
For Obama, who four years earlier had distinguished himself from Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton through his opposition to the war in Iraq, the fact he had withdrawn all U.S. forces from the country was a problem solved and a political chip to be cashed in come November.
It was also a way to once again draw contrasts with Romney, who criticized Obama for failing to secure a so-called status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. The agreement would have granted immunity from Iraqi prosecution to all U.S. troops in country after 2011. Reaching such a deal -- a political risk for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- would have allowed a contingent of several thousand U.S. troops to remain, largely to help with training and specific counter-terrorism operations.
"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That’s not true," Obama interjected. “Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?” Romney asked as an argument ensued. “No,” Obama said. “What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.”
Had he done so, Obama could have kept 25,000 troops there throughout his presidency and no one would have said anything about it
