Obama Informs Congress of Iraq Airstrikes Under War Powers Act
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As the murderous, terrorist Islamic State continues to threaten Iraq, the region and potentially the United States, it is vitally important that we examine how this problem arose.
peter schiff ends his radio show with ron paul.
I would add to the following that our de-Baathization of Iraq after our invasion also helped to create ISIS and the inevitable civil war in Iraq--and also the emboldening of Iran.
What better confirmation of the manifest failure of the philosophy of foreign interventionism than the renewed U.S. bombing of Iraq?
There's more than one Dr. Frankenstein responsible for this monster
In a previous report titled, "Growing Mayhem ? US Operating on Both Sides of Syrian-Iraqi Border," it was reported that (emphasis added):
The White House continued to ratchet up its rhetoric against the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL), calling the group's brutal execution of American journalist James Foley a "terrorist attack" against the United State
As Iraq faces a governmental crisis and collapses into what looks to be a three-sided civil war, Republicans even other Democrats -- members of Congress and potential presidential candidates, such as President Obama's former Secretary of State Hillar
The radical Islamic State that seized a swath of western and central Iraq last month effectively left the nation in three pieces, government officials and analysts say. The United States worries that a fractured Iraq could lead to a failed state, al
We have been at war with Iraq for 24 years, starting with Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990.
Let's count the ways. It goes without saying that Obama is now busily bombing American military equipment. Some of that equipment is pretty high tech gear and especially lethal?not the kind that jihadists ordinarily train with in their desert lairs o
Armed humanitarianism 2.0. That's our new western version of old-fashioned 19th century imperialism, now feminized by President Barack Obama's lady advisors, painted pink and accompanied by the kind of soft piano music you hear in ads for women's pro
The United States on Saturday conducted air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish capital of Arbil and the Mosul dam, the U.S. Central Command said.
Britain should use its military prowess to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday, saying they had to be stopped from creating "a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean".
Last week, we were told there were 40,000 Yazidis on Sinjar Mountain facing starvation if they remained there, and slaughter by ISIS if they came down.
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Having expressed his dismay at President Obama's decision to embark upon Iraq War 3.0, Ron Paul explains "it's a little bit late to salvage all the mistakes that we've made for the past 24 years,"
Let's count the ways. It goes without saying that Obama is now busily bombing American military equipment.
Fearing a genocide of Christians, the Vatican has given its approval to US military air strikes in Iraq -- a rare exception to its policy of peaceful conflict resolution.
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In the Middle East, the first shots of every war define the narrative we all dutifully follow. So too, this greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis in Iraq.
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What else is there to add here, it is simple really: if need i) distraction from domestic scandal, ii) a ready source of emergency offshore oil or pushing US E&P companies to drill , or iii) a script for a Hollywood movie provisionally titled "Wag th
...before you started bombing Iraq???
The US has reportedly started direct arms supplies to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq to help them battle the Islamic State militants.
Two reasons: The Kurds ? and the Israelis