For the past two years ISIS operated several oil wells in Iraq, selling some of the oil as well as using it for their own needs. After the recapture of Shargat and Qayyarah by the Iraqui army, ISIS no longer holds an oil well in Iraq. The burning oil wells represents ISIS retreat. ISIS has been severely weakened, they still hold six oilfields in Syria. This terrorist group must be stopped, and Obama is winning.
I think some religious groups all over the world won’t be satisfied until their particular cultures are turned back to the very beginning, before the outside secular world intruded.
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In the U.S., that would mean everybody back to rural settlements under patriarchal control. In the Mideast, it would mean back to caliphates or nomadic tribes, and of course before OIL changed everything in the region. If ISIS could get hold of nuclear weapons, I imagine they would bomb every oil field in existence they did not directly control.
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And on the secular side, the insane scramble for such things as gold (actual or stock) and other natural resources, including land, have warped the basic human values.
Michael Moore nailed it when he described why people would vote for Trump. Unfortunately, a Trump presidency might be for the U.S. what Brexit is for Britain.
“..Hers was a first hand contribution to the mayhem and will only fan the flames.” … Thank you for your post. Generally speaking, the entertainment value of your posts is sky high and this post is no exception.
This is, of course, a lie: Bush pulled all the troops out of Iraq. He did that in 2008, when he signed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with his hand-picked leaders of Iraq. That Agreement stipulated that ALL American Troops be out of Iraq NLT the end of 2011. Obama did not make that agreement, he was not even president at the time it was negotiated and signed.
Obama didn’t “pull out” of Iraq. Dubya returned Iraq to sovereign nation status and signed a joint security agreement in 2008, which expired in 2011. Obama and his generals wanted to extend the US/Iraqi security agreement, but the Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki insisted all US troops leave.
Of course, a lie: Bush pulled all the troops out of Iraq. He did that in 2008, when he signed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with his hand-picked leaders of Iraq. That Agreement stipulated that ALL American Troops be out of Iraq NLT the end of 2011. Obama did not make that agreement, he was not even president at the time it was negotiated and signed.
Obama didn’t “pull out” of Iraq. Dubya returned Iraq to sovereign nation status and signed a joint security agreement in 2008, which expired in 2011. Obama and his generals wanted to extend the US/Iraqi security agreement, but the Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki insisted all US troops leave.
You know, that whole Middle East conflict has been going on since before I first heard the news as a boy. I’m 60 now. When I die around the age of 85 it will STILL be going on.
It’s not the fault of Obama, Bush, Hillary, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, etc, etc, etc.
It’s the fault of “because religion exists.” Since you cannot get rid of religion, the conflict will never end.
“Trump is not a Republican. He’s a Libertarian if anything.”
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Thanks, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read here in days. Trump would push forward the Republican plan to change this country from the United States of America to the Incorporated States of America, run expressly for the benefit of the plutocracy. He just needs to put a few more Scalia’s on the SCOTUS.
I wouldn’t allow Trump to set my sprinklers. He is so deranged he’d have America’s economy destroyed within days of his election. Even conservative economists gag at his stated economic plans and they agree he’d be a disaster, but that fits with typical GOP economic ideas.
Age has nothing to do with it. I am 83 and don’t plan to drop dead in a year and a half. On the other hand, I can read, particularly in history, and a very good case can be made that the problem started in the early 1920s. At that time, the surviving world powers, principally US and France decided to ignore the advice of a skilled anthropologist (T. E. Lawrence) and do their map carving of the old Ottoman Empire on the basis of resources to exploit rather than regions of like cultures. This first caused a major problem in WW-II when Vichy France let Nazi Germany into Iraq. And the rest logically followed.
Comicsfan222 over 7 years ago
And Donald said [before he recanted] that he would have voted for the war as well.
Mr. Blawt over 7 years ago
For the past two years ISIS operated several oil wells in Iraq, selling some of the oil as well as using it for their own needs. After the recapture of Shargat and Qayyarah by the Iraqui army, ISIS no longer holds an oil well in Iraq. The burning oil wells represents ISIS retreat. ISIS has been severely weakened, they still hold six oilfields in Syria. This terrorist group must be stopped, and Obama is winning.
emptc12 over 7 years ago
I think some religious groups all over the world won’t be satisfied until their particular cultures are turned back to the very beginning, before the outside secular world intruded.
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In the U.S., that would mean everybody back to rural settlements under patriarchal control. In the Mideast, it would mean back to caliphates or nomadic tribes, and of course before OIL changed everything in the region. If ISIS could get hold of nuclear weapons, I imagine they would bomb every oil field in existence they did not directly control.
.
And on the secular side, the insane scramble for such things as gold (actual or stock) and other natural resources, including land, have warped the basic human values.
More Coffee Please! Premium Member over 7 years ago
Yeah, ’cause drumpf will do so much better. Dream on…
chromosome Premium Member over 7 years ago
Michael Moore nailed it when he described why people would vote for Trump. Unfortunately, a Trump presidency might be for the U.S. what Brexit is for Britain.
youcantbeserious over 7 years ago
“..Hers was a first hand contribution to the mayhem and will only fan the flames.” … Thank you for your post. Generally speaking, the entertainment value of your posts is sky high and this post is no exception.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 7 years ago
This is, of course, a lie: Bush pulled all the troops out of Iraq. He did that in 2008, when he signed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with his hand-picked leaders of Iraq. That Agreement stipulated that ALL American Troops be out of Iraq NLT the end of 2011. Obama did not make that agreement, he was not even president at the time it was negotiated and signed.
Obama didn’t “pull out” of Iraq. Dubya returned Iraq to sovereign nation status and signed a joint security agreement in 2008, which expired in 2011. Obama and his generals wanted to extend the US/Iraqi security agreement, but the Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki insisted all US troops leave.
http://world.time.com/2011/10/21/iraq-not-obama-called-time-on-the-u-s-troop-presence/
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 7 years ago
Of course, a lie: Bush pulled all the troops out of Iraq. He did that in 2008, when he signed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with his hand-picked leaders of Iraq. That Agreement stipulated that ALL American Troops be out of Iraq NLT the end of 2011. Obama did not make that agreement, he was not even president at the time it was negotiated and signed.
Obama didn’t “pull out” of Iraq. Dubya returned Iraq to sovereign nation status and signed a joint security agreement in 2008, which expired in 2011. Obama and his generals wanted to extend the US/Iraqi security agreement, but the Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki insisted all US troops leave.
http://world.time.com/2011/10/21/iraq-not-obama-called-time-on-the-u-s-troop-presence/
Ryan Plut over 7 years ago
You know, that whole Middle East conflict has been going on since before I first heard the news as a boy. I’m 60 now. When I die around the age of 85 it will STILL be going on.
It’s not the fault of Obama, Bush, Hillary, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, etc, etc, etc.
It’s the fault of “because religion exists.” Since you cannot get rid of religion, the conflict will never end.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 7 years ago
“Trump is not a Republican. He’s a Libertarian if anything.”
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Thanks, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read here in days. Trump would push forward the Republican plan to change this country from the United States of America to the Incorporated States of America, run expressly for the benefit of the plutocracy. He just needs to put a few more Scalia’s on the SCOTUS.
ahab over 7 years ago
I wouldn’t allow Trump to set my sprinklers. He is so deranged he’d have America’s economy destroyed within days of his election. Even conservative economists gag at his stated economic plans and they agree he’d be a disaster, but that fits with typical GOP economic ideas.
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Fallout from W’s invasion of Iraq.
It takes a republican to really screw up the world.
hippogriff over 7 years ago
Steam Vapor
Age has nothing to do with it. I am 83 and don’t plan to drop dead in a year and a half. On the other hand, I can read, particularly in history, and a very good case can be made that the problem started in the early 1920s. At that time, the surviving world powers, principally US and France decided to ignore the advice of a skilled anthropologist (T. E. Lawrence) and do their map carving of the old Ottoman Empire on the basis of resources to exploit rather than regions of like cultures. This first caused a major problem in WW-II when Vichy France let Nazi Germany into Iraq. And the rest logically followed.
Kip W over 7 years ago
I see that you’re one of those fierce individualists who calls no man master, who hates all liberals and sort of dislikes one or two Republicans.