Kerry: US will support Iraq, but without troops

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By DEB RIECHMANN

JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the United States will support Iraq's fight against al-Qaida-linked militants who have overrun two cities, but won't send in American troops.

Kerry said the militants are trying to destabilize the region and undermine a democratic process in Iraq, and that the U.S. is in contact with tribal leaders in Anbar province who are standing up to the terrorists.

But, he said, "this is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis. That is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left Iraq, so we are not obviously contemplating returning. We are not contemplating putting boots on the ground. This is their fight. ... We will help them in their fight, but this fight, in the end, they will have to win and I am confident they can."

Al-Qaida linked gunmen have largely taken over the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in an uprising that has been a blow to the Shiite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 20 people Sunday.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah before their meeting in Rawdat Khurayim, a secluded royal hunting retreat in Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

[L0oniX]

1. Drones are troops too!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Nobody mourns a dead drone ...

... their tail numbers will not be engraved on a wall.

But, we still have a hundred marines protecting the embassy, and probably many times that number in State Dept contract mercenaries. Hopefully, we won't dispatch any of them to Fallujah to "help".

[L0oniX]

3. If corporations are people then so are drones.

[pasto76]

11. yeah thanks. Try not to be a dick

Me and mine have lost a lot of friends and comrades in that fucking war. Another group after we got home. Maybe youve heard about the suicide epidemic. Your comments are not any better than any freeper bullshit.

You probably want to consider deleting your posts. They definitely violate the terms here.

[L0oniX]

14. Sounds like you have some issues that are keeping you from getting it.

Since you seem to be seeing something that's not there I will explain for you. My first response was to imply that even though we don't or won't be having troops on the ground there they can and very well may use drones. The second implication of that is that we may yet be at war there by proxy of drones. So then the US gov can say that we are not at war there but yet still be at war there ....without actual troops on the ground. So comes the "drones are people" too remark. Sorry you are having a tough time and I will take your personal attack on me (Try not to be a dick = tos violation) as a symptom of your involvement with an illegal war that you and everyone else was lied into.

[Phlem]

15. +10000

Had to put him on ignore. He made instantly see blood red.



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[seabeckind]

4. What about those Blackwater guys? n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Nice pic of Kerry chatting with the main problem.

The Saudis are bankrolling most of this Takfiri bullshit.

[karynnj]

7. read this account of his last meeting in SA and tell me the last US diplomat who took strong

positions - like his - with SA. I guess you missed people like McCain including wrecking our relations with SA when he called Kerry "a human wrecking ball". As one who wants McCain's policies destroyed, there is no better compliment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/kerry-meets-with-saudi-king-abdullah-amid-policy-differences-on-mideast-issues/2013/11/04/4dbf204a-4554-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story_1.html

Note Kerry pushing back on both Iran and Syria. We have no idea what he is saying now - but it seems odd you have a problem with the SoS speaking to any world leader.

[YvonneCa]

8. ...

... Thanks for all you do to get the facts out karynnj. Happy New Year!

[Phlem]

6. And here I thought we were done in Iraq.

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[YvonneCa]

9. You do realize that...

...GwB destabilized the entire region? I think Obama and Kerry are working overtime to fix what the Iraq war caused.

[Phlem]

10. Unfortunately I do.

I watched the whole thing play out. What I said was meant for folks who Emphatically tell me were done in Iraq, beyond any reason of a doubt as they shove PO's laundry list of accomplishments in my face. I would take them more seriously if they could at least be honest about the situation.

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[pasto76]

12. whats this "we" shit?

-WE- are done with that place. By that I mean all of the veterans from this war. Im taking a shot in the dark that YOU are not part of WE.

[Phlem]

13. Right.

As if you know what I've been through.

No I didn't fucking fight in Iraq but guess what I have PTSD from being abused at, Oh, around 3 or 4 years old by shit fuck republican mountain monkey of a stepfather that went on into my teens before I beat the fuck out of him so I could have some piece of fucking mind after 10 plus years of verbal, physical, and mental abuse from the Fuck of a Fuck military that taught him this was O fucking K.

I'm still on medication for it so you can, you know.

AW, I'm so sad for you.

PS... you have no earthly fucking idea what RAGE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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