US air strikes in Iraq? Or more?

[Lynn49]

So Isis has 40,000 souls trapped on a mountain...a berm in other areas, more likely, and are closing in not to convert them, but to kill them. All. Men, women and children. They are starving, having fled their homes, without water, and they're dying.

The US powers that be in Washington have been in meetings all day to determine if air strikes are warranted for "humanitarian" reasons. However, just heard on CNN that they won't be in that area!
They're concerned about hitting people...! If they wait any longer, they'll absolutely put those propel in danger! So where do they intend to pummel them?? Why not those Isis gunmen when they're in the middle of a desert closing in?!
And when?!

[Natalka]

200,000 people have fled.

The United Nations put the number of people who have fled as high as 200,000, and said that many thousands of people trapped by the militants on Sinjar mountain had been rescued in the past 24 hours.
“We’re just receiving the information right now. We’ve just heard that people over the last 24 hours have been extracted and the UN is mobilising resources to ensure that these people are assisted on arrival,” David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told Reuters.
It is a “tragedy of immense proportions”, he said.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...0000-flee.html

[Patty Smyth]

You have to wonder "what if" ? What if Saddam Hussein was still in power?

Is it up to the U.S. to bail them out? Since this whole mess is their fault I would say yes. Normally I would not advocate for U.S. interference but this time I think they will have to.

[Natalka]

Some news agencies already mistakenly reported US airstrikes were underway, they are not.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-mountain-isis

[Lynn49]

Isis has to be stopped, no question, and with whatever it takes. They're just a blood-thirsty bunch of hoodlums...a street gang with bigger guns...they must disintegrate and I don't care who does it

[Natalka]

U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday he has approved targeted air strikes in Iraq, near the site where some 40,000 religious minorities are trapped on a mountaintop after fleeing from Islamic State militants who have threatened to kill them.


Obama said the Iraqi government asked for U.S. help in fighting Islamic State militants, who have surged across northern Iraq in the country's Kurdish region, forcing tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis — a Kurdish ethno-religious community — to leave their homes or risk death.

He also said the U.S. military had already carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid in the area.

Speaking after meetings with his national security team, Obama — in his most significant response to the Iraq crisis — U.S. air power could also be used to protect American personnel if the militants advance toward the Kurdish capital Arbil, where they are based.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/barack-...isis-1.2729911

[Patty Smyth]

Game on now, again.

[Darth Penguin]

US airstrikes on IS militants

The US says it has launched an air strike against militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq.
The Pentagon said American aircraft attacked artillery that was being used against Kurdish forces defending the northern city of Irbil.
President Barack Obama authorised air strikes on Thursday, but said he would not send US troops back to Iraq.
The Sunni Muslim group IS, formerly known as Isis, now has control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
In June, IS took control of the city of Mosul. Earlier this week, its fighters seized Qaraqosh, Iraq's biggest Christian town.
The advance of IS also forced tens of thousands of people from the Yazidi community - another minority group in northern Iraq - to leave their homes and seek shelter on a nearby mountain

[Lynn49]

Perhaps because it's 1am and I'm tired, but with Ebola likely winging it's way around the world, Israel in the middle-east killing women and children and a blood-thirsty lunatic (antichrist?!) being allowed to run free, killing and mutilating anyone in his way.....I'm getting the uneasy feeling things are going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.

[Lynn49]

How wonderful. The pope is sending an envoy to give the Christian displaced "moral support, says a priest on CNN, but under his breath, "hopefully financial also". Don't hold your breath, Honey. It may deprive the Vatican of their finest brandy.
WWJD, clergy?!

[Lynn49]

It IS the end of the world! I just agreed with Gov Rick Perry!
He suggests striking Isis with more air strikes...."we become the hunter, not the hunted".
Wow. He GETS it!

I sit here, watching another Hitler worming his way across a country, killing every dissenter along his path, and AGAIN I see the world politicians in a meek ' watch and wait' mode! It's so frustrating!

Oh, noooooo...now I'm I agreement with John McCain!

[Lynn49]

I'm watching CNN's coverage of the Iraqi army rescuing a handful of people by helicopter, shooting their way in and off that mountain....so few, and it just breaks my heart to see them suffering so much, crying in despair...More bombing raids need to be arranged by Obama...I can't believe for the life of me, his lack of understanding of the dire situation not only those unfortunate souls are facing, but anyone who gets in the way of those murderers!

The Isis leader is the new Hitler! Why is everyone so blind?! Because it's not happening in Europe? North America!? I just don't understand why politicians worldwide are sitting in their hands!

[Patty Smyth]

It IS the end of the world! I just agreed with Gov Rick Perry!
He suggests striking Isis with more air strikes...."we become the hunter, not the hunted".
Wow. He GETS it!

I sit here, watching another Hitler worming his way across a country, killing every dissenter along his path, and AGAIN I see the world politicians in a meek ' watch and wait' mode! It's so frustrating!

Oh, noooooo...now I'm I agreement with John McCain!

The problem with McCain is he wants to invade everywhere but I agree with you on this one why wait, don't let another Hitler wannabe get loose.

[Lynn49]

They're so entangled and indebted to the war machine that is the USA, the military, their munitions factories,....in one way or another, I bet if you dig deeply enough, it'll be another Cheney opportunity for the rich to get richer on the field of war and on the backs of those who are merely collateral damage.