Civil war is raging in Iraq right now

[Weltschmerz]

[Mike Haynes]

The Iraqi forces outnumber the ISIS squad 270,000 to 12,000....as well as having more muscle....yet they ran with their tails between their legs - or do they not care?

[Drunken Cat]

Sunni vs Shi'a, Muslim vs Muslim. The religion of peace in action.

The US is directly responsible for every bit of it. The sectarian violence is the product of power struggle.

[elgranluchadore]

The Iraqi forces outnumber the ISIS squad 270,000 to 12,000....as well as having more muscle....yet they ran with their tails between their legs - or do they not care?

castro conquered cuba with like 20 soldiers, they probably have support from the people

[Drunken Cat]

Someone please reminds me why we went into Iraq in the first place?

Bush W. is a criminal.

The neocons determined to invade Iraq in order to secure control of the oil fields.

Indeed, the invasion, as well as what followed, was among the biggest series of 'war crimes' in the post-WW2 experience. Maybe not as big as Vietnam, but it s debatable.

They did basically get control of the oil fields. This is needed both to enrich the cronys (and hence themselves), and because oil is a strategic resource and control of oil fields afford geopolitical power, per their logical extrapolations.

It is not at all certain whether they will be successful in holding the oil fields.

[Weltschmerz]

The US is directly responsible for every bit of it. The sectarian violence is the product of power struggle.

The US illegally invaded Iraq and helped create the chaos that exists in all of the Middle East today. Bush and all of his administration from 2003 should be in jail right now.

[I Love Jesus!]

Your looking at it from the wrong perspective.. Yes it's expensive for the governments ie taxpayers, but the money used is borrowed at interest from central banks and is spent buying products and services from massive corporations that are owned/controlled by highly influential individuals.

A lot of people make incredible amounts of money of war..
Oil companies get to charge more for gas at your local pump.
Defense contractors
Bankers and banks are getting interest from massive loans
All the factories that supply war goods like ammo, jeeps, radios etc
Stock market goes down and panics the public but in reality it's just in discount and the super wealthy are able to gobble up huge amounts of stock for cheap, while the public is mostly scared.
Lots of profit to be made in war, just none for the regular citizens

dont forget all the rebuilding contracts, lots of cash for citizens willing to go get it

[New England]

Your looking at it from the wrong perspective.. Yes it's expensive for the governments ie taxpayers, but the money used is borrowed at interest from central banks and is spent buying products and services from massive corporations that are owned/controlled by highly influential individuals.

A lot of people make incredible amounts of money of war..
Oil companies get to charge more for gas at your local pump.
Defense contractors
Bankers and banks are getting interest from massive loans
All the factories that supply war goods like ammo, jeeps, radios etc
Stock market goes down and panics the public but in reality it's just in discount and the super wealthy are able to gobble up huge amounts of stock for cheap, while the public is mostly scared.
Lots of profit to be made in war, just none for the regular citizens

adam ali lighting TA up.

you know who loves war?

colt, FN, etc.

[Grand Champ]

Saddam, however brutal, was a ****ing god sent compared to ISIS.

Saddam held down all the radical ****s and brought some stability to Iraq. Right now you have poverty and anarchy feeding radical islamic groups.

ISIS make random drive by shootings on civilians for the hell of it, they behead pretty much anyone and they can't stand anyone who doesn't believe their small minded version of Islam - so they have to die, horribly. That includes iraqi civilians - and you and me.

We should've never went into Iraq. Saddam was a necessary evil in the backwards country known as Iraq.

The former crown jewel of the world, how ****ing pathetic they've grown.

[The Tase]

let these people kill each other.

this is a religious nut job sectarian war vs the Shia and Sunni.

Leave this ****ing place to rot and let them figure it out for themselves.