War

Article claims Iraqi forces were ordered to abandon Mosul without a fight.

Iraqi officers secretly abandoned Mosul during attack.

"On Day Four of clashes in Mosul between encroaching jihadists and Iraqi security forces, two officers visited an outpost of the Iraqi 2nd Division’s logistics battalion with bad news: they said that all senior commanders had fled.
Stunned and confused, the men called headquarters and received the same information, that all officers colonel and above had abandoned their posts. This evaporation of the officer corps, followed quickly by the rank and file, gave wide berth to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the extremist group whose capture of northwestern Iraqi territories has brought the country once again to the brink of civil war."

More evidence.

Article claims Saudi Arabia is backing Sunni ISIS in Iraq. This is basically an extension of the civil war in Syria. This is similar to blowback.

Ron Paul on the Iraq disaster.

"The same foreign policy “experts” who lied us into the Iraq war are now telling us we must re-invade Iraq to deal with the disaster caused by their invasion! They cannot admit they were wrong about the invasion being a “cakewalk” that would pay for itself, so they want to blame last week’s events on the 2011 US withdrawal from Iraq. But the trouble started with the 2003 invasion itself, not the 2011 troop withdrawal. Anyone who understands cause and effect should understand this."

Should.

"It is also likely that the administration will begin shipping more weapons and other military equipment to the Iraqi army, in the hopes that they might be able to address the ISIS invasion themselves. After years of US training, costing as much as $20 billion, it is unlikely the Iraqi army is up to the task. Judging from the performance of the Iraqi military as the ISIS attacked, much of that money was wasted or stolen. "

Or they were ordered not to fight.

US evacuates some personnel from Baghdad embassy.

ISIS advance in Iraq culmination of years of strategy. I don't believe the US was caught by surprise. This stinks of conspiracy. Iran and Syria are allies with Russia, Iraq is allies with Iran and Syria, so it makes sense that the US might back ISIS invading Iraq.

VA claims it didn't have enough money to treat patients, but this is a lie. This is the new story being floated to steal more money. The reality is VA employees were doing union work, not VA work, while at work. VA doctors see fewer patients than private sector doctors.

"According to The Daily Beast, the Albuquerque VA houses “eight physicians in the cardiology department. But at any given time, only three are working in the clinic, where they see fewer than two patients a day.” On average, that’s only 36 veterans per week. The average single private-practice cardiologist sees more patients in a week than the Albuquerque VA’s entire eight-person cardiology department. Surveyed, 60 percent of cardiologists in private practice “reported seeing between 50 and 124 patients per week. In the course of two days, a single cardiologist in private practice sees as many patients as the entire eight-person Albuquerque team sees in a week.
All the same, these government workers trust that their identities and salaries are shielded: Taxpayers will pick up the legal tab for the deaths they caused through deliberate delays, medical and criminal malfeasance. When workers’ pay is untethered to performance; when people are hired for the wrong reasons and seldom fired – they will, at the very best, produce less and less."

Socialism is the problem, not lack of funding.

Five release Taliban POWs reportedly living in luxury.