Tuesday, August 12, 2014

War

US bypasses Iraqi government to directly arm Kurds.

US sends 130 more troops to Iraq.

Pat Buchanan slams Republican warmongers.
"If ISIS’ gains are truly an “existential threat” to the republic and our cities are about to “go up in flames,” why did these Republican hawks not demand that President Obama call back Congress from its five-week vacation to vote to authorize a new war on ISIS in Syria and Iraq?
After all, King, McCain and Graham belong to a party that is suing the president for usurping Congressional powers. Yet, they are also demanding that Obama start bombing nations he has no authority to bomb, as ISIS has not attacked us.
King, McCain and Graham want Obama to play imperial president and launch a preemptive war that their own Congress has not authorized.
What kind of constitutionalists, what kind of conservatives are these?"
Rhetorical question.

ISIS would be stupid to threaten Turkey.

Ukraine moves against Russian energy companies, which was was this coup was about all along.

What the heck does George Clooney's fiancée have to do with a UN investigation of war crimes in Gaza?

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