Wednesday, October 01, 2014

ISIS Within A Mile Of Baghdad, ‘Immense Fear’

by JASmius



Let the quote speak for itself, while I make up my mind between quaking in impotent, frustrated rage and throwing up:

Islamic State militants are reportedly within a mile of Baghdad despite battling Iraqi forces and U.S.-led airstrikes, and there is "immense fear among everybody," the vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq said Tuesday.

"We are at a crisis point," Canon Andrew White, vicar of St George's Church in Baghdad, told Sky News. "People know ISIS are coming nearer."...

"They said it could never happen, and now it almost has. Obama says he overestimated what the Iraqi army could do," the posting said, referring to President Barack Obama.
"Well, you only need to be here a very short while to know they can do very very little," the posting said.

Unlike the U.S. Army, which had crushed proto-ISIS six years ago and established a peaceful, democratic Iraq.   To bad O withdrew them, huh?

C'mon, you didn't think I could keep my rhetorical oar out of this water, did you?

And about The One's mighty air offensive....:

He told Sky News that the U.S.-led airstrikes against ISIS are doing little more than killing civilians.

"People are being killed by the attacks of the coalition," he said.

"This is horrendous," he said about the Islamic State's advance into Iraq's capital city. "We have civilians being killed, yet [the Islamic State] are moving toward Baghdad."

Renewed fighting has also occurred in such central Iraqi cities as Baquba and Ramadi, Sky News reports, as ISIS fighters appear to have advanced within 3 miles of Kobani, a critical border town in Syria, despite the airstrikes. [emphases added]

Think about this: It takes getting to a Baghdad vicar's Facebook page to discover that Barack Obama's airstrikes are not only not slowing down the Islamic State's advance, much less "degrading and destroying" them, but the only damage they're causing is entirely collateral.  Or, put even more viscerally, The One is doing some of ISIS's butchering for them.  Do you think the Obamedia might have been a tiny bit more interested in this little factoid if it had happened on President Bush's watch?  Just a "smidgeon"?

And what damage is King Hussein attempting to control?  The one to his own worthless public relations ass:

White House spokesman Josh Earnest sought to clarify Obama's remarks, noting that he was not blaming anyone as the U.S. sought global cooperation in the airstrikes that seek to weaken ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

"That is not what the president's intent was," Earnest said Tuesday. "What the president was trying to make clear" was "how difficult it is to predict the will of security forces that are based in another country to fight."

Well, gee, Josh, has it crossed the president's mind (I don't ask you this question because not having a mind - or a soul - is at the top of your job description) that if he'd left U.S. ground troops in Iraq instead of abandoning the country and the hard-won victory over the jihadists we had achieved there, we wouldn't have to rely on the unreliable "will to fight" of another country's army against a common enemy?

Yes, I know, it's a rhetorical question.  Which leaves us to ponder Canon Andrew White's fate, and what it would be like to be in his shoes today:

In his Sky News interview, White said of Baghdad: "I've never known the city like it is at the moment."

"Streets which are usually choc-a-bloc with traffic, cars and people are almost empty. People are too fearful to even leave their homes."

He said that his church most likely would be "very high up" on the Islamic State's target list and that "I must be at the top of the list."...

In a Facebook posting earlier Monday, White said: "Over 1,000 Iraqi troops were killed by ISIS yesterday, things are so bad."

"All the military airstrikes are doing nothing," he added. "If ever we needed your prayers, it is now."

That sounds like a farewell message, doesn't it?  From a man who knows that he is very close to a very agonizing, horrifying, humiliating death.  One that we can fully count upon seeing on another worldwide ISIS decapitation video.. Probably by the end of this week, or next week at the latest.  Or maybe later; Baghdad has a population of over seven million residents - or did three years ago.  Who knows how many of that number have fled by this time?  And they're the lucky ones, assuming they got out of the country and the region.  But however many are left, that's a lot of heads to saw off of a lot of bodies, even for demoniacs like these uberjihadists.  Maybe they'll line up Baghdad residents in rows and just sweep down each one with chainsaws.  Would save a lot of time.  Besides, once ISIS has taken Baghdad, U.S. airstrikes will stop for fear of killing (even more) civilians, even though they'll all be as good as dead.

But Canon Andrew White will receive the butterknife treatment.  His beheading will be slow and languid, ensuring he feels every stroke, every rent, every spurt, every gurgle.

This ocean of blood that never had to be shed will be entirely on Barack Hussein Obama's hands. 

And the worst part is, it's only just begun.  The only difference between Canon Andrew White and thee and me is simply a relatively short time.  Remember, ISIS is already here, and their sleeper cells are likely just awaiting the activation word from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to launch their attacks, which will kill....what?  Hundreds?  Thousands?  Tens of thousands?  Even more?

And when they do, and they do, there will stand Barack Hussein Obama, insisting that it's all George W. Bush's fault.

I think I'll go throw up now.



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