Declan Finn
The American Journal
6/19/2014
Yesterday, ISIS (or ISIL, if you prefer) took the Al Muthanna facility in Iraq, according to the The Telegraph.
What’s so special about Al Muthanna? It’s where Saddam greated mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX nerve gasses.
But that’s all right, isn’t it? After all, Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction? Right? That’s what everyone has told us in the media for the last fourteen years. There are no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Bush lied, people died. Halliburton did it. Remember?…
The article continues at The American Journal.
Update: Instapundit (video):
OBAMA: No “Boots On The Ground” In Iraq, Just 300 “Military Advisors.” Who will, presumably, be wearing sneakers or something. . . .
Related: What Kind Of Iraq Did Obama Inherit? “A fair-minded reading of the facts, I think, shows that when Mr. Obama was sworn in, the Iraq war had more or less been won. Things were fragile to be sure. But the errors that were made during the occupation of Iraq following the fall of Saddam, which were extremely costly, were corrected in 2007. . . . By the time the surge ended in 2008, violence in Iraq had dropped to the lowest level since the first year of the war. Sectarian killings had dropped by 95 percent. By 2009, U.S. combat deaths were extremely rare. (In December of that year there were no American combat deaths in Iraq.) Iraq was on the mend. Even Barack Obama, who opposed the surge every step of the way, conceded in September 2008 that it had succeeded in reducing violence ‘beyond our wildest dreams.’” Joe Biden was calling it a “great achievement” for the Obama/Biden Administration in 2010. But then Obama screwed up in Libya and, especially, Syria and it all went to hell…
Also:
HOW BUSHIAN: Obama tells Congressional leaders he needs no authorization to act in Iraq. Oh, wait, I forgot — Congress, including Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid, did vote to authorize Bush’s action before he did anything.
Anderson Cooper: ISIS Jihadists Take Control of Saddam Hussein’s Chemical Weapons Complex (video)
