George W Bush is Intervening in Iraq -- Again

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/george-w-bush-iraq-anbar-115155.html?ml=m_pm#.VN5UCp3F-2o

Floridatexan wrote:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/george-w-bush-iraq-anbar-115155.html?ml=m_pm#.VN5UCp3F-2o

Quite an interesting and troubling article. The situation in Iraq is so complicated layered in historic alliances, some not so ancient. It is too late to wish we had never stuck our noses into this hornets nest. It boggles the mind to see all this set out in this article. Thanks for posting. Guess we'll have to keep an eye on McCain and Graham.

Late in the evening of Sunday, January 18, an eleven-member delegation of tribal leaders from Iraq’s western Anbar Province arrived in Washington, D.C. Just as their plane was touching down, Islamic State units back in Iraq attacked the compound of one of the delegation’s senior leaders, Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha, killing nine Iraqi police officers and wounding 28 of the sheik’s guards. A nearby Iraqi military unit failed to respond to repeated calls for help.
The brutal attack underscored the purpose of the Anbar delegation’s visit: The tribal leaders believed that they could defeat the Islamic State—but only if the Obama administration would agree to ship them weapons directly, bypassing Iraq’s untrustworthy Ministry of Defense.
Yet after they arrived in Washington the tribal leaders found themselves thwarted at every turn in their efforts to meet with high-level administration officials. They were told they would have to take up these matters with new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and would have to rely for weapons on those provided to them by Abadi’s ministry of defense.
That’s when George W. Bush called Abu Risha at his hotel in Washington.
It’s startling enough for a Sunni tribal leader to get a call from a former U.S. president—and even more so from Bush, who has been especially reluctant to interfere in world affairs since leaving office. But Iraq, after all, was Bush’s baby. He knew about the tribesmen’s difficulties as Islamic State fighters continued to make inroads against the Iraqi military, and he had been alerted to the delegation’s visit in Washington by his contacts in the U.S. policymaking community.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/george-w-bush-iraq-anbar-115155.html#ixzz3RjbA9uIj

The unbelievable hubris...like they're untouchable...makes me sick. Isn't this treason?

OK...the whole pic didn't post...Condi Rice is standing in the back...and yes, that's Patraeus in the background.

Meanwhile...I'm watching an interview with John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and the only person prosecuted for leaking the name of an associate to the press over the torture of prisoners by the Bush administration. He has some fascinating info. It's an hour long but worth the time.



http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/02/09/john-kiriakou-blowing-whistle-bush-era-torture-was-worth-it

You folks bitch and complain the Iraqis won't do their own fighting and when they want to and will do so, you complain that we are giving them the means to do just what you asked be done. None of you are pleased.

Al Asad AB just a day ago, these same Iraqis gave ISIS a beat down when attacking the base without the help of Americans who live on the base and are training up Iraqi forces.

Make up your mind on what you want. It's your boy who said we need 3000+ troops in Iraq again because he pulled out too fast and left a mess. He inherited a stable Iraq from Bush.

I think FT is butthurt because the Muslims don't respect the COWH as much as they respect Bush.

Yet obama overthrows libya and hands it over to islamic extremists... the same ones that killed our ambassador...

And not one leftist is up in arms... or is even upset at all apparently. Hell... they can't even say "islamic extremist"... lol.

Nope and they won't call terrorism terrorism..... Until 5 years after the fact

After January 18 and before February 12...can't really tell a specific date from the article.