{"id":57450,"date":"2015-01-03T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57450"},"modified":"2015-01-03T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:31:00","slug":"iraqi-perspective-of-war-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57450","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi perspective of war against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

AW1Ed sends us an Associated Press<\/a> article in which they talk to Iraqi Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi one of the lead commanders in the war against ISIS;<\/p>\n

Yet al-Saadi is deeply pessimistic. In a two-hour interview with The Associated Press, he said Iraq’s military lacks weapons, equipment and battle-ready troops and complained that U.S. air support was erratic. Both the military and the government remain riddled with corruption, he said. Most of the senior generals serving when the military fell apart had skills “more suited to World War II,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If things don’t get better,” warned the general, “the country could end up divided” between its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish populations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I wonder what they’ve been doing over there since we left in December 2011. The active and reserve forces total about 800,000 troops and this year’s US Defense Budget includes $1.3 billion in aid. The general’s last line should scare everyone – that was Joe Biden’s plan for the partition of Iraq – since Joe has been on the wrong side of history since he went to Congress, if we adopt a plan that was his, it will fail.<\/p>\n

A veteran of Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Shiite Iran, al-Saadi said he turned down offers of help from Iranian military advisers in retaking Beiji. Iran has been closely helping Iraq’s government in the fight against the extremists.<\/p>\n

“If I had accepted help from non-Iraqis, the history books will say the victory was not ours, the Iraqis,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, unless Americans are non-Iraqis. It’s interesting to note that al-Saadi is a Shi’ite, but he seems to put the future of his country ahead of his religious beliefs, at least as far as Iran is concerned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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