Tikrit collapses to al Qaeda
The Associated Press reports that Saddam Hussein’s hometown, Tikrit, Iraq fell to al Qaeda forces yesterday, a day after they seized the northern city of Mosul;
Tikrit residents reached by telephone said the militant group had taken over several police stations in the Sunni-dominated city. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of their safety.
As night fell, several hundred gunmen were in Tikrit, with clashes still taking place between the insurgents and military units on its outskirts, said Mizhar Fleih, the deputy head of the municipal council of nearby Samarra.
Two Iraqi security officials confirmed that Tikrit, the capital of Salahuddin province, was under the control of the [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], and said the provincial governor was missing. Tikrit is 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad.
But, hey, al Qaeda has been decimated and the war in Iraq is done. We heard through the last decade that the War Against Terror was only increasing the number of terrorists, that doesn’t seem to be the truth after all. It looks like cutting and running only encourages terrorists. Who knew that?
Folks have been saying that the clock has been turned back to September 10th, 2011, but I feel more like it’s April 30th, 1975.
Category: Terror War
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You just summed up modern day America in 12 words. BRAVO SIR! haha
I was there in 04-05 (Camp Danger). I’m no peacenik, but it makes me wonder why we even bothered. What a waste of lives, time, effort, and resources.
You didn’t get done what you wanted to do I’d imagine, but you, and everyone else who fought over there, bought us some time. You didn’t stop the terrorists, but you thinned them out, slowed them down, and kept them off our soil for awhile. That’s really the best we could hope for.
There’s no doubt Iraq will fall to the Islamists. If this administration were smart (fat chance), they would fortify the Kurds in northern Iraq, have them declare a Kurdish state, and then officially recognize it. The Kurds in the north are the only shining example of what we did over there.
I remember April 30, 1975. Seeing that NVA tank crashing through the gate at the vacant presidential palace. I probably think about it a couple times a week. Perhaps more so now because of what is going on in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Back on April 30, 1975, and the weeks proceeding, I was dumbfounded. How could our govt. walk away from a war that we could have won and forgot the sacrifice of 58,000+ troops? Politics of the media.
Everyday I think about the friends I lost and how the end of that war came to be. For nothing?
Now days it bothers me to see how our current wars are being managed. I dread the outcome with the standing administration. What a fecal self important bunch of shitheads that couldn’t win a “single only” staged checker game.