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Ramadi
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RE: Ramadi
(May 19, 2015 at 2:46 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Iraq is a fake bullshit country that was made up by the British post WWI. The people there associate as Shia, Sunni or Kurds and nobody is willing to fight for Iraq.

How many countries didn't start out by some foreign or domestic despot faked it by hold disparate elements together by force, until the fake became to long established by custom that it seem more real than real and everyone though the country is so natural it was handed down in its current format by some deity?

(May 20, 2015 at 2:58 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I think they're volunteering for a steady three meals a day, and don't give much of a shit about anything else.

I say we let Iran handle it. They stand to lose the most, they stand to gain little (because they already have an immense amount of influence on the Iraqi government), and it is usually wise statecraft to let one's enemies tire themselves against each other.

No, they volunteered to be thugs and racketeers backed by a government.   Not to fight where the other side shoots back.

This is possibly the first army in history that enjoyed vast superiority in equipment, total air supremacy, and a 40:1 numerical advantage on the ground, and still lost.

It's like the entire marine corp being defeated by the army of the 

There is something perverse about giving such an army 8 billion dollars of equipment.   
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Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 18, 2015 at 7:04 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - May 19, 2015 at 12:29 am
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RE: Ramadi - by brewer - July 2, 2015 at 6:41 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Mudhammam - May 20, 2015 at 1:53 am
RE: Ramadi - by nihilistcat - May 20, 2015 at 4:12 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 19, 2015 at 2:29 am
RE: Ramadi - by CapnAwesome - May 19, 2015 at 2:46 am
RE: Ramadi - by Anomalocaris - May 24, 2015 at 12:42 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - May 24, 2015 at 5:31 pm
RE: Ramadi - by CapnAwesome - May 24, 2015 at 11:48 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 19, 2015 at 2:50 am
RE: Ramadi - by Silver - May 19, 2015 at 2:51 am
RE: Ramadi - by ignoramus - May 19, 2015 at 4:33 am
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 19, 2015 at 2:57 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - May 19, 2015 at 2:58 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 19, 2015 at 3:04 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 20, 2015 at 1:47 am
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 20, 2015 at 1:54 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - May 20, 2015 at 2:58 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 24, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: Ramadi - by nihilistcat - May 24, 2015 at 3:12 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 24, 2015 at 3:17 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Anomalocaris - May 24, 2015 at 9:35 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 24, 2015 at 8:53 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - May 25, 2015 at 8:10 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - July 2, 2015 at 3:49 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - July 2, 2015 at 4:37 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - July 2, 2015 at 6:31 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - July 2, 2015 at 6:43 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by abaris - July 23, 2015 at 9:42 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - July 23, 2015 at 10:06 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - July 27, 2015 at 8:31 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Aristocatt - July 28, 2015 at 1:11 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Anomalocaris - September 27, 2015 at 7:40 am
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - September 27, 2015 at 2:37 am
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - September 27, 2015 at 8:08 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Anomalocaris - September 27, 2015 at 10:33 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - September 27, 2015 at 10:38 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - September 28, 2015 at 12:47 am
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - September 30, 2015 at 7:57 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - October 9, 2015 at 1:58 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - October 9, 2015 at 2:11 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - November 11, 2015 at 2:25 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - November 12, 2015 at 1:06 pm
RE: Ramadi - by The Grand Nudger - November 12, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - November 27, 2015 at 1:10 pm
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RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - December 28, 2015 at 2:22 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - December 30, 2015 at 11:07 pm
RE: Ramadi - by The Grand Nudger - December 31, 2015 at 9:01 am
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - December 31, 2015 at 11:20 am
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - January 23, 2016 at 1:59 am
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - January 23, 2016 at 1:34 am
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - January 23, 2016 at 2:42 am
RE: Ramadi - by account_inactive - January 24, 2016 at 4:15 am
RE: Ramadi - by The Valkyrie - February 10, 2016 at 9:49 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Thumpalumpacus - January 23, 2016 at 3:30 am
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - February 4, 2016 at 6:57 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - February 10, 2016 at 9:45 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - April 2, 2016 at 3:49 pm
RE: Ramadi - by The Grand Nudger - April 2, 2016 at 3:50 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Wyrd of Gawd - April 2, 2016 at 11:02 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - April 2, 2016 at 3:56 pm
RE: Ramadi - by Minimalist - April 2, 2016 at 11:30 pm
RE: Ramadi - by The Grand Nudger - April 5, 2016 at 9:19 am
RE: Ramadi - by abaris - April 5, 2016 at 9:57 am

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