{"id":6989,"date":"2015-03-30T19:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2015-03-30T19:11:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:11:34","slug":"accusations-emerge-that-the-u-s-is-aiding-isis-the-latest-conspiracy-theory-circulating-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6989","title":{"rendered":"Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS \u2013 The Latest \u201cConspiracy Theory\u201d Circulating in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/03\/30\/accusations-emerge-that-the-u-s-is-aiding-isis-the-latest-conspiracy-theory-circulating-in-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS \u2013 The Latest \u201cConspiracy Theory\u201d Circulating in Iraq<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Dick Cheney on\u00a0NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, March 16, 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But that enmity for the United States circulates beyond the militias that once fought U.S. soldiers, surfacing also in parliamentary debates and Iraqi media reports and even at the highest ranks of the national armed forces that the United States is aiding.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cEverybody knows that the Americans are dropping supplies to Daesh,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Abed al-Maliki, a senior Iraqi army commander based in the city of Samarra, about 80\u00a0miles north of Baghdad, using another term for the Islamic State.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What\u2019s more, he said, during some of the fiercest fighting around Samarra last year, U.S. Special Operations forces dropped behind enemy lines to assist Islamic State militants.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThey came in with parachutes, and they were helping to bomb the city,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State, he contended, are probably just a cover for efforts to support the group.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just a show,\u201d he said, sitting in the city\u2019s army command headquarters. \u201cIf the Americans want to finish something, they will finish it. If they wanted to liberate Iraq, they could.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From the Washington Post article,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/iraqi-cleric-urges-unity-amid-tension-over-us-strikes\/2015\/03\/27\/75bb4f5a-d40b-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html\">In Fight for Tikrit, U.S. Finds Enemies on Both Sides of the Battle Lines<\/a>, March 27, 2015<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-world_1401468654209_937\" class=\"moat-trackable pb-layout-item pb-feature pb-three pb-f-article-article-topper pb-f-theme-normal\" data-pb-async=\"false\" data-pb-columns=\"3\" data-pb-name=\"article-article-topper\" data-pb-content-uri=\"\/pb\/world\/iraqi-cleric-urges-unity-amid-tension-over-us-strikes\/2015\/03\/27\/75bb4f5a-d40b-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html\" data-pb-content-editable=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-topper\" class=\"article-topper\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<p>How do you\u00a0know your foreign policy is a complete and total destructive nightmare?\u00a0When the country you supposedly \u201cliberated\u201d not only turns into a horrific war zone, but\u00a0all sides fighting accuse you of helping the enemy.\u00a0This seems to be precisely what is happening in Iraq at the moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS \u2013 The Latest \u201cConspiracy Theory\u201d Circulating in Iraq My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators. \u2013 Dick Cheney on\u00a0NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, March 16, 2003 But that enmity for the United States circulates beyond the militias that once fought U.S. soldiers, surfacing also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1319,4536,442,1239,446,447,827,862],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armaments","tag-daesh","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6990,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions\/6990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}