Ramadi Fighting News Today

Fight. if they were to retake the city, this would be a key strategic victory, also a major boost for moral as well. >> yes, from what we understand, boris the iraqis took umberance, the people in ramadi fighting until they ran out of ammunition. they said they did not have the support from the central deposit in baghdad and the united states and it does seem that both the united states and backed, having spent a number of its troops down to, sending iraqi troops to fight, including the elite co...

Ramadi fighting alongside with what would be poorly trained police officers trying to hold areas of the city. and on top 06 that the sectarian problem with the notion that were going into a city like ramadi with iranian backed shia malitia is a huge problem. that whole stew if you will is leading to very very poor performance on the battlefield. admiral, iraqs interior minister fired back saying there isnt enough u.s. support to defeat isis and that their military is ill-equipped. they need mo...

Do. i think this also brings up the question of what happens in northern iraq with the peshmerga. the questions now, do they have enough? and are they getting the arms at the level they need considering the amount of fighting theyre undertaking. >> a lot of people have confidence in peshmerga, the kurdish fighters but not in the iraqi military. do you? >> we have to. thats what were doing and making sure were stepping up training and security. the upcoming budget $8.8 billion of funding in the o...

On the run and disrupt their operations theyre going to hit us here at home. so it will take thousands of american soldiers over there to protect millions of us back here at home and the only way i know to engage the public if i decide to run for president is to be honest. i dont know how to defend this nation without some of us fighting over there. >> senator graham leave it on that note but continue this conversation. look forward to your announcement in south carolina on june 1st. >> thank yo...

Controlled by isis a supply line 100 miles long controlled by isis and only 70 miles outside of bagdad. i think we have to come back to the table and people need to answer for are we accomplishing, are we get together the defeat part? is it very much up in question at this point. >> general martin dempsey, the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, it says in his words ramadi is not symbolic in any way to the future of iraq. a lot of us were surprised to hear the chairman of the joint c...

Thinking it wont matter to us. were going to have to send some of our troops back over there, to partner with iraqis and arab armies making sure these radical islamists dont hit us here at home. there is no easy way forward. no way to win the war without some of us over there doing the fighting so they dont hit us here at home. >> still 3,000 military personnel in iraq. you want a lot more. how many troops do you want there? >> enough to partner at the battalion level. >> how many thousands? >> ...

Watched with the iraqis, the soldiers want to fight. both sunni and shia. they have a common enemy, but one of the things the iraqi government and the senior military has to do is work on their logistics and their supply trains what we called it to make sure that the equipment is getting out to the right folks. if that gets cut off or is delayed, that stops the fighting forces from doing those things. so what i believe is going to happen here a lot of these pictures seen today from northwest and...