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As many as eight rockets hit Baghdad s highly fortified Green Zone on Thursday when the Parliament session is underway to elect the country s new president, media reports said. ....
Baghdad [Iraq], December 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Two rockets were fired towards the Green Zone in Iraq s capital, Baghdad, media reported in the early hours of Sunday. ....
One side driving suicide bombers across the lines and breaking the alliance of the iraqi forces and on the iraqi side i ve got to wonder what are they fighting for, the motive and the patriotic drive for someone to give up their life or even risk it in such a battle if they don t really have a country behind it? is there an iraq? is there such a place? by the day and the week we re seeing iraq disintegrate. there isn t really a sense of iraq anymore. it feels much more of kurdistan in the north, a failed sunni state in the center and an increasingly shiite and increasingly iran-dominated south that starts in baghdad. so if you are an army and you are supposed to be representing the united iraq, united iraq that increasingly looks like a memory, then i think you re you re not finding the will to fight. ....
Don t really have a country behind it? is there an iraq? is there such a place? by the day and the week we re seeing iraq disintegrate. there isn t really a sense of iraq anymore. it feels much more of kurdistan in the north, a failed sunni state in the center and an increasingly shiite and increasingly iran-dominated south that starts in baghdad. so if you are an army and you are supposed to be representing the united iraq united iraq that increasingly looks like a memory, then i think you re you re not finding the will to fight. if you re an iraqi military commander, halfway up the ranks, a major or whatever and i said to your troops hold the line. don t give up. they are coming at us, don t give. what is your innocent sniff what do you say to these guys? remember the alamo? what do you say to these people? i m dead serious. most people would say i m ....
Led to a blame game. u.s. officials told nbc news last week that the defeat was due to baghdad s, quote, total neglect of ramadi and on sunday secretary of defense ashton carthy blamed the iraqi military for cutting and running. the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered. in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they failed to fight. they withdrew from the site and that says to me and i think to most of us that we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight isil and defend themselves. but in a bbc interview later that day iraq s prime minister says that his forces would retake ramadi within days and he pushed back against secretary carter. i m surprised why he said that. i mean he was very supportive ....