New Posts For Thread: USA Airstrikes on Northern Iraqhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraqJames O'Brien just said on Newsnight, unconfirmed as yet.Denied by Pentagon, he then said.ISIS changed their name IS will soon be washttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540843221#540843221ISIS changed their name IS will soon be wasFri, 08 Aug 2014 11:07:17 -0500Nah, they fell off the back of a lorry.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540842615#540842615Nah, they fell off the back of a lorry.Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:28:54 -0500Mind you I think those Kurds may well have nicked a couple of oilfields which did not belong to themhmmmmmmmmm?????https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540842493#540842493Mind you I think those Kurds may well have nicked a couple of oilfields which did not belong to themhmmmmmmmmm?????Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:20:39 -0500very true aliashttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540842227#540842227very true aliasFri, 08 Aug 2014 10:03:36 -0500Dotch, at least Saddam kept the lid on it. "It" being the hotch-potch cobbled up European invention of a country that is Iraq.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540842219#540842219Dotch, at least Saddam kept the lid on it. "It" being the hotch-potch cobbled up European invention of a country that is Iraq.Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:03:13 -0500I would still say the Iraqis were better off under Saddam than Isis surely?So what point was there in taking him downIf we really cared about the Kurds why did we just not intervene and say to Saddam "hands off - no genocide here"but we did not did whttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540842201#540842201I would still say the Iraqis were better off under Saddam than Isis surely?So what point was there in taking him downIf we really cared about the Kurds why did we just not intervene and say to Saddam "hands off - no genocide here"but we did not did wFri, 08 Aug 2014 10:01:54 -0500We have a right to intervene on humanitarian grounds, but that is all, indeed we shouldand if we had stuck to that and only that, a good many people dead now would be aliveWe should have done this with Saddam, protect the Kurds, not overthrow him!Thehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540842023#540842023We have a right to intervene on humanitarian grounds, but that is all, indeed we shouldand if we had stuck to that and only that, a good many people dead now would be aliveWe should have done this with Saddam, protect the Kurds, not overthrow him!TheFri, 08 Aug 2014 09:51:56 -0500Indeed. Good old saddam would be looking after them instead.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540839589#540839589Indeed. Good old saddam would be looking after them instead.Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:38:07 -0500HamsterdamHamsterdam 08 Aug 14 00:53 Joined: 03 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 7,707 | Blogger: Hamsterdam's blogGood on the yanks I say.Phuck me. If they hadn't invaded Iraq in the first place, this wouldn't be happening now.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540838265#540838265HamsterdamHamsterdam 08 Aug 14 00:53 Joined: 03 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 7,707 | Blogger: Hamsterdam's blogGood on the yanks I say.Phuck me. If they hadn't invaded Iraq in the first place, this wouldn't be happening now.Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:26:08 -0500thats a good point.of course this is a result of the US and NATO wrecking countries like libya.iraq and syria and not giving a flying fek what follows on afterwardshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30323401/usa-airstrikes-on-northern-iraq?post_id=540838193#540838193thats a good point.of course this is a result of the US and NATO wrecking countries like libya.iraq and syria and not giving a flying fek what follows on afterwardsFri, 08 Aug 2014 05:20:49 -0500