President Obama expected to speak on humanitarian aid mission in Iraq around 9:30 p.m. EST

[steve2470]

https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/497553779852836864

http://abcnews.go.com/live

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

[steve2470]

1. ABC stream here

http://abcnews.go.com/live

[JaneyVee]

2. If he says "folks" this place might implode.

[steve2470]

3. yep nt

[msanthrope]

5. It's my drinking game word. nt

[msanthrope]

7. Humanitarian and military strikes to prevent genocide. Limited strikes

without combat troops on the ground.

[sheshe2]

15. Yes. eom

[LordGlenconner]

8. He's authorized air strikes

That may be more flammable. Either way DU's long hot summer of discontent is about to get a lot hotter and a lot more...discontenty.

[msanthrope]

9. Yes. It is the right thing to do on that mountain. nt

[LordGlenconner]

10. Agreed

[msanthrope]

13. Prevention of genocide.....40k people trapped. nt

[femmocrat]

12. Agree.

Definitely the humanitarian aid.

[msanthrope]

16. The humanitarian aid...the military strikes to prevent the genocide of a religious

minority. But the Iraqis have to step up.

[femmocrat]

18. Yep.

He said as much.

[msanthrope]

22. Reconciliation. nt

[joshcryer]

17. Expect veiled support for ISIS soon.

[msanthrope]

21. No doubt. Not a fucking doubt. nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. I'm not holding my breath for "thinly veiled" if you know what I mean.

[steve2470]

4. on NOW on whitehouse.gov nt

[GoCubsGo]

6. It's also on ABC. n/t

[steve2470]

11. did well, as always nt

[steve2470]

14. what mountain did he mention ? Mount Sinjar, nvm nt

[GoCubsGo]

19. He didn't mention a specific mountain by name.

But, he was discussing the Yazidi, who are being wiped out by ISIS. They are a small, ancient sect in NW Iraq.

[msanthrope]

20. I think it's Sinjar. nt

[PAProgressive28]

23. We did good

About time. I support these bombs in Iraq!

[mcar]

24. We did

Helping these poor people is a humanitarian necessity. I hope other countries follow suit.

[yeoman6987]

26. I completely missed this

I was watching Big Brother....Holy cow was that incredible tonight!!!!!! Normally they would interrupt shows, but they didn't tonight.