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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2015, 08:52 AM Mar 2015

Iraqi Forces Enter IS-Held Tikrit

Source: AFP

Iraqi forces enter IS-held Tikrit

AFP
MAR. 11, 2015, 7:52 AM

Tikrit (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraqi forces entered a northern neighbourhood of Tikrit Wednesday, marking a new stage in the operation launched 10 days ago to wrest the city back from jihadists, army officers said.

"We are now doing combat missions to cleanse the neighbourhood of Qadisiyah," a major general told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"We were able to control Tikrit military hospital, which is close to the centre of the city," he said.

"But we are engaging in a very delicate battle because we are not facing fighters on the ground, we are facing booby-trapped terrain and sniper fire. Our movement is slow," the senior officer said.

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Iraqi Forces Enter IS-Held Tikrit (Original Post) Hissyspit Mar 2015 OP

As ISIS is on the run and fades as The Great American Bogeyman.....will Iran please step up? Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #1

I'm not sure the people who were massacred by ISIS view them a fake harmless facade PersonNumber503602 Mar 2015 #3

I am not sure a new poster should be putting words in others mouths? Strawmen and ISIS fake videos are for con sites. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #5

Isn't requesting a new enemy to replace ISIS a rather accurate example of a straw-man in this contex LanternWaste Mar 2015 #6

No. Not at all. The difference between true equivalency and false equivalency is hard to fathom for some. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #7

Not trying to put words in your mouth. I've seen read similar comments by you a few times on various PersonNumber503602 Mar 2015 #8

Great news! davidsilver Mar 2015 #2

Apparently, Iran can do what the US never could: produce a working Iraqi military force. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #4

Maybe they WILL flare out! elias49 Mar 2015 #9

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. As ISIS is on the run and fades as The Great American Bogeyman.....will Iran please step up?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 08:55 AM

Mar 2015

What is a massive military to do if there is no one to FEAR? What will the massive homogenous mass media have to do?

No massive FEAR, no massive military, no massive political bribery, no massive mass media mind control.

What is a corrupt politician to do?

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)

3. I'm not sure the people who were massacred by ISIS view them a fake harmless facade

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:15 PM

Mar 2015

I watched this last night.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. I am not sure a new poster should be putting words in others mouths? Strawmen and ISIS fake videos are for con sites.

Reply to PersonNumber503602 (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:58 PM

Mar 2015

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

6. Isn't requesting a new enemy to replace ISIS a rather accurate example of a straw-man in this contex

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:59 PM

Mar 2015

Isn't requesting a new enemy to replace ISIS a rather accurate example of a straw-man in this context?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

7. No. Not at all. The difference between true equivalency and false equivalency is hard to fathom for some.

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 02:03 PM

Mar 2015

That is why propaganda and deflection work. On some.

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)

8. Not trying to put words in your mouth. I've seen read similar comments by you a few times on various

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:02 PM

Mar 2015

threads. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you're saying. I'm a bit confused as to where you mean then. You don't believe the videos and stories are real?