Thursday, June 12, 2014

Late Afternoon

++Sgt. Bergdahl is en route and will land in Texas tomorrow where it is planned that he will meet his parents.

++The Daily Beast through contacts with the Taliban obtained the texts of the two letters Bergdahl sent home from captivity, one of which pleads for understanding of the circumstances around him leaving his camp.

++Journals sent home to a woman friend reveal that three days before he left the post, he was thinking of "Going Galt".

++Meanwhile planeloads of Americans are leaving Iraq. 3 planes of security contractors have been loaded up as the ISIS is heading toward Baghdad.

++The American embassy has drawn up evacuation planes as mortars are hitting the outskirts of town.

++John McCain and, if course, Jennifer Rubin blame Obama for the collapse of Iraq. Fred Kaplan in Salon says blame it on Prime Minister Malicki.

++The American trained Iraqi army stripped off their uniforms and left their equipment as ISIS overran Mosul and Takrit.

++ISIS now is considered the richest terrorist group as they stole $425 million.

++Kurdish forces took oil-rich Kirkuk.

++There are rumors that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been fighting on the ground and has taken half Takrit back.

++The Iraqi government has asked the United States for assistance in the form of drone attacks.

++President Obama said that all options are being considered short of troops on the ground.

++The atmosphere is similar to the days that led to the collapse of Saigon.

++Barbara Boxer says that the people who once advocated for the invasion of Iraq have now become the "Blame America First" Crowd.

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