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Iraqi lawmaker slams US criticism of Iraqi military

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ashton carter pentagonAn Iraqi lawmaker says U.S. military commanders are pointing fingers for their own failure to properly support the Iraqi military in the fight against the Islamic State group.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter stirred controversy Sunday morning by claiming in a television interview that Iraqi soldiers had superior numbers but lost the city of Ramadi to the Islamic State group because they “showed no will to fight.”

Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the parliamentary defense and security committee, calls Carter’s comments “unrealistic and baseless.”

He said the U.S. should bear much of the blame for the fall of Ramadi for failure to provide “good equipment, weapons and aerial support” to the soldiers. Now he says the U.S. military is seeking to “throw the blame on somebody else.”

Associated Press/ My Way

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11 responses to “Iraqi lawmaker slams US criticism of Iraqi military”

  1. Hend Abyad Avatar
    Hend Abyad

    The fall of Ramadi exposes Obama week Islamist State strategy.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-strategic-defeat-in-ramadi/2015/05/18/41d39a34-fd79-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html?tid=hybrid_cont

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    I’d believe the guy … although everyone is supposed to get weekends off … and for sure, NO army losing a pile of troops to a pile of terrorists wants to be told it’s not contributing something to an effort.
    Carter is an Ash.

    1. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      Oh cmon 5th. All these losers want is for the American soldiers to come clean Iraq for them so that they can be ungrateful yet again and rule the country like the previous dictator.
      The Iraqi army doesn’t want to fight, because the Sunni soldiers don’t want to fight their isis brothers and cousins and the Shia soldiers are afraid that a Sunni soldier will shoot them in the back.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Yes Mekenseh .. and it’s ok for us bloggers to note the Tribal Facoids … but ‘officialdumb’ is supposed to tell them behind closed doors, to be ‘politically correct’ – as those in governments love to be.

        1. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          They’ve been telling them behind closed doors that they need to man up and fight if they truely want to save the country. What do they do? They run with the first sand storm?
          Enough bs
          This is the truth, you had the numbers, you had the weapons, you just don’t want to save the country.
          This statement is to tell them again, don’t dream of American soldiers coming back to do your job. If you’re not going to man up we’ll let ramadi and Baghdad and the rest of the country fall…

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I’m not arguing that concept. Would have been much better to not have gone to attempt anything ‘real’ in the first place, of course. Hindsight is always 20/20, isn’t it? 😉

          2. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            I agree, doing nothing would definitely have been the best thing. But Isis wanted Iraqi Kurdistan and started slaving yazidis.
            And that’s what people need to understand, the U.S. is not there to fight your wars for you, only to protect some of you from extinction.
            The Kurds in Kobani won an impossible war, simply because 500 of them fought for their survival against hordes of Isis (and Turks). You’re going to tell me the Iraqi army couldn’t hold ramadi if it wanted to?

      2. Hend Abyad Avatar
        Hend Abyad

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  3. Hend Abyad Avatar
    Hend Abyad

    The origins of ISIS, Ziedrich said, lay in the decision by Bush’s brother, in 2003, to
    disband the Iraqi Army following the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government.

    “It was when thirty thousand individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out—they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons.… Your brother created ISIS,’’
    THAT IS the Question
    http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/did-george-w-bush-create-isis

  4. Hend Abyad Avatar
    Hend Abyad

    ISIS savage strategy in Iraq
    “The Islamist storm passing through Iraq right now has been building up since the United States invaded the country in 2003, which unleashed longstanding sectarian rivalries that spilled over into civil war. But the appalling brutality currently on display, initiated by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, is more than a carnival of revenge”.
    http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/isiss-savage-strategy-in-iraq

    1. MaImequer0 Avatar
      MaImequer0

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