Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

I am shocked to hear the news that the thousands of terrified folks in the US embassy in Iraq are being told they cannot leave because it’s politically imperative for them to stay. I have this uneasy feeling we are going to see a mass beheading of thousands of Americans ...

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You’re obviously an Obama sycophant angry about his failures and unwilling to admit his culpability for the current situation in Iraq.

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ORIGINAL: Joe D.

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

I am shocked to hear the news that the thousands of terrified folks in the US embassy in Iraq are being told they cannot leave because it’s politically imperative for them to stay. I have this uneasy feeling we are going to see a mass beheading of thousands of Americans ...

From the NY Times:

U.S. to Evacuate Many Staff Members From Baghdad Embassy

ERBIL, Iraq — The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday.

The embassy, a beige fortress on the banks of the Tigris River within the heavily secured Green Zone, where Iraqi government buildings are also located, has the largest staff of any United States Embassy.

The exact number of people being evacuated was not clear Sunday. The embassy would remain open, a person familiar with the planning said, and much of its staff of about 5,500 would stay in Baghdad ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/world/middleeast/embassy.html?emc=edit_na_20140615&nlid=34808475&_r=0

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns Like it or not he is playing with the lives of thousands of Americans just to save political face. In another day or two those people will probably be trapped.

Jim