THE PIN PRICK WAY TO RUN A WAR THE LEFTIST LIBERAL WAY JUST LIKE VIETNAM ONCE AGAIN AS THEY RAN THAT WAR TO A DEFEATOUS CONCLUSION AND BACK IN THE 21ST CENTURY WE HAVE THE POTUS BHO THE BIGGEST LEFTIST BACKER IN OFFICE DOES THE SAME WAR BY FIGHTING WITH STICKS AND STONES FROM A FAR–CONSIDER WITHOUT INTELLIGENCE AND WITHOUT AUTHORITY TO BOMB ISIS BACK TO THE STONEHENGE THIS WAR OVER ISIS IS FOUGHT WITH WORDS ONLY–THE DEMOCRAT FORM OF NATIONAL SECURITY OF WORDS WITHOUT FIRM ACTION BUT INACTION WITHOUT THE BOOTS AND ISIS IS CLOSE TO TAKE OVER BAGHDAD–AND ALL IRAQ CAN DO IS PLEAD TO A DEMOCRAT LEFTIST EAR WHO IS DEAF SINCE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED HAS BEEN DECLARED BY THE POTUS BHO IN CHARGE AND ONLY 2 YEARS AFTER HANDING OVER THE REIGN TO THE IRAQES

Iraqi officials have issued a desperate plea for America to bring US ground troops back to the embattled country, as heavily armed Islamic State militants came within striking distance of Baghdad.

Amid reports that Isil forces have advanced as far as Abu Ghraib, a town that is effectively a suburb of Baghdad, a senior governor claimed up to 10,000 fighters from the movement were now poised to assault the capital.

The warning came from Sabah al-Karhout, president of the provisional council of Anbar Province, the vast desert province to the west of Baghdad that has now largely fallen under jihadist control.

The province’s two main cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, were once known as “the graveyard of the Americans”, and the idea of returning there will not be welcomed by the Pentagon.

But were the province to be controlled by Isil, it would give their forces a springboard from which to mount an all-out assault on Baghdad, where a team of around 1,500 US troops is already acting as mentors to the beleaguered Iraqi army.

 

Iraqi government officials claim that while international attention has been focused in recent weeks on the Syrian border town of Kobane - where Kurdish fighters are still battling to keep advancing Isil gunmen at bay – Anbar province has been on the verge of collapse.

Government forces in the provincial capital Ramadi were holding out against the Isil offensive on Saturday, but US officials have warned that the city was in a “tenuous” position.

“I think it’s fragile there now,” said one senior US defence official, speaking to the AFP news agency. “They are being resupplied and they’re holding their own, but it’s tough and challenging.”

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