Ramadi Falls to ISIS

Previously, Pentagon officials serving Obama had been skeptical that the capital of the Anbar province would fall.

Previously, Obama's decision-making indicated that he thought the provincial capital was expendable.

And now, Ramadi has fallen to ISIS.

Islamic State fighters took control of Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s largest province Friday, police in the city said, in what appeared to be a significant blow to a U.S.-backed military campaign to retake Iraqi territory from the extremist Sunni group.

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"The city’s fallen. They’ve taken it," Maj. Omar Khamis al-Dahl, a senior officer in the Ramadi police, said by telephone.

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"We have not received reinforcements from the government, and there will be a massacre of these people like there was in Speicher," said Dahl. He referred to a former U.S. military base near Tikrit where an estimated 1,700 Iraqi soldiers were captured and killed en masse by the Islamic State last summer.

Meanwhile, anxious to pretend that his Red Line still exists or whatever, Obama excuses Syrian use of chlorine gas against civilians by saying that historically, chlorine gas hasn't been "listed" as a chemical weapon, apart from its history of being noted as the first chemical weapon.

posted by Ace at 12:12 PM

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