Rockets fired on Iraqi airbase: 4 Iraqis wounded

Four servicemen were injured Sunday after 6 rockets targeted Balad Air Base north of Baghdad. American trainers had been on that base until recently, Iraqi officials said.

Some of the rockets fell on a restaurant inside the base, located some 50 miles north of Baghdad, the officials added. No Iranian group immediately claimed responsibility but Iraq is positive that the rockets did not come from Israel.

There were no Americans on the air base at the time of the attack.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted:

“Outraged by reports of another rocket attack on an Iraqi airbase,” he tweeted. “I pray for the speedy recovery of the injured and call on the government of Iraq to hold those responsible for these attacks accountable.”

In a second tweet he added:

“These continued violations of Iraq’s sovereignty by groups not loyal to the Iraqi government must end.”

Technically, if the rockets came from another country, this would be considered an act of war. The attack came just several days after Iran fired ballistic missiles at Iraqi air bases Ain al-Asad and Irbil in response to the U.S. killing of Iranian terrorist and scumcrumpet extraordinaire, Cassem Soleimani.

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Previously, Balad Air Base hosted American trainers, advisers and a company providing maintenance services for F-16 aircraft.

These limited strikes by Iran appear to be a show of bravado after we blew away their head terrorist, much to the sadness of the U.S. Democratic Party.

Currently, Soleimani's comely daughter is calling for revenge for the smithereening of her father.

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U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS at the Mosul Dam

ISIS is not a JV team and the Yazidis aren't out of the woods yet. And let's face it, "targeted" airstrikes will not win the war in Iraq and even al Qaeda is not on the run. Almost everything you've heard from this president is bogus.

In spite of the fact that president Obama gave away his "strategy" (if you can call it that) to the enemy, basically telling them that we'll be out of Iraq before anyone really gets hurt and our airstrikes will be limited, the U.S. military actually increased its airstrikes today on ISIS (a group I refuse to call the Islamic State). Over this weekend, we have been gleefully destroying our own military vehicles and other equipment ISIS stole from Iraqi "ground forces" (if you can call them that) and blowing them to smithereens.

There have been 14 strikes in a joint military effort to retake the Mosul Dam near Irbil (which, coincidentally, was supposed to be Barack's middle name but it wasn't Islamic enough). Without control of this damn, the damn ISIS terrorists could open the floodgates and drown thousands of normal people in its path.

The weekend attacks were launched as Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi forces fought a large ground operation to retake the dam. 

Fun Facts: the Mosul Dam is the largest dam in Iraq and provides power and water to northern Iraq. It was first seized by ISIS on August 7th.

Fighter aircraft and drones conducted about 23 airstrikes near the dam and thus far, not a drop of water has been spilled. Commander of Kurdish forces, Gen. Tawfik Desty (his friends call him "Chesty") said they now control the eastern part of the dam, but the fighting rages on.

According to Fox News, U.S. defense sources state that the fighting is far from being over and in order to retake the dam, a "lengthy multi-phase operation" will be needed. But a senior official said that the operation will be mostly on the shoulders of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces because we don't want the world to see us as bullies or as being a country that is effective in actually bringing about real hope and change for the Yazidis and other minorities of the world.

The Sunday airstrikes also used bombers that have been part of the humanitarian effort to help Americans in Iraq and others who don't believe that Allah is the answer to their problems, but the actual cause of their problems.

A-10 Warthogs, which are used to provide close air support to ground troops, were also used and hopefully shot the crap out of ISIS with their farting 30 mm cannons. Watch the video and see just how cool these birds are.

But with Obama's military budget cuts, the A-10 is slated to be scrapped--just another brilliant strategy from our Community Organizer in Chief.


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In It But Not Really Committed to Iraq

President Obama told Americans on Saturday that we must be braced for a sustained military involvement in Iraq, adding that we are prepared to launch more airstrikes to protect our diplomats and citizens, but mostly our diplomats, and others under attack by ISIL, the terror group formerly known as ISIS, and now actually known as IS, not ISIL. 

"I don't think we're ah, going to solve this problem in weeks," Obama said. "This is, ah, gonna be a long-term, ah, project."

It's calming to know that the president sees the violence and barbarism as a project--he makes it sound like an extra-credit assignment in high school--but he went on vacation anyway.

The Yazidis fled into the Sinjar mountains in the north. They ran out of water and food and Obama's immediate strategy was to help them before going on vacation. Planes have dropped food and water, most of which hit the target, but some of which ended up in the bloody hands of IS troops. I imagine they had a good laugh over that and taunted us by waving empty bottles of Poland Spring.

Obama also said that he wants to provide safe passage for the Yazidis and allow them to return to the Kurdish regional capital Irbil.  (Obama's mother wanted to name him Irbil, but ended up with Barack upon the insistence of Barack Senior.)


Obama would like to help Iraq establish a functional and inclusive government, which is possible in a Muslim country that has no Jews to include. Obama hopes to do all of this by the 9th hole or 124 strokes, whichever comes first.

Currently, Mr. Obama, his broad wife and two sweet kids are vacationing at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. We know he brought his golf clubs and a basketball, but let's hope he remembered to bring a case of beer, just in case he needs to hold a beer summit.


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