This post to be read in the voice of Morgan Freeman:

[underlankers]

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-06-12/iranian-troops-help-iraq-re-take-iraqi-town-of-tikrit/

And so, in a masterful display of the unpredictable shift of geopolitics, the day was 'saved' when the Iranians decided to step in to bail out their proxy in charge of Iraq. Iranian soldiers, unlike the soldiers of the US-created and US-equipped Iraqi

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[fizzyland]

A billion dollar a day war that we'll be paying off for generations?

[underlankers]

Aside from that, I meant. ;)

[fizzyland]

[abomvubuso]

Iran aiding their Shia proxy Iraq, how very unpredictable ;)

Iran will be the geopolitical overlord of all of Southwest and Central Asia

Provided that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan suddenly disappear from reality, that is.

[underlankers]

Iran's certainly going to do its best to make that happen, at least in military terms.

[fizzyland]

Ah Iran. Another foreign policy success story.

[htpcl]

Well played, Rowhani.

[pastorlenny]

Affordable healthcare.

[yes_justice]

I wonder what it cost to train them?

Because billions of dollars bought us soldiers who abandoned their weapons.

What precise benefit did the overthrow of Mr. Hussein get the United States again?

We improved their oil infrastructure and started trading it on the petrodollar. Notice the south wasn't going up in flames?

[underlankers]

You do realize that in Iraq the oil is all located in the northern region around Mosul, right?

[yes_justice]

No, I wasn't aware. I knew there were refineries and ports in Basra, but I didn't know where the reserves were located. I presumed it was closer to the south though, since its often said they just need to poke a hole in the ground and route it to a ship. I knew that some of the oil sabotage that happened during our occupation was in Basra, so I presumed the rest.

[underlankers]

The whole reason the British Empire merged three Ottoman vilayets into Iraq is that Mosul's oil needed Basra's port. That the Kurds are sitting on the best oil fields is the real reason why no Iraq capable of sustaining itself will ever allow a Kurdistan.