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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Why?

[ed_rex]

Why do you hate freedom so, underlankers?

[ddstory]

Why not in the voice of Alex Jones. Or Jesse Ventura. Or better yet, Michael Moore.

Or at least NdGT.

[underlankers]

Because Morgan Freeman is *the* narrator. ;)

[ddstory]

[yes_justice]

I don't narrarate often, but when I do, I explain the Universe!

[sandwichwarrior]

You forgot to mention that throughout the Iraq war that between 25% and 50% of the jihadi groups active in Iraq during the war were backed by the IRGC. So basically what we have is Iran making the same move that the US so often does. Get a proxy war going and then use that as an excuse to send your own guys in.

I fugure that Maliki wants to be in bed with the Iranians but it remains to be seen how the more Sunni and Sufi aligned south will take that.

Not well, I imagine.

[yes_justice]

Saudis can be included in that mix funding Sunni radicals. I want no part of it.

[underlankers]

If you think Al-Dawa wants to be in bed with the Iranians, you're quite mistaken. He's always been in bed with the Iranians. Bush killed a lot of American soldiers to put an Iranian-backed terrorist in charge of Iraq (so much for fighting well, terrorism!). As to the Sunnis and Kurds together, they're a minority. If the Maliki government decided on a crude attrition strategy it'd chew these people up and then have all the excuse it needs to open the same brutality Saddam did. Of course that would require it to actually fight, first.

[sandwichwarrior]

Openly in bed vice simply giving hand-jobs under the table.

And well no shit, never claimed that Maliki was anything other than bad news. The only question was just how "third-world-dictator" he was going to go, and now it seems we have our answer.

[oportet]

It's put us up 2-0 against them. For the sake of our economy, I hope this is a best of 5 series...

[htpcl]

Countries have been finding themselves in the Axis of Evil(TM) for that sort of impudence.