“We could send a million American troops all over the world, or we could work with the countries and say, ‘you have some responsibility to protect your own country and the United States can’t come in and do it all for you, ‘” Leahy said.
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“If Congress believes, as I do, that we are at war with ISIL”, Obama said, using another acronym for the Islamic State, “it should go ahead and vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists”.
U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Orly airport near Paris, France, December 1. And we need Iran to make clear it supports an equitable power-sharing agreement in Iraq between Sunnis and Shiites, so moderate Sunni Arabs will fight ISIS rather than seeing it as their shield against Iran.
Meanwhile, on December 1, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the military would be increasing its number of American special operations forces in Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS.
The Amnesty report included videos and images of how these arms and weaponry have fallen into the Islamic militant’s hands.
The Iraqi Army’s stockpile swelled around the 1980-1998 Iraq-Iran war, which the report described as “a seminal moment in the development of the modern global arms market”.
Additional reporting from CNN. “And even more recently, supplies to Kurdish forces in post-, mid-2014 were mainly old Warsaw Pact stock”.
Although ISIL fighters have an essential stock of weapons – consisting mainly of Kalashnikov assault rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers but also including Russian armored vehicles and tanks and U.S. Humvees – Wilckin said the main issue was not its conventional armory but improvised weapons.
According to the human rights defender, the arsenal used to commit atrocities in Iraq and Syria comes from more than two dozen countries, including the United States and European Union countries. She said, in order to minimize ISIS’ rhetoric of legitimacy, any declarations of war should include language that emphasize the illegitimacy of ISIS, and America’s relationship with other legitimate states in the region fighting against the terrorist group.
However, the Pentagon admitted that these monitoring programs don’t apply to equipment that is lost on the battlefield. Every fact check site has rated Obama’s statement as “true”, and contrary to Jeff’s assertion, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph Dunford, stated Obama was correct in that, since 2010, “Tactically, in areas, they (ISIS) have been contained”. We also know that ISIS is aggressively pursuing a more robust chemical weapons capability and, to that end, has recruited scientists and other technical experts.
The report calls for “deeper institutional risk assessments” for arms export, “denial rule on the export arms to the Iraqi Government”, “cease all transfers of arms to the Syrian government”, and “complying with the United Nations Security Council arms embargo on ISIS”, among its recommendations. The complicated scenario in Iraq and Syria resulted from reckless arms trading.
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The AI released its the 44-page report that also mentioned the range and scope of IS’s arsenal reflects decades of irresponsible arms transfers to Iraq. “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory”.
