Iraq's Fallujah falls to Qaeda-linked militants

Yep. They are saying the violence is the worst it's been since 2008.

I'm still amazed that the Iraqi Gov't still doesn't get it. Fallujah was one of our hardest earned victories and to allow them to piss that away is very disturbing.

Recently, on Nov. 1 in Green Bay, Wis., Obama said, “Thanks to sacrifice and service of our brave men and women in uniform, the war in Iraq is over, the war in Afghanistan is winding down, al Qaeda has been decimated, Osama bin Laden is dead.”

One day after the Benghazi attack that occurred on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, Obama spoke at a campaign event in Las Vegas on Sept. 12. “A day after 9/11, we are reminded that a new tower rises above the New York skyline, but al Qaeda is on the path to defeat and bin Laden is dead,” Obama said in Las Vegas.

On Sept. 13 in Golden, Colo., Obama said, “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq -- and we did. I said we’d wind down the war in Afghanistan -- and we are. And while a new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.” He repeated that line again on Sept. 17 in Cincinnati and again that day in Columbus, Ohio.

The next day at a fundraising event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Obama brought up the first 9/11 and used “decimated,” indicating past tense. “We’ve got choices about war and peace,” Obama said. “I ended the war in Iraq, as I promised. We are transitioning out of Afghanistan. We have gone after the terrorists who actually attacked us 9/11 and decimated al Qaeda.”

On Sept. 21 in Woodbridge, Va. and Sept. 23 in Milwaukee, Obama again said, “al Qaeda is on the path to defeat.”

The next day, campaigning in Bowling Green, Ohio, Obama again said, “al Qaeda is on the path to defeat.” That same day at Kent State University, Obama used the same line. Obama said the same thing on Sept. 27 in Virginia Beach, Va. On Sept. 28 at the Hilton in Washington, Obama said, “We said that we would go after al Qaeda, and they are on the run and bin Laden is dead.”

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I think you get the idea...

How many American soldiers died fighting there? For what?

People running our government are evil.

The Iraqis will have to flatten the town to get rid of the AQ group.

This is obviously tragic, and who the group is that's doing it doesn't really matter a great deal in terms of the cost of human life. What I'm curious about is how they determine what groups are "linked" to what other groups.

What we did in Iraq and Afghanistan was a tragedy that will leave that area suffering for generations.

But in this case, conservative media outlets also seem to not be giving these stories much consideration (yet). Maybe this will be the beginning of "Iraq Syndrome", as Iraq will represent the equitable failures of both the Bush and Obama administrations.

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While I agree what we did was a party foul I must say those countries put the fun in dysfunctional wayyyyyy before we were in the picture.

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True, but they were at least relatively stable.