Excerpt from this article:
"Only a day after Obama’s announcement that he had authorized 'targeted strikes' inside Iraq in order to combat the Islamic State (IS) advance, the United States has indeed followed through with their threat.
At least two waves of airstrikes against a variety of targets have already taken place inside Iraq. One of the airstrikes apparently struck an IS mortar position and an IS convoy near Erbil...Why bomb Iraq now you might ask? And why bomb the area surrounding Erbil? The answers to this question lie in the simple fact that the area surrounding Erbil – the Kurdish region of Iraq – is a “hub for US oil companies.”
(emphasis mine)
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Patrick Buchanan wrote somewhere concerning the Middle East: "They were over here because we were over there"
Recommended reading (my post)
Recommended video*
What Are We Fightin For? by Country Joe
*Please pardon the swearing in this video, but some might say it's the sound of freedom!
