http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-military-airstrikes-in-iraq-boost-morale-of-thousands-of-besieged-residents/2014/08/31/4cc50f94-30d9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html?hpid=z1
IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi troops aided by U.S. airstrikes entered the besieged town of Amerli on Sunday, residents and Iraqi officials said, breaking a months-long blockade of the Shiite Turkmen village by Islamic State militants that raised fears of a massacre.
“Amerli has been liberated,” said Mahdi Taqi, a local politician and resident who was in the town during the siege. “There is so much joy, and people are cheering in the streets.”
Jihadists had surrounded the town in June, preventing food and other aid from reaching the population. Residents had armed themselves to fend off the militants, who have made sweeping gains across the country in recent months, but critical supplies began to run low.
The U.S. strikes around Amerli on Saturday appeared to swiftly tilt the balance in favor of Iraqi forces. The Pentagon said the air raids would be “limited in their scope and duration.”
that's not what you hear on Fox and in all fairness some mainstream media, i think any news we hear now a days is dangerous and does not help Pres. is our need to know any more important than those rights they have taken and seek to take like voting? i think Pres. may have said he had no plan to twart the right wing from spinning it and creating a leak of their design not his. they haqve IMO created a lot of foreign backlash by doing just that remember anything to make him look bad their number one job.
calling him weak and saying they would rather have Putin as their president is not the American way it's the Russian/ republican way. they have in their rabid endeavor to sink this Pres. has proven to be the undoing ofthe country, and the really harmful part they don't care as long as they can con you into putting them back with the help of gerrymandering and voter suppression, when we look back we will blame them not Pres. i say it again America does not deserve Barrack Hussein Obama. they prefer the foreigners they have alienated for decades, or so they say.
