President Obama says without an Iraqi government in place, its hard to get a unified effort against ISIS. Obama: No timetable for Iraq airstrikes. U.S. airstrikes have successfully destroyed arms and equipment that terrorists with ISIS could have used against the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil in Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday. We feel confident that military efforts can prevent ISIS from slaughtering people on Mount Sinjar, where ISIS has been killing many members of the Yazidi minority, Obama said in remarks at the White House. He declined to give a timetable for U.S. airstrikes and humanitarian air drops in Iraq. Wherever and whenever (U.S.) personnel are facilities are threatened, it is my obligation ... to make sure theyre protected, he said. The Iraqi government and military will need to take a series of steps to improve the security situation, Obama said. I dont think were going to solve this problem in weeks. I think this is going to take some time. Theres a lesson in this situation for Afghanistan, the president said: If leadership wants a new government to work, then people of different factions and ethnicities have got to accommodate each other.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:04:19 +0000
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