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| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2014 12:50 p.m. PST |
"Abu Murtada al-Moussawi answered the call last summer from Iraq's top Shiite cleric to help save the country from the Islamic State group, but after less than three months on the front lines he and several friends returned home because they had run out of food. "Sometimes, we didn't have enough money to buy mobile scratch cards to call our families," al-Moussawi, a Shiite from the southern city of Basra, said. "Everybody felt like we were being forgotten by the government." Now Iraq's Shiite religious establishment is urging the faithful to donate food, money and supplies. The clerics hope to prevent a repeat of last summer's collapse of Iraq's demoralized army in the face of the Islamic State group's lightning advance, which saw the extremists capture the country's second largest city Mosul and sweep south toward the capital…"
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| Mako11 | 20 Dec 2014 1:29 p.m. PST |
Apparently, someone didn't pay attention in War 101, to find out that 90% of the way to winning a war is logistics…….. Seems like ISIS has that down though. |
 Legion 4   | 20 Dec 2014 2:55 p.m. PST |
Seems the only ones in the area that can do any thing "right" is the Kurds and ISIS … |
 Bobgnar | 21 Dec 2014 3:54 p.m. PST |
An army travels on its stomach. |
| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2014 9:05 p.m. PST |
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