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Ollie North: Obama Invites Iraq 'Bloodbath of Biblical Proportions'
Monday, May 18, 2015 09:10 PM
By: Greg Richter
Despite White House assurances to the contrary, the loss of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State (ISIS) forces is not a minor setback, retired Lt. Col. Oliver North says.
U.S. forces fought "every day" in Ramadi between 2004 and 2007 because of the city's strategic importance, North said Monday on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
"It's the capital of Anbar Province, the key to the Euphrates River Valley," North said. "It is the only land ingress/egress from Syria all the way to the Iranian border, so it is a very strategic part of their country."
Ramadi also is the heartland of the Sunni population in Iraq, he added.
Though Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey in April said Ramadi was of little strategic importance, North disagrees.
"These are lies. It's a strategically important city. It was then, it is now, and it will be tomorrow," North said. "The Obama legacy is going to be a bloodbath of unprecedented, biblical proportions in Iraq because this is setting up the ultimate Sunni/Shia gunfight."