MESOP : TOGETHER WITH OBAMA HUSSEIN IN IRAQI WONDERLAND / ‘Iraqi forces not driven from Ramadi, they drove out of Ramadi’

 BY BILL ROGGIO | May 21st, 2015 | billroggio@longwarjournal.org | @billroggioThe US Department of Defense continues its bizarre stream of statements concerning the collapse of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi in the face of the Islamic State offensive. Last week, as Ramadi was under assault and the government center was overrun, General Thomas D. Weidley, the chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, talked about how the strategy to defeat the Islamic State was working and Ramadi was “contested.” Two days later, Ramadi collapsed, and today, Palmyra in Syria also fell to the jihadist group. – Today, General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military leader in the country, said that Iraqi forces weren’t driven out of Ramadi, they drove out on their own. From DoD News: http://www.mesop.de/?p=60698