Lazy Ramadi (SNL Remix)
Two US soldiers in Iraq enact a remix of the famous "Saturday Night Live" viral video "Lazy Sunday" In this version, "Lazy Ramadi," the soldiers rap, "I hate Ramadi / But there's no need to moan / Because the U Army won't let me go home" .Two U.S. soldiers in Iraq enact a remix of the famous “Saturday Night Live” viral video “Lazy Sunday.” In this version, “Lazy Ramadi,” the soldiers rap, “I hate Ramadi / But there’s no need to moan / Because the U.S. Army won’t let me go home.”
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One of the problems Iraq and Syria will face as Islamic State is gradually rolled back from its territorial acquisitions is that it will demobilize its conventional forces and return to being a terrorist organization.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced Friday that after the city of Ramadi was recovered from Islamic State, the Iraqi army would go on to liberate Mosul.
Given the large number of vehement pronouncements by U.S. presidential candidates about the dire threat from Islamic State, and attacks on President Obama for not doing more, you would think that the American public would be hanging on every word about any progress against the radical organization.
Shiite militias in Iraq have changed the name of their current campaign to take Ramadi from Islamic State from “I am here, O Husayn" to “I am here, O Iraq," since the former could have been interpreted as a sign of sectarianism.
Shiite militias in Iraq, joined by some Sunni tribal levies, on Tuesday reached a university campus just to the southwest of Ramadi in what is called a “shaping operation” intended to set the stage for an all-out assault.
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s blunt remarks Sunday about the Iraqi army not having the will to fight ruffled feathers in Baghdad and Tehran.
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