“Even as the professional sob sisters of the War Party were demanding US military action to ‘save’ the Yazidis – an obscure Iraqi religious sect whose historic home on Mount Sinjar, in Kurdistan, was ringed with ISIS jihadis – the Pentagon was saying: ‘Never mind …‘: ‘Several thousand Yazidis remain on the mountain, a senior United States official said, but not the tens of thousands who originally were believed to be there. Some of the people who remain on Mount Sinjar indicated to American forces that they considered the mountain to be a place of refuge and a home, and did not want to leave, a second United States official said.'”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/14/iraq-the-humanitarian-catastrophe-that-petered-out/
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