— Three major Shiite militia groups pulled out of the fight for Tikrit on Thursday, immediately depriving the Iraqi government of thousands of their fighters on the groundeven as American warplanes readied for an expected second day of airstrikes against the Islamic State there.The militia groups, some of which until recently had Iranian advisers with them, pulled out of the Tikrit fight in protest of the American military airstrikes, which began late Wednesday night, insisting that the Americans were not needed to defeat the extremists in Tikrit.Together the three groups represent as much as a third of the 30,000 fighters on the government side in the offensive against the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL, analysts said.
via 3 Shiite Militias Quit Iraqi Siege of ISIS Over U.S. Air Role – NYTimes.com.
I only say this because neither country supports democracy or the beliefs that this country is built on. All we are doing is hurting US domestic oil and gas producing companies with this Obama foreign policy.