Do you agree with President Obama’s decision to resume bombings, aid in Iraq?

Associated Press

Declaring that "America is coming to help," President Barack Obama is authorizing U.S. airstrikes if necessary and airdrops of humanitarian aid in northern Iraq to counter advancing Islamic militants and the threat they pose to Americans as well as Iraqi civilians.

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The threat to renew U.S. military involvement in Iraq's long sectarian war came in a televised speech by Obama late Thursday. He said American military planes already had carried out airdrops of food and water, at the request of the Iraqi government, to tens of thousands of Iraqi religious minorities atop a mountain surrounded by militants and desperately in need of supplies. (Continue reading the story.)

Today's Question: Do you agree with President Obama's decision to resume bombings, aid in Iraq?

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