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2015-02-18 Iraq

Report: 15 Muslim worshipers killed after US airstrike mistakenly targets Iraq mosque

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-18 13:14|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Preventive action?

Posted by Enver Forkbeard3609 2015-02-18 13:23|| 2015-02-18 13:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Just because they had AK's, NSV's and Manpads doesn't mean that they don't answer the call to prayer.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-02-18 13:26|| 2015-02-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The categories 'persons residing in a mosque,' 'Muslim worshippers' and 'theocratic, totalitarian genocidal war criminals' are not mutually exclusive.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-02-18 13:28|| 2015-02-18 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee....

Darn.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-02-18 13:38|| 2015-02-18 13:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I know, Marie Harf is going to tell us "It wasn't a real Muslim mosque, or a real Muslim prayer."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-18 13:40|| 2015-02-18 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 So much for 'strategic patience'...

Posted by Raj 2015-02-18 14:32|| 2015-02-18 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Propaganda. But it seems that ISIS is very good at managing the media and propagating their beliefs. Look at it, they burn people in cages, cut their heads off on you tube, machine gun them into ditches reticent of Nazi Germany, Line up a bunch of Christians on the beach and beheads them, and the world remains fairly ambivalent to them. Its amazing. I always wondered how we allowed the Nazis to get as far as they did before jumping in to help. Now I know, I am reliving history. I mean, really? We have some legally blond chick that says I'm not smart enough to catch the nuances of her statement? Italy is taking a lead role in ISIS in Libya? This world is upside down.

Posted by 49 Pan 2015-02-18 15:03|| 2015-02-18 15:03|| Front Page Top

#8 This is what happens whe we and other countries have no leadership. Sad thing, Pan

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-18 15:18|| 2015-02-18 15:18|| Front Page Top

#9 1. How long did the secondaries last?

2. What was the mistake?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-02-18 15:21|| 2015-02-18 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 It'll be parity when we read of Christians beheading random groups allan worshipers. Until then its a measured response.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-02-18 17:33|| 2015-02-18 17:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Workplace accident. Shucks, I was hoping we had relaxed the ROEs.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-18 17:43|| 2015-02-18 17:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Even after an attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor the Western political class had no desire to deal with the Taliban in a serious manner.

Doing so would have hurt feelings, and hurting feelings was, has been and is absolutely verboten.

Why should one expect them to do anything consequential about ISIS, a group that so far has 'only' committed war crimes 'over there?'

I don't buy politicians' professed outrage over ISIS' crimes when the same politicians want to negotiate with the Taliban, serve the Taliban, pay the Taliban and endorse Taliban rule. All this AFTER 9/11.

For these politicians ISIS is a distraction to buy time for Iran to acquire nukes and missiles.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-02-18 17:55|| 2015-02-18 17:55|| Front Page Top

#13 The main difference between Republicans and Democrats? We have a D President when this happened. Republican: "Meh, collateral damage."

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2015-02-18 19:43|| 2015-02-18 19:43|| Front Page Top

#14 "WHO GROANS BENEATH THE ~~PUNIC~~ MUSLIM CURSE
AND STRANGLES IN THE STRINGS OF PURSE,
BEFORE SHE MENDS MUST SICKEN WORSE.

HER LIVING MOUTH SHALL BREED BLUE FLIES,
AND MAGGOTS CREEP ABOUT HER EYES.
NO MAN SHALL MARK THE DAY SHE DIES.

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2015-02-18 20:26|| 2015-02-18 20:26|| Front Page Top

#15 We will have to have a Boston bombing event three times a day like in Baghdad or Beirut before the Helter Skelter Manson hippies in charge of the media will react in any way, and with Barry the scat eating muslim homo in the White House, you are guaranteed to get it. Sorry for the coming victims, but until dismembered limbs are on TV every days, people will keep voting for the likes of Barry Hussein.

Posted by hotspur666 2015-02-18 21:01|| 2015-02-18 21:01|| Front Page Top

#16 #6 So much for 'strategic patience'...

Reminds me of that cartoon with two buzzards sitting an a branch: "Patience, hell. I'm gonna kill something."

Posted by SteveS 2015-02-18 21:09|| 2015-02-18 21:09|| Front Page Top

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