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2015-11-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

A-10 Takes Out ISIS Oil Tankers in Latest Battlefield Success

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Posted by gorb 2015-11-18 01:40|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 ....You might think those A-10 drivers were in...(puts on sunglasses)...Hog Heaven.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-11-18 04:35|| 2015-11-18 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Champ needed a PR win this week.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-18 07:30|| 2015-11-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Why were there any tanker trucks left in their territory before this?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-11-18 08:06|| 2015-11-18 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 ...let me guess. Graft?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-18 09:19|| 2015-11-18 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 " My Precious!" Ah...feel good story of the day...my fav little, ugly, slow, old planes perform well. I'd say heart-warming but exploding oil tankers took care of that for the IS bastards.

Posted by Warthog 2015-11-18 09:30|| 2015-11-18 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 About time!

Posted by Mike Mann 2015-11-18 09:58|| 2015-11-18 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I would have paid good money to see tanker trucks getting lit up by A-10s and AC-130s.

It is like a live action movie and a fireworks show all in one setting!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-18 11:06|| 2015-11-18 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 When did anyone pullback on retiring th A10?

Posted by chris 2015-11-18 11:49|| 2015-11-18 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 They should take out one of the ocean going tankers. That'll give pause to the folks carrying their oil to market. Of course the enviromentalists would be upset. Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's.

Posted by Grampaw Omusing6963 2015-11-18 13:08|| 2015-11-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's

Give 'em time, Grampaw.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-11-18 13:32|| 2015-11-18 13:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Rob Crawford asks the question of the week. We figured out that oil was Germany's weakness in WWII and went after it. Why haven't we done the same to ISIS?

Posted by Steve White 2015-11-18 14:23|| 2015-11-18 14:23|| Front Page Top

#12 #11 - because we were trying to defeat Germany?

Posted by Frank G 2015-11-18 16:12|| 2015-11-18 16:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Beat me to it, #12 Frank.

Posted by Barbara 2015-11-18 16:26|| 2015-11-18 16:26|| Front Page Top

#14 PJ Media has a claim that the oil tanker fleet was leafleted 45 minutes before the strikes, to allow the drivers to get away.

Posted by Mitch H. 2015-11-18 17:06|| 2015-11-18 17:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Mitch, the should have written the leaflets in Navajo.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-11-18 19:38|| 2015-11-18 19:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's

Hey, it came out of the earth, we're just putting it back.

Posted by bbrewer126 2015-11-18 20:03|| 2015-11-18 20:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Have these hogs ever failed to do the job, and for cheap, at that?

Posted by KBK 2015-11-18 21:21|| 2015-11-18 21:21|| Front Page Top

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