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2014-08-10 Iraq

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Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-08-10 02:55|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Thineng Angailet7166, your comment literally sent a shiver up my spine. That dear had very large, sharp teeth bared in it.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-10 07:24|| 2014-08-10 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Insufficient action. Playing to the press and ignoring the reality on the ground. What's needed is continuous, broad strikes across the entire region. Otherwise, we may as well be using water balloons.

This president is an idiot if he believes such limited tactical measures will have any tangible results overall.

God help the Kurds and all those with them, because it looks like we sure aren't going to do much of anything.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-10 08:55|| 2014-08-10 08:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The airstrikes are nothing more than optics for his base. He has no intention of stopping ISIS for developing their own nation. For crying out loud, he was raised a Muslim, he has his roots there. Stopping the caliphate to a muslim is like giving Israel back to the arabs for us. He cant and wont do it...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-08-10 10:19|| 2014-08-10 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ISIS Advances Despite Pinprick Air Strikes

Two mortars and a truck? Really?

Posted by Bobby 2014-08-10 10:24|| 2014-08-10 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll think we are doing something when I see a scene like that in Gulf War I, that is the road to Baghdad littered with destroyed equipment (our equipment btw) and dead ISIL militants.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-10 10:56|| 2014-08-10 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Um. If the bad guys can still advance, you're not killing enough of them.

Besides, I thought the standard was "just muscular enough not to get mocked"?

Posted by RandomJD 2014-08-10 13:58|| 2014-08-10 13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Maliki was roundly blamed by some for oppression against, and the unhappiness among, minorities in Iraq. So there was a movement afoot to push him out, with which he was not happy.

Maliki apparently criticized the newly elected President, and troops allegedly loyal to Maliki are reported to be circling the presidential palace.

Posted by Beavis 2014-08-10 19:45|| 2014-08-10 19:45|| Front Page Top

#8 According to sources, the threat posed by ISIL is significant enough to create some ODD bedfellows in the air offensive against ISIL.

The Turkish Air Forces has admitted to conducting air strikes against ISIL. The Iranian Air Force has been seen conducting air operations against ISIL, some of the new SU-25s purchased by Iraq from Russia are being flown by Russians and of course we have our guys conducting an occasional mortar, towed artillery, or armored vehicles.

So with that strange mix, there is an admission that ISIL is very dangerous.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-08-10 22:37|| 2014-08-10 22:37|| Front Page Top

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