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2014-09-13 Iraq

Obama authorizes the U.S. military to target the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 He's at Sparks Steak House on East 46th Street every Friday night. Arrives about 7:00 pm, table #14, always orders the Porterhouse, medium rare with baked. I recommend out front, a curb hit. The restaurant will be packed.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-13 01:15|| 2014-09-13 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 There are a 100 ready and able to take over.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-13 06:51|| 2014-09-13 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly correct. Operation Vengeance took out Admiral Yamamoto, but the war in the Pacific continued for another two years.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-13 07:04|| 2014-09-13 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 It would have lasted a year longer (and 10 million Japanese dead of starvation) if the admiral had lived. PBUHis soul, he was an American born out of country.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-13 10:00|| 2014-09-13 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 What took so long?

He should have been a target from the time he made his little speech in Mosul...you know his little Rolex moment.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-09-13 10:24|| 2014-09-13 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Nudging up the weekend poll numbers, Bill.

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-13 12:38|| 2014-09-13 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 It would have lasted a year longer (and 10 million Japanese dead of starvation) if the admiral had lived. How much longer would the War in the Pacific had lasted if the Japanese Imperial hard boys had succeeded in supplanting Hirohito after the first two nukes were dropped? I think, a year or two longer and 10 million starved, unless those same hard boys had made a point of killing all the POWs they could -- in which case I think it would have motivated the US to repeatedly nuke the home islands to glowing green glass, no matter how long it would have taken, nor how costly it would have been.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-13 13:07|| 2014-09-13 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's have orange juice, white toast, go ahead and add Baghdadi to the big hit list, shrivvled eggs, no pork...here it is, chicken sausage, the fruit, and try for a one oclock tee time.

Wait. Executive decision. two oclock, that should make me just late enough to grab a cheesesteak at nineteen before coming home.

I'm Awesome.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-13 13:33|| 2014-09-13 13:33|| Front Page Top

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