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2014-10-08 Iraq

Anti-ISIS operations cost US $1.1 billion

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Posted by Steve White 2014-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 There are currently more than 1,300 US troops in Iraq
Yet all are equipped with fairy wings so that there will be no boots on the ground....
(Why did my BS detector go off when reading the art?)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-10-08 00:34|| 2014-10-08 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto former US SecDef Leon Panetta in interview.

* E.G. RUSSIA TODAY > FIGHTING ISIS: US$1.1BILYUHN [since mid-June 2014], "30 YEARS OF WAR" TO COME.

The US-NATO/EU must not underestimate the ISIS/ISIL threat to TURKEY.

ISIS-CONTROLLED TURKEY = POST-SHAH PEOPLE'S ISLAMIST REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLIC OF IRAN, SAVE MUCH WORSE.

As per the MSM-Net, iff the US ever feared the post-Shah, Revolutionary Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini back in the 1980's, + Russians fear a resurgent, Nuke-armed "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey, THEIR FEARS WILL BE WORSE VEE AN ISIS-CONTROLLED NUCLEAR TURKEY [2030-2040/2050]. DITTO PER ISIS-CONTROLLED NUKE-ARMED IRAN.

THE ABOVE IS NOT COUNTING THE FUTURE US ELITE SOLDIER-CONVERT TO ISLAM OR RADICAL ISLAM KNOWN AS THE "ISLAMIC MAHDI/HIDDEN IMAM".

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And so it begins ... ...

* FREEREPUBLIC, TOPIX > OBAMA WANTS IRAN TO HAVE NUKES.

The Commies + aligned may indeed succeed in forcing Communism, Totalitariansim, + Sovietism, etc. on the US + West, but at the price of losing most or all of the rest of the World to Islam or Radical Islam = Allan-based Theo-Socialism + Global [Nuclear?] Jihad.

THUS, OF COURSE, THE COMMIES + ALIGNED BELIEVE THEY'LL BE SAFE FROM [Nuclear]JIHADI ATTACK + CONQUEST ALA THE NEVER-ENDING "GREAT GAME"???

[1960's-1970's = 2014 "INTERSTELLAR" MOVIE here].

But I digress ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-08 00:59|| 2014-10-08 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 We gots plenty of money. I heard this morning it's costing $1,000 per hour to treat Ebola Patient Zero in Dallas.

Figure we wacked 250 bad guys; that's ... [lesee, carry the one] $4.4 million a pop. Why not just buy them all first-class tickets to Tehran?

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-08 07:44|| 2014-10-08 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 They'll just take it out of The VA Administration Buffet Budget.

Like that'll happen...

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-10-08 09:29|| 2014-10-08 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Tell the Paleostinians that they'll have to wait a year or two for their boodle.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-08 11:22|| 2014-10-08 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 It would have cost less to have kept a combat brigade or two in Iraq.

Usual penny rich/pound foolish thinking of the liberals. It is never worth a nickel to stop chaos but it is always worth a butt load of money to clean up afterwards.

AND we are going to spend a lot of money and blood cleaning up after this administration.

The sad commentary is that Joe Biden would have made a better POTUS than nowhere man.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-10-08 15:25|| 2014-10-08 15:25|| Front Page Top

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