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Caught On Tape - Drone Video Of US Airstrikes On ISIS

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From a drone's perspective, the moment the US started war with The Islamic State...

 

 

The US Navy released the clip above:

Two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 embarked on USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) struck Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets near Erbil, Iraq.

 

The F/A-18s dropped 500 pound laser-guided bombs against ISIL artillery targets. Bush is operating in the Arabian Gulf on a scheduled deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet.

 

The president has authorized U.S. Central Command to conduct military operations in support of humanitarian aid deliveries and targeted airstrikes in Iraq to protect U.S. personnel and interests, in response to activities conducted by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists.

 

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Sat, 08/09/2014 - 16:13 | 5070654 Moe Howard
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It is correctly called a GOLEM. Google it.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 18:35 | 5071033 Son of Captain Nemo
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It is correctly called a GOLEM. Google it.

MH

And it's why it has been and will continue to be a loser...  Too bad the U.S. had to hitch itself to that wagon so long ago!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:36 | 5070374 Lin S
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I wondered if Obozo didn't have the Navy bomb Iraqi government forces to aid IS, only to BS us about how "we tried air strikes but still IS continues to gain strength and prevail on the battlefield. Boots on the ground have, regrettably, become necessary. This is a long-term project."

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:13 | 5070300 Mi Naem
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Error.  Comment withdrawn.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:17 | 5070309 GooseShtepping Moron
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I would say this is actually time-lapsed electron microscopy of the malignant polyps in Barney Frank's colon. It's from his personal video collection labelled "drone strikes." He passed it off to the public and is getting off contemplating his gambit of secret exhibitionism.

Those people.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:19 | 5070314 dogismycopilot
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some of you guys are so fucking dense and short sighted it is beyond me. IRAQ HAS MORE OIL THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD. If you let the Jihadis get it, guess what IT IS GAME FUCKING OVER FOR THE WORLD. Check out the VICE video. You have them slinging black flags in the hands of 9 year olds and talking about being suicide bombers in Europe. Yes, the US fucked up removing Saddam. Yes, the US fucked up destabilizing Syria, I agree. Yes, THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN FUCKING UP FROM DAY ONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST but now it is at that point where it is so fucked up TO WALK AWAY NOW IS TO LEAVE THE LARGEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD TO A ZOMBIE FUCKING PLAGUE OF BARBARIANS WHO WILL USE THAT WEALTH TO MARCH ON ROME, PARIS, AND MADRID IN YOUR CHILDREN'S LIFE TIME. Was the war in Iraq about oil, yes. Did we get it, not yet but we're close...oh so fucking close we are to the oil...the last sweet, easy to get crude. billions of barrels of it. enough to supply the rest of the world for another 20 years while we get our shit together and figure out what to do with all of the Helium 3 on the moon (which is shining so bright here tonight in the Middle East you need sunglasses). BUT IF THESE ISIL FUCKERS THAT OBAMA GAVE BIRTH TO IN SYRIA TAKE BAGHDAD AND ERBIL THE WORLD HAS WE KNOW IT HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN TAKEN OVER BY ZOMBIES. Fuck Brad Pitt and his cunt wife. This is the real World War Z.

 

And while I am normally not a big fan of Michael Bloomberg's rag, I do think they had a well thought out op ed. For the rest of you guys who thinks the world runs on Pixie dust, you're no better than these barbarians who think the world runs on the Koran.

 

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-08/islamic-state-is-our-enemy

"Unchecked, Islamic State will present the U.S. with an ever-expanding range of problems demanding intervention -- from Baghdad, to Erbil, to Jordan and Syria and eventually at home and in Europe. No doubt in each case the intervention could be justified as an exception. It would be better for Obama to acknowledge, and explain, the encompassing problem."

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:27 | 5070342 Jackagain
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The US could care less about oil...just ask Lindsay Williams. It's the fiat Dollar they're fighting about. 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:48 | 5070382 r00t61
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I take it that you're going to be the first one to pick up your M4 and do the dirty work of "eliminating the barbarians"?

Otherwise everything that you write is just standard Zio-con 101 stuff that AEI and PNAC have been vomiting out for 20 years.

US veterans are committing suicide at a rate of 25/day as a result of the Afghan and Iraq debacles that have been wrought by sociopaths that think like you.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:06 | 5070462 sessinpo
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dogismycopilot   some of you guys are so fucking dense and short sighted it is beyond me. IRAQ HAS MORE OIL THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD.

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Wrong. When it comes to being dense, you win the grand prize.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:15 | 5071314 Lin S
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Oh bitch, please...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:45 | 5071539 mastersnark
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You write exactly like Dick Cheney when he's drunk.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:27 | 5072009 Flybyknight
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Are you a robot. I am sure I saw the exact same post on another ZH article. I think their needs to be another format for the comments process Anyone got any ideas.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:25 | 5070332 Lin S
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"Coming to Idaho and Montana in about 2 years."

Agreed. I've thought the same for awhile now.

But don't say that around any of Survivalblog's sundry, wild-eyed fanatics. Nooo...

Armed with their M1A's and fueled by an ISO container full of canned peaches, Rawles and his disciples will restore the American Republic!

Except for the drone thingy, which is a problem.

John Wesley, Rawles = John Wesley, Dead.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:53 | 5070586 Uncle Remus
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*chortle*

Apparently the faithful lurk ZH.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:37 | 5070375 Sorry_about_Dresden
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But, but, but I thought Bush Jr. declared mission accomplished. I think he meant giving Iraq to Iran.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:07 | 5070463 Amish Hacker
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Hope they saved the banner. We can use it again and again!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 16:15 | 5070664 Moe Howard
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It's in Libya right now but they are trying to arrange transportation back to Iraq.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:38 | 5070377 Son of Captain Nemo
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Nothin like a good "lasha"to put it all into perspective...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 14:42 | 5070392 f16hoser
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YIPEE! Another billion spent on two rag-heads parked along the road. For all we know, they were changing a flat tire...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:51 | 5070581 Uncle Remus
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Clearly they were heading for a wedding, so mission accomplished.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 18:44 | 5071058 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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That definitely broke the light bulbs ...

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 17:44 | 5073703 Sorry_about_Dresden
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And they refuse to renegotiate my student loans or even give me zirp? Wtf?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 17:43 | 5073704 Sorry_about_Dresden
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And they refuse to renegotiate my student loans or even give me zirp? Wtf?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:10 | 5070472 syntaxterror
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Looks like the bomb was sized about 500 times too large. But who gives a fuck when you can print money? And who gives a fuck 'bout killing anyone nearby? Not 'murica!!!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:13 | 5070481 adeptish
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A token (if even genuine) strike at ISIS, guaranteed to morph into mission creep into Syria and against Assad.

How better to stick it to Putin.

Uncle Sam, winning friends the world over...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:14 | 5070482 john milton
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i think they are trying to take control of the dam tonite... heard it cracking last night

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:39 | 5070550 Joebloinvestor
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The cockroaches just seem to come back with a more resilient roach.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 15:53 | 5070588 Luckhasit
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Only a 500lb bomb? I know it gets the job done and all but well, I was expecting something with more ass in it.

Does ISIS have anti air capabilities?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 16:17 | 5070672 Moe Howard
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Why didn't they use that MutherFuckerofAllBombs I heard so much about 10 years ago?

 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/moab.htm

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 17:43 | 5070910 papaswamp
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Two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 embarked on USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77)

Oh look its Bush's fault!!! haha!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 18:43 | 5071053 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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In Catch-22, Milo Minder Binder, the enterprising mess Sergeant, contracts w/ the Germans to bomb his own air wing's air field. Milo uses American bombers, but they are painted grey with German markings. The bombers take off from the American strip, drop their bombs and destroy several things, then land. Of course the airstrip was left intact so that they could land.

Get it?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:39 | 5071518 novictim
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Might be time for some newer material?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 19:22 | 5071165 tncaver
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What would happen if rockets were being fired into the city you live in, would you applaud whoever was doing it or would you try to stop it.I wanted us out of Iraq yesterday but these Islamic animals need to be put down. Instead of blaming the US and Israel for all the problems of the world, how about each one of you whining dickheads who don't live in the US tell us what country you are from. I'm sure some of you are Europeans. The eurozone is a worthless organization that is accomplishing for Germany what hitler couldnt do. For you russians on here and putin lovers, how about you  discuss the lack of freedoms in russia and how its run by a mob. China, their financial bubble is fixin to bust. You arabs , well ISIS shows us all what the religion of peace is all about. I dislike obama/holder and their agenda. Wall street runs this country. But i love my country, and  i hate the police state it has become. ZH you are quickly becoming another pravda, please stop and come back to your senses . And to the rest of you anti-American crying bitches, don't let me catch you around Quahog.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 19:26 | 5071172 Moe Howard
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Isn't Quahog a city in the People's Republic of Rhode Island?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:13 | 5071306 Lin S
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Not to worry, I wouldn't so much as take a dump in your putrid little cesspool of a town.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:37 | 5071692 nostromo17
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Are you Family Guy?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:29 | 5072608 Aussiekiwi
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"how about each one of you whining dickheads who don't live in the US tell us what country you are from".

I'm never going to tell you and you will never work it out.....Quahog, isn't that that hooker place?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 19:27 | 5071176 Joe Tierney
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Is it a Grand Scheme or just a clueless moron in the WH?

 

I dunno.

 

Bottom Line: Russia-China axis sees that unless they take global dominance away from the U.S., and damn soon, then the chaos is going to spread like Ebola-infected crap sandwiches we're being fed daily.

 

Which reminds me of a true saying - Life is a crap sandwich, and every day is just another bite, and you learn to take solace in the fact that today's bite was only bread.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:53 | 5071704 nostromo17
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The Grand Scheme is in the end we all will die.

Global Dominance, what global dominance? There is no Russia-China axis...that would indeed be a Grand Scheme. Maybe a Germany and Russia Axis (how poetic) down the road but who would care?

Anyway the U.S. is quite busy destroying itself, there is no need to meddle in other's grandiose misguided expectations like some other flight to quality currency or bond. Doesn't matter they are all crap at the moment.

If IS wants to be Martyred lets help them, its the least we can do. Silly fools, they want to fight hand to hand like men and show how macho they are and instead they will be killed like bugs sprayed with Raid one 500 lb bomb or so at a time.

"Massed at the bottom of the Mountain..." question is why hasn't that been bombed yet? -Because someone is hoping they will still serve to divide Iraq in thirds of Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites...which is an utterly preposterous delusional dream flashing us back to old New American Century idea stale as the rot that spawned it. When both parties have nothing but a 18 year old plan to show they should be shown the door.


Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:56 | 5071740 nostromo17
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Why use the singular "clueless moron in the WH" when its more like clueless Washington all of them? (Which I'll admit is singular too but in a plural way.)

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:17 | 5071320 pupdog1
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Kiss those two Toyotas goodbye.

Like hunting squirrels with a bazooka.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:55 | 5071734 nostromo17
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Which sounds like fun, hunting squirrels with a bazooka does.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:05 | 5071345 TomGa
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Well, that really taught 'em.  How many did we get? 20, 30 out of THOUSANDS, and a couple of trucks?  Brilliantly effective.  No blowback here.  /sarc off

 

Second, what did that munition cost us per truck and where's the rest of the tape so we can do BDA?

 

Third, who's going to hold that stretch of road Navy just cleared? The Iraqi Army? LOL.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:32 | 5071679 nostromo17
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Oh, I don't think we have Attila's Huns here.

 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:47 | 5071398 alentia
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The only reason Obama would destroys his child's toys... he can buy him newer more advanced toys...

 

Please note, no cleptocrat Pukin bashing here...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:37 | 5071514 novictim
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Bummer.

Nice, ya, but I would have preferred smaller yield munitions so that we could see the bodies fly up.  Or better yet, a close zoom in at a head/torso attempting to crawl toward the nearest ISIL base.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:30 | 5071673 nostromo17
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Thos 500 lb bombs sure do the trick sometimes.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:35 | 5071685 nostromo17
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"Mission Creep!" Ha HA HA!  Mission done already crept!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:10 | 5071887 Youri Carma
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This must be a joke. I see long rows of ISIS cars on the road in those vids and they only maged to nail two of them?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:14 | 5071894 Aussiekiwi
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Two farmers stopped on their tractors to have a yack, they won't be doing that again in a hurry. 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:23 | 5072005 Flybyknight
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Boring. Another advertisment for how everyone should be afraid of the USA. 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 02:49 | 5072063 putaipan
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tune in? drop out ? be happy ?

(woulda meant a lot more if it landed where i tried to drop it in the first page of the thread)

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 12:36 | 5072778 Haager
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I can't see anything special, nor that I could say it's an actual recording. Smoke bomb...

Or just something from a selling channel, just to show how 'our' bombs perform.

 

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