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US Military Releases Clip Of Assault On US Humvee (In ISIS Possession)
Or, as we like to call it, a promotion for the latest Keynesian GDP-boosting voodoo cult: the busted Humvee falacy.
We congratulate US Centcom on blowing up another Made in the USA Humvee. GDP boost: 0.001%.
That said, it appears that the US humanitarian assault in Iraq, which has 'mission creeped' into supporting the Kurdish resistance, may have succeeded in regaining control of Iraq's largest dam: moments ago Al-Sumaria TV cited Kurdish forces who insist they have captured the Mosul Dam from Islamic State fighters.
The question is for how long, and what happens if ISIS decides to simply blow it up next time and put Baghdad under 16 feet of water? Will that be spun as another "mission accomplished" for US intervention in Iraq?
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Great. We just spent several hundred thousand dollars to blow up a Humvee.
Also, I assume that clip was de-resolved. Otherwise, I can't imagine they knew what it was they were killing.
No, mission is not accomplished. We, the USSA will not be done until EVERYTHING is destroyed.
You've got a point. No dictator was ever truly "finished". They keep going until either everyone is gone, or they die, or someone kills them.
Even Kim Jong Un, aka Chubster has to keep some of the serfs alive in order to be real dictator. Doesn't mean you can't terrorize them, though.
Of course it's possible the Hummer contained another Seal team that knew too much. That footage was probably taken on a base on US soil.
Must make our grunts who routinely use Hummers for "Protection" feel very secure. They are made by GM, right?
I think they might have been designed more to protect against rock throwing arabs.
Is there any ex or current US servicemen posting on this forum. I'd love to know what on earth was running through your head when you enlisted in the US army/marines. The US was one of the most prosperous countries in human history and you'd expect under such circumstances there'd be no reason or drive to want to fight in wars. It's the stangest bloody phenomena, putting your life on the line because soime corrupt and morally bankrupt politician reckons it's time to get some cheap oil. What the fuck?
In fact, if you are currently enlisted why don't you just leave? (Maybe shoot a General or two on the way out).
most people don't follow politics closely enough to realise that the political elite are all owned by the banking mafia and/or AIPAC and the media isn't going to tell them cos they're owned by the banking mafia too.
but even then it's probably still worth enlisting for the skills and experience and the slim hope of a military coup.
just maybe there's a bit of propaganda going on wrt north korea
video producers JT Singh and Rob Whitworth show North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang in a cheerier light. In a state-sponsored visit, the pair created extensive footage of the city to create a time-lapse video of its people and sights.
http://time.com/3099035/north-korea-pyongyang-video/
obviously shows the best bits, but the metro/subway system looks good
especially the MCtm
/middle class
Right. Just imagine that a $69.95 (retail) RPG would disable a Hummer beyond eCONomical repair.
no way was that missile only $69.95, might well have cost the same as the hummer.
What? You were expecting us to use a confiscated IED?
There is a long and storied history of armies having their own countries' weapons used against them. What more fitting way to remember the guns of August 1914?
What? You were expecting us to use a confiscated IED?
That made I laugh!!!
In the early days of Australian settlement there was a decent stoush on Moreton Island just across the bay from Brisbane, the locals much enjoying the fight were dismayed and disgusted when the white fella's cheated and did not throw back the spears and killing boomerangs in the time honored fashion...this brought the rumble to a sudden stop....the white guys seeing the funny side to it all produced food and grog and the situation resolved into a barbecue....well, that's the story, you can't make this stuff up eh?
Great. We just spent several hundred thousand dollars to blow up a Humvee.
Look at it this way
we made the humvee
we made the missile
All on borrowed money
the MIC & the bankers are happy
& the golf monkey in the white house can play another round
The video of MH17 being shot down is even better than this clip. They can read the license plates with that satelite.
Hey,,, by the way what ever happen to thaose blaok boxes and the cockpit voice recordings? Seems everyone is silent on that.
good point, but you have to marvel most of all at the fact that Americans aren't asking that question, but a large minority will report to you that they are certain "the Russians" shot it down.
I suppose there are lots of data points at which one could have had an epiphany.
For me, I was alarmed that Dems didn't care about Fast n Furious, but also figured, shoe on the other hoof, the Repugnicants wouldn't either.
Benghazi, though - letting him die, the gun running to Syria for reasons having fuck all to do with "democracy" or Assad's non-use of chemical weapons, watching that dismissed by the Dems was to be expected, but nothing came of it... granted, it was lead for a few news cycles, but now its like something that happened under Carter.
No lie, no deception, no matter how big, will rouse the American people to do anything but vote for one of the two parties, watch television, or to do anything but forget the last crisis as soon as the new one pops up.
We are well past hopeless, and near collapse, and it strikes me that after the collapse [or near collapse] things will be rebuilt in much the same fashion... the rich will rob the poor, banks will exploit and rape productive work, and music will get shittier and shittier.
it's been going on for a long time, read
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq Paperback by Stephen Kinzer
Original Humvee's are death traps. Up Armored Hummvee's are even worse. All that additional armour just slows it down so you are an easier target to hit with an RPG. If you get hit with an IED the armour simply allows a higher internal blast pressure before the vehicle splits apart producing a higher casualty rate. I'm sure ISIS has all those Humvee's parked out in the open to distract from the civilian vehicles they are actually using.
Was an interesting hit though.
Would be very interested to know what they used for the strike.
Wasn't a 500lb bomb, not a big enough explosion.
Seems like it had a lot of kinetic energy though, tossed parts a long way (and no glimpse of the missile going in)
Also looks like the truck was probably carrying fuel. Big fireball, and flames persisting on the ground.
Kind of an odd one all around actually.
Not yet. Syria calls. Place your bets.
I regretfully give you an up-vote! It was granted and required because in such a fucked up world sarcasm plays a solid role. It helps us cope with the shit that is both falling from the sky and that those in power ask us to eat.
i get to eat lobster in 15 days
If US troops remained, isis would not have captured powerful weapons and could have been defeated. Now it will cost billions and 10000+ lives will be lost. Obama's greatest mistake.
Bush's mistake , not Obama's.
Bush started the dumb war.
You're both not getting the picture. ISIS is made up. Now they've captured our equimpent and shot up our humvee. Now we need to go kick ISIS ass (we were supporting them in Syria recently)
ISIS wants to raise the flag over the white house. That's scary. We need to get those guys. Plus, whatcha wanna bet ISIS pulls some terrorist shit here in the US. Then we'll all be rabid, flag waving, troop cheering dogs. Go get those evil ISIS guys.
Can't have perpetual war without someone to fight agains. need a new boogeyman, hence ISIS
It's spelled 1$1$
long standing play, persuade the people they are being terrorised/threatened and war is on. End of the iron curtain so bring on the muzzies, 9/11. Right now we're back to those scary russians/commies/chinks, just ignore the way more scary warlike americans with hundreds of foreign bases. There are only a few countries that have foreign bases and apart for the US they only have a handful each. If you can persuade the people the whole world is scary then even better, unlimited "war on ..."
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."
--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials
I shouldn't respond, but can't resist. Just amazing to me to see someone so far behind the story. You haven't been on this site very long, so maybe you haven't been exposed to this idea, but stay here awhile, and you will see that the concept of Republicans vs. Democrats has long since been dropped. There are decades of history arguing against meaningful policy changes from one party to the other. We'll just keep hammering on this, I suppose, until the false dichotomy is relegated to the dustbin of history.
So the right way to put it would have been: "The MIC started the perpetual war, as they've kept it going for a while now. They do not care one bit if it's a Republican or Democratic president, that will sign it off. Some presidents do it eagerly, others reluctantly, but in the end, both will do what they are told."
IMHO, Hillary and Romney will both do it eagerly, should they accept the burdensome mission of next presediency.
Yeah, those darned blue puppets!
it was neocons in Bush's time and its neocons in Obama's time. people still stuck in the left/right thing are part of the proble.
Perhaps tempo can send over his or her sons and daughters to defend Iraq? Heard a lot of yapping heads lately talking about going back in force. Perhaps they who would send the children of others should lead by example. Enlist and take your family with you.
Keep on the Sunni side of life.
This operation is setting up an interesting precedent.
Remember Bradley Manning's Collateral Murder leak? In that one targets were incorrectly identified as enemy combattants instead of reporters.
This time, thanks to ISIS US combat gear can be used against other US combat gear. Army intel is to relay whether a unit is one of theirs or one of our own. What if they wanted to deliberately cause friendly fire. What if they needed to eliminate their own personnel for whatever reason.
Now it's easier than ever.
Krugmanized $
So ISIS starts to put the HUMVEEs under camo netting very soon. IR mask and optical.
So ISIS gets more CIA/Israeli money and buys another HUMVEE.
Youtube clip?
The rocket cost a LOT more than the Humvee.
But hey, let's not squabble over the VoM (Velocity of Money). There are plenty more Petrodollars to fund that party.
Hummer: $90,000
Rocket to blow up Hummer: $190,000
Propganda value: Priceless.
The cost is outrageous considering how many useless appliences get dumped every year. Could they not add a cheap set of guidance fins to an old fridge or washing machine and hit the Hummer with that? They could fill it with broken glass instead of flechettes. Green munitions from recyclable materials to reduce the military budget.
Fuck that. Drop recalled GM vehicles. There are enough to wipe out ISIS and take care of the Syria "problem".
Better still. These muslims won't touch anything with pig blood on it so all US bombs should be Pigs with aiming fins.
Sper latt!
that would be a criminal waste of bacon
Don't waste bacon.
Well hell, just drop bales of USD on their heads, across Iraq and Syria and wipe out ISIS, much more cost effective!
The Hummer was used and likely abandonned as worthless which is how ISIS came to take possession.
But that missile was brand new. In addition to the direct costs it required an airborne delivery system costing $250 million, and this required a CVN launch platform worth $20 billion, probably closer to $100 billion when you take account of the supporting attack sub and destroyers. Just the fuel burned to get to that humvee was likely worth more than the value of the destroyed target.
Then add in the labour cost associated with getting that footage, cleaning it up for distribution, running it up the chain of command for approval and sign off and it is no wonder ISIS is winning. ISIS probably pays $50 a unit for decrepit Humvees it can park out in the desert in a threatening manner so the USSA can come along and spend billions to blow them up to convince the taxpayer that "mission accomplished."
Costs? COSTS?? These aren't 'costs'! They're economic stimulus, solid gold! - Paul Krugman
Langley MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
Considering that the mission from the beginning was to create a self-perpetuating clusterfuck to funnel money into the military/industrial/security complex, I'd say that they've done an aboslutely brilliant job.
Moar Obama, moar Martha's Vineyard, moar money-printing, we are on the right track!
The military-industrial complex produces the equipment and then blows it up. Make profit with both. No wonder their pounding the table for more wars.
snuff films for jesus.
sick.
Paul Krugman masturbating after seeing this. USA destroys everything , no different than ISIS
I bet Obama can't wait to get out of office. What a mess has been made between he and Bush.
Nah he is going to be Dictator. Amerika is gonna fundamentally transformed.
Just wait until Hitlery gets her grubby little hands on things!
No, he just wants to get back to the course.
West Point Education at it's best
Yes... in the Lessons Learned meeting, we learned: ORDNANCE is the biz model to have. Built-in obsolescence -- use once and buy again.
Kinda like Toilet Paper, but a lot less useful for the masses.
Hard to tell in the Middle East. A lot of equipment that would obsolete against Putin's Russia is good pretty much forever over there.
"Keep those GM plants moving" which is far from the military industrial complex but is pretty much what you get with "Bailout Nation."
When Harley's start showing up over there then I'll be worried.
Expensive video games.
The Next Gen is being trained in Video Games to ensure USSA bombs more. It;s for the kids you know
This looks like a variation of Obama's 2009 program, "Cash For Clunkers." That program turns out now to have been a complete economic failure, even if it did get rid of some cars with smokey tailpipe emissions. Blow up enough Humvees and the ISIS murderers will switch to MRAP vehicles, which they also have, thanks to our Iraqi "allies."
I appreciated it. I traded a $250 1992 S-10 for $2500 and bought 2 Korean KIAs. Forward!
Was that the dreaded "Jelly bomb"?
Iraq (Saddam) & Iran (Mohammad Shaw Reza[the kid pahalvi*]) and the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Agreement (*1975)
http://youtu.be/VFEBJV-PsiA
A Thursday article in the New Straits Times, Malaysia’s flagship English-language newspaper, charged the US- and European-backed Ukrainian regime in Kiev with shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 in east Ukraine last month. Given the tightly controlled character of the Malaysian media, it appears that the accusation that Kiev shot down MH17 has the imprimatur of the Malaysian state.
The US and European media have buried this remarkable report, which refutes the wave of allegations planted by the CIA in international media claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin was responsible for the destruction of MH17, without presenting any evidence to back up this charge.
The New Straits Times article, titled “US analysts conclude MH17 downed by aircraft,” lays out evidence that Ukrainian fighter aircraft attacked the jetliner with first a missile, then with bursts of 30-millimeter machine gun fire from both sides of MH17. The Russian army has already presented detailed radar and satellite data showing a Ukrainian Sukhoi-25 fighter jet tailing MH17 shortly before the jetliner crashed. The Kiev regime denied that its fighters were airborne in the area, however.
The New Straits Times article began, “Intelligence analysts in the United States have already concluded that Malaysia flight MH17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile, and that the Ukrainian government had had something to do with it. This corroborates an emerging theory postulated by local investigators that the Boeing 777-200 was crippled by an air-to-air missile and finished off with cannon fire from a jet that had been shadowing it as it plummeted to earth.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/09/mala-a09.html
"Vanishing point..." by Mr. Pepe Escobar 8/15/14 link doen't work use below:
Ref: " It was Putin's missile!" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Escobar.html
Pleeeeeease. There are far better and more reliable places to read this information than the World Socialist Web Site.
I'm sending the IRS my withholding tax this month so this fucked up piece of shit government can continue to protect me.
Well then... don't. Use the money instead to purchase protection for yourself.
You'll need it because your government will come to collect.
We're routing them in the east. We're routing them in the west. So much so that we must give them our weapons so to prove how much we are routing them further!
Obama's necon puppeteers have a dilemma here. They want the maximum number of liver-eaters camped in Syria to bleed the Baathist government, but they need to pull them out of Iraq now that they have a more pliable tool running things there.
Simply ordering a retreat would be a little crass. Throw a trivial number of bombs and the necons can call 'victory' when their pet gangstas return to their Syrian bases. Rest and resupply for the next mission.
You get the feeling that ZEROHEDGE
Is our 24 hour Up-To-The-Minute ISIS Ebola Putin
Synder News Channel?
With EU & Armstrong thrown in as after thoughts
Yep, economic analysis is pretty much gone.
seriously? how can you give any kind of thoughtful/ empirical economic analysis when the ussa doesn't have a free-economic/ trading market! it has been (usurped by depotism) captured by a private bank... that being the FRB's that now oversees employment, the housing market, the bond market, and what's left of a buy the F''''king 'Stock&Load?', Dip`pity-shit bubblelicious fascist/captialist market, front-loaded by HFT algo's. only a fool would try to make heads or tales of this joke...
what's a tyler too do?
How much can you say about rigged markets? They're rigged, end of story.
That's all we've heard last 5 yrs or so, rigged markets. 10,000 "market analysts" all say the same thing, rigged markets. It gets boring after a while and financial sites run out of real financial news to report.
But police state and WWIII are escalating now, so head over to that beach and ride those waves.
If I had a financial site I would do the same thing, because it's really all about page views.
I understand but i think zerohedge is mainly about failed systems or being cynical of systems people put their unreasoned faith in.
zerohedge admins might be better off "segregating" the different aspects of the site by category ECONOMICS/USA/ASIA/MIDDLEEAST etc.. like bloombergs website
this is an outrage
this is anti semetic
how dare obongo kill innocent mossad rabbi's going about every dayl iraq oil stealing works.
come on team usa give the chosen ones a break here already.
they need that oil for money conversion so they can pay compensations to all the millions of anne franks killed
by hitler during the bbc framed story of ww2
...yet another off topic and twisted post from 'tony wilson' - you are skidmarking all ZH articles with your ridiculous meme. & now holocaust denial, in an article on usa blowing up a usa vehicule.... wow. Look mate, if any one religion ceased to exist, do you really think it would instantly be global unicorns & rainbows ? grow up you troll.
Maybe every Hummer needs a remote self-destruct implanted chip.
For those moments when the Humvee carries terrorists or Pat Tillman types
A "remote self-destruct implanted chip" or a GPS chip should be placed in a lot of our equipment if only as a way to totally disable it. This is a must in anything designed to bring down aircraft.
What a ironic and sad tangled web we weave things have deteriorated to the point that people in American are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and is rapidly morphing into a failed State. It is often unwise to take your eyes off a problem for long because when you look back you might find that things have gone horribly wrong, this is the case in Iraq and Syria.
It is amazing so many people don't have a clue as to what is going on. Recently the group called ISIS shocked much of the world by swiftly capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. More on what is happening in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....
"...swiftly capturing Mosul..."
That's because their senior commanders all quit just prior to the Fake ISIS advance. They told the police (troops) to abandon their positions and leave their equipment. The troops in Mosul were predominantly Iraqi Kurd peshmerga, who - on cue (almost like it was planned all along) - packed up their personal belongings from positions in the West of Mosul and drove across to the Kurdish Right Bank of Mosul. No fighting, no shooting - they just left.
There was no 'swift offensive' or 'capture' of Mosul by Fake ISIS - they simply showed up completely unopposed and parked their Humvees as planned. No Iraqi Sunni commanders, no peshmerga troops. Just unprotected Iraqis that were acceptable civilian sacrifices in this manufactured invasion.
That God Damn half-price Kurdish oil WILL start flowing to Haifa soon or pedophile U.S. congressmen WILL be exposed.
Don't be so pessimistic. S&P 500 is almost 2000. Everything is fine.
Man we make good bombs
Wow....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtdXzBSVaU
i think i actually like the kurds. they never give us any trouble and they have put up with a bunch of shit over the years from saddam, extremists, usa policy etc.. if they need help i'm inclined to give it to them, along with the northern oilfields.
Well said, I wish I could give your comment more than one up-vote,
Buzz, you're absolutely correct, in your observation. The real stinger in the ass of radical Muzlimhood is the Kurds were gassed by Saddam in the '80's-'90's.
It's ironic that the Kurds are protecting Christian refugees?
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i can bet my left nut that US FOREIGN POLICY will eventually stab the kurds in the back and paint them as the enemies one day
Wow, they actually destroyed a Humvee used by ISIS! What a colossal victory! HEARTS AND MINDS= WON!
Oh wait, that hearts and minds thing was Bush... what's Obama's? Cock and balls? Yeah, I think that was it "We must win the cocks and balls of the Iraqi people".
Pure theater; I wonder when ISIS will get resupplied by the West.
Your tax dollars at work....
This hurts more than paying for.the.Obamas endless vacations. How much did it cost.to train the pilot, build the plane, build the missle, the aircraft carrier, the deck crew, the humvee, and all the other things that had to happen tk make that one explosion? And the result is a big fat failure on so many levels.
"We are all Assad, now!" - Slogan for 2015
A Keynesian wet dream in action
Wonder how much it cost the US tax-payer to buy the HumVee, ship it to Iraq, give it to the Iraqi Army, train Iraqis to use it (including the cost of the instructors), then fly an aircraft to Iraq, arm it and blow it up.
One keystroke by the Fed...
Bought the humvee off of EBAY.
/sarc
To help do a pure bang per buck cost analysis:
- how much does a Hellfire cost?
- how much does a Hummvee cost?
ask the chinese.
The neocons in Washington DC seem to have latched onto this ISIS crisis in Iraq as a pretext to fulfill a deam of theirs. That is to create a pro USA Kurdish state out of Northern Iraq. This mini state will be heavily armed by the USA and act as an Iraqi Israeli to fulfill American foreign policy and military goals to control the middle east. Last week some major Neocons made media interviews in which they proclaimed for a new Kurdish state a state that would operate as the Washington puppet in the region. The plan is to first arm the Kurds to allow them to secure the states borders and the oil fields. Then a vote will be held inside this territory "for or against" and independent state. The vote is considerd to be 80% + "for". Then Washington will recognize the vote and aid the new state in it's military and political growth into the world's newest nation and staunch Washington puppet.
Oddly enough, as I listened to the Washington Neocon plan for Kurdistan, I noted that it was a nearly exact replication of the Ukraine's Crimea, an ethnic Russian territory that has long sought independence from the violent and corrupt Kiev government. I was not surprized that the Washington DC use of the same formula Crimea used, a military control of the border and then a vote "for or against" independence. Only difference in the two is that Washington is exceptional on this earth and is empowered with special status and no international law pertains to them. While the evil Crimea and the even more evil Russia broke every international law by defending Crimeas border and them allowing a vote. All that was criminal and an attack on the world community. WHile Washington's Kurdish State is all legal, ethical, humanitarian and a long overdue granting of freedom to Kurds from a violent and corrupt Baghdad Government.
See the benefits of self proclaimed exceptionalism!
There is no 'the Kurds'.
There are Western Kurds in Syria/Turkey that the U.S. considers terrorists. We've been killing them through FSA and Turkush proxies. They don't have oil and nobody recognizes their autonomy or independence.
Then there's Iraqi's Southern Kurds that have been infiltrated and groomed by Israel and the U.S. for decades. Strategically important land for the invasion of Iran and plenty of oil for the stealing. Independence for these Kurds is hyped because that would make past illegal oil contracts legal and allow a fraction of Iraq's population to steal over half of its oil reserves. All to the benefit of Israel and the U.S. Exact same ethnicity as the worthless Western Kurds, but location is everything.
Ever think how Hawaii became a State???
We won!!!
Looks like its time to buy Raytheon, which had pulled back nicely.
Actually I think that a good argument can be made that Queen Victoria started this war. It seems to have been going on for well over a century. Different players come and go but the war is permanent.
I find the USA attacking it's own, taxpayer paid for, military equipment with expensive Aircraft, also taxpayer paid for, as typical of the new 21st century era of endless American war. If we can arm, fund and train ISIS inside a NATO nation like Turkey and also our allied nation Jordan, IF we can arm and fund both sides in an endless war, the profits going to American Arms manufactureres is nearly unlimited. This new world order in which Washington DC arms Al-Qaeda and ISIS, a proven FACT, and then arms, funds and trains the Iraq army to fight them, well how can this not boost Military Industrial Profits sky high?
I imagine those who consider themselves American Patriots and who wholly support things like Iraq war, Libyan bombing, proxy Syrian war, Israeli's gaza massacre, the occupation of Afghanistan and Obama's personal world wide drone wars. I imagine these so called American Patriots must have an stake in the Military Industrial Complex. Either they are share holders, or perhaps even employed in this industry, or government employees, or even military memebers who think they are doing good in these nations, I just get the feeling that those who support all this on patriotic grounds MUST have a personal benefit coming from all this. Because a real patriot would see the cost and the madness of Washington DC on us all, and their taking away of all freedoms here at home to aid their terror war. How does one square being patriotic with supporting the last 12 years of endless wars. Simple question, why do you support the arming of ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Turkey and Jordan? Do you support the terror war the USA unleashed on Syria? And now these same terrorists are attacking Iraq, a nation ordinary Americans paid 1 trillion dollars to conquer and who sent sons to die in the thousands and be terribly wounded for life in the tens of thousands?
Even the dollar equation is the wrong way round for the US.
Assuming the Kurds etc pay for the military hardware in US$ debt or oil, the US is giving real product for the oil/$, not the 'free to produce' dollars they usually palm off on foreigners.
Perpetuum mobile
War porn images yes.
Flagged draped coffin images no.
just another test run by the US military using new technology on live targets
both sides reload - and that's good for business too
When all you have to steal assets and freedoms is a WAR ON TERRORISM, then you gotta keep coming up with TERRORISTS.
Never forget who the real TERRORISTS are...
All it will take is ONE. Just ONE.
As soon as ISIS gets its hands on an American, footage of their decapitation will be all over the internet.
This will be TSHTF moment that will lead to all out war (because if Barry refuses to repond forcefully to it, the Dems will lose the Senate)
This is the new economics of war.
It's like the slogan from that old Dorito's commercial: "Go ahead, steal all you want, we'll make more."
That was a nice clean humanitarian strike (sic).
They never knew what hit them: A American $20,000 rocket destroying an American $100,000 truck.
Screw the US debt tax payer.Ha. Ha.
Hey at least that Humvee will never end up on USA streets with a bunch of cops in it.
Would have been a lot cheaper to put on-star in all those humvees and just phone them in as stolen.
The GDP gain should be negative twice:
- US property was destroyed.
- Additional US effort was required.
God bless America – as no one else will.
The neo-cons think they benefit from MIC profits, the Supreme Court thinks it benefits from corporate personhood, everybody thinks they benefit from things that makes them hate themselves deep down. But it's not plain stupidity when others are marginalized and killed, it's BAU.
I trust the Kurds more than anyone else in Iraq. You can count on them. As an American citizen (for whatever that's worth nowadays) I trust the Kurds even more than I trust our National Command Authority, including our Muslim-in-Chief..
We now live in a age of hate;ruled over by Warlords.
The domestic policy is to promote hate between citizens eg. Red vs. Blue.
Then the foreign policy is to promote hatred of those we do not even know
Now?
The war to dominate all of civilization, still going on, began in AD 634.
The first battle lost by western civilization in this war was fought in Syria http://tinyurl.com/kesgda5
Although Yarmouk is little known today, it is one of the most decisive battles in human history…
Had Heraclius' forces prevailed, the modern world would be so changed as to be unrecognizable.
divide and rule. same strategy in the US and Iraq
I have issues with this video. The large chucked out area to upper right. This is a normal video. Please comment. See below
http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-strikes/apache...
Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza....the classic Israeli/AIPAC shell game
I'm a GM man myself and I, for one, congratulate USA Centcom on the destruction of the Humvee too. We cannot have ISIS driving any Humvees IMHO. No way in hell would I tolerate that USA. Let them drive camals and donkeys but not Humvees.
p.s. Keep up the good work, Centcom.
I hope it was insured.