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US Military Stockpiling "Massive Amounts" Of Gear Near Iraq
Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an allied offensive against the Islamic State group, US News reports. Air Force Maj. Gen. Rowayne “Wayne” Schatz admitted, "from June to December, we’ve worked a lot on moving items into Kuwait," including 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs. While the military stands by President Barack Obama’s repeated pledge that he will not put U.S. combat forces on the ground, an increasing number of U.S. troops has slowly trickled back into Iraq, as the US and its allies are reportedly planning for a massive spring offensive to retake territory from ISIS.
Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an allied offensive against the Islamic State group.
The facility's warehouses and large asphalt yards now are home to roughly 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs – the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles that have been ubiquitous in America’s prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also some electronic equipment and other supplies at the depot, located at Kuwait's Shuaiba port, defense officials say.
The gear, primarily from the Army, will be fixed up and held as top U.S. planners in Iraq determine what they’ll need to defeat the Islamic State group in the coming months, says Air Force Maj. Gen. Rowayne “Wayne” Schatz, the director of operations and plans for U.S. Transportation Command.
“From June to December, we’ve worked a lot on moving items into Kuwait,” he says. “The Army is holding the gear there, and it has room to hold it, as the mission fleshes out.”
The U.S. military and its allies are reportedly planning for a massive spring offensive to help Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga fighters retake territory from the Islamic State group, particularly traditional Sunni Muslim bastions such as Anbar province west of Baghdad and the key city of Mosul.
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It represents a full circle for the protracted Middle East wars the U.S. continues to be drawn into: Much of the equipment taken out of Iraq during America’s complete withdrawal in 2011 was sent to nearby Afghanistan, where it had to be retrofitted to be effective in the rural mountains of the Hindu Kush and deserts of Helmand and Kandahar provinces, as opposed to the urban environments of Baghdad and Mosul. Now, as the war winds down in Afghanistan, the Islamic State group's sweeping incursion toward Baghdad has forced the U.S. to again focus its attention there.
While the military stands by President Barack Obama’s repeated pledge that he will not put U.S. combat forces on the ground, an increasing number of U.S. troops has slowly trickled back into Iraq.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had ordered 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to join other advisers and trainers at headquarters in Baghdad and Irbil, as well as facilities elsewhere in the country. Roughly 1,700 troops are in Iraq already, with as many as 1,300 more to deploy.
But it's not all going to Iraq, much of it is coming home... as the militarization of 'Murica continues...
As of this summer, there was roughly $36 billion worth of equipment slated to return to the U.S. after being extricated from Afghanistan either by air and to nearby transfer facilities like the one in Kuwait, through a complicated land route north of Afghanistan, or through border crossings into Pakistan and on to one of that country's ports.
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I move to award statehood to Iraq.
Well, it's not like ISIS is gonna arm itself!
1) Re-invade
2) Re-withdraw
3) Re-fuck everyone in the ass
4) Repeat
We re-bombed some folks.
All those congress-critters are paid to get a war going, and, by god, we'll get one!
Hunderds of millions of dollars ... sitting duck for ISIS ... the arrogance of these people, that none can steal from us or attack us... some people never learned
We crusaded some folks.
WTF!!?
Just nuke the whole fucking thing this time and be done with it!
And North Korea too while we're at it.
And Ferguson.
You can't nuke your boogeyman.
And besides, Greater Israel wants a radioactive free Lebensraum, pipeline route, and water rights.
The banksters need to repay us.
Why in the F would Obama station 3100 MRAPS in Kuwait?
The Tea Party is in America or is Kuwait just a stopping point before he doubles down on militarizing the police to beat the shit out of and shoot us horrible people who support Ron and Rand Paul and that damned piece of paper formerly known as the US Constitution.
Stocking up on arms for a move against Iran or a move on Syria?
Yeah OK..
But STILL nuke fucking Ferguson!
Just fucking nuke SOMEthing already!
SHHHHEEESH!
The point of having a nebulous enemy like "terrists" is so you can be at war FOREVER. Therefore, you would never nuke them or do anything to win completely. Remember, to the MIC and banksters war is a racket.
Try to find someone to help you understand sites like ZH. It shouldn't be this hard.
Government is a criminal syndicate, war is just one of their rackets.
The banksters need to repay us.
I explained that fact to the owner of the local gas station, and auto repair shop, in 2010. He was polite, but clearly did not understand or agree. Then he got involved with the local parks district thru some "friends of the parks" group. He says that he now understands and agrees. I guess that sometimes you have to dance with it to really come to know it.
where else do you nut cases think they can send those trucks to be ready for shipping to the U.S.?
It's better to ship it all to Poland.
Good point. It's really the only place to stage them for shipment to wherever...
Yes?
and how. I view it as prep for iran. since isis is an israeli martyr kill machine, the weapons are to support it in its fight against shiites. but what will trigger the men of ninevah to attack? oh, a vanishing.
... the arrogance of these people, that none can steal from us or attack us... some people never learned
Some might have forgotten this.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/15/deadly-attack-on-base-in-afghanistan-destroys-five-aircraft-damages-3/
It was little reported because of Benghazi. It was the most aircraft desroyed by the "enemy" since those mean, selfish, Vietnamese.
Why would you think it is arrogance. Perhaps the plan is the same as last time.
Move in a lot of equipment for others. Then abandon it so ISIS can scarf it up.
It will all be put up for Auction. Must pay for transportation and must be either Police or Military references will not be required.
The dumbfucks decided to feed a rabid dog and were shocked when it tried to bite them, and of course, some financiers will profit from this. Oh well, look at it on the bright side, that's 3,100 vehicles not being given to domestic law enforcement agencies. Yet, anyway.
If the Pentagon would just get Toyota to issue an airbag recall notice on those hundreds of new ISIS Toyota Tacomas made in Texas with the gun mount packages our troubles might soon be over...
http://www.truthseekersurvival.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS-toyot...
Unless those freshly fueled unguarded MRAPs on the border of Iraq still have the keys under the visors of course...
I kinda prefer we lied to some folks.......
The USA's foreign policy since 1950 described in one simple sentence:
"The enemy of my enemy; who used to be my friend; is now also my enemy."
You sir deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for this piece of work.
No. The policy is find an enemy or create one. Perpetual war and those juicy profits must never end.
The US isn't preparing to attack it's own puppet, ISIS, that much should be obvious to anyone who knows the score. This is about Syria/Iran.
"Soft power" has officially failed, hence Hagel is gone and all the MSM chatter about Assad being an evil dictator stopped long ago.
Now the real deal begins, we know because there's no big red letter CNN stories about it. It's happening quietly, as all legitimate moves do. Like oil, you didn't know it was going down until it was over.
This is the actual end game folks. It may take months still, but we've finally arrived.
You mean the Syrian number plates on them are giving the game away?
This is correct. If these forces roll expect them to "chase" ISIS into Syria. And then just for the safety of the troops and to protect the Syrian people the Syrian army would be destroyed and the remaining people driven out or dish up to ISIS for butchering.
But, even though the Putin crowd has once again said this is a red line Putin will not allow to be crossed (as have all past red lines), the Putin crowd will say this is part of Putin's master chess plan. That by taking Syria the west has defeated itself and fallen into Putin's masterful trap.
If Syria is taken using direct action you can count on Iran being destroyed. Then Turkey will be slapped back into compliance with the Zionist. This without doubt would be the destruction of Russia (without a direct hot war).
Russia should have drawn a line at Iraq2, Serbia, Libya, Syria (at the very beginning) and should have supported the shutting down of the Ukraine crisis at the very beginning when it was just some street thugs who needed to be jailed.
Putin sells/sold out Russia for profits for the elite in Russia and safe passage out of or a place in the dismantling of Russia. A good number of these elites are jewish.
ISIS was given information and equipment to shoot down Jordanian jets. You will not see Israel have it's jets shot down. Israel flys to the outskirts of Syria/s capital and bombs without being fired upon as Putin orders Syria to stand down against Israel or US planes. (Take note that the Israel air raids aided the rebels/ISIS) Putin fears if Syria does shoot one of these down It will prevent him from negotiating terms for the Russian elite should the likely collapse of Russia occur in just a few years.
Carpenter is right. The end game HAS ALWAYS BEEN Iran. But first we have to take out their allies, Syria and Lebanon.
The only way Putin can counter this is to secretly sell Iran/Syria a few nukes, just like China did with Nork and Pakistan. Once they conduct an underground test, they will be left alone forever.
I'd love to see that happen, and it would really piss off Israel.
the assad folks are not really, well, syrians are basically maronite christians, the assads, and the arab shiites. the shiites are the target. the goal was never to kill off maronite control of some areas. but syria had to be a mess to make isis possible.
They should warn off the tanker traffic and test it in the Strait of Hormuz.
THAT would really make a statement...
Also sell a lot of adult diapers in Riyadh
So, we are re-stocking ISIS/ISIL again? Boy, those taxpayers must be rich.
With bail-ins, taxpayers don't have to be rich anymore, just have something saved up for retirement...
$200 oil and que up the 'Peak oil' stories behind the re-invasion. Viva la re-invasion!
Isn't American "exceptionalism"grand????
It's probably their answer to oil prices too!!!
God I hope no one looks for mercy from the world, when this shit show unravels on us!
Rebama! Has a nice ring to it.
3100 mraps less here when sftf.
If we make Iraq a state, we can onshore Iraq's significant GDP to our balance sheet and thus offset MOAR US debt. It is the least we can do after invading, occupying, and destroying this once prosperous nation.
Think of all the broken windows!
BULLISH!!
Either there must have really been a lot of those crazy muslim suicide bombers to do so much damage, or they used all of their WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) on themselves.
It is a good thing we saved those poor Iraqi people, and put a stop to terrorism.
Obviously, they should welcome back the US as protectors of peace, security, and freedom.
Hey, great photos od Detroit in five years!
Broken windows easily replaced by the glass made from sand and nuclear explosions lol
Yeah, I guess those ISIS guys need some fresh hardware...
The Tragedy of the American Military
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-a...
The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.
The Pentagon's $1.5 Trillion Mistake
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/384088/the-pentagons-15-trillion-...
The F-35 fighter jet was supposed to do a bit of everything, as James Fallows explains in "The Tragedy of the American Military". Instead, the aircraft can barely do anything: it has trouble flying at night, its engines have exploded during takeoff, and early models suffered structural cracks. There's no end in sight, either. The all-in costs of this airplane are estimated to be as much as $1.5 trillion.
Pentagon? Our unborn childrens mistake. Unfortunately, they'll have to pay for it....
No problem we can to some quantitative easing to help save the F35
Not to worry. They can fix all those problems! It will only cost... ...another $1.5 trillion.
If its any consolation the stupid dumb fuck Australian government signed up for these lemmons,worst part about it did'nt even go through any tender process.
slowly stockpiling massive amounts...
funny use of words.
Lots of units with orders of deployment in '15...
It's on like Donkey Kong.
We Isisise'd some folks.
OK, before you can monetize, you have to destroy.
We're also sending in Feminists to kick their ass...
Because they are what ISIS is afraid of right?
< ISIS
< The cops
Where is this military hardware most likely to be heading?
Question of the day!
I'd guess 50-50.
< IRAN
< QATAR
iran of course.
Odessa?
Otherwise known as Ukraine. A coat of paint, a change to winter engine/gearbox oil and good to go.
< Somewhere it doesn't belong
< Somewhere it doesn't belong
Awesome.
Heading? Try Syria...Rothschild ordered!
Hope und Change
Froward
"I move to award statehood to Iraq"
But we already have the Islamic state of Michigan.
Just a thought. Since the US Energy strategy seems to be to destroy the local ability to consume the resource in order to preserve as much as possible for future US consumption (ex. destruction of Iraq infrastructure), then maybe the plan is to have the gear somehow get taken over by ISIS so they can run amok in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
I'd be willing to bet this will happen, on some scale. It always does. It's currently happening in E Ukraine, where actual nazis have been deputized to the attacking army, along with foreign-paid and trained mercenaries. And it's the same story minus the nazi bit, for ISIS.
TOTUS needs to gin up some moar patriotic flag waving support from the U.S iZombies to invade. Maybe we can buy some Russian doormats to get a little patriotic fervor going:
Russian shops show their anti-US sentiment by putting out American flag doormats for customers to wipe their feet on
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2886329/The-stores-stripes-Russi...
How dare they? Vodka should henceforth be known as Freedom Hooch.
...or Libertyshine.
The flags are missing a photo of Barry Obola (!)
Thanks Doc...
For all you amerikkan patriots
http://www.amazon.com/US-Flag-Indoor-Outdoor-Doormat/dp/B00NLFH3BU/ref=s...
Sorry, no Russian doormats found.
Why would anybody want to wipe their feet on the flag of a Third World petro-kleptocracy?
We're talking economies of scale here. Everybopdy guns for #1. Nobody runs around shouting "We're Number 8, We're Number 8."
Paging the deluded PPP adherents....
I would wipe my feet on it.
On needs to go outside the dog kennel.
If you like your Iraq War, you can keep your....ah, fuck it...
Iraq III seems like off the drawing boards and more on the ground.
What can the USA achieve in Iraq III that it failed to achieve in Iraq I and II ?
The situation has only gotten worse for the Us in 23 years since Iraq I began. There is nobody to follow the US flag.
If oil is abiotic, then there's no more important place on Earth to control than southern Iraq/Kuwait.
I think I understand why this might be so, but pls explain.
Are you saying this is the first place where abiotic oil wells will replenish themselves?
How's this for timing?
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/26/pentagon-set-to-resume-spe...
Replacement of Romans by foreign-born soldiers was the main reason Rome's legendary armies were destroyed.
Depends what you mean by 'achieve'. If we understand that the war is being driven by the MIC and the Ziocons - but I repeat myself - it makes perfect sense to go in there again. Facilitate the further break-up of Iraq as per Israel's long-term strategy and lots of orders for the MIC as ordnance gets used up/destroyed.
We re-deployed some folks..
"ISIS" false flag attack in US coming soon...
This is bullshit, ISIS isn't even in the news anymore because the Kurds... THE KURDS are kicking ISIS ASS. I say let the Kurds have all they can take of Iraq.
I say let the Kurds have all they can take of Iraq.
Shiit, what would the military-industrial complex gain from that?
That would mean the Pentagon would have to contract out the killing of more Iraqis...
BULLSHIT, that's our fucking job!
They will be a Christmas present from Dear Leader to Iran as we support the rise of the Hood.
All that equipment stored in a massive depot, all in the same place.
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
Well, I'd call it 'going right," but all of it could burn.
The minor loss of oxygen would be worth it.
Unless you are confronted with a nuclean adversary or one with a capable air force - nothing can go wrong the most of the equipment.
Sabotage -implanting massive amounts of explosives during the movement of equipment into the depot areas- is nearly impossible to do without gross negligence on the part of the army, and imbedded saboteurs within the civilian workforce involved in securing and operating the depots. This was accomplished in 1972 by the communists against our ammunitions depot in Cam Ranh Bay.
The Iranians have plenty of missiles with the range and guidance controls to reach the depots. But there is no chance that they would go suicidal when this equipment is intended to fight Sunni radicals in Iraq.
The irony is that most of this equipment had been promised to the Afghan Army, which were supposed to use them to fight the Taliban after we leave. The Afghans are not happy about this. But, of course, American promises weren't worth much to the South Vietnamese, or more recently to the Libyans, the Syrians, and -most significantly- to the Russians.
What could go right? Like they all get zapped by the bad guys resulting in replacement orders for the MIC pronto.
Perfecto!
Dear Mr. Al-Bagdadi,
The equipment that you ordered has arrived. Please send some personnel around to pick it up.
Your pal,
Barry
The long-term end game. If at first you don't succeed, keep war mongering and reprofiteering.
Eretz Israel
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties(1982)"Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization."
http://www.monabaker.com/pMachine/more.php?id=A2298_0_1_0_M
The miitary-Industrial complex wants campaign payback.
Plus the cruise missiles are reaching their expiration dates.
Time to use them up on the new bad guys.
They hate us for our freedumb.
God damn the Pentagon can't get enough of killing Brown people. 13 years of this shit isn't enough? 10-20-100,000 more deaths. Who cares anyway? The majority of Americans are behind torturing them, why not just kill as many as we can while we're there.
And if we can't kill more brown people over there, lets kill more black people over here. Jesus Christ, if you are brown or black, look the FUCK OUT!!
That's some good ol' fashioned Nobel Peace prizin' right there!
You have almost left me speechless, having reduced the middle east conflicts into your quaint American racial narrative of the US killing brown people throughout the world and the American Black Population in the US.
Your education, intellect, reasoning skills and knowledge of world history are a wonder to behold.
Your finely tuned and educated gray matter have any better reason the ussa bombs the shit out of the poor bastards in middle east or anywhere for that matter.
Let me guess... Democracy, truth, justice and the amerikkan way.
You forgot Apple pie.
Oil. We ain't bombin' Antarctica....yet.
No brown people there.
Hmm, lots of creatures wearing tuxedoes down there... :>D
Well, I was paraphrasing George Carlin, but if you're so astounded by that statement, perhaps you should watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgAVpPNusTs
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Just have to try a little bit harder next time, HamRove.
Might as well have been speechless, he made no point whatsoever.
[Dang browser too fast for ZH....keeps double posting]
You're right. It's not about killing brown people. Just so happens that the prevailing enemies of convenience are of a dusky hue due to their geographical location. Truly the NWO globalists would much prefer to be killing white men if they could get the pieces to fit into place.
Study Carlin. He was an American philosopher who happened to be a writer and comedian that used comedy and vulgar comedy to stress his points. Example, "When will Jesus bring the pork chops?" :)
You eloquently failed to address the point that you made. How is he wrong?
Washington D.C. sucks.
End the FED.
Keynesian stimulus package
Kenyan, stimulus package. Fixed
I was watching a documentary about Einstein yesterday. He was in Germany during WW1 and he was amazed how seemingly intelligent men could rally behind such a pointless war. His colleague, Haber, was enthusiastic about the creation of poison gas.
Humans are stupid as fuck. People can't wait to kill others and be killed by others.
The key word there is "seemingly". Old Al was being politically correct. He knew that most people are sheep who can't think for themselves.
I guess since the police departments were no longer accepting the MRAPs, now they have to park the excess in Kuwait.
Lots of tax dollars
ANd lots of 'dollars' created by a keystroke at the FRB.
Typical psychopath's response to getting ass kicked in one region........let's pull out and go try another. And they think they are going to take down Russia and China? LMAO.
I hope they all have LoJack..so we can find them when they are stolen...
First thing that came to mind was, they are putting all in one place for ISIL to take it.
LoL
This just in" "Assad has WNDs, and 'yellow-cake.'"
"Paging Colin Powell to the UN. Paging Colin Powell to the UN."
Stay away from large downtowns, and be on the look out for a command performance of the "Dancing Mossads."
The banksters need to repay us.
just need to find a pilot who can do handle -5gs and still stay 6 inches off the ground before impact... developing...
Most pilots also scoff at the idea of inexperienced pilots being able to execute such precision turns. They say that precision turning can ONLY come from experience, as it takes remembered hand-eye coordination timed to the performance of the aircraft in the turn to prevent sloppy turn completion and over-control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hTq0vlhF3M&spfreload=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQtxTnDusk
Anyone that has tried to play "Flight Simulator" can also attest to this "sloppiness." Hard at first to not complete a turn early or late, leading to a lot of wing wagging and sloppiness.
The banksters need to repay us.
Of all the subjects I research, 9/11 seems to be the one with the most obviously "professional" trolls and shills. Almost funny to see a couple of pleasant discussion posts on YouTube just about immediately ponced upon and interrupted by hating trolls. We're not talking about disagreement, but vehement hate, and nastiness. I don't think the "Dancing Mossads" want people discussing alternative points of view on 9/11, or anything else, but especially 9/11.
9/11 *IS* the red pill!
All becomes clear after you realize that, and you can never go back if you really grasp the magnitude of the event.
Of course they fight it tooth and nail.
Exactly. If the truth becomes apparent to the general public it will be red pill time for everyone and the end of the Ziocon hegemony.
And probably the electric chair for the likesof this guy. http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2014/07/the-talented-mister-zakheim.html
That's why they fight it so hard.
I have heard directly from someone in the 82nd that they are headed for Iraq next year, and based on the formal changes the Army made to their training program, they will be labeled combat.
Anybody who volunteers for the military is dumber than a sheep. Until some enemy is invading the US, find a fucking real job.
Aw hell -- go get killed over there for Israel. It's your life to throw away.
Ho Chi Minh is a son-of-a-bitch
And they're telegraphing this why?
Maybe so people in the US will think all the trains full of UN and US tanks and military equipment that keep showing up on .govTube are in Kuwait instead of waiting in their back yard for the American Spring offensive
Some take a hot poker to those vehicles in that picture and let's see if they deflate
Now where's the next .treason planned race war baiting murder going to occur in America?
None of the old equipment from Afghanistan is any good anymore so it will have to be sold to the local police departments and the Pentagon
will have to buy new for the latest invasion of Iraq2.0 G.I. Joe and the
MRAPs Strikes Again(TM)2014. Since Rumy Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon had lost $1.3 Trillion dollars the day before the CIA imploded WTC 1, 2, and building #7, it really does not matter how much money the American Military Industrial Complex spends because military spending always goes up just like housing prices do to support their largesse. Without subprime loans and great American Ponzi schemes the Military Industrial Complex would implode just like the buildings they imploded on 911. ERGO, World War Three is certainty based upon the need of the USA to manufacture goods to sell in a war in order to stay in the game of economics. In brief, America cannot afford to go broke and starve to death faced with at least 25 years of abject depression on USA streets. There is no way out for the USA but to aggressively start blowing up the entire World, and economies, to stay afloat in a sea of DEBT. If the USA can't sell hookers n' blow they will sell war and peace instead. America is a Capitalist that would sell its own mother for a slice of pizza.
Yeah and corporations are people too!
Someone tell the Pentagon and Langley that "Team Amercia: World Police" is a movie.
And not a foreign policy manual.
All that stuff is outdated so they're giving it to ISIS.
ISIS bought 3100 MRAPs lot in Comex and took delivery...
Lindsey Graham in Jerusalem: Senate vote coming on Iran sanctions bill
"Graham told Netanyahu that “the Congress will follow your lead” and will want to have a say about any final deal."
http://www.jta.org/2014/12/28/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sen-graham...
The gear is stockpiled near an adjacent port, but they will not use the port to ship gear to Iraq. Draft restriction for Umm Quasr and Iran preclude this. There are no ports in Afghanistan so gear is flown to Kuwait for shipment to the U.S. or anywhere else. MRAPs are there because they were shipped there for trans-shipment to Afghanistan, oddly enough on Russian airplanes (an72 coalers?). As they were the only aircraft with the heavy-lift capacity to do it. Google earth the area. Not hard to spot.
I seem to remember a road from Kuwait to Iraq, so easier to just drive them, assuming the hundreds of dead vehicles have been cleared away by now.
US Military Stockpiling "Massive Amounts" Of Gear Near IraqISIS / ISIL has asked to be resupplied.
Only a fool fails to see the economic fall-failure/demographic rise of innumerable young muslims in multiple countries that have no one better to hate than the USA. So the yare taught, andso they will behave - often with violence. The Rusians learned the hard way in Chechnia - we will learn the hard way in the old Irag/Syria/Lebanon/Lybia. There is no reason to hope for a peaceful resolution or detente. The economic disaprity (Western decadent dead-broke cultures and countries vs barbaric uncivilized primitive societies) is overwhelming and all too visible. The Western mantra of social justice (ala in respopnse to Hitler/Mao/Stalin/Mussilini) is a joke against those who consider be-heading a legal and justified, and religious outcome. The Crusades were not for no reason.
Never thought this before... GOOD FOR YOU, PRESIDENT OBAMA !!
This is worth green credits - instead of junking all of the military vehicles they are using the 1 of the 3 R's.
Just fly it over Russian territory and give it to the Ukraine. I am sure that would go over well in Moscow.