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Pentagon: Ready To Launch 'Boots On The Ground' In Syria And Iraq
Update: While it's not entirely clear whether this represents an explicit pivot or simply amounts to a reiteration of comments US defense officials made in the wake of the ISIS prison raid that freed some 70 captives in Iraq and led to the first US casualty in ground combat since 2011, the media is alive with reports this evening which indicate that Defense Secretary Ash Carter may be set to send more spec ops ground troops to Iraq and "engage directly" in Syria. Here's CNN with the official White House-approved line:
The U.S. is considering increasing its attacks on ISIS through more ground action and airstrikes, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.
Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. "won't hold back" from supporting partners carrying out such attacks or from "conducting such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground."
The White House, however, has yet to make a decision on the options for upping the campaign against ISIS, according to defense and administration sources. They said that further involvement on the ground was one of the possibilities being presented.
The ground option Carter mentioned to the committee was part of a three-prong effort -- which he dubbed the "three Rs" -- to adapt the U.S. policy on countering ISIS.
Meanwhile, a few notable US lawmakers had some colorful remarks for Carter. First there was uber hawk John McCain insisiting that the Russians and the Assad regime are "slaughtering" the moderates:
Committee Chairman John McCain of Arizona peppered Carter with questions about how the U.S. would protect forces as Russia carries out airstrikes that have been hitting forces opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"Are we going to protect them from being barrel bombed by Bashar Assad and protected from Russia?" McCain asked.
"We have an obligation to do that. We made that clear right from the beginning of the train-and-equip program," Carter said.
"We haven't done it. We haven't done it," McCain disagreed.
Carter said to date, no forces that have been part of the U.S. training program have come under attack from Russian forces, but McCain once again disagreed.
"I promise you they have," McCain said. "You will have to correct the record. ... These are American-supported and coalition-supported men who are going in and being slaughtered."
And here's Lindsey Graham's assessment:
"This is a half-assed strategy at best."
On that point will not protest.
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Earlier
In addition to increased ground action and airstrikes, or "raids," Carter also spoke of the need to increase pressure around the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, where "we will support moderate Syrian forces" fighting the terror organization there.
When analyzing geopolitics it’s important to try and skate ahead of the puck, so to speak. That is, while it’s useful to understand what’s going on now, it’s even more imperative to analyze the situation in an attempt to understand how the situation is likely to evolve going forward.
As it relates to the Mid-East, that means looking past Syria and on to Iraq. As we’ve outlined in great detail of late, there’s every reason to suspect that Russia will expand its airstrikes across the Syrian border and indeed, Baghdad has reportedly given Moscow the go-ahead to hit ISIS convoys fleeing Syria into Iraqi territory. This is in direct contradiction to what PM Haider al-Abadi told Gen. Joseph Dunford last week and suggests that Baghdad is about to pivot East, after becoming frustrated with a lack of results stemming from more than a year of US airstrikes against Islamic State targets.
It’s critical to note that Iran (via the IRGC and, more specifically, the Quds Force) controls Iraqi politics and the Iraqi armed forces. This means that Russia will find an extremely receptive environment when it comes to expanding the air campaign beyond Syria. We won’t get into the details here, but we do encourage you to review the whole story as detailed in “Russia Takes Over The Mid-East: Moscow Gets Green Light For Strikes In Iraq, Sets Up Alliance With Jordan” and “Who Really Controls Iraq? Inside Iran's Powerful Proxy Armies.”
Over the weekend we brought you helmet cam footage which purported to depict a US/Peshmerga raid on an ISIS prison. The operation allegedly freed some 70 hostages whose graves Islamic State had (literally) already dug. For those who missed it, here’s the video:
And here was our assessment:
Now obviously, there’s no telling what actually went on here, nor is there any telling what 30 members of Delta Force were doing running around with the Peshmerga in northern Iraq, but one thing is for sure: the US media seems to be trying to counter the Russian propaganda blitz by holding up the Huwija raid and the death of Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler as proof that Washington is serious about battling ISIS. We are of course not attempting to trivialize the death of Joshua Wheeler by writing this off as some kind of publicity stunt aimed at countering the Russian media blitz. In fact, the opposite is true. If the US is now set to ramp up the frequency with which the Pentagon puts American lives at stake by inserting spec ops in ground operations just so Washington can prove to the world that America is just as serious as Russia is about fighting ISIS, well then that's a crying shame for US servicemen; especially considering the role the US and its regional allies had in creating the groups that Delta Force and other units are now tasked with countering.
Sure enough, others are now beginning to ask questions about the timing of the raid and subsequent release of battlefield footage. Here’s Sputnik, citing China’s CCTV:
Russian-led counterterrorism efforts are so successful that they are "unnerving" Washington, CCTV reported. As a result, last week US leadership decided to act so as to prevent Iraq from fostering ties with Moscow.
The Chinese media outlet believes that the operation to free hostages in Northern Iraq followed this new logic. Last Thursday, US and Kurdish forces managed to free 70 people from a prison located to the west of Kirkuk. The operation saw the United States lose its first soldier in combat since Obama launched the campaign to degrade and ultimately destroy Islamic State.
This mission raised questions over Washington's plans in Iraq. On Friday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter tried to dispel fears of the possible mission creep by saying that the US was not "assuming a combat role" and the operation was "a continuation of our advise-and-assist mission."
However, Carter stated that similar missions, which redefine assistance if not blur the line between combat and training, could be conducted in the future.
CCTV believes that the US-led hostage rescue operation was a show of force aimed at Iraq's leadership. The mission was meant to send a clear message to Baghdad, which is rumored to be planning to ask Moscow for greater assistance in its fight against Islamic State.
Of course we need to consider the sources here (i.e. this is Russian media quoting Chinese media) but nevertheless, this is precisely consistent with the assessment we offered immediately after the helmet cam footage was released.
In short, it seems entirely possible that the presence of Delta Force in the ISIS prison raid might well have been premeditated by the Pentagon. The official line is that 30 US commandos where present in an advise and assist role to the Peshmerga and once the Kurds started to take losses, Delta Force decided to intervene.
But is that the real story, or did Washington deliberately send spec ops into a battle the US knew they would win so that The White House could trot the "successful" operation out to Baghdad as evidence of why Iraq shouldn't turn to Moscow for help?
We'll let readers decide that for themselves and simply close with the following bit from Reuters which pretty clearly indicates that suddenly, the US has had a change of heart about putting boots on the ground in Iraq...
The top U.S. military officer said on Tuesday he would consider recommending putting U.S. forces with Iraqi troops to fight Islamic State if that would improve the chances of defeating the militants.
"If it had an operational or strategic impact and we could reinforce success, that would be the basic framework within which I'd make a recommendation for additional forces to be co-located with Iraqi units," Marine General Joseph Dunford told a Senate hearing.
Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined four reasons it might be useful to put U.S. troops with Iraqi forces: increasing the coherence of the military campaign, ensuring logistics effectiveness, boosting intelligence awareness and improving combined arms delivery.
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Da!
Could be worse..
At least they might get a chance to learn some Russian.
How do you say in Russian “I lead” when dancing?
Barry Soetoro is play checker while Vlad is play chess. Boris is recently watch Walk The Dead on Netflix and is amazing how is similar Barry to other black male actor. Walk The Dead is most racist show on internet, black man is always hope to be remove from script because cannot is effective to do ANYTHING! Cannot pull trigger but is constantly put friend and ally in peril!
This is one of those times I really hope you are actually Russian. I don't think I've ever met a Russian who typed in a Russian accent before, but whatever. I'll go along with it. I just like imagining that there is SOMEBODY who's enjoying being on the winning side. Been a long time for us here in the US.
sad day...
Winning side?
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There is no winning side.
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We are all just pawns on the global chessboard as the elites move us around.
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Their is no white wizard.
au contraire mon frère... The MIC always wins!
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
- Song lyric from famous Rushian song
How long before the Iraqis tell the US to GTFO of their country? Not long, I hope...
And we're in Syria under what legal premise?
Didn't you read below? 50% of kids under the age of 25 are living in their parents' basements... Viola! Problem solved, American Style.
The USA will try to partition Syria in such a way that they can run a pipeline from saudi to turkey
Supporting partners like Russia?
In the "War on Terror"?
In the War on behalf of Terror?
Zio NeoCons will use nuclear weopons to destroy regions before they relinquish any of their terrible power.
All the fundamentalists who cheer on Isreal should speak to the Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian Christians who live in Usreals destructive shadow.
America is evil.
I promise I'll have the boys home by Christmas.
-Nixon, Ford, Kennedy, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama
BTW, have we decided who's on whose side, yet?
Didn't think so.
Does anybody responsible have any fucking idea what's going on?
Yep, Israel is losing and plans on tripling down on Americans.
Someone needs to shove a 120mm round square up Asstoon Carter's butt and hope the collateral includes most of the pretender’s staff.
Dear Carter,
No you're fucking not.
US Republic.
Big win for the MIC.
Hey, the more US soldiers that meet the business end of a rifle the better. One of these days all these dumb cunts joining the military industrial complex, as mercenaries hired to invade a country in order to steal it's oil on the pretext of "spreading democracy", will come to their collective senses. Until then they deserve every bullet they get. If US soldiers startyed defending their own soil, their own borders, especially the southern border then they may deserve some respect.
I'm torn over this call. However, ISIS represents a huge threat to the world. So maybe things will be different this time with Russian and Iranian help. Or maybe not.
You've been indoctrinated by MSM.
So you personally feel threatened by ISIS?
The biggest threat to this world, the biggest terrorist in the world is the US government and MIC.
The US would have no qualms starting a thermonuclear war, this is how fucking crazy these people are.
I read a headline about the evil Russians bombing a hospital today. I know nothing about it, but.....I've been waiting for a zio false flag, seeing as that's most all they know, and that would be a nice one, directed at the Russians.
yer, but they really stuffed up this false flag attempt by doing it on the same day that saudi arabia also blows up ANOTHER doctors w/out borders hospital
i mean, when so many 'allies' are blowing up hospitals, who are the russians to go against the grain? I mean clearly these doctors w/out borders guys must be terrorists or someting
Lavrov's response: Put up or shut up.
It is basically MH17 again, lots of words, no evidence.
Actually, there is one possibility. I think ISIS have taken over an abandoned Syrian hospital and are using it as a base. Would that still count as being a hospital? Were MSF there (definitely not)?
BTW the Saudis have blown up a hospital in Yemen. Presumably the MSM are totally schtum obver that. Maybe this is to distract from that?
" I mean clearly these doctors w/out borders guys must be terrorists or someting"
The MSF hospital was blown up by the 27th cruise missle fired from one of the Russki ships in the Black sea.
The defense dept and Pentagon said some of the Russkis missles fell in Iran, they made a mistake, the 27th missle overflew Iran and hit the hospital in Yemen.
"I read a headline about the evil Russians bombing a hospital today."
Its absolutely true ! Unbelievable, the Russkis hijacked some Saudi F16s and bombed a hospital in Yemen. Or it might have been the rebel Houthis who put on Saudi uniforms, took a 30 second flight test and bombed that hospital.
George Washington, the real one, The Father of our country, the guy who chopped down the cherry tree, that guy knew what was goin on.
He said in his farewell address not to get in the middle of ancient conflicts.
The moronic ZeoCons somehow dismiss Georges warnings as time specific,
because of course, this time is different.
same the lefties say about the constitution.
Stupid is as stupid does.
At least we declared war this time, wait, what, no....?...crap
Funny, Soilmeself, that's' kind of what I was thinking. Am I just being an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy by thinking they need to run this by Congress. or has that old habit, (you know, the one found in the Constitution), become too passé in these "modern times"?
Oh, that's right. Nowadays US troops on foreign soil isn't "war", is it? What's the euphemism in vogue these days?
SECDEF Ashton Carter - Harvard professor, long time Defense Department bureaucrat and career neocon. No military service.
Carter was a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as an advocate of preventive wars against North Korea and Iran. In response to increase in tension in Ukraine, Carter considered proposing deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe that could pre-emptively destroy Russian weapons.
Perhaps "Ash" would be willing to don a uniform and lead the young people he is planning on committing to harms way. Something tells me he wouldn't last to long
America is dead as there is no consensus of values. We have diluted and corrupted our society, and left borders wide open so as to ensure there will NEVER be unity of purpose or cause again. Even in the civil war we had more in common with our enemies than we do with our neighbors today.
the same will be true for Europe now that it's being flooded with trash.
The good news is that it will take another 50 million Wahhabis to come close to the 300 million gun solution in the US.
The cheese eaters in Europe, however. are F’d.
Thank you for the challenge, Mr. Skull and Bones Bush.
Thank you, Founders.
The new 'Got milk"..
" Got High Velocity " ???
"Perhaps "Ash" would be willing to don a uniform"
I propose Ashton Carter and Nutjob McCain personally lead the POTUS, his cabinet, the Pentagon and both Houses of Congress, arming themselves with full sets of golf clubs into battle. The current candidates vying for the White House can form the reserves.
This will be a defining moment in military history and the result would be peace for a thousand years.
Someone needs to shove a 120mm round square up Asstoon Carter's butt and hope the collateral includes most of the pretender’s staff.
That's GENIUS! Let's see those kids put their razor-honed Call of Duty skillz to the test!
Yes, if Assad says "the coalition" is intruding on their airspace, and they have Russia to back them up, I wonder what "we" will do? Withdraw?
Join the US army and fight (die) for Israel.
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Unbelievable,
Hitler accurately calls Putin the US, Syria and the ME.
https://youtu.be/17qDNQ2xYdU.
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Eretz Israel
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eightiesby Oded Yinon, translated by Israel Shahak | KIVUNIM / Palestine with Provenance | February 1982
"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run..."
http://www.monabaker.com/pMachine/more.php?id=A2298_0_1_0_M
The Ethnic Clique That Sold Us the Iraq War
http://zfacts.com/node/297
So ISIS runs amuck for over a year. No sense of urgency at the White House. Suddenly ISIS is in full retreat as Putin kicks butt with a military that costs 1/20 as much. Now Obama's got a fire lit under his ass and it's time to do something. About ISIS, of course, that is. Yeah, that's the ticket.
All mere coincidence. Just like when Holyfield shoved his ear in Tyson's mouth just when he happened to clamp his teeth.
nah... this is the throwing tantrums of a weak fat kid on his back. ZH has already run articles on the fact that Russia can just default on its already defucnt debt[all owned by the West] and throw the west into death throes. China, I suspect, has been rather reluctant to give the green light for killing Uncle Sam, but that may be changing.
Everyone else on the Planet know we are toast. They are just letting us flail about until we get to be too dangerous. The most simple rule of ecconmics; You must produce more than you consume in order to be wealthy.
Though, I'd suggest you ask yourself a personal question. Do you produce more than you consume?
by consume, do you also include taxation?
John McCain cracks me up. "Are we going to protect the Syrians from being barrel bombed by Assad"
Hell ya we are! By dropping thermobarics on their heads instead. You know, cuz freedumb and stuff. I gotta go, the World Series is on tonight.
is "barrel bomb" the next novel thing. WTF is a barrel bomb and why are they hammering that into the narrative...
"Cause they haven't been able to bring down any Zepplins as yet with their condom torpedoes.
Cue barrel songs...
-Roll out the barrel
-Fire Barrel Polka
-I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me, too too fat for me
This cannot be true I just read above that we are entering an economic storm of unimaginable proportions we cannot afford this or the dept of education, Dept. energy or Fat lesbian studies... But guess what we always do and will for a long, long time.
You think HillBill is just running for the bitches? Nope.
Proof: See Japan, without carrier task forces, 10,000 nukes and hundreds of overseas bases
We must save McCain's ISIS! Remember the Maine!
Our moderate head chopping ISIS heroes must be saved!
The NeoCon and NeoLib level of evil and insanity is truly sickening.
Wet Start John McCain with ISIS and Al Qeada:
https://patriotnewstwo.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/mccainisis-vi.jpg
How many sailors did McCain kill on the USS Forrestal and how many did his old man kill by refusing help on the USS Liberty attack?
How many AMERICAN boys died because of the McCains?
He loves cozying up with Ukraine's Nazis too. This guy makes Nudelman look positively harmless.
For the US the Middle East is - to paraphrase dr Seuss - the mother of all messes. And where the US Leads, the EU follows, even if it's straight into the abyss. Rule number one when you plan on waging war IMO: clearly define your enemy and your allies. Apparently, Obama's advisors never succeeded in covering that first part and consequently lost themselves in unwinnable wars. This is why Putin started out so succesfully in Syria: he knows who he wants to annihilate and concentrates all his war efforts on that one goal. Clearly, he learned a thing or two from the USSR debacle in Afghanistan, which by the way was one of the major fuses that initially lit this impressive middle eastern explosive device.
As for Obama - if I may be so bold, mr president: please lose your warmongering incrowd asap and start reading some Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi quotes.
And von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege while you're at it.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/12-reasons-america-doesn...
Yeah yeah
there's a first time for everything.
:o\
And you believe that the invasion of Syria was Obama's idea?
The neocons have had this project on their todo list for decades!
Further, and I hope that this doesn't turn out to be the case, can anyone really think that the neocons won't set this up just like the 80s? The 80s was the trap firmly set in Afghanistan to pull the Soviets into a big quagmire and that this project was to also allow the neocons to spread militants into Soviet lands to destabilize the USSR. Does ANY of this ring a bell? Does anyone follow or understand history? Did Putin really learn anything of Afghanistan? I'd like to think so, but what if he didn't, what if those fucking neocons have yet again manage to do exactly as they've been able to do for several decades now- destabilize the ME? You see, folks like Wolfowitz are still of influence, with Wolfie is an advisor to Jeb Bush- who cared not if the ME ended up in total chaos.
Russians will be in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. So to will be all those hornets that have been riled up and armed to defeat Russia, something that has been in motion for DECADES. This possible difference will be whether Iran can provide meaningful support. It's one thing to go in and bomb the shit out of your "enemies," it's another to settle in and occupy them...
Lets send another 5 million Moslims ot the EU since they are so eager to get involved in the ME.
It's Fair ... and ... Balanced that way.
Putin has an ace up his sleeve. Bet it has something to do with a gold standard and the Chicoms.....regardless of that, I bet he BOMBS THE SHIT out of the USsAs proxies in Syria to the poin nothing is left. If the US tries to retaliate he should take it to the UN (on Syria's behalf). America is not operating with a mandate in Syria. Tables have turned and I think America will get its hand slapped.
boris, as i suggested yesterday, if you aren't a tyler the tylers ought to hire you.
+1
A weekly opinion piece from Boris would be a treat :-)
Always good to hear from someone at the heart of The Kremlin ;-)
Thee copper is in the Kremins basement.
Boris a89in't a Tyler, he runs a hair cutting salon in Brighton Beach.
Ha ha ha - the Russkies have already had their first coffin shipped hope from Syria - not that you would ever hear about it here on the Putin Blowjob Site. Here's what Bloomberg had to say about it:
On Tuesday, Russia acknowledged its first military casualty in Syria: Vadim Kostenko, a 19-year-old air force technician. The Defense Ministry, which flatly denied all previous reports of casualties, didn't volunteer the information. Instead, the Conflict Intelligence Team, a volunteer group run by the blogger Ruslan Leviev that scours social networks to track Russian military activity, discovered that Kostenko died Oct. 24.
Leviev's team used the same approach it has to track the Russian army's presence in Ukraine and the death toll there: It combed the social network for accounts of soldiers from units believed or reported to be involved in the action, and those of their friends. After discovering an epitaph for Kostenko, the team contacted his relatives and friends to confirm the death and discovered that a representative of Kostenko's unit had told his family that he had killed himself.
The Defense Ministry said Tuesday that data on Kostenko's mobile phone suggested he had a falling out with his girlfriend. Kostenko's parents and sister didn't believe it, though. They said he had been cheerful when he talked to them on the day he died and that he and his girlfriend had been doing great and been planning to get married.
The Defense Ministry's initial silence and the shaky suicide narrative indicate that Russian military officials are reluctant to recognize any deaths.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/emperor-palpatine-takes-city-council-seat...
Ukraine is such a pathetic joke.
MAybe so, but the Ukranians manged to kill plenty of Russian troops who were fighting there.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-27/russian-casualties-woul...
Note to Russian soldiers - you end up just as dead, whether you're wearing your uniform or not. Putin may not admit you're a Russian soldier, but yo momma knows.
I read the article you posted. That's cute. Hundreds of Russians killed in Ukraine, according to bloomberg. Yet we still haven't seen any pictures of the thousands of Russians soldiers and tanks and heavy weapons supposedly deployed there, have we. The best the US govt could do was that dumbshit senator that posted pictures of Russian armor in Georgia from years ago. Nearly everyone has a camera phone these days. If there were so many Russian troops and tanks there, the us media would be full of pictures of it. I personally don't give a shit what Russia does in Ukraine, or Syria for that matter, because it doesn't not affect US security.
Also, it cannot be stressed enough- none of this shit would even be going on if it wasn't for the US meddling in other people's affairs.
You'd think you'd be more interested in how many Syrian lives have been lost due to direct US intervention rather than a Russian dying
plenty of your Uke and assorted Nazi Eurotrash have eaten Russian lead too I'm glad to say. Now repeat after me....Crimea is Russia!
Since when uka troops braves??
Here, 8.000 troops SURROUNDED by Donbass militia. COWARDS!
https://www.rt.com/news/227899-ukraine-troops-debaltsevo-trap/
Here 16.000 DESERTER from their uka armies. COWARDS!!
http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-war-deserters-16000-troops-abandoned-mili...
COWARD's Kiev govt, would breeds?? COWARDS citizens!!
Quit deluding yourself...
I am a big fan of DPR and LPR aka NovoRussia
Most of the men in the Ukraine Army were conscripted/drafted by force or threat. They do not want to be there.
The DPR and LPR pretty much let them know that if they surrendered, they would not be hurt unless they were Azov nazis. Many of the Ukrainian men wisely decided not to fight for the shit dual citizens in Kiev like Hudelman, Porky, Yatz, Soros and the rest o fthe evil scum in Kiev.
Russia knows she will lose soldiers when she fights the nazis in the White (Mulatto) House.
Or did you think it was just a game of tiddlywinks?
You don't fight PURE EVIL without losing soldiers.
The Ukies are fucking clueless... You think you've got it so bad, but you ain't seen nothing yet. Russia is nothing compared to the west. Just wait until your culture is utterly decimated beyond all recognition where everything good and decent is ripped from you and replaced with evil and decadence, your lands flooded with degenerates from far away, your women raped and murdered, your wealth confiscated and given to other races so they can have multiple children and you none, where your only hope is economic collapse – to starve out the parasites, only then you will know what it means to accept “western values”, only then will you know true horror...
American white males support that with their love of their Trayvon thug ball team heroes.
Moron white American males supporting white genocide while someone in the back is counting shekels.
It took you and your ISIS sausage sucking buddies a while to start gloating over the suicide of a 19 year old boy.
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Hahahahahah yo schmuck the technician dcommitted suicide . I knew your beloved media will start spinning facts with distorted stories to lire retards like you. He is a t echnician not a soldier and he was present in a fortified military base so your spindoctors failed to prove that his death is combat related. His phone messages prove he was not happy with his gf. What a gullible moron you are. No pity for ya.
In Soviet Russia, bear dances you.
Then, bear eats you.
Unless you are having lead from pistol, several times donated to bear.
Could be worse...US Forces take up positions with the "moderate" terrists and dare Vlad to bomb them.
Vlad needs to wipe out the "moderate" terrists fast before the US Forces get in.
sigarety?
Interesting and it ties in with this......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/10/time-travel-is-no-l...
"Russian propaganda blitz"
I suppose that means real information. There - corrected that for you. :-)
McCain should be in a straight jacket and heavily medicated. And not with Jack.
Honey Badger dont give a shit, just like my divorce lawyer. It will be okay in the gated communities during WW3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb6bWsa_LdQ
Does boots on the ground in Syria mean - we made a mess of airdropping the stuff in so we'll just have to deliver it in person.
...and for those Chinese islands we'll do feet in the water.
Paul Eberhart was once boots on ground in Iraq
Commander in Chief Trump will fix everything, just like his daddy's real estate bizness
Commander in Thief.
True and still several zillion times better than the cocksucking fool in there now.
And that's different than Hopium? How the fuck anyone can predict how these folks will react once they're in the Secret Chambers is beyond me. But wait! Trump would be able to single-handedly overthrow the CIA/NSA etc! He and his close advisors like Paul Wolfowitz! Yeah!
Fucking piker speak. Playground trash talk. Childish... and it gets "up-votes," yup, we're fucked!
$1 million to $10 billion, not half-bad.
I want to get in on that action where the gubmint spends $500 million to "trasin" 5 Syrian rebles.
Man, that's some gig!
If you like your proxies, you can keep your proxies
who are the fucking eediots who keep volunteering to be the "boots" on the ground for this fiasco?
Wait, you mean Obamo <gulp!> LIED when he said "no boots on the ground"? I don't believe it. He's never lied before, why would he lie about this?
He meant to add, "today"
Go ahead "Ash"...
Help the American gene pool only improve it's chances by sending as many of them that "say yes" again to an order from your office!!!
fucking spot on...
The best and the brightest from the shallow end of the gene pool.
To be promptly replaced with mexicans or mussies....yep, really smart.
WTF is Obama doing??
WTF is Obama doing??
Don't ya know what that is Jason???... It's called sacrificial PR!
Only this time Mr. Marcel gonna be needin to sell yous a draft after the bodies in rubber start piling up cause we outta dollas!
American patent pending since 1941!
Mostly golf. I imagine his underlings sort out the details.
Inserting hot dogs in his ass?
No - wait - this isn't as glib as you might, at first blush, think:
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/10/no-its-not-a-hoax-hot-dogs-actually-...
Inserting hot dogs in his ass?
No - wait - this isn't as glib as you might, at first blush, think
No it is not.
And you would have to have the intellect of a "nitrate" laden flesh log if you volunteer for moar of it after where you've been and what you've done everyplace else based on the biggest of lies that you know is a lie since 2001!
No wonder hot dogs cause colon cancer?! I never thought of it that way. This demands a $90 million dollar gubmint grant to Chewbakka's college buddies to research these dangers of the Hot Dog!
Maybe her buds who designed the Obamacare web site can lend a hand?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is...
Sooooooooooooooooooooo ... how much are they going to pay to shove hot dog up our butts?
... for research purposes, only, of course ....
[And please inform Reggie he can only volunteer once.]
OMG! Oh! Oh! Reggie! Don't stop!!
How does the U.S. Military still have hundreds of thousands of willing people ready to die in these silly conflicts? After 14 fucking years of lies, war crimes and quagmires who in their right mind signs up for 4 years of this bullshit?
Obamabots, poor people, dumb people, people who sign up ``cause my daddy was in the army`` dumbfucks... gang members, to get training and get the chance to rape and kill folks...
And last but not least, those college benefits.
http://www.military.com/education/money-for-school/education-benefits-in...
And, veterans get priorty placement in job searches.
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/jobseekers/just-veterans
Not to mention the really cool artificial limbs should they make the mistake of only being wounded for their country rather than dying for it.
That whole Wounded Warrior Project always bothered me a great deal, due to the fact it exists at all.
Before the red arrows fly, think about why a program like that exists, and why the same goverment who had no problem sending these people into harms way is seemingly unable to provide the help that this program provides.
Some are saying the whole wounded warrior project is just another scam. That it is populated by members of a family and relatives. I have not bothered to look for more information.
Those ex-military people volunteered to go kill people who had done nothing to the US. Hundered of thousands of innocents recently. And most seem to have enjoyed it. They also knew the benefits their work provided after they stopped killing for money.
The UK has something similar. The UK outfit seems to be a well funded front organisation run by wealthy ex-officer types. At one stage they were just middlemen collecting money under one name and redistributing it to other smaller older military charities. With the usual middleman cut of course.
So, when Bush was firing up the wars it was Obamabots signing up? WOW!
How does the U.S. Military still have hundreds of thousands of willing people ready to die in these silly conflicts?
Hero propaganda commercials during sporting events.
Support The Troops ribbons.
American "exceptionalism"
False flags
"Thank you for your service"
Shall I go on? Probably not. I assume your question was rhetorical.
I havent heard any news on the recruiting stations having to turn away the crowds....
They put recruiters in high schools. Makes me sick.
Once again here's the greatest band ever...SLAYER
Conscearacy
[King]
[All Leads: King]
I need to redefine
All the things I hate today
Politics that fail
From a president derailed
I hate the shit economy
It might as well be sodomy
I know that in the end
I'm expected to pretend
But I can't relate
To your verbal idiocy
No one's in control
When the government's the enemy
So light the fuse
Impose your views
Consfearacy
Is anarchy
Actions of hostility
Breeds conformity
Annihilation will begin
Extermination from within
So light the fuse
Impose your views
Consfearacy
Is anarchy
I need to redefine
How I see the world today
Seems that all the war
Didn't even up the score
It's only mind pollution
There is no resolution
Still I know that in the end
I'm expected to pretend
That I can Think of myself
Blame it all on someone else
Half-hearted smile
While you look the other way
I can't relate
To your verbal idiocy
No one's in control
When the government's the enemy
So light the fuse
Impose your views
Consfearacy
Complacency is your demise
I$I$
"It’s critical to note that Iran (via the IRGC and, more specifically, the Quds Force) controls Iraqi politics and the Iraqi armed forces"
This simply is not true. Influence with Baghdad, yes - but Baghdad does not control the Sunni militias nor, for the most part, the Kurds, who have working relationships with the US and Israelis.
But the Arab Iraqis are not letting Persia "control" them so much as they absolutely welcome their assistance against the forces arrayed against them - and Iran knows that "ISIS" is slated to appear next in Iran, aided, like the MEK and like groups, by Uncle Scam and Zionistan.
Iraq and Iran are neighbors and majority Shia in a region bloodied mostly by 1] Sunni Salafist terror 2] US invasions and aggression; 3] Israeli invasions and aggression.
The notion that Iran is doing anything sinister is tacitly accepting the absurd neocon/zionist worldview in which no act of violence by the US, Uk, or Israel is anything but in "defense of freedom" -while no one else has any right to arm to defend their own soil, let alone aid co-religionists in a fight against the forces that have spent over a decade murdering them.
Reasonable people can differ, your results may vary, but for fuck's sake - can anyone seriously argue that US foreign policy decisions are not primarily about what benefits banks, war profiteers, and Greater Israel?
{Yes, Israel and its planned expansion is a major, perhaps, politically, 'the' major impetus for spending 1/2 of tax revenue bombing empty fields and arming terrorists and Banderites.}
The US uses B1 bombers flying out of Qatar(?) to bomb targets in Iraq. These require in-flight refuleing for the mission. One mission was to take out a sniper (spotted by one of the ubiquitous drones). WTF?! The crew were surprised to find the sniper had gone by the time they got there. Taxpayer USD well spent.
27:30 into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzK0w7f4No
The US claimed they took out a ISIS motorcycle last weekend. I wonder how much that cost the taxpayer?
Darn! If it was the Brits they could have claimed it was a "Triumph!" (PUN!)
Come on Barry, you dont send troops to fight your own Proxies...
Wheeler wasn't killed in battle during this raid he was sacrificed.
He's the latest pawn in the great American foreign policy un raveling.
The troops are to protect the proxies. By sending troops into an area and taking over the sky in the area with US planes it keeps Russia from bombing in that area and obviously keeps out the Syrian and Iranian troops. Then they can go back to pretending to be fighting ISIS while actually suppling them and protecting them. Giving safe haven from which the insurgents can venture out and attack and then run back into again. Then they expand and take more area, soon all of NE Syria, then East Syria can be made a US military only zone with boots on the ground.
The Iraqi troops they will fight with are the portion of the Iraqi military that is aligned with the west. The ones who abandoned to ISIS large caches of supplies, weapons and vehicles without a shot in the past.
This is another "dare you to do something" tactic just as sailing ships into the China's declared space.
Russia may regret not being bold enough to have supplied the S-300/S-350 antiair missiles to Syria, declaring (through Syria) a no-fly zone over Syria for all by Russia and hitting those recently supplied by the US air drop.
You know for a fact they haven't ?
Putin has already surprised the west.
They may already be deployed, just waiting on some dumb move by the US.
Like this dumb move maybe.
The middle east is now officially a weapons testing site for international weapons manufacturers.
Yes, but it's going to get tricky now that they have to follow their targets to Hamburg, Germany.
Don't forget live target practice and developing missile firing acumen.
US Soldiers need to turn their guns on their masters
off topic but
Cop Who Attacked Schoolgirl Also Emptied Entire Can of Pepper Spray on US Veteran
http://filmingcops.com/cop-who-attacked-schoolgirl-also-emptied-entire-c...
fuck ^this guy.
How many fucking times do cops like this have to be caught on video going *clearly* over the line without consequence before someone decides his punishment will have to be dispensed by private citizens?
Watch the vid of this guy dragging the girl out of the class room. I dont care if you are a cop and your dad was and you're all about cop worship - *this* fucking guy doesn't deserve a badge or gun.
Indeed, what he deserves is an old fashioned ass kicking.
Raymond, I watched that video hoping and praying that the rest of the kids in the class would jump up from their desks and kick the living shit out of that pig.
"fuck ^this guy."
no fuck you
the guy disrespected the officer in every way, same did the girl
you want to become a hero? go become police officer and deal with the us-low-end-trash all by your self
on the internet anyone can be a hero
go show this officer how to deal with disrespectful criminals and idiots by talking to them - every single day until you retire
i like to repeat myself fuck you
@Raymond_K._Hessel
basically all of your posts on zero hedge are complete shit
please hang yourself you stupid troll you idiot should be banned
assholes like you are the reason for criminals and rapists in western countries can do whatever they want without being charged anything
In this case, I didn't have a problem with the way he handled her.
She refused to stop talking on her phone during class and was asked by the teacher to hand it over. She rufused and was then asked to leave by both the teacher and vice principal before the police were called in. The officer asked her to get up and leave and she again refused.
Disrespectful black bitch with a bad attitude. She got exactly what she deserved and should be permanently expelled.
They need to make some arrests concerning illegal Constitutional activity in Vichy DC.
Let's face it: the US is not anybody's heroes in the middle east. Iraq should just tell the US to get the fuck out. The US did nothing for them, except kill a lot of innocent people and destabilize the country. Next time the US gets a bright idea to "fix" someplace, maybe they should start with Detroit or Chicago.
mother fuckers think they can cow Russia by inserting sacrificial american troops. boldly stupid insane risky plan. the Military actually has people who present this as strategic? this is spy vs spy like in MAD magazine shit.
I don't think it is the military; it is some kind of mad Kissingerian draft-dodgers behind the scenes at the CIA coming up with this nonsense. Suporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan that turned into the Taliban under Reagan was not enough. They had to recruit 'moderate' rebels that turned into ISIS. Now the CIA doesn't have a clue, so let's just get some more US troops killed. As long as the CIA get good seats for the Harvard Yale game, who really cares?
So how come it's all the CIA and State and the WH get a pass on this?
Let's not forget the loss of Iraq and creation of ISIS started with Obama's wisdom in pulling US troops out of Iraq, giving a free rein to Iran in the south and to the Sunnis in the north to create ISIS.
"Let's not forget..."
Its difficult to forget what can't be remembered - because that never happened.
Iran and the Sunnis created ISIS? I think you better notify your handler that you can't even follow the narrative they have given you and are just making shit up.
Ask yourself who benefits from this escalation....
victor noodleman
The only place the US can operate in Iraq is the northern Kurd sector.
This is why all those arms and training is being re-based in Saudi.
The US lost Iraq.
they have not gotten the memo yet.
And to think they did all of this while "negotiating" some nuclear thing with Iran.
I understand the view that a more accessible Iranian society will provide the nexus to its secular youth, but every nuke program is supported in pure nationalist terms - not religious - the every man on the street in Iran sees a nuclear Iran as positive.
All the STUXNET in the world is not going to stop the Persian Bomb.
Never mind Pakistan.
Should have moved to Winnipeg.
Reminiscient of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred.....
I will be praying for every US soldier who put his boosts on Syrian soil come back into a back.
My Buck Rogers Crypto-Ring can't decode your post.
My question is...Can you please unscramble the fuck are your post says in good old plain American English?
I think he meant 'come back in a bag' ... But why he would say that is his business ...
recent syrian refugee, male > 25, looking for his EBT card, ready to meet European women.