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"Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away": US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes

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Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions: 

  1. Who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties? In other words, who are the middlemen?
  2. Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was “only” making $100 million per year instead of $400 million? 
  3. Is it likely, considering how cavalier the US is about collateral damage from drone strikes, that The Pentagon refused to take out Islamic State’s revenue stream because the military was afraid of killing a few “innocent” truck drivers who by definition knew they were transporting illegal crude for a terrorist organization?

The first question is, for now anyway, unanswerable. As to the second and third, here’s what we said:

Perhaps the US overestimated the effect its airstrikes were having on Islamic State’s oil production capabilities and perhaps The Pentagon was concerned with killing innocent truck drivers, but it could also be that, as Sergei Lavrov suggested earlier this month, the US has until now intentionally avoided hitting ISIS where it hurts in order to keep them in the game and ensure they can still be effective at destabilizing Assad. If you cut off the oil trade, they lose the ability to battle the regime.

Whatever the case, it's too late now, because just as Russian airstrikes and the Iranian ground presence forced the US to do something - anything - to prove to the world that America is serious about fighting terrorism, Moscow's targeting of ISIS oil convoys has forced the US to get on board (the Russians are going to hit them anyway, so there's no point in vacillating).

American airstrikes reportedly destroyed 116 oil tanker trucks earlier this month and another 280 today in Paris mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud's former fiefdom of Deir ez-Zor. 

Of course the US would hate to catch ISIS off guard risk killing innocent truck drivers, so prior to the November 16 strike, US planes dropped leaflets warning the drivers to "get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." Here's the leaflet (note the stick figures running for their lives):

Here's some commentary from Colonel Steve Warren from Operation Inherent Resolve (delivered at a press conference earlier this month): 

Early Sunday morning in Al-Bukamal, which is the southern blue circle number two, you see two blue circles there. They both represent Tidal Wave II operations, but we're in the southern one -- the one further towards the bottom of your screen, there.

 

In Al-Bukamal, we destroyed 116 tanker trucks, which we believe will reduce ISIL's ability to transport its stolen oil products.

 

This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike. We did a show of force, by -- we had aircraft essentially buzz the trucks at low altitude.

 

So, I do have copy of the leaflet, and I have got some videos, so why don't you pull the leaflet up. Let me take a look at it so I can talk about it.

 

As you can see, it's a fairly simple leaflet, it says, "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." A very simple message.

 

And then, also, "Warning: airstrikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from your oil trucks immediately. Do not risk your life."

 

And so, these are the leaflets that we dropped -- about 45 minutes before the airstrikes actually began.

And here's an amusing bit from the post-presser Q&A: 

Q: On Bob's question, too, if -- if it's so important to cut off the oil shipments, the critical revenue source for ISIS, why did it take so long to take out 116 oil tanker trucks?

 

COL. WARREN: No, that's a great question, Jim. Thanks for asking it.

 

So, a little history on Operation Tidal Wave II. Initially, we, you know, we have been striking oil infrastructure targets since the very beginning of this operation.

 

What we found out was that many of our strikes were only minimally effective. We would strike pieces of the oil infrastructure that were easily repaired.

 

When we came to that realization, we conducted some more study -- I think I talked about this last week, a little bit -- we conducted some more study, and determined how to better strike the oil infrastructure itself, different pieces of the system.

 

During the course of that study, we also determined that part of the illicit oil system, from the oil coming out of the ground at a -- at a pump head, to the end of that chain, which is the distribution network.

 

So, this is a decision that we had to make. We have not struck these trucks before. We assessed that these trucks, while although they are being used for operations that support ISIL, the truck drivers, themselves, probably not members of ISIL; they're probably just civilians. So we had to figure out a way around that. We're not in this business to kill civilians, we're in this business to stop ISIL -- to defeat ISIL.

So basically, it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil.

To the extent that occurred to anyone previously, the idea was dismissed because the truck drivers are "probably not members of ISIL." Well then who are they? Sure, they may not be suiting up in all black and firing RPGs at Toyota Corollas packed with "spies" for a propaganda video, but it's not like they don't know who they're working for.

Also, as mentioned above, the US hasn't exactly been shy about engaging targets even when there are women, children, and bedridden hospital patients in the vicinity so it's hard to imagine that anyone at the Pentagon was worried about Islamic State's truck drivers.

Whatever the case, the US is apprently set to give ISIS a 45 minute heads up when The Pentagon plans to bomb an oil convoy which we suppose makes sense.

It's the least the CIA can do for an old friend.

 

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Mon, 11/23/2015 - 15:58 | 6828293 PoasterToaster
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Whatever you "government" types do, don't ask who is buying this dirty oil.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:02 | 6828303 Looney
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Strangely enough, we tell everybody that we’ve hit 116 trucks, while showing the Russian bombs hitting THEIR targets.

Google the PBS coverage on 116 trucks...

Forward!  ;-)

Looney

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:02 | 6828308 aint no fortuna...
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Looks like Barry's lining himself up for another Nobel Peace Prize...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:03 | 6828318 knukles
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That's fair. They weren't wearing Redskins jerseys

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:16 | 6828342 Welfare Tycoon
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Tell this to the civilians who were involved in your area of drone strike operations. 

This shit is getting so outlandish and rediculous that I do not understand how anyone believes anything that the government says anymore. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:22 | 6828403 SWRichmond
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it's not like they don't know who they're working for.

The exact same could be said of all US taxpayers.  We are the ones paying for this.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:32 | 6828450 AlaricBalth
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I wish they had given me 45 minutes notice before the FBI showed up. Couldn't they at least have given me a leaflet drop.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:45 | 6828746 0b1knob
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So instead of dropping  million dollar  laser guided bombs to destroy old trucks they bring the entire convoy to a halt with $20 worth of leaflets.

CIA is a lot smarter than you guys seem to think.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:00 | 6828799 gmrpeabody
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Those crazy Ruskies dropped their bombs first..., then dropped the leaflets.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:23 | 6828854 Anonymous User
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That's the proper way to do it.

I just hope one of these days the ruskies will get hold of Obama and take her on a fun ride

 

http://goo.gl/bNS18Z

 

Now I understand why Obama likes so much golfing. Is because of those long clubs. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:45 | 6828964 MANvsMACHINE
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This is just another version of "Cash for Clunkers"

See truck sales EXPLODE after watching trucks EXPLODE!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:21 | 6829136 tdag
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Did they drop leaflets before bombing the MSF hospital last month?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:09 | 6829373 A Nanny Moose
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Zing!!! Heads are exploding.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:41 | 6829515 RAT005
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Because ISIS lives matter :-(

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:44 | 6829532 nmewn
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I'm stealing that ;-)

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 22:02 | 6829808 Stainless Steel Rat
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The US wasn't issuing a threat, they were informing their creation on pending Russian military action.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 01:12 | 6830327 COSMOS
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Note how the USA gives the ISIS guys advance warning to make sure they survive.  I am sure they will give them radio warning before they bomb also....hmmmm

 

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 03:39 | 6830525 Fish Gone Bad
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 #TruckDriversMatter ?  Or perhaps #IsisTruckDriversMatter !

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:54 | 6830576 Occident Mortal
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Turkey just shot down a Russian jet.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-shoots-down-r...

http://news.sky.com/story/1593241/turkey-shoots-down-jet-near-syria-border

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34907983

 

Things are about to get extremely uncomfortable.

 

Remember Turkey is in NATO. How does this look from the Russian side? NATO have just shot down a Russian jet.

 

What could possibly go wrong?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 09:02 | 6831262 kralizec
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Turkey may be in NATO but they are in no way "Western", but then again in no way should the US belong to NATO either, they should have left Europe once the Soviet Union fell.

If there is any retaliation Russia should warn the US and NATO it has a beef with Turkey, otherwise kinetic activity will spread beyond the rough outlines it is operating in.

Then again a case could be made that nobody should be bothering anybody an be in anybody's yard...but such common sense died a long time ago.

Oh heck, just light all the fuses and be done with it!

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 09:10 | 6831304 HowdyDoody
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So Turkey is the location of Alan's Snackbar.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 07:03 | 6830873 Surviver22
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It's the greatest threat global security has ever faced.

All the weapons in the world won't matter once ISIS army kick into gear!

http://motivationdose.com/electromagnetic-pulse-attack-emp-blackout-usa-...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 22:24 | 6829873 Paveway IV
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Russia takes out 500 tankers, the U.S. responds by reporting that they took out 116 (but use Russian footage as 'proof')

Now the U.S. claims to have taken out a couple hundred (without Russain footage this time). What's Russia done in the mean time? Took out 500 more, but also took out the ISIS-held Thayyem refinery, located 10km from downtown Deir Ezzor. Why didn't Russia bomb the bigger refineries in the Omar fields? Because they already blew them to hell last week. 

So what has France been up to? They're really pissed, right? Looks like they're using the U.S. strategy, according to Al Jazzera:

However, a media activist in Raqqa, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that French air strikes had targeted abandoned ISIL bases in the suburbs of the city where there are no civilians or ISIL fighters. 

ISIS must be terrified of leaving any of their bases now, "We can't just abandon it - the French will bomb it!"

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:13 | 6830208 Lore
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Being careful to avoid hitting McCain's drinking buddies?

US Spent a Year Bombing Syrian Desert, Not ISIL

US TV Depicts Russian ISIS Tanker Strikes as American

Time to go back to background screen captures from video games?  After all, they worked so well in depicting "invasion conveys" crossing the Russian border into Ukraine.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:50 | 6830282 Manthong
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Y’know, I just heard something about Stop Orders being eliminated on exchanges.

That sounded curious but I do not care because I eliminated Go Orders a couple of years ago.

It sounds like we are getting close to the non-Caucasian swan.

 

..coming to a shopping venue near you..

Share the love   er, terror.

 

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 03:30 | 6830508 scintillator9
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That is correct Manthong:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nyse-joining-nasdaq-in-eliminating-stop...

The New York Stock Exchange, in a statement, said it would no longer accept what are called stop orders, beginning Feb. 26, joining the Nasdaq in barring them. Another order type called good-till-canceled also is being axed.

And another Fed meeting on November 30 to discuss Dodd - Frank Emergency Lending Changes.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/23/usa-fed-lending-idUSW1N12603P2...

Obviously, all is well,  Everything is Awesome., and I could really use some Unicorn rainbow twist ice cream.......

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:52 | 6829561 BarnacleBill
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A perfect response to this report!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:11 | 6828858 The Pope
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@gmpea - Crazy 'IVAN'

 

Just spray paint a 'STAR OF DAVID' on top of your oil tanker. You'll be as safe as a Clinton at a Bilderberg meeting.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:56 | 6829314 Vincent.Vega
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... and also be safe during the Passover/Pesach, "the Redemption and Deliverance of Elohim"...

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:16 | 6830293 Manthong
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Good ones, but…

Izzat anything like a Bush at a Skull and Bones black orgy?

..or maybe an Obama/Kerry/Gore at a locked down Paris energy tax/grab summit after an engineered massacre?

"this is too important for humanity"

yeah, right.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/prince-charles-syrias-war-linked-to-... 

Another Inconvenient Truth? New NASA Study Finds Antarctica Is Gaining Ice 

CO 2 Levels Hit Record High for 30th Year in a Row 

Studies flip 'climate change' notions upside down...

Lake Tahoe snow blasted with 'most in years'...

Paris deal 'not legally binding'...

 

oh crud.. nobody in this space seems to have a clue..

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:18 | 6828644 replaceme
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We may be paying, but they sure ain't working for us. Knowwhatimean?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 13:27 | 6832964 Rabbi Chaim Cohen
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On the back it says "Maybe try transporting by other means? Unfortunately, we need to make it look like we aren't your lifeline, Sorry!"

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:22 | 6828406 Squid-puppets a...
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Medecins sans-frontiers: 'no leaflet for you!'

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:39 | 6828484 turnoffthewater
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Saudi: Anything to get the price of oil up. Bomb the supply chain.

MIC: But your highness, we need don't want to hurt innocent ISIS, we need them, plus they are on your payroll. wink, wink

Saudi: Well tell them to get out of the trucks first.

MIC: YES, SIR! I mean your highness. (now why didn't I think of that)

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:05 | 6829607 palmereldritch
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signed:

Psychopathes Sans Frontières

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 03:38 | 6830522 researchfix
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Gay weddings get 1 hour notice.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:42 | 6829243 Freddie
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The zio-USSA does not drop leaflets warning hospitals before they bomb them.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:17 | 6830221 Lore
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Hospitals, weddings, tomaytoes, tomahtoes... Let's call the whole thing off.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:09 | 6828344 sodbuster
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That's more warning than what they will give to any American, when they come for them.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:10 | 6828352 NoDebt
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We should have used a picture of a Mig in that photo.  Truth in advertising and all that jazz.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:30 | 6828679 Sudden Debt
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Imagine that the Russians would have blown them to kingdom come 3 minutes later :)

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN EPIC! :)

But I guess America wouldn't have allowed their alies from being shot...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:10 | 6829383 A Nanny Moose
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rayciss

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:51 | 6830572 dogfish
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:07 | 6828338 Chuckster
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What colors do you think the white house will be lite up in?  It will be another epic achievement.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:45 | 6828514 Calmyourself
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Something about this in the koran.

"is not for a believer to kill a believer unless (it be) by mistake. He who hath killed a believer by mistake must set free a believing slave, and pay the blood- money to the family of the slain, unless they remit it as a charity."

4..2-93

 

Almost like a Muslim protecting a fellow.. naaah couldn't be...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:51 | 6829270 Bring the Gold
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So were Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush all secretly Muslim when we carried water for the house of Saud and Israel?

Could it be that contrary to the belief of many that presidents hold very little power, especially since the shadow government was enshrined 10/2001 by Bush II?

Naw, probably it's not geopolitics decades in the making and protecting the petro dollar by supporting the House of Saud and our good buddies in Israel. It's that Obama is a gay Muslim.

Look, even if Obama is gay AND Muslim he has no real power zip. Zero. He's a puppet. Fear not, it's all safely run by white guys and neo-cons in the background.

But if it makes you feel better to think Obama is the most powerful man on earth, gay and a Muslim Kenyan please just ignore decades of geopolitical machinations clearly evidenced in the public record and instead pin all your fears and hate on Obamas black Muslim gayness.

Good grief. Love yourself enough to get educated on how the world really works.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:20 | 6829436 Calmyourself
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Wow you shoved quite a few words in my mouth fool...  Take a chill pill, I know exactly what is going on but making fun of the stupid posterboy is fun and I enjoy it.  Good grief let a guy have a little fun with the asshole in my house.. You flog yourself some more over us ignorant hoi polloi and then come on back to edumacate us... 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:33 | 6829486 Bring the Gold
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Maybe you know better many on here don't. They think there is a gay Muslim black agenda causing world events instead of a Real Politik geo-political framework. Your comment feeds into the R vs D false dichotomy that helps keep America hamstrung and unable to identify the real source(s) of our problems. Obama is one of the worst presidents of all time. All the black secretly gay and Muslim shit is about as fresh as Clinton blue dress jokes. Overplayed, unfunny and dangerous to feeble minds (yours clearly excluded).

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:18 | 6829654 NoPension
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He's black?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:30 | 6830254 Joenobody12
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He let it be known he has Irish blood. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:15 | 6830044 NuckingFuts
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You mean making up name like Ogolfer and Hitlery isn't going to fix the problem and point out the true enemies?? Is this ZH or did visit the wrong site?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:06 | 6830196 DaveyJones
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was watching Lawrence of Arabia the other night and I'm thinking the game goes back pretty far

Nice post 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:23 | 6828873 konputa
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Nobel Peace prize, Global Fleece prize, who can keep up with all of this?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:17 | 6828380 SILVERGEDDON
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Copycat the Russians, who already showed the world how you fuck up the terrorists.

USA needed lead time to get all their pet terrorist truck drivers off the road.

KILL EVERYONE NOW !!!

After the leaflet drop, of course.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:39 | 6828482 LoneStarHog
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The card should read:  "Stop! Stay in your trucks.  One of you is the Publisher Clearing House winner and a representative will soon be on site.  If you leave, you lose."

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 02:20 | 6830435 nosam
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Stay in your truck and cover yourself with passports.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:24 | 6828879 robertsgt40
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"We're not in this business to kill civilians..." You mean like the 1.3m Iraqis, Afganis, Libyans, and countless others by proxy?  This is "military intelligence" in action.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:59 | 6829330 A Nanny Moose
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PBS = Pravda.us

I got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 01:11 | 6830326 Questan1913
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It is becoming more embarassing day by day to be living in the US under the moronic leadership of clowns in meltdown and yet elsewhere in this world there is a power that walks rather softly, but carries a very big stick and remarkably, doesn't lie nonstop; imagine that....

From Debkafile

 

http://debka.com/article/24976/

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:24 | 6828415 SteveNYC
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"Dear HeadChopping Jihadi John Mask Wearer:

Leave the body and decapitated head on the ground. Run away now, airstrikes coming. Do not risk your life"

 

Oh hang on a minute......

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:42 | 6828502 tired1
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'don't ask who is buying this dirty oil.'

 

For the question is: what banks are being used?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:23 | 6829673 GRDguy
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Hush, it's where the biggest part of our campaign funds and side-bonuses come from.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:06 | 6828804 Dugald
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Well Bob, what we found out was that many of our strikes were only minimally effective. We would strike pieces of the oil infrastructure that were easily repaired.

Sadly, Inherent resolve has become Inherently flawed......but don't see this as a set back as its something we Americans  are used to......on  daily basis, ad nauseum actually.   Now, lets move on to some of the good aspects of this latest action, ummm well that concludes our briefing for today, so look forward to seeing you all tomorrow....and....don't forget, bring you own doughnuts....

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:37 | 6829217 Noplebian
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:13 | 6830032 McCormick No. 9
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The patron saint of truckdrivers everywhere is Jimmy Hoffa. Now if only ISIS will give them a raise and some decent health insurance...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:01 | 6828298 Francis Marx
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Maybe they dont want to see anybody die in a Ford truck? You know...a honerable thing, like not being buried with a pig?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:28 | 6830182 FixItAgainTony
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Back in Desert Storm, USAF crispied them like an unrated version of Mad Max - Napalm Alley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death

What is it with all this "don't hurt the intern terrorists' feelings", sensitivity stuff?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:01 | 6828301 JustObserving
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it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil.

Is this the same US that routinely double-tap drones women and children and wedding parties?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:02 | 6828313 chunga
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This shit is so embarassing day after day, year after year.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:08 | 6828327 NoDebt
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Maybe you're too young to remember, but we used to be really good at this shit.  How we got so bullshit so fast is stunning.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:45 | 6828745 BKbroiler
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It's a problem of optics.  We figured out last year that general public won't support the killing of leaders who wear nice western style suits and go on Charlie Rose interviews like Assad.  I think he learned that trick from Saddams trial.  Anyway, killing anyone except people who dress like jidahists is now frowned upon, so it's harder to accomplish any real missions.  Note to enemies: buy a suit.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 22:19 | 6829868 logically possible
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The U.S. Congress figured that out years ago.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:08 | 6828339 insanelysane
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Somebody is shooting all the cans only on a larger scale.  Stay away from the cans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRM3lFRwRI

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:03 | 6829347 A Nanny Moose
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Well played!

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:07 | 6830198 MayIMommaDogFac...
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I remember my first beer!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:01 | 6828579 1stepcloser
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I hope this signals the end is near

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:04 | 6829351 A Nanny Moose
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Be careful what you wish for.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:44 | 6829733 scrappy
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McCain says everyone in the National Security Team recommended arming ISIS (Sept 05, 2014)

http://investmentwatchblog.com/isis-mccain-says-everyone-in-the-national...

White House: Americans Should Talk About Gun Control This Thanksgiving http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/23/white-house-americans-talk-gun-control-thanksgiving/ Worldwide travel alert: State Department issues warning for Americans http://investmentwatchblog.com/worldwide-travel-alert-state-department-i...

(Especially Don't Travel to Turkey)

Happy Turkey Day - Turkeys!

 

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:44 | 6828510 vq1
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no... that is taking out specific targets that are dangerous the US security*

 

*just dont ask how new terrorist this creates because friends and family lost their loved one as a "casualty of war"

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:20 | 6829118 TheRideNeverEnds
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Yup, the same government that regulates how much of what fuels you can use and how clean they have to burn is using jets that burn tons of fuel per flight to go blow up millions of barrels of oil.

 

For our own good of course.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:02 | 6828306 Analog
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Only two languages and one of them is English???

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:15 | 6828369 Welfare Tycoon
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Well yeah, OF COURSE it is English!

With American exceptionalism these days, knowing English is a requirement, no matter where you live.

Just like how everything should be measured in miles instead of kilometers, pounds instead of kilograms, and how your native language is is only secondary to the godspeak that is English.

You filthy peasant you. 

 

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:17 | 6828384 o r c k
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I agree. English? Wonder why? Hmmmm.  Oh, I see. English !

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:32 | 6829483 Freebird
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Probably Haliburton drivers...

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:06 | 6830195 FixItAgainTony
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ouch, docked for 45 minute unscheduled break

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:29 | 6828434 Oldrepublic
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You know not all Arabs are literate, as I found out
many times when I showed a taxi driver in Cairo,
something written in Arabic and got a funny reaction,
usually they would drive me around until they could
find an English speaking person.So bad luck to those
truck drivers who could not read the message!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:56 | 6828556 Denzilla
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But...the leaflet has a nifty drawing of stick figures running away from the truck! no need to read....

And....what about the environmental impact of all that spilled oil? If you blow up the truck, it doesn't necessarily mean the oil goes away....

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:56 | 6828558 Denzilla
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But...the leaflet has a nifty drawing of stick figures running away from the truck! no need to read....

And....what about the environmental impact of all that spilled oil? If you blow up the truck, it doesn't necessarily mean the oil goes away....

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:58 | 6829583 CPL
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Yeah.  One message in english.  The other message is in Hebrew with a coupon attached.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 22:23 | 6829881 logically possible
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The English is for the CIA clowns that are in charge of this gig.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:02 | 6828309 aliki
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president trump & president putin would squash these cockroaches in about 24 hours

"vlad, i got the marines coming in from the east, the army coming in from the south ... you send your boys in from the north and the west"

"agree comrade donnie ... we will meet in the middle & toast ruskie vodka to their bones in the evening!"

"no problem vlad but just 1 thing, do NOT tell my wife about 'your friends' your gonna bring by for dinner ... i can't handle another divorce!"

"no problem donnie, just don't puss-out on me like last time"

"not fair vlad, that was BV ... Before Viagra"

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:24 | 6828416 Squid-puppets a...
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yea, right 

trumps 1st day in office they show him 'the tape' of jfk from that hitherto unseen angle...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:22 | 6828865 Overfed
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And then hopefully Trump would pull out the .45 that he carries and start popping caps in some asses. That would be off the charts awesome.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:31 | 6828902 Tall Tom
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The Zapruder Film is more than enough...

 

The Secret Service (US Treasury Agents) inform the incoming President, "Mr. President. This can happen to you."

 

It is not a threat but a statement of concern, right?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:44 | 6828958 Herd Redirectio...
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"By the way, we also heard you were scheduled for some minor cosmetic surgery in the next few days"

*as they present him with his 'body double', kept on leash by the likes of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Sunstein...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:04 | 6828310 NoDebt
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East-bound and down, loaded up and truckin'.  We gonna do what they say can't be done.

This wouldn't happen to these poor schmucks if they hadn't neglected to get Burt Reynolds and a 79 Turbo Trans Am.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:10 | 6828350 Proctologist
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But if they had Burt Reynolds hairpiece they would've been mistakenly id'd and bombed as Syrian diplomats.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:10 | 6828351 Bunghole
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'77 TA NA 6.6 liter W72 engine.  A whopping 200 hp.

No turbo.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:17 | 6828367 NoDebt
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Smokey and the Bandit II they used the Turbo Trans Am.  You're right- the orginal movie was the regular old 6.6L V8 and they weren't rated at 200HP.  They were rated <gulp!> 180. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:05 | 6828596 Bunghole
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Isn't that pathetic?

I've got an older 1.8 turbo that would smoke that paperweight.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:01 | 6828564 cowdiddly
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The 74 Trans Am 455 is the one you want. Friend had one. I was riding with him in it once and he was doing a burnout. Snapped all the lug nuts off the rear wheel and I looked out the window as the rear wheel bounced past us. True story.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:11 | 6828621 Calmyourself
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Had a riviera with a 455, 2.5 tons of hauling ass...  scary as it took so long to stop

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:18 | 6829655 scrappy
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71 GTO Convertable, Bored out 400, Turbo 400 Dual Gate Automatic, Rachet shifter.

Burned rubber as long as you wished, 0 to 30 in 1st gear, then it would actually burn rubber again rachet shifting into 2nd, then up to 90 mph, into 3rd, and the car would lurch up for a second then super cruise into the 100's...

Destroyed the rear end, then it was "stolen" by a friend where I stored it.

Needless to say, we are no longer friends.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 22:51 | 6829977 Paveway IV
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I was the laughingstock of my motorhead buddies back in the day when I showed up with a late 60's Cougar XR7 I picked up for cheap. It was funny to them because the 428 Cobra Jet engine 'only' had 335 BHP and 440 ft./lbs. of torque. They wanted to know if they could use it for a starter motor on their cars when I got done with it. I bought it mostly for the hood scoop, furry carpet and chrome skull gear-shift knob. Life was so much simpler back then <sigh>.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:22 | 6830070 A Nanny Moose
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73 SD 455. same car. Looks better than 74.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:16 | 6830048 A Nanny Moose
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They shoulda got on the VW plan.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:17 | 6830557 ebear
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Sand Road Truckers.

I'd pay good money to see Lisa in a safety burka... heh

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:05 | 6828314 Ms. Erable
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"Hey, we're going to fly our planes over and bomb your oil trucks. Don't do anything stupid like use some of those MANPADS we delivered to you from Libya against our planes."

Fucking brilliant.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:06 | 6828602 chunga
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Everybody knows ISIS is bad, but their truck drivers are pretty nice guys.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:03 | 6828316 smokintoad
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How long have we known Daesh was deriving revenue from oil?  Putin releases video of Russian bombs taking out oil tankers, and now suddenly our leadership decides it's a good idea?  Monkey see, monkey do.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:05 | 6828324 knukles
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That's racist

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:06 | 6828335 Ms. Erable
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...he didn't say 'monkey do rag'.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:04 | 6828323 Imminent Collapse
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It is a sad situation when Americans buy this kind of BS.  Good thing that its football season or people might actually be upset that the US is facilitating ISIL's activities by letting theim continue to make big money selling oil.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:09 | 6828613 Jstanley011
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Your faith in the American Sheeple is charming.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:05 | 6829024 Tall Tom
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And just who is buying that cheap Oil???

 

YOU.

 

Fill up yer car with the cheap gas. That is when you actually PURCHASE THE BS...and even worse...KNOWINGLY.

 

ISIS needs your support...your Financial support.

 

Who cares if that Oil came from ISIS, right?

 

It is only brown people's lives that you are burning up with that cheap gas.

 

And you KNOW about it and do not do anything about it...except express outrage on these pages while enjoying the cheap gas.

 

Oh I know that you must go to work, go to the store for groceries, and take junior back and forth to school (Or do you? Why can't junior walk to school???).

 

But you can BOYCOTT ALL MAJOR CORPORATIONS. You can sell your Stocks and REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE. You can go wthout the Television.

 

The sad truth is that you do not care as anybody over there is worthy of dying so that you can go on living.

 

Financial support is SUPPORT.

Financial support is SUPPORT.

Financial support is SUPPORT.

 

And YOU SUPPORT IT.

 

You are BUYING the BS every single time you buy unnecessary trinkets from Wal~Mart.

 

You are buying the BS every single time that you buy essentials. But Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Transportation are necessary for survival. That is understandable. And that is what is really, truly sad....that you have to buy that and support these murderous psychopaths...our Government and ISIS...or do I repeat myself...

 

Stop participating. At least minimize participation to only that of acquiring bare essentials.

 

No pleasure cruises. No Christmas.

 

(Christmas is not an essential. I can just imagine telling Christ that I was complicit in the murder of some brown people in order to celebrate you.)

 

Do not buy during this week's Black Friday event. Tank this economy.

 

Other than that remove your currency from the Financial System.

 

Starve the Beast as it slides into a recession.

 

If enough peopledidtis then it would help bring the economy to a crashing halt and end the shitshow.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:05 | 6828325 iClaudius
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It cost $500m to train those operatives; the trucks cost peanuts in comparison.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:35 | 6828707 Winston Churchill
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It takes 21 years to replace drivers, the trucks  in weeks.

Anybody would think Uncle Scam is scamming us..

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:09 | 6829074 Tall Tom
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Bombing those trucks is good fer the economy. Ask Krugman.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:07 | 6828326 astoriajoe
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"The Pentagon was concerned with killing innocent truck drivers,"

that's almost as good as Lanny Breuer saying the DOJ doesn't prosecute bank employees because of the damage it would cause. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:46 | 6828518 vq1
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maybe the pentagon has a soft spot for truck drivers? You know... they're blue collar workers, capitalists.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:05 | 6828328 Chuckster
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34903677

The best  news I've heard all year...I hope it catches on.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:07 | 6828329 Truth Eater
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When the first videos came out shortly after the Benghazi treason time, I saw that we were NOT attacking the savage people in the least.  We hit empty buildings and Syrian oil infrastructure.  Our intent was clear- take out Assad and not the savage ISIS bastards.

 

Now it is being reported repeatedly how right I was.  ISIS is an agency for US, Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

 

Blood on our hands for what they did.  It will be paid back.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:30 | 6828439 Arthur
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Don't forget agents of China and Russia too.

 

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 03:34 | 6830516 cheech_wizard
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Next you'll be telling us you are King of the Britons...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:06 | 6828333 Bunghole
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13 months was the required timeframe for the US EPA to approve the Environmental Impact Study for bombing oil tankers and releasing hydrocarbons to the soil, groundwater and atmosphere.

In the USSA, it would never get approved but in Syria, well, you know.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:06 | 6828334 firstdivision
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Storage tanks are not easily repaired as the fire cannot be easily contained.  Oh that's right, you only hit the guard shack, expecting that to 'show them we mean business'.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:08 | 6828819 Sokhmate
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Bin'ess, or, bidness if you insist.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:09 | 6828345 Uranium Mountain
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They're Syrikong sympathizers.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:23 | 6828410 o r c k
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Syri-kong ?  I love it !! ( after I got it)

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:53 | 6830166 Cassiopia2011
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I love it too - after I got it.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:09 | 6828348 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Ya' just gotta' wonder whose side Barry's on.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/23/obama-quietly-releases-plans-for-2224-...

Can we find a Congress that will impeach him? Hello?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:12 | 6828627 Jstanley011
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No.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:09 | 6828349 Blano
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Has anybody bothered asking why we don't just bomb the oil refinery itself?

Are we unable to locate it or something?

Sheesh.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:15 | 6828365 firstdivision
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They run the risk of hitting it when the Goldman Sachs commoities buyer is there, so we can do that now.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:16 | 6828377 BiPolarFrenchman
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Burn the heretic!

 

Haha, jk.  All it takes is a look on Google Maps of Eastern Syria to know the US's operation there is a complete joke.  

 

The ISIS stronghold, Raqqa, has like one road going to it and surrounded by sand on all others.  It's such an easy military target in this day and age, it's not even funny.  

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:20 | 6828396 HowdyDoody
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"Colonel, I want you to shoot the lock off that oil refinery"

"That's private property"

"Shoot, shoot with a gun"

"You know what's gonna happen to you? You gonna have to answer to the Exxon/whatever oil company"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ9B7owHxMQ

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:37 | 6828470 Ludwig Von
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Big lol, but also a bit twisting, no ?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:22 | 6828871 HowdyDoody
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Yes - I claim artistic license.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:55 | 6829008 Herd Redirectio...
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KUBRICK = GENIUS = 50 years ahead of his time.

I used to think it was 1984 and Brave New World that were way ahead of their time.  No way, those authors were just putting down what they had already seen with their own damn eyes.  Kubrick, now he was a visionary.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:23 | 6828413 J Jason Djfmam
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Do you know how hard it is to build an oil refinery these days?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:26 | 6828423 Lostinfortwalton
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It is curious, the trucks just seem to go on a road to.......nowhere? Maybe the DNC is getting a cut of the oil revenue?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:12 | 6828359 Dark Daze
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When every single member of your administration is trapped, like a rat, send in the military to define the word 'study'.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:12 | 6828360 WOAR
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"Bring out your dead."

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:17 | 6828361 Bill of Rights
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Ahh yes, lets create the war on terror, then we'll swoop in in our superman capes and fix it all. I mean really people, are they fuck'en serious.

 

The end goal is eventually a ( False flag ) terror attack in the US followed by Cops and or soldiers on every intersection in the Country...its that easy, And the sheep will cheer it, until they start getting shot and rounded up..by then it will be way to late in the game...history repeats...

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:13 | 6828362 youngman
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Our Rules of Engagement are so stupid we can never win a war again...to many lawyers in the loop now..this is just live fire practice...I feel bad for the guys in the military now.....

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:25 | 6828420 Anopheles
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Now they (the administration) are copying the Russians.  However the Russians only gave the drivers about 5 or 10 minutes.....  (if that)

So what are the drivers going to do?  Unhitch the tractors, leave the tankers, and in 45 minutes, they're 100km away from the area and looking to buy another tankers. 

I like the Russian way better.  "If you run, you will die". 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:07 | 6828607 Bunghole
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"If you run, you will die tired". 

FIFY

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:15 | 6828370 alexcojones
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ALL KABUKI THEATER...

And we're the puppets

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:16 | 6828372 ghostzapper
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Did Obozo take a selfie of himself ordering the Pentagon to bomb these trucks since it was "his idea" all along?  He can post it on Instadummy next to a Bieber selfie.  What a goddamn disgrace the United States Corporation cabal criminal scumbags are.  

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