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The Boots Are Back On The Ground: US Officially Deploys Special Forces To Iraq
Just to be clear, everyone who's been paying attention knows there have been US boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq for quite some time.
When Obama announced last month that Washington would be deploying "less than 50" Spec Ops to Syria, the public's reaction (as exemplified by the painful presser with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest) seemed to indicate that everyone had forgotten that just five months ago, US commandos executed a raid in Syria that purportedly killed Islamic State’s “gas minister” (and yes, that’s just as absurd as it sounds). And then there was the Peshmerga-assisted raid on an ISIS prison in the northern Iraqi town of Huwija that resulted in the first US combat death in the country since 2006. Footage from that operation was plastered all over the news in a desperate attempt to prove the US is still serious about fighting terror.
Additionally, Washington has made no secret of the now defunct “train and equip” program for Syrian rebels - clearly, the American public hadn’t thought very hard about who was doing the on-the-ground “training.”
Finally, there’s no telling how many CIA operatives and black ops have been running around in Syria assisting Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s proxy armies from the very beginning.
As Anthony Cordesman, a security and intelligence analyst for past US administrations told The Guardian, no boots on the ground "doesn't mean every damn boot."
Well just moments ago, Ash Carter announced that the US would deploy an "expeditionary targeting force" to Iraq. Here are the details via Bloomberg:
- Specialized U.S. “expeditionary targeting force” to assist Iraqi, Kurdish Peshmerga forces, puts “even more pressure on” Islamic State, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter tells House Armed Services Cmte.
- “These special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture ISIL leaders,” Carter Says
- Raid “creates a virtuous cycle of better intelligence, which generates more targets, more raids, and more momentum”
- Iraq raids “will be done at the invitation of Iraqi government/ focused on defending its borders and building the ISF’s own capacity
- Expeditionary force ‘‘ will also be in a position to conduct unilateral operations into to Syria,’’ Carter says in statement
- NOTE: Carter statement does not indicate how many special operations force will be deployed in ‘‘expeditionary targeting force”
The announcement comes as lawmakers and former defense officials call for a greater US commando presence to fight ISIS (the same ISIS that US commandos armed and trained along with the Saudis, Turkey, and Qatar). “The goal is to start a chain reaction of intelligence-driven raids that increase in frequency and expand in scope over time. The metric becomes can you disrupt and dismantle the network faster than the enemy can repair and regenerate it” Robert Martinage, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations under Obama said this week.
As Bloomberg noted on Monday, "the model would be the commando raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. The tactics, honed in hundreds of raids in Iraq and Afghanistan, were developed by groups such as Task Force 714 in Iraq, which joined the intelligence resources of the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency with Navy Seal Team Six and Army Delta Force commandos."
“A group of 50 is fine for what they’re doing so far," Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said in an interview with CBS late last month, referencing the Spec Ops in route to Syria. "But it’s not going to solve the problem.”
No, it's not. Of course it's not clear that the US and its regional allies want to "solve the problem" as much as they want to simply "contain" it. As Sergei Lavrov put it, "apparently, it’s a kind of a ‘honey is sweet, but the bee stings’ situation: they want IS to weaken Assad as soon as possible to make him leave somehow, but at the same time they don’t want to overly strengthen IS, which may then seize power" (more here).
So in short, expect more helmet cam footage designed to drum up public support for an increased troop presence in Iraq and eventually in Syria because as last week's events clearly demonstrate, the stakes are now quite high.
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From "Kurdish fighters say US special forces have been fighting Isis for months," via The Guardian
On a damp afternoon in Iraqi Kurdistan, a 29-year-old peshmerga fighter named Peshawa pulls out his Samsung Galaxy mobile phone, flicks hurriedly through his library until he finds the video he wants, and presses play.
The clip, filmed just after dawn on 11 September, shows four tall and western-looking men in the heat of a battle against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. “These are the Americans,” says Peshawa in a secretive tone.
One is crouched behind a machine gun firing round after round from the top of a fortified mound; another lies on his front a few feet away, legs outstretched and taking aim at the enemy with a long rifle. A third wields a long-lens camera taking photo after photo, and the last stands back, apparently overseeing the others during the combat south-west of the city of Kirkuk.
The footage, Peshawa says, is evidence that US special forces have been waging a covert war on the frontline in Iraq for months. Such a claim could alter the feverish debate over whether Barack Obama should move farther and faster against Isis in the wake of the Paris attacks.
In another video, dated 11 June, an American soldier wearing the fatigues and insignia of a Kurdish counter-terrorism unit can be seen walking alongside two dozen peshmerga in the aftermath of a seven-hour firefight with Isis militants in the village of Wastana and Saddam settlement, according to the peshmerga who filmed the video.
The American special forces arrived in Kirkuk earlier this year to train, advise and support peshmerga forces fighting Isis. According to a Kurdish peshmerga commander, about 30 American special forces operatives set up an operations room in the city.
A senior peshmerga commander, who did not wish to be named, said: “In February, for the first time, four American snipers came to south Kirkuk because we had lost several peshmerga to the Isis snipers.
“The peshmerga snipers were weak and before we could hit a single Isis sniper, we would lose a few men. Therefore we desperately needed American snipers. They had taken part in all the fights in south Kirkuk and they had really good snipers.”
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Will they be in Iraq or Syria? The Nobel Prize Winner has never met a war that he did not like.
Fresh off the heels of Putin stating Turkey shot down his jet to protect ISIL oil... It's all coming together now...
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/11/putin-turkey-shot-down-jet-to-protec...
Merry Christmas troops & families !
More like to protect ISIS from Russian bombers...
Hopefully they will clean up their mess and stay away from Russia.
This is like something out of Clancy's 'Clear and Present Danger'. But don't get used to it. Pretty soon it'll turn into Vietnam 2.0
We've already had Nikes on the ground for some time. Just kicking it up a notch.
pods
If the lazy iraqis missed the train on inviting Russia to bomb ISIS as Syria did, now they'll just have to pucker up and dance with the yankees.
They have plenty of oil, so lubing won't be a problem.
http://goo.gl/7tHnDu
JEW.S.A!
JEW.S.A!
JEW.S.A!
I expect there to be more "terrerist" attacks in Turkey shortly...
Just remember in the darkest hour:
"the global pact on climate control is 'an act of defiance' against terrorism that proves the world stands undeterred by ISIS."
" Change you can believe in! "
~ Hussein O'Bama
From Peacenik to War Hawk in less than 7 years. John McCain weeps with joy.
Queue the music "Boys are back in town" with the lyrics for the "Boots are back on the ground". Keep the line, "if the boys are going to fight..."
Georack Wussein Obush
I thought that Bammy told us he'd led the forces to Victory already.
We have to go into Iraq to see what's in it.
Said most Dem congreecritters when they voted to allow the threat of invasion. Kerry and Hillary were quite shrill.
Special forces?
I thought they were busy in Syria...
It's "Syria" and "Iraq" not real countries.
"Terrortories" might fit, because there is no sovereign government and a plethora of warring tribes clans ethnicities and sects reign, however it doesn't explicitly capture the one thing they almost all have in common, Islam.
The Pentagram is hell bent on a war. The negative odds are stacking up very quickly against DC but it does not deter them. They know very well that American servicemen run the risk of combat with the Ruskies, but it does not deter them. They know all too well that the ISIS psychopaths are running loose and can turn on a dime, but it does not deter them.
There has to be more to it. Somebody somewhere has money down on the outcome and wants a windfall return or at least recovery of the money. Maybe they need to collect or destroy evidence. Unless the American forces are there to eliminate their ugly ISIS babies Iraq should be written off as another DC funded bloodbath. What will it take for DC to leave the Iraqis alone for a change and let them clean up the filthy Western mess that DC has so viciously created.
Whomever comes up with these wanton geopolitical murder schemes should be identified, tried, and executed for crimes against humanity. But like all violent criminals, it will take a determined LE force to take them down.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Where is Code Pink hiding?
Paris......pivot to global warming.
Oh, I see. So, back to anti-war if and when a Republican gets selected President. So predictable...
http://m.journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants...
Boots on the ground to make sure no more high ranking israhell officers get rounded up with their isis bretheren.
Would be nice to know what Congressional authorization Obobo is using to start another war...
Haven't you heard? He doesn't need any authorization. He has a pen and a phone.
Obama? Congress? What do THEY have to do with it?
Approval comes from Nettanyahu and the Israeli Knesset. "We don't care who you have to kill, how much it costs or how many of your soldiers die... Protect our Kirkuk - Haifa pipeline. Do it NOW, American bitches... We're just a tiny little country - you OWE us that much..."
If there is one thing that the Obama has done for the good of the US population is expose what a farce the idea that we have a representative government with Constitutional separations of powers between the 3 branches (4 Branches if you count the House and Senate as 2 separate entities). What he has shown is that we have a dictatorship that is no longer chained down by the constitution. Sure the Dictator changes every 4 or 8 years but the power behind him does not.
But, but... What about its effects on "Collateral Damage" and on "Global Warming"
Or are we to understand that our War on Global Warming is actually a War on Global Warmongering? Neither of which are expected to end any time soon.
Especially now that the self-serving, dumb-ass Chinese have fallen into the SDR trap and will officially become part of the Club Fed Alliance. And there I thought that these people had brains, character and vision. The Ziocons and Ziobanksters are ROTF.
Bingo Gaius...
Human shields and the perfect excuse to engage Russia directly should an errant bomb take out a spec ops team. So diabolical.
With Iran operating in Iraq and Syria it will be interesting to see how this works out.
Look for Russia/Iran/Syria forces to escalate and secure Syria’s borders.
Other: This ISIS oil thing is likely connected to this change.
Good to see Boots finally on the ground instead of all those Nike sneakers.
ND, it's already Vietnam 2.0, but Obutthead is bringing out the early 'beta' of Armageddon 1.0........
http://www.theonion.com/article/clinton-deploys-very-special-forces-to-i...
+ 100 for finding Clinton material.
>>> GOLFER IN CHIEF
>>> COMMANDER IN CHIEF
BACKSTABBER IN CHIEF
Bad news for the iraqis .
The Nobel Prize Winner has never met a war that he did not like.
Au contrare, he's lovin the war on whisleblowers. POTUS? Lose the TU, POS is more like it.
ISIS has nothing to do with anything - there is only one single obective for all parties to the scam.
there now will be more "mistakes" aimed at taking out Russia...for good - Turkey shoot was the proverbial -
Prized Stallion - horses head in the bed
Russia is increasing its air assets to 138 with a second airfied.
The envelope for the S400s just got a lot bigger and more accurate.
I enjoy listening to Americunts making up reasons to side with terrorists and Turks as Russia (also France) is bombing them and pissing everyone off.
Really people? Putin is worse than stateless, headchopping terrorists who may or may not, at any given time be paid by the US?
Imagine young uniformed US soldiers, going to fight and maybe die against an enemy created by US intelligence services - INSANE!!!
Gaius Frakkin :"More like to protect ISIS from Russian bombers..."
Yes, which is why the Paris attacks were so convenient for the US Allies, because it gives them the pretext to send ground troops to Syria. Gee, who could (not) have seen that coming?
So, what’s the slogan this time?
We can’t use W’s “they hate us for our freedoms”, ‘cause we barely have any freedoms left. ;-)
Looney
I thought the mission was accomplished. GW was a big fat liar and the sheeple believed him.
"They hate us for our remaining freedoms" has a nice ring to it.
They hate us for our imagined freedoms.
They just hate us. Period!
They don't let their females off the leash, as they aren't seen as full persons under Islam. Their young men living in the west typically are mainly set off by that, the freedom of western women.
We advised some folks.
Here you go Tyler Durden...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostas-georgopoulos-bbb5a815
Keep up the research boys.
Meh shooting down a single bomber is less a tac diff maker and more someone seinging the bat to get russia to respond, call the response an aggression and act of war, great pretext for more us/nato fuckery.
Is Turkey Waging War on Russia in Crimea, the Caucasus, and Central Asia? …. Sputnik News Interviews Saker http://thesaker.is/is-turkey-waging-war-on-russia-in-crimea-the-caucasus...It's DISTRACTION TIME...as the bloated pig known as our "economy" starts sinking from putrification and an unsupportable pile of maggots the end result has ALWAYS been MOAR WAR...
He's not calling the shots, JO...
From Bloomturd:
Support Grows for U.S. Commando Raids to Fight Islamic Stateor, "Get those GOY on the ground killing Syrians so we can have it"
JustObserving: "Will they be in Iraq or Syria? The Nobel Prize Winner has never met a war that he did not like."
They are there to prevent Iran, Shiia Iraq and Russia from securing Northern Syria and Northern Iraq for an Iran-Syria pipeline.
Part of the objective, to decimate Syria forever, is to cut it up into regional sections, controlled by different US Allies (UK, France, Germany) -- much like Germany was cut up in 1945. I already referred to this in my earlier post (claiming Dibs against inevitable plagiarizers):
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-14/war-paris-isis-claims-responsibility-deadly-attacks-killing-127-complete-summary-and?page=4#comment-6793867
Sat, 11/14/2015 - 17:47 | 6793867 Kirk2NCC1701
/ Should we expect Syria to be carved up into Ally Sectors, the way Berlin was after WW2?
Lemme guess, the Americans get the Kurd Sector (the N+NE sector, i.e. Pipeline sector) and the Golan Sector (Oil and Water sector).
/heavy sarc
The Redirection
Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?
BY SEYMOUR M. HERSH
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
... http://www.seek-info.com/massacres.htm
https://aryanskynet.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/jewish-jihadis/
US 'Advisors' have been sent to many war zones in recent history.....All of them seem to have manifested into full blown conflicts directly involving the US!
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
If you like your war, you can keep your war.
tick tock
Right, because this time, it's different, and deploying forces to the middle east will not end badly.
But these forces are "special" Full Metal Retard forces.
The 10,000 strong FMR Brigade will bring ISIS to it's knees.
Deploy some forces to find out who does their banking.
Who? Stanley Fischer, that's who.
It will end VERY well for Ziocon interests:
The US & Vassal Allies will be the Shabbos Goy, there to fight, bleed and die for Eretz Israel. Specifically...
They will make sure that Russia does not bomb their "Moderate" (Al Qaeda and Merc) anti-Assaid Rebels, by positioning themselves in their areas. As such, they they want to secure Syria's southern and northern borders, as seen in this JPG from Voltairenet.org: http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L400xH548/1_-_1_1_-80-7096a.jpg
The southern border will protect the Golan Heights, and Israel's interest in Syrian oil and water. The northern border will ensure that there will be no Iran-Iraq-Syria passage for an Iran-Syria-Med pipeline.
They will frustrate Assad's and Russia's forces, and seek to bleed Russia financially. Which brings me back to the Gold vs. USD argument: How long will it be, before Russia and China make the Comex collapse with demands for delivery (to collapse the CONfidence game in its paper trade --> No Bid), and how long before they at least threaten to back their currencies with gold? If they were shrewd, they'd do both at the same time, and then watch the light show in London and NY.
First we have to force the Iraqi government to invite us to conducts these raids.
When all else fails economically we take you to war.
- The US elite.
“It’s getting so easy to take the people to war. . . . Hatred is very easy to build between and among nations. So, I believe as these economic house of cards continue to collapse, they will get the people’s mind off it in a snap by getting us into more war. As I say, when all else fails, they take you to war because you can see the path. Go back to the crash of 1929: recession, depression, currency war, trade war then world war. Sound familiar?”
Gerald Celente (Dec. 28th, 2014)
http://usawatchdog.com/2015-forecast-manipulation-depression-and-war-ger...
Special forces need to enter Washington before they end up like Seal team six.
now you're talking . . . !!
When the Legions march back into Rome it will truly be the end.
But moderate Special Forces please.
They can throw ceptagon to the kiddies like it was candy
LOL!!
Dead men tell no tales, especially in an international criminal court. Time to kill all the Syrian "rebels" we have previously funded, trained, and equipped.
business as usual fuckers.
Great observation. Yesterday Ergodan was challenging to Russia to prove the links to ISIS. Today, US deploying special forces to eradicate ISIS. Methinks the US didn't want any ISIS troops getting captured by the Russians because there may be more proof to a link between ISIS and US/EU.
Suddenly everybody wants to be in Syria.
Beginnings of pain. WWIII.
There's an awful lot of incriminating evidence to get rid of. All those ISIS/whatever directly traned by the US/UK/Israel for a start. The way Russia is going, they may feel it is safer to defect to the Syrian/Russian side, and that would not be good.
They are needed to designate ground targets for bombing, and collect INT
'assissisting Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s proxy armies from the very beginning. '
again, no mention of israel. It's like you don't read any of the links we plucky commenters provides yaz, Tylers!
Theyve bloody well been there
They are not entering now. Thay have been there for a long while. This is political cover in case another is KIA. Would not want two "no boots on the ground" folks killed. It would get much harder to explain how that happened....twice.
I can hardly wait for the first SEALs vs Spetsnaz helmet can...it'll be just like Call of Duty hardcore.
And fuckheads like you get a vote, too.
Sigh.
I assumed everyone would read it in the sarcastic tone it was meant to be read in...guess not.
Withdrawn
/s tag is sometimes useful, tho', old horse, wot?
Like voting matters....
Well, it won´t be easy with gumboats in the desert against Hinds.
The US is now officially a rogue state.
sad these men still follow orders..I wish them no harm. But thugs for obuma & nwo elite,is a hell of a way to die. you are on pickett's charge and for evil men you will die? but worse you will kill and maim..wake the fuck up.
I suspect the reason there is so much disfunction and substance abuse in the Secret Service is that many of them realize they are the new Praetorian Guard, and they know they're spending (and potentially risking) their lives protecting the absolute worst kind of people.
They should be deployed to New York and D.C. to "...conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture USSA leaders."
And then they have to stay there for good or else the result with be the dreaded "vacuum" and the cockroaches will come right back.
Given that the gov is completely corrupted with Israeli-neocon treasonous criminal :
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/the-next-false-flag/
And fatally compromised in every function because of all of the databases sucked away to other climes :
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/us-federal-government-is-f...
And everything MUST change very soon :
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/ignoring-the-absolutely-in...
Rationally, everyone should decide this is hopeless, we should replace it immediately.
Instead, we explore saviors like Donald Trump.
Are there safe places over there?
I am just worried about their feelings and that they'll have a good safe place to go if they need to.
Yawn. Another point I made months ago on this forum as to what a CIA spook would do.
Meanwhile, Uncle Putin, having lost more air assets to myriad ragheads, prepares to bend over, back up and bark:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-30/putin-takes-ineffectual...
"Come on 'Dillos! Let's get it on!"
Next steps: closing the Bosporus and lethal aid to Ukraine.
http://www.rferl.org/content/us-ukraine-russia-lethal-aid-bill/27356526....
This is going to get fun--unless you are a Russian.
"lethal aid to Ukraine"... LOL! PLease, this has been ongoing. America getting involved in a war in Ukraine will be as productive as Russia getting involved in the coming civil war in southern California or Texas.
Seems like these 30 year old humvees are lethal to the Ukies.
So says sputniknews.
Ergodan is half way out the door. You think Obama is finally going to win one? No.
Putin sez: " I wish a nigga *would* try to close the Bosphorus!"
Yeah you have a great deal of insight. The cia would keep arming the terrorists it arms.
Meanwhile Russian air power and log support to syrian, iraqi, lebanese, and iranian forces have decimated cia/saudi/turkish/israeli assets. Billions of dollars spent on white pickups and halal mris all wasted. I'd gloat but that's my money they've pissed away.
Hows the coffee in there today, Rachel?
This is going to get fun--unless you are a Russian.
Only if you are a Zionist Yid in Tel Aviv, Washington and London with a bag of popcorn "doing" what you always do on the sidelines watching at a safe distance!
Hilltop view of Gaza being pounded by the Most Moral Army in Israel.
http://internationaltimes.it/wp-content/uploads/gaza-7.jpg
I wonder if Germans sat around watching the columns of smoke coming out of the crematoria in the concentration camps during WW II.
And in the back of their little minds the Kikes in the know haven't lost site of the fact that those Russian strategic bombers are flying around somewhere near them ready to give them the "Samson Option" they love to threaten everyone else with!
I see an upcoming ultimate test for "Iron Dome" it never thought was possible!!
How funny would that be? The always protected, always above the laws of man Chosenite State FINALLY getting a taste of their own shit.
Bloomberg?? Yawn...more Hopey-changey wishful thinking and projection, a hallmark of prominent American media.
They lost credibility when they said the Russians were wheeling around mobile crematoriums to "hide their dead" in the Ukraine LOL
What's next? Putin has a secret missile base on the dark side of the moon?
Since that Pakistan raid on Osama is a big fat lie, how much more of this is a lie...?
Hint: most of it
Russia needs to seal the border between Iraq and Syria before ISIS escapes to safety.
"Russia needs to seal the border between Iraq and Syria before ISIS escapes to safety."
To Europe. Trouble is, Russia doesn´t love us anymore. Thanks to Merkel.
This is no the hopey change we wanted, Mr President, you miserable cunt puppet of wall street, the mic, and Ersatz "Israel."
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2015/04/us-israel-wage-war-on-iran-in-...
Dear US military:
Seriously?
That Hersh article from 2007 is amazing.
"The new American policy, in its broad outlines, has been discussed publicly. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that there is “a new strategic alignment in the Middle East,” separating “reformers” and “extremists”; she pointed to the Sunni states as centers of moderation, and said that Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah were “on the other side of that divide.” (Syria’s Sunni majority is dominated by the Alawi sect.) Iran and Syria, she said, “have made their choice and their choice is to destabilize.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
And we all know now this was bullshit. It was the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia that wanted to destabilize the entire region, not Syria and Iran.
"Military Keynesianism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism
“These special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture ISIL leaders."
And there heads will look even better when they are "done" on the end of pike which will be lovingly stuffed and mounted by Russian Spetnaz for display after they are captured!
How do you say in Russian?...
"NO Geneva rules here" We are ALL enemy combatants after 9/11 cause Washington said so?...
Russians can say... Look Ma! No blood on these hands!!
Have fun boyz!!! Enjoy that last tour. And take lots and lots of pictures for Mom and Dad!!!
P.S.
Guess these kinds of photos and selfie vids will be out of the question as those dayz of fun are behind you!
Don't forget your pills!...
Actual truth: Israel is all over Syria like flies on a corpse. The US is just doing what it's told in order to support the Zionist project:
Netanyahu Says Israel Acts in Syria 'From Time to Time'
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/01/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel...
No doubt about it. Israel and Jews seem to manage to be involved just about everywhere there is war and theft. Whether ukraine or iraq or argentina or norway.
Apparently it is considered impolite to notice, or to itemize the evidence thereof
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/07/the-unfolding-of-yinons-zionist-plan-fo...
Still, we have fun.
http://www.moonofalabama.org
To be sacrificed on the altar of Zion-America.
Are they rainbow boots?
Yep! Zip up rear portals. (portholes?)
Yea, and they can take away any evidence, get out any assets .. yea sure they are there to fight ISIS !!
Obama needs a place he can safely train and arm terrorists. Syria is not that place anymore. Soon Russia will be probably bombing the crud out of ISIS in Iraq too.
"Russia will be probably bombing the crud out of ISIS in Iraq too."
Only with a permission of the country's government. Putin respects the international laws.
The Russkis have in fact bombed ISIS and Al Nusra in Iraq.
But primarily, they are nowit seems focusing on some Turkish group in Syria - the wolves or some cool tough guy name.
Shooting pilots in parachutes prolly seemed like a great idea at the time.
'Tweren't.
FWIW DEpt: During FY08 the USSA gov't had spent between $1.1 Trillion and $1.6 Trillion on Defense
Ideally sealing the US border could work?
War mongering piece of shit...oh wait that was saved for Bush,,,Hypocrites.
"...which joined the intelligence resources of the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency with Navy Seal Team Six and Army Delta Force commandos."
Read that snippet and let it sink in.
The "war on terrorism" is a war that can never, and will never be won. It is a self-perpetuating war encouraged by our insane politicians and their military/industrial/banker backers that will continue until it has consumed and destroyed all that is good on the earth. The only way it can be stopped is for all the young and naive men and women who have been duped into puting their lives on the line to put down their weapons and simply walk away.
It's not that it "can never be won," it's that it was never intended to be won.
Forever War.
seriously who would be stupid enough to work for the cia? how fucking bad do you have to need a job to sign up for that shit?
Legions of university student Millenials aspire to it. They grew up watching "24," and sincerely believe that they'll be "keeping our country safe."
Sad, isn't it?
Hundreds of thousands volunteer for the military... even stupider.... Wannabe hero complex I guess.
Time for DoD to do some weapons testing on live targets again.
Must be software upgrades on some of their platforms that drove this move.
Let's hope they go bug free and arm the muslim targets before they make them into target practice - again.
“creates a virtuous cycle of better intelligence, which generates more targets, more raids, and more momentum” Sure am glad there is some "virtue" here. For a minute there I thought we were fresh out.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO RUN OUT OF MONEY FOR THESE ASSHOLES TO SIPHON OFF?
It's like the endless chocolate fountain at Golden Corral.
"It's like the endless chocolate fountain at Golden Corral."
The best analogy of this whole clusterfuck I have seen.
And relevant in so many more ways than one.
Ya mean rescue ISIL leaders from the Russies don't cha?
~ DC
Good gawd, imagine how screwed up the ones that don't kill themselves are going to be by the time they come back. Likely someday the whole empire apparatus of hell will be coming back here... the mercs, military, alphabet agencies, private contractors, paid terrorists... that's going to be the day your going to want the hell out of the US. I feel sorry for the normal guys that are exposed to this, if there are any left. Meanwhile the people of Iraq will just sit there with 1,000 yd stare, they don't even know what not suffering is anymore.
So tired of this shit
Youy know ISIS is just waiting to capture one of these guys and cut his head off for Christmas morning.
Thanks America.
We should have bombed Afghanistan to more rubble and left the rest of the savages to themselves. And that includes leaving the assholes in the Gulf to deal with this crap. It would be hilarious to see the Saudis rushing to the airport with trunks full of gold.
Get the fuck out of Syria, get the fuck out of Iraq, get the fuck out of Afghanistan.
Just another Obama lie.
Drinks all around at the MIC resort and hotel.
Muppets are buying, so, no limit!
At one time wasn't there this document called the Constitution? If I remember correctly, didn't the Executive Branch (President) need the approval of the Legislative Branch (CON-gress) in order to send our military personnel to war? Does anyone have the legal definition of "War" lying around?
Maybe I saw it in a cartoon somewhere.
We're exceptional now,,, don't need a stinking constitution!
Remember when the world was trying to pin chemical weapons use on Assad a few years ago? Well someone is trying the same play again against the Russians in Syria. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3340056/Is-Russia-breaking-Genev...
And you know who was soooo afraid of those reports that they made Assad give up all of his chemical weapons? PUTIN!! And then Putin did not sheild Assad from the bombing.
Odd read.
Another one is Turkey got its rebels to use sarin gas which was going to be a pretext for us/nato libyazation but Pitin stood up before the world and said it wast clear and essentially used kerry kohn's own words as a means to avoid a full on invasion of syria.
I do appreciate your more subtle brand, if repetitive, of anti-Putin trolling.
Anything not perfect is no good at all, etc etc.
Your sheer repetitiveness, though, telegraphs a certain disingrnuousness, Morning Star.
Here's a treat:
http://bfy.tw/33s3
Troll troll troll yer boat, clever as it seems
Verily verily
Verily verily
Blankone is a paid us government troll.
Ping!
Putin leaked the tapes of converstations that clearly showed Turkey was going to do a false flag attack and blame Assad. While that was effective at stopping that one attack (without confrontation) it does not change the fact that Putin forced Assad to give up the one weapon that scared the NATO countries.
And remember. Assad was under attack and Putin then, and to this day, refused and still refuses to deliver the S300 anti air missiles that Syria contracted for in 2007. Putin refuses to honor Russia's contracts and leaves Assad helpless to defend itself. Putin has made Syria dependent on Russia completely.