Obama authorizes 'targeted airstrikes' in Iraq to counter militants.

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08-07-2014, 21:16
Mr.Fred

Obama authorizes 'targeted airstrikes' in Iraq to counter militants.

Here we go again...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

So, how long till we put more boots on the ground?
08-07-2014, 21:18
J

42?
08-07-2014, 21:20
Mr.Fred

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Originally Posted by J

42?

I was gonna go with 37. But 42 would have been my next guess.
08-07-2014, 23:44
Scanker19

Killing those ISIS fucks twice wouldn't be enough.
08-08-2014, 08:21
Gman

I don't expect to see airstrikes in Gaza. In't it odd how his royal highness differentiates ISIS from Hamas.
08-08-2014, 08:23
Mtn.man

Both humanitarian groups.
08-08-2014, 08:25
Great-Kazoo

Maybe we need to send them more concrete.
08-08-2014, 08:33
kawiracer14

Where are all the dirty lib protesters?

Oh wait, it's for the children this time, right?
08-08-2014, 09:15
stoner01

Looks like I'm going back there for the sixth time
08-08-2014, 09:58
kawiracer14

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Originally Posted by stoner01

Looks like I'm going back there for the sixth time

I heard it's nice this time of year...
08-08-2014, 10:01
Rucker61

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Originally Posted by Gman

I don't expect to see airstrikes in Gaza. In't it odd how his royal highness differentiates ISIS from Hamas.

I haven't noticed a lack of air support or fire support for Israeli forces recently.
08-08-2014, 10:27
Scanker19

I'm still wondering why it took so long. I mean i know the POTUS is homeboys with ISIS.
08-08-2014, 10:50
Aloha_Shooter

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Originally Posted by Scanker19

I'm still wondering why it took so long. I mean i know the POTUS is homeboys with ISIS.

Maybe he scored some quality "choom" the last time he swung through Colorado ~~extorting~~ raising funds and it took him this long to realize there was something happening in the world ...
08-08-2014, 11:02
KAPA

So just thinking out loud here... Before this, have we had any involvement with ISIS? I mean they had no reason to attack us at all until today right? They were busy waging their holy war in their local sandbox, but now with them being fairly well funded and growing quickly, I have to think we are now on their radar. I don't think Osama and his boys were ever as large or as well funded as these guys. Now what is to stop them from walking across our border down south and using 9/11 as their blueprint for more stuff like that? I don't see them attacking us as soldiers but attacking us from within, sure.

At least we gave those guys on the mountain in Iraq another few days to live over there.
08-08-2014, 11:18
brutal

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Originally Posted by KAPA

So just thinking out loud here... Before this, have we had any involvement with ISIS? I mean they had no reason to attack us at all until today right? They were busy waging their holy war in their local sandbox, but now with them being fairly well funded and growing quickly, I have to think we are now on their radar. I don't think Osama and his boys were ever as large or as well funded as these guys. Now what is to stop them from walking across our border down south and using 9/11 as their blueprint for more stuff like that? I don't see them attacking us as soldiers but attacking us from within, sure.

At least we gave those guys on the mountain in Iraq another few days to live over there.

We're talking about the same guys who said they would not stop until the ISIS flag flew over the White House right?

We shoulda whacked those fckers from the air with extreme prejudice when they started moving into Iraq.
08-08-2014, 11:32
Rucker61

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Originally Posted by brutal

We're talking about the same guys who said they would not stop until the ISIS flag flew over the White House right?

We shoulda whacked those fckers from the air with extreme prejudice when they started moving into Iraq.

Right, no offense to the Navy, but we need B-52 Arclight raids.
08-08-2014, 11:52
KAPA

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Originally Posted by brutal

We're talking about the same guys who said they would not stop until the ISIS flag flew over the White House right?

We shoulda whacked those fckers from the air with extreme prejudice when they started moving into Iraq.

Did not know that, have source?

Not saying they wouldn't get to us eventually but from what i've read the US didn't seem to be in their sights yet.

I just think if you are going to do something you go all or none. No one sticks their finger in s hornets nest to smash one or two hornets. You destroy the whole thing or you don't touch it.
08-08-2014, 11:58
brutal

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Originally Posted by KAPA

Did not know that, have source?

Not saying they wouldn't get to us eventually but from what i've read the US didn't seem to be in their sights yet.

I just think if you are going to do something you go all or none. No one sticks their finger in s hornets nest to smash one or two hornets. You destroy the whole thing or you don't touch it.

http://bit.ly/1krp7ct
08-08-2014, 12:01
davsel

Oh come on.
Are there still people who believe muslims won't attack the US if we leave them alone?
I suppose history is not for everyone.
08-08-2014, 12:02
brutal

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/08/is...e-white-house/

“I say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” Abu Mosa, a spokesman for the terror group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), told VICE Media in a video interview posted online Thursday. “Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.”

“We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House,” he added.
08-08-2014, 12:04
brutal

I say we Nuke those crazy fckers from orbit and sell the glass to the liberal artists.
08-08-2014, 12:45
KAPA

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Originally Posted by davsel

Oh come on.
Are there still people who believe muslims won't attack the US if we leave them alone?
I suppose history is not for everyone.

Don't get it twisted... Clearly they will eventually steer toward us or our interests. Until then, they are fighting each other out in the desert. If we are not going in all the way to win, don't get involved. This middle of the road stuff is what gets us in trouble. You can't half way fight someone and expect to get anywhere with that tactic. Look at Israel and Hamas. They are going to trade blows for eternity unless one of them goes all in and imposes their will.
08-08-2014, 13:08
HoneyBadger

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Originally Posted by davsel

Oh come on.
Are there still people who believe muslims won't attack the US if we leave them alone?
I suppose history is not for everyone.

This.
As I posted in another thread:

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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

If Israel turned the whole middle east into a mirror, I wouldn't be too mad. Mostly just mad that we wasted so much time and money and so many lives there. [Shake]
08-08-2014, 15:19
275RLTW

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Originally Posted by KAPA

So just thinking out loud here... Before this, have we had any involvement with ISIS? I mean they had no reason to attack us at all until today right? They were busy waging their holy war in their local sandbox, but now with them being fairly well funded and growing quickly, I have to think we are now on their radar. I don't think Osama and his boys were ever as large or as well funded as these guys. Now what is to stop them from walking across our border down south and using 9/11 as their blueprint for more stuff like that? I don't see them attacking us as soldiers but attacking us from within, sure.

At least we gave those guys on the mountain in Iraq another few days to live over there.

They were directly threatening the US compound(s) in Erbil and the US Consulate there. Source: my old team on the ground there right now. We have a good US civilian presence in Erbil helping the Kurds out.