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US military official: 'We were outraged' when Turkey pulled a fast one after the anti-ISIS deal
Business Insider ^ | August 11, 2015 | Natasha Bertrand

Posted on 08/11/2015 7:48:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

An American military source told Fox News that US military leaders were "outraged" when Turkey began launching airstrikes against the Kurdish PKK in northern Iraq just hours after striking a deal with the US opposing the Islamic State, the militant group also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh. A Turkish officer entered the allied headquarters in the air war against ISIS and "announced that the strike would begin in 10 minutes and he needed all allied jets flying above Iraq to move south of Mosul immediately," the source said.

"We were outraged."

The US special forces stationed in northern Iraq advising and training Kurdish peshmerga fighters had virtually no warning before Turkish jets started striking the mountains, where the PKK is headquartered.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: daesh; isil; isis; israel; kurdistan; kurds; turkey; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/11/2015 7:48:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

That could be the 237th time we got skunked thinking we understood Muslims and could, just this once, trust them.


2 posted on 08/11/2015 7:50:23 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (()
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To: MinorityRepublican

Your CIC is 0bama.


3 posted on 08/11/2015 7:51:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; MinorityRepublican
You think the Obama admnistration was skunked?

The Kurdish Peshmerga are the only force in the region who will defend Iraqi and Syrian Christians. I'd assume our CIC is OK with this.

4 posted on 08/11/2015 7:53:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

But NOT outraged that the Pentagon finances
and weaponizes al Qaeda?

But NOT outraged that ISIS is invited into America?

Are any Americans who lived through 911 in the Pentagon?


5 posted on 08/11/2015 7:54:50 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: MinorityRepublican

All part of the plan, just like arming ISIS


6 posted on 08/11/2015 7:56:52 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: MinorityRepublican

Turkey exposes the farce that is post-Soviet NATO. Ankara is going to the dark side with the rest of the Islamic world.


7 posted on 08/11/2015 7:58:27 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would have rather let the Soviets have Turkey than let them in NATO.


8 posted on 08/11/2015 7:59:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

They sure didn’t make a peep about it


9 posted on 08/11/2015 8:01:08 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: MinorityRepublican

0bama’s actions towards the military have been outrageous for 6 years. They should be used to muzzies by now.


10 posted on 08/11/2015 8:01:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Turkey, the heart of the former Ottoman Empire. Muslims. Never to be trusted because their cult of death preaches that it is ok to deceive Christians. Turkey, just like the entire Muslim world, is the enemy.


11 posted on 08/11/2015 8:01:17 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: MinorityRepublican

If this was Reagan, we would have scrambled our jets, and told the Turks to return to base or be shot down.

They have been pissing on our shoes since 2003.

This is getting old.


12 posted on 08/11/2015 8:02:34 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In the meantime, the traitorous (there’s no other reasonable adjective) GOPe-controlled Congress does..................................................................................................... nothing.


13 posted on 08/11/2015 8:07:00 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Turkish “Buffer/Safety Zone” in Syria announced today just happens to coincide with the areas of Syria held by the Kurdish YPG and PKK!

How Ironic!!!


14 posted on 08/11/2015 8:11:23 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Carl Vehse

“In the meantime, the traitorous (there’s no other reasonable adjective) GOPe-controlled Congress does..................................................................................................... nothing.”

In their defense, this really is above their pay-grade.
This is supposed to be handled by the President and State, if America had any real Leadership.


15 posted on 08/11/2015 8:13:24 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

To quote BIlly Hayes in “Midnight Express”

” For a nation of pigs, it sures is funny you don’t eat’em! Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can’t! I hate! I hate you! I hate your nation! And I hate your people! And I —— your sons and daughters because they’re pigs! You’re a pig! You’re all pigs.”


16 posted on 08/11/2015 8:13:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

never trust a muslim...not worth the risk


17 posted on 08/11/2015 8:17:37 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only Muslim one can trust is a dead one.(maybe)


18 posted on 08/11/2015 8:21:14 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: MinorityRepublican; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

Active Duty ping.


19 posted on 08/11/2015 8:22:31 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: tcrlaf

It is the repeated and complete failure of the GOPe-controlled Congress to impeach (or even demand the impeachment of) the Traitorobama regime for which the appropriate adjective of “traitorous” applies to each and every Congressman (including my own).

The GOPe-controlled Congress has betrayed and abandoned its loyalty to the United States of America.


20 posted on 08/11/2015 8:44:56 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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