[b4its2late]

Videos at link.

[demshateGod]

What difference does it make.

[Parley Baer]

All five of the CIA backed rebels were hit. Pretty accurate bombing.

[Dick Bachert]

We must IMMEDIATELY send a task force of these mighty vessels – now the standard warship in Obama's “New Navy” – into the Med to deal with those pesky Ruskies.

Armed with a single M2 .50 caliber Browning, this much feared naval vessel carries up to 30 rounds of full cardboard jacketed paper bag piercing ammunition. It is the first in an entirely new naval architecture class -- technically, “clitoral” (not to be confused with “littoral”) -- being pushed on the Pentagon by the defense minded wussies in the Obama Administration as a cost-saving measure. If you look closely, you can see the heavy-duty seat restraint which prevents the helmsman/gunner shown here – Seaman 4th Class Kenneth “Kamakazi” Kowalski – from leaping from the vessel prior to engaging the enemy. The 12 V trolling motor – which lacks a reverse function -- propels this sophisticated craft forward at a top speed of 4 knots. Reverse travel – at approximately 35 knots -- is achieved by firing the Browning.

The no-bid contract to build 300 of these fearsome warships was awarded to the Obama-Soros-Emanuel Shipbuilding and Stormdoor Manufacturing Company (formerly General Dynamics) and will be administered by trusted Obama associate, Chicago Mayor and former Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel who commented that, at $12 million each, they are a bargain. Constructed exclusively at the company’s facility in Kenya with major sub-component production (rivets and miscellaneous fasteners) at the company’s Harlem and Skokie plants. Delivery and sea trials of 100 of these began in 2013 with the remaining 200 to follow as soon as the subcontractors’ funds are safely in the contractor's numbered Swiss account.

[MichaelCorleone]

Maybe Russia’s inviting us to the party.

[Diogenesis]

"rebels" = al Qaeda (bombed Pentagon, World Trade Centers, ............ murdered 3000+ Americans)

"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana

[Darroll]

This country is too weak to get any respect.

[EBH]

There are no CIA backed rebels anymore. The program was basically disbanded. What a crock of bull are they pulling?

It is all propaganda!

If you are on any type of social media sight...start countering this information! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3338017/posts

[maxwellsmart_agent]

It begins to look as though the Islamic State and the Syrian Rebels are one and the same. Otherwise, who are the Syrian Rebels and why aren’t they clashing with the Islamic State?

[airborne]

How do you tell the difference?

Wasn’t ISIS at one time US backed moderate Muslims?

[SkyDancer]

And Russia replies “Whoopsie, our bad. So we’re okay now?”

[marron]

CIA-backed rebels? Why don’t they just say “Turkish-backed rebels”? Doesn’t have the same ring to it? How about “Saudi-backed rebels”?

[Socon-Econ]

Fat chance that any truly pro-USA, CIA-supported “rebels” would be able to prevail if Assad and his forces were to disappear. They would have no internal support. And any American support would soon wither under the attacks of domestic leftists and Republican isolationists.

[DCBryan1]

Just for shits and giggles, Putin should give a briefing on the day's objectives and future strike operations and call out the Russian/Iranian/Chinese/Assad organization as:

Ground Operations Group (GOG), and the Navy/Marine detachment at Tartus and Latakia as:Marine Assault General Operations Group (MAGOG).

Watch heads explode......or the world.

[marron]

The “rebels” lost any hope of broad US support (outside O’s regime) when they started massacring Christians and Yazidis.

It would have been expected and understandable had we told the Turks, the Saudis, and the “rebels” that we are a Christian nation, and our support hinges upon them treating Christians and minority civilians in their midst with the utmost of respect... touch not a hair on their heads if you don’t want to be cut off and hit with fuel air bombs all day long.

They would have respected us more had we made that position clear. But Obama doesn’t care about Christians, nor do the Turks. And his policy is self-destructing because he squandered the moral high ground. The same thing is happening in Afghanistan where we are again squandering the moral high ground; the people we are backing are as morally repugnant as the Taliban and we refuse to use our influence to insist on basic moral norms as the price of our help. So we will fail.

[arthurus]

CIA backed rebels are all ISIS rebels eventually. What the hell, we armed and financed ISIS pretty directly anyway. That is what Benghazi was all about. Turning Syria and the Eastern Med over to the Russians changes Israel's calculations for aerial attack on Iran should that become imperative. If Israel were to judge it imperative to attack Iran with planes it would probably have to take out the US carriers and first because and neutralize Russian air defenses and AC because of our military alliance with Iran against Israel implicit, nay, explicit in the Iran Deal and Russia's alliance with Iran and Assad.

I hope Israel is way ahead of us on anti missile lasers.

[Pietro]

What part of supporting Assad confused the administration?

Of course they're bombing the freaking' rebels- that's what they said they were going to do.

Crimony, between the msm and the admin there ain't one functioning cerebellum

[Kommodor]

This is actually rather clever of the bear.

By attacking the psueudo moderates, they gain several advantages:

They kill bad guys who are opposed to their regional ally Assad (whom I will not claim is a good guy, in this thing it seems there are only bad guys and worse guys.)

They leave the worst guys (ISIS) at large, which gives them a two-fer. On the one hand, they save them ‘to be dealt with later’, and on the other hand, since the other ‘coalition’ nations in the area claim that they are there to strike a blow to ISIS, they can sit back and claim that they aren’t interfering with the ‘coalition’s goals in the area. (ahem) Hey, ‘coalition’, I thought your mission was to degrade and destroy ISIS - where’s the beef? That sort of thing.

Potentially the biggest thing, by attacking the CIA’s proxies in the area, they smoke out the fact that the west is indeed supporting this or that group of terrorists in the area.

Very clever indeed.

At this point, I’m just waiting for people to start inserting the classic Red October ‘this thing will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to survive it’ pic.

As for who to root for in this mess, I think that the true answer is that there are no good guys there. We should cut our losses, and if there’s any US presence left there, we should get the h-— out.

[butlerweave]

Where is Obama by the way , he’s disappeared

[Southack]

"The Russians are still insisting their air campaign is targeting the Islamic State, but U.S. officials say the bombs have been dropping on CIA-backed rebel groups."

Both claims can be true, but you'd need to have a room temperature or higher IQ to grasp that fact.

Our CIA is aiding the Islamic State. The question is if that aid is intentional or not.

[minnesota_bound]

The CIA really needs to be cleaned out top to bottom.
They support terrorists.