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Apaches enter fight for Mosul, top US general says
Stars and Stripes ^ | Tara Copp

Posted on 10/21/2016 10:32:08 AM PDT by Lorianne

.S. Apache helicopters have joined the battle for Mosul, launching night attacks against Islamic State fighters defending their last major stronghold in Iraq, a U.S. general said Wednesday

The Apaches can “see a long range at night” and strike targets from a great distance, which is helping Iraqi forces advance on the city, Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky told reporters at the Pentagon.

“That’s what they’re doing,” said Volesky, commander of 101st Airborne Division and U.S. and coalition land forces in Iraq. “We get into situations where we expect enemy activity to be … and that’s what we focus them on.”


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Great. 'Helping' Iraqi forces huh
1 posted on 10/21/2016 10:32:08 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Providing talking points for Hitlery.

Pure electioneering.


2 posted on 10/21/2016 10:33:20 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Lorianne

3 posted on 10/21/2016 10:33:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lorianne

Hope they take scalps!!!


4 posted on 10/21/2016 10:34:11 AM PDT by ZULU (Where the HELL ARE PAUL RYAN AND MITCH MCCONNELL ?????)
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To: Lorianne

Geronimo!


5 posted on 10/21/2016 10:35:10 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Hillary Clinton AKA The Potemkin Princess of the Potomac)
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To: Lorianne

Can the Sioux be far behind?


6 posted on 10/21/2016 10:35:55 AM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Lorianne

From what I read a lot of the bad guys including the leaders have already left town. They are now attacking a town next door. Thanks to Obama’s warning.


7 posted on 10/21/2016 10:37:08 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Lorianne

Paging Cindy Sheehan.


8 posted on 10/21/2016 10:37:13 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: BenLurkin

They would be a better choice right now..... our troops are chained down with PC polidiots and presstitutes.


9 posted on 10/21/2016 10:38:18 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Lorianne
What a pathetic turn of events we're seeing over there.

Isn't this the fourth or fifth time the U.S. military has been involved in "taking Mosul" since 2003?

10 posted on 10/21/2016 10:50:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: treetopsandroofs
I don't think so. Why would a political candidate even want people to know that the U.S. military is helping take back Mosul for the fourth or fifth time ... thirteen 'effing years after she voted to authorize military action in Iraq?

This plays right into Trump's "You haven't done anything in 30 years in politics" meme.

11 posted on 10/21/2016 10:52:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: FES0844

“Paging Cindy Sheehan.”

LONG forgotten by Big Media and their faithful once she criticized Hitlery.


12 posted on 10/21/2016 10:53:14 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Lorianne

GOD DAMN IT!! WE OWNED THAT!!! NOW WE’RE LOOSING AMERICAN BLOOD FOR IT, AGAIN!!! BECAUSE OF OBAMA WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT PIECE OF GROUND TWICE AND LOSE MORE AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN. I HATE TO FUCKING SAY THIS BUT MY BUDDIES DID DIE IN VAIN FOR OBAMA AND NOW MORE WILL. FUCK YOU AND MAY GOD DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 10/21/2016 10:53:54 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Alberta's Child

Lefist freaks only remember and care about LAST NIGHT’s “news”.

It’s all too contradictory to what they learned to accept as truth without question YESTERDAY.

They’ll only remember THIS “victory” in Mosul.

The chocolate ration will be increased from thirty to twenty grams this week.

Anyway, Boss Fraud’s terrorist BFF’s are safe. See Post #7.


14 posted on 10/21/2016 10:57:07 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: fightin kentuckian

I agree.


15 posted on 10/21/2016 10:58:07 AM PDT by OKSooner (She was practiced at the art of deception, I could tell by her bloodstained hands.)
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To: fightin kentuckian

You’re holding back. Let us know how you really feel.


16 posted on 10/21/2016 10:58:38 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Lorianne
Guess we will find out if the the Lybian missiles wound up in Iraq.

Apache crews - god speed and get some.

17 posted on 10/21/2016 11:00:27 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse prior to the Battle of Little Big Horn)
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To: fightin kentuckian
If I hated America and especially its military and were quite sympathetic to various Islamic groups and entities, I would do exactly what Obama and Clinton have done. That's their "mission accomplished". All of those sh*thole cities and countrysides are sanctified with American blood. Military lives don't matter to the filth of the left.

F.U. Obama, Clinton, Kerry etc and DNC with their sycophants who love war and misery at the expense of America just fine now. Special place in hell for those do not do the right thing and forsake those who are righteous.

18 posted on 10/21/2016 11:05:43 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Lorianne

All this absent the Kurds - who are under threat of attack by the Turks if they participate. Leaving the soils to Iran’s military and proxies lead by Gen Suleiman. This is just part of the 0bama mess created to show off his last days in office.


19 posted on 10/21/2016 11:10:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Here’s my buddy Rex. Shot down in an Apache in January 2006. He’s been gone nearly 11 years and left behind a little girl. Rex paid for this territory with his life and now others will pay the price again because Obama and Hillary have no idea what theyre doing. Both of them hate America and don’t forget that Bill said that he “loathed” the military. To Obama and Hillary....FUCK YOU.

http://thefallen.militarytimes.com/army-chief-warrant-officer-3-rex-c-kenyon/1481364


20 posted on 10/21/2016 11:13:48 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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