US military ramps up airstrikes in Iraq, weighs additional troops after execution video

FOX News ^ | August 20, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

U.S. fighter jets and drones stepped up attacks on Islamic State targets in Iraq and the Obama administration was weighing sending more boots on the ground -- even as the group released a graphic video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley.

A senior U.S. official also told Fox News that military planners are weighing the possibility of sending more American forces to Iraq mainly to provide additional security “in and around Baghdad,” at the request of the State Department.

The official said the Pentagon is seriously considering sending fewer than 300 personnel, but there has been no final decision yet.

The developments come as U.S. intelligence analysts confirmed the authenticity of the execution video.

Military analysts and U.S. lawmakers say the execution should be a wake-up call to the need to dismantle the militant organization.

[tgusa]

Any other president would be in a war room somewhere planning drone attacks or more.”

Not our girlie-boy....

[tgusa]

FAE is the way to go.

[mware]

Obama must have finished his golf game. Just reported on FOX that the Obama administration gave the go to send out a secret mission to rescue the captured journalists, but it failed.
Claiming this happen several months ago.

Krauthammer nailed it, said this a purely political announcement.

They must have polled the public, and we ain’t happy.

[SkyPilot]

So we will ramp up bombing for one Jihad journalist, but we don’t give a damn about thousands of Christians.

Yup - one of "their own" bought it. A journalist, a secular priest.

I have sympathy for the guy, but I cannot believe how the media makes his one life 1,000,000 times more important that little Christian girls who are raped, tortured, and murdered.

[SkyPilot]

We can’t fight IS only in pockets. There has to be a collective, collaborative and active effort. So Obama needs to sit down, talk to Assad in Syria, draw up an action plan then implement. Otherwise & obviously IS will return to Syria as they’re doing, regroup and do more damage.

Obama shares the Islamic Caliphate Dream. Every action he has taken since 2009 has empowered its rise, from gutting our own military, giving Billions to Hamas and the Islamic Brotherhood, to trading the traitor Private Bergdahl for the Al Qaeda top leadership.

[odds]

Thanks. Yes, well, I just read IS is directly threatening Obama. So maybe Obama will take notice.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[Morpheus2009]

Just like Billy Jeff Clinton in the 1990s.