Posted on 09/18/2014 9:33:54 AM PDT by GonzoII
WASHINGTON (CNN) The U.S. military has everything it needs to strike ISIS inside Syria and is awaiting President Barack Obama's authorization to do so, U.S. military officials tell CNN.
For weeks, intelligence and military targeting specialists have been working around the clock on a list of targets. It's expected the list will be presented to the President one more time, with some analysis of the risks of bombing inside Syria, as well as possible rewards in terms of destroying and degrading ISIS, according to the officials.
It is most likely that the target list will be broadly described to the President, with some analysis about what would be accomplished. Presidents generally do not review each and every target before a strike. The broad guidance is given and then the military selects the time, date, place -- after the President makes the political decision to proceed.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday that he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey signed off on plans to strike ISIS in Syria.
He said Gen. Lloyd Austin, the commander of the U.S. Central Command, briefed Obama on Wednesday on the plan for striking ISIS in Syria.
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RE: U.S. ready to strike ISIS in Syria [waiting president’s authorization]
OK< which golf course is he going to be at today?
Am I to believe that he didn’t already take action?
Hit them.
When they attempt to recover, hit them again.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
What doesn’t kill them, makes them stronger...
Red line time?
Based on Obama’s track record in the middle east, his real motivation and goals here is to topple Assad and install his islamist buddies in there. He’s still advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, against our national interest.
ISIS was a good excuse for Obama to ram through a big training program for Syrian “moderate” rebels — supposedly to fight ISIS but who have a peace treaty signed with ISIS...
ISIS is friends with Turkey and Qatar and Obama is onboard with the turkish/ISIS genocide plan against Christians, Kurds, etc. The FSA slaughtered Christian villages and blew up churches in past, and some of them joined ISIS.
Obama and friends are not idiots for training so called “moderates”, they know what they are doing and what they are doing is wicked.
I would like to think the military is really chafing at the fact that our every move is telegraphed. Remember the beginning of Gulf War I? We knew it was coming, but not really sure when? Then we turned on the telly and we were bombing the snot out of Baghdad...
He rreeeeeaaaalllly doesn’t want to hurt his best buddies.
Or Somalia, where the camera crews were on the beach waiting for the troops to come ashore.
You’re going to see him approve this eventually, but not now.
He’s waiting for Assad to guarantee he won’t shoot down our planes when we bomb the crap out of his country.
ISIS and Ebola certainly makes Benghazi a distant memory, not to mention the release of five terrorists for the return of one traitor. Hey, how about those tens of thousands of unaccompanied illegal children who are now Americans?
Obama, all the decisiveness of Carter and twice
the military genius of Johnson...able to leap
congressional obstruction in a single bound!
Harf and Psaki over at State are busy notifying ISIS where the bombing locations will be. After that is completed and the Islamic rats have a chance to scurry Nero will put on a show...
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