Posted on 02/14/2015 9:55:34 AM PST by rktman
The massive air base at Ayn al-Assad in Iraq’s Anbar Province hosts 400 US Service members, who are training Iraq Air Force personnel. They now are in danger of serving as hostages to ISIS, which has conquered the nearby city of Al Baghdadi and already threatened the perimeter of the base.
As a result, US helicopters have been brought in to provide close ground support for the Iraqi boots on the ground. CNN:
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Whatdyamean "Nightmare scenario?"
This is Obama's daydream scenario. He loves this.
Prayers up for our servicemen & women.
Watch the spinning and then the cone of silence coming down on any accurate reporting about this attack if Americans are killed or captured. We will have to look to ISIS for current reports.
When are you people going to get it straight?
Now we're dealing with a huge friggin' army...far bigger and better equipped than alqueda is/has been in their wildest dreams.
we’ll find out they were upset about Charlie Hebdo or something.
Now we know why he looked so bad at the presser the othr day. He was worried that the death of 300 might be pushing the envelope too far. He’s probably out buying candies for jarrett and his muzzie brotherhood buds right now.
Now you’re getting it. Obama’s goals and our goals are NOT the same.
Not a nightmare at all. He doesn’t care. His recent actions and statements have shown which side of the fence he is on. The people who voted for him should be made to pay. EVERY one of them should have to suffer some kind of consequence for all of this.
I am very worried that the Iraqis in training may be infiltrated with ISIS.
If they put our Marines in cages and set them on fire, Obama will be toast (no pun intended). The Democrats still drag up Reagan’s loss of 241 Marines as they slept in their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983, so Obama should expect a flailing for having no way to get the 300+ trainers out of that dreadful spot. Does the man know nothing about history?
Pull out the US troops and send all of our community organizers to Iraq.
The US was training Iraqi troops (at least some of whom will join the other side) inside the base, while ISIS was capturing a city just outside the base? Wow.
You're kidding right?
Obama won't get anything but sympathy if (God forbid) that happens.
The MSM will blame it on the Republicans in congress, and about 40% of the American population will agree.
Obama would be mystified by the actions of his brothers if events unfolded in this manner:
1. He has repeatedly signaled that he is one of them.
2. He refuses to identify them as the enemy
3. He refuses to hit them hard.
4. He admitted his allegiance in one of his books.
5. He probably assumes that they would be decent enough to
wait until he leaves office rather than make him look
bad.
“Does the man know nothing about history?”
He knows, but draws conclusions quite at odds with those held by a patriotic American.
America does not have a defender in the Office of President.
There is no need to worry, as you can be certain. Even if none of the trainees are card-carrying members of ISIS, there always will be some who, for a small consideration in currency of their choice, is willing to tell all that they know. There is simply no practical way to ensure that nobody aids the enemy - not in modern Iraq, and not even in the US Army, given Bradley Manning and Nidal Malik Hasan. Only secret services can afford a more serious vetting - and even then it sometimes fails.
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