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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A perfect job for those A-10s the Air Farce hates but the ground pounders love.
WRONG! COMPLETELY WRONG! No nightmares. He sleeps like a baby, and has the selfies to prove it.
His excellency is "tied up" and completely involved in whether he will make his next putt and cannot involve himself, or take time diverting his attention to matters of national security. Besides, he is willing to sacrifice a "few marines" to maintain his political posture that ISIS is not a threat.
I could easily demonstrate how, specifically in 2005 and 2006, the mission statement produced admirable results, but it would likely be wasted on you. Am reminded of the old warning about wrestling in the mud with...
Your assignment*, should you choose to accept it, is to learn where your local store of alpha agency arms and ammo is located, and firm up plans for its liberation at SHTF time.
*Your assignment = all of you.
Definitely not funny; but needed? It's probably more accurate than a MSM "news" report.
I don’t get why the Iraqi army has to be trained by us, and no one has to train Al Quadi or ISIS or Hezbollah or Hamas. What the heck is wrong with the Iraqi army?
Which, organizationally, in the meta, was true - until ISIS.
SecDef and others gave Bobo a chance to crush that fly in the open a year ago when they overran Aleppo and then warlust blitzkrieg drove them towards Baghdad. And JugEars deferred... from the women's tees.
Proof that Bobo is nothing if not lucky, now their internal argumentum du jour is that , 'hey ISIS/L is pulling all these morons out of their cushy first world homes to go play in the sandbox' (what, 30K from the West at last count?) 'so we are cancering the cancer by letting this play out in the intermediate'; BUT now it's time for boots on the ground and a war that air alone won't do.
And has been mentioned in other threads, Bobo as a wartime pres just doesn't cut it.
The hidden meme in here is that the real reason Val & Bobo will press forward with boots is to give Cankles a shot at looking Thatcher-ish with reflected glory *barf* to attract fence-sitters in the Midwest (ie, gullible women, of which there seems to be an endless supply) - which we all know is, in the abstract, absurd.
The question is, will it alienate her red left flank? We'll never know unless Fauxcahontas or Maryland Mick gets in the race...
#16. +1
No problem. The MSM just won’t report the story. They’re busy trying to find dirt on Scott Walker. Did you hear he skipped French class in college!? Now that’s what the media will harp on. 300 dead marines? We’ll never hear about it.
My prayers go out to the involved Marines and their loved ones.
What a horrible plight it is to serve in the military under the worst Commander in Chief in US history.
(ie, gullible women, of which there seems to be an endless supply) -
Dead Marines are not for lame attempts at humor.
(I could get banned if I said what I REALLY think.)
Obama is probably playing golf somewhere in the sun. He could care less. He needs to be impeached.
A truth that evidently did not sit well with the mods.
I urge courageous restraint and strategic patience. I have directed the new secdef to issue a hashtag photo. -Obama
We need to demand proof of life from C&C of every man there.
Or avenging the shootings in Chapel Hill. /s
“His excellency is “tied up”...” Uh, 50 shades of BS?
Back up? You don’t need no steenkin’ back up.
Tribal leader: Iraqi troops in Anbar could ‘collapse within hours’
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